Brandon Sanderson/Cosmere Thread!

I know he's confirmed that a lot of the names like that in Stormlight are root words with suffixes on them. Kaladin is kalak + din.

 

ay-oh-eye-fee?

 

Thought that might be the case, honestly, given how prevalent it was.

 

Eefa!

 

It means "beauty" or "radiance" so that's a fitting reaction to it. It really does capture that air doesn't it?

As far as naming goes in Mistborn, I so far find this to be acceptable. The random h at the end of Zerinah has been the only real offender and I've yet to see random fantasy apostrophes. The names are also rather fitting for the characters that have them, I feel.

Ee-fuh, if it's the Irish name I think it is. It's Anglicized as Eva but has nothing to do with Eve.

 

O.o

wait is that not an elantris name?

 

TÁ SÍ GAEILGE.

 

Anyway. On the subject of my reading I am very hype about the logbook. Much for the same reasons Sazed is. So I am just like no Vin you twit you just don't get it. THIS IS EXCITING. I want more logbook. Meanwhile Kelsier continues to grow more questionable as things go on. At least for me.

You just aren't giving me good vibes, Kell. Especially not with this logbook we've got our hands on.

 

Sorry to be misleading! Aon was talking about Irish orthography and it reminded me of one of my favorite Irish names.

I am now reading Warbreaker because of this thread. I'm so glad my hair doesn't change color to reflect my mood.

 

Yep. The stuff in Warbreaker is never explicit outside the annotations, but there's a lot of names like "Vivenna" and "Susebron" that have the same consonant repeated. (And then the Returned names are two ~meaningful~ words mashed together with "the [Virtue]" on the end. e.g. Blushweaver the Beautiful, Lightsong the Bold.)

The Stormlight ones are because the Vorin religion puts a lot of emphasis on symmetry being divine. While the Heralds have different names in different parts of the world, in Vorin places they mash the name into being perfectly symmetrical, e.g. Nale -> Nalan. So a lot of Alethi nobility name their kids things that are almost symmetrical, but not perfectly, because to name your kid something perfectly symmetrical is bordering on Hubris. So, e.g., "Shallan"- one sound off from either "Shallash" or "Nallan". Or "Navani." Or the aforementioned "Kaladin" (who is not nobility, but it's specifically mentioned that all the other kids in the village thought his name sounded like a noble's name, which is why he spent his childhood going by "Kal").

 

wat

i kind of wish mine did now

 

omg it comes with religious and cultural taboos name wise too yes

 

Spoiler: warbreaker spoilers

i forgot to mention this because i rammed my head straight into mistborn annotations and then into elantris BUT NIGHTBLOOD THE MURDERPUPPY IS SO GREAT

"destroy evil"
but a sword has no way of knowing what evil is.
of course it doesn't, it's metal
and of course nightblood's creators didnt think of that

i know im just restating plot points but it's!!!!! so fucking cool. it's such a cool story. the best murderpuppy

 

I told you he loves religions. :::)))

Spoiler

I love Nightblood so much. He's trying. So hard. Aren't you proud of him. Look how well he destroyed that evil.

 

the linguist in me gets off on naming conventions ok

 

the way brandon sanderson talks about religion makes me want to become a theist wait wrong word what means "studies theology"?

eta: theologist, probably

 

Theologist. Though sadly that word tends to mean scholar of Christian theology only.

 

Theologist.

 

When in doubt hack off the -y and replace it with -ist for people who study shit

 

And kinks related to those taboos, apparently, since one of the characters explicitly first got interested in his wife because she had a perfectly symmetrical name, so apparently her parents being Prideful was a turn-on. :::PPP