Two of the things I’m sort of stuck on most right now is the surname of my main character for a story I’m writing, and the name of the kingdom it takes place in.
The story takes place in a fantasy world where all the characters are living in a kingdom full of both magical and non-magical humans. However, this kingdom has been dealing with constant turmoil with outbreaks of rebel activity, because of the people that were essentially absorbed into this kingdom when their former kingdom was conquered some generations ago.
As this is the place where the entire story takes place, and one of the characters is the heir to the throne (and later on the king) of this kingdom, I really need a name for it, but I’m completely stuck with no ideas on this part.
As for my main character, her first name is Lyra, and I had a list of possible names I was considering, but I’m not 100% certain on any of them. Especially now that I have the first names for her parents, and none of them seem to fit well. (At this point I’m even questioning her first name because of it 
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List of surname ideas for her/her family that I’d previously had, but don’t know that any of them fit well
- Aylward
- Moone
- Belrose or Bellerose (either spelling variation)
- Sylvian
- Dawn
Ideally, I hoped that her surname would connect in some way to her family’s background, like with name meanings potentially, but I’m just lost at this point.
Lyra’s family background
Lyra is the only child in her family, born to two fathers. (Both biological with no biological mother. Its possible in this world through magic and the help of a surrogate)
Her fathers met when they were in school at the magic academy that all magic users attend when they’re 18 until they’re around 23 (the exact ages are still being tweaked slightly as I’m finalizing how many years the characters attend that school/age, but roughly college age, with legal adulthood being at age 20 instead of 18) then later married and had Lyra.
Lyra is orphaned as a result of rebellion activity when she was about 13, but before their deaths, one of Lyra’s fathers, Alden was a professor at the magic academy and known for being not only highly intelligent in general, but absolutely brilliant in his fields of research. While her other father, Caelum was more of the support figure, possibly stay-at-home dad type, but also a highly protective person. He had also become a werewolf as an adult, while Lyra was young.
I’ve sort of been envisioning the name having some sort of celestial (particularly the moon for its relevance to one of her fathers) or nature connection. Nature potentially because Lyra’s most skilled in magic with making plants grow and stuff like that.
I’ve also considered her having a hyphenated surname, to have come from both of her parents instead of her name just having been from one or the other, but again, I don’t even have one surname figured out, let alone one for each parent.
, I’m also here to help anyone else who needs it too!
sigh