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K. M. Shea

Find Your Fairytale

Revived Name Game

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Update: The naming contest has closed so comments on this post have been turned off. Thanks to everyone who participated! The winners will be announced in a separate post.

It’s the last week in the Summer Reading event, and while we still have an awesome giveaway going this week from the incredible author Honor Raconteur, I’m running a slightly different contest as well.

The Revived, the third book in my A. M. Sohma series “Second Age of Retha” is on track to launch in mid September, but I wanted you guys to be part of it, so I thought it would be awesome if I gave you all a chance to submit character name! That’s right, a handful of minor characters in The Revived are waiting to be named.

Character Naming Contest

The contest starts today and lasts through Friday, August 31. Each reader can only submit once, and each submission can contain a maximum of two names total. If you submit more than two names, you’ll be automatically disqualified. (This is to give everyone a fair and equal chance, and to ensure that the winners have read the rules!) Submission is easy–just leave your suggestions in the comments section. (Some necessary legal stuff is down below, too.)

Here’s a few details about some of the names I’m looking for:

  • female mystic
  • male spellbinder
  • a REALLY fantasy-ish name of either gender (We’re talking hardcore fantasy here)
  • female scout
  • male swordsman
  • female bard
  • male rogue
  • a gender neutral name for a hunter

Once the Summer Reading Event ends, I’ll post the winning names! Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy this last week of giveaways, recommendations, and book fun. Thanks for reading, Champions!
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If one of your suggested names is chosen, you are not entitled to rewards, royalties, or wages, monetary or otherwise. By offering suggestions for names, you’re agreeing to contribute the name for the book, movie, audiobook, and any other version or form of the book without any sort of reward, wage, or royalty. While there are eight characters that need names, K. M. Shea reserves the right to adjust the number of chosen names to her discretion.

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  1. Abby says

    So, for hardcore fantasy, I’m always amazed that almost no one seems to know that the big celebration (immediate win party) at the end of the war for Lord of the Rings takes place on the Fields of Cormallen. So, maybe something like Cormalline, if it’s a woman, or even Cor, for short, for a male.

    Brock, for the male rogue.

  6. Fay says

    Elgin: the meaning of the name Elgin is: Noble; white.

    Arielle: Feminine form of the Hebrew Ariel (lion of God). Var: Ariela, Ariella. Can be pronounced “REL” or “AH R – EE – EH L”.

  7. LoraTb says

    female scout: Chameleon Camille
    Fantasy ish name: Anarion-Celebob Haldir (a.k.a Bob, because, come on, nobody can remember such a long name)

  8. Robin says

    I kind of hoped that you ment 2 names per character, but apparently not… To bad
    So my two names are: Arrow and Sigrid ( reminds me of secret 😉 )

  12. Elizabeth Davis says

    Ooh, wow, there are so many great names submitted already. But here’s what I’ve come up with!

    Male Swordsman – Arild Edge. Meaning: ‘”Battle commander”.

    Female Bard – Lyra Highnote. Meaning: “Musical instrument”.

    May the best names win! 😄

  13. Heather says

    Zeke, age 12 (uses Axelent for his gaming log in)
    Female Scout – Rose, which is short for Rosalind
    Male Rogue – Nick

    Jake, age 14 (uses OldManBluff for his gaming and coding log ins)
    Really fantasy name – Cy’li-delidan
    Male swordsman – Greg

    Aidan, age 17
    Male spellbinder – Kellivar
    Female bard – Celia

  14. Xandria says

    I am offering my top two names that I believe would fit the world of Retha.

    Rowen – “Little Red Head” / A type of tree with Red Berries. (Either Gender)
    Xandria (zan-dree-uh) – Protector/Defender of Man. I love how different the spelling is and the underline meaning. (Female) (yes, it is my name but it does not change the fact that it is a wonderful name and uncommon)

  18. D says

    Dev-gender neutral
    Viola-bard (in honor of the underrepresented viola players of the world…I don’t play viola either. Everyone needs a cause, right?)

  20. Maddi says

    For the swordsman I picked the name Buvo! It sounds epic 😄 And for the gender neutral hunter I really like the name Finley (that name also fits for the bard too!) thank you!!!

  22. Rebecca says

    Male swordsman – Inigo Montoya (“You killed my father…..”)
    Female bard – Tui (Maori name for a New Zealand songbird and used as a girl’s name)

  24. Glowrious says

    Can’t wait for the next book. As a person that appreciates puns, Axellent made me crack up. Here’s my usernames: Glowrious for male spellbreaker (hehehe), or Silhouette could work for either the female scout or male rogue.

  27. Megan says

    Not that you need any more suggestions, but my recent experience with D&D brought ‘Nat_Won’ to mind. ‘Dee_20’ (or something similar) could also work.

  31. Alvin Greunke says

    Konk – Male Rogue, master of dual sword combat, Chaotic Good alignment, kind of a robin hood of sorts type of character, stands up for those who can’t stand up for themselves, regardless of who you are. Was my first character back when World of Warcraft came out. 😀

    Another suggestion if these are “player names” and not npc’s is Balzac, name of a city, but also a clever way around naming policies for the immature male player 😉

  33. Vivian says

    female mystic: Endless Song
    male spellbinder: Call of the Void
    Looking forward to seeing what names are used in the next book! I’ve been counting down the days, I love this story so much!

  34. Ciara Robinson says

    For the fantasy name:

    KiroKitsune
    (The name is Japanese and the first part means lord. The second part means fox and refers to Japanese folklore)

    For the female scout:

    Aurum Panther
    (mainly because that’s been my Xbox user name since I was nine years old. At the time, I used the name aurum instead of gold mainly because I thought it sounded cooler :/

  36. Hannah says

    It dawned on me last night while I was trying to go to sleep that “Gregorian Chant” would be a really funny name in a video game (if the late-night humor doesn’t translate, sorry about that).

    And since I’m on a musical kick, I’m nominating “Metronome” as an awkward but music-related name for a female bard.

  40. Kara Lindsey says

    Female mystic – Tarmiala “Mia” Zharge

    Hardcore Fantasy – Lorvena Sunspell

    Can’t wait to read it! I did not think I would like the MMORPG books as opposed to your usual fare, but you’ve got me hooked!

  48. Shish says

    Names are my favorite thing! But I will follow the rules and only put two. (You’re killing me, Kitty!)
    Male: Hexlon (Hex for short, if necessary)
    Female: Emerentiana (Emeri for short, if necessary)

  49. Shae says

    I absolutely love the name Bellalyse for females, I use it for every game I play! As for a really fantasy name, I always wanted a character named Eilanym.

  50. Olivia says

    Rowena-Raven
    My gamer tag that I love and have had for a long time and it’s Harry Potter inspired 😉
    I think this could work for any of the female characters.

  54. Emma says

    Alex (gender neutral Hunter)
    Mystic (I know, it’s kind of weird to name a few left mystic Mystic, but I think it’s a pretty name)

  56. Melanie says

    My friends and I played a LOT of MMORPGs and we ended up using two names repeatedly: Minstrel Cycle and Shooty D’Arrow, :D. So if you’re willing to accept bad puns for your bard and hunter/scout/ranger, I’d love to see one of us in your story!

  58. Jess W says

    For female bard Violin-t (username pun off of violent, Vi for short). For gender neutral hunter name Rowan (like the tree)

  62. Anastasia Spaun says

    Viophelia was my Dreanai Death Knight on WoW.

    Lirias is my Khajit Nightblade on ESO.

  72. Anna says

    For the male swordsman: Harmattan
    Meaning a dry, dusty wind that blows through west Africa.
    For the female mystic: Mirage

  74. Jeremy Griffiths says

    “Savannah” for female scout in honor of Savannah Georgia, the birth place of the Girl Scouts 😉
    “Auryon Chase” for gender neutral hunter. Both names mean hunter.

    • Nancy Gilliam says

      Auto correct changed the names for some reason
      Name one is supposed to be : Roan
      Name two is supposed to be: Ansley

  77. Hails says

    Brendan Salter- male character
    Just a strong male name combo I like

    FrigynSkadi- mystic, really fantasy-ish name.
    A mash up of three Norse goddesses. Frigga goddess of beauty, love and marriage. Sigyn goddess of loyalty and faith. And Skadi the “snowshoe” goddess; a goddess of winter and hunting in the mountains.
    Nicknames can range from something “normal” like Adi or something more silly like Rigy.

  78. Sophie says

    Matt (Egyptian Goddess of Order) – Female Mystic
    Artemis (Greek Goddess of the Hunt) – Female Scout

  79. Leila says

    Audire -(it’s the latin root of the word audio) I thought for the female bard but could be anything really.
    Then
    Lady Vesper Solas ElNagm- Roughly Lady Evening Starlight (or more accurately Light of the Star ) Latin-Irish Gaelic-Arabic combo.

  84. Ashleigh says

    I like the name Scapegoat ( it’s actually a named of female bard character in my D and D group) and the name Baakshi ( as a random fantasy name I thought looked and sounded cool)

  90. Karen says

    Palynth
    Inque (pronounced ink)–or Silent Inque; Mystic Inque; Inque of Death; Inqueling; etc.

  93. Kim Gregory says

    Male rogue – Fynnagan or Finnagan
    Female scout – Catlyn
    Fantasy name – Bel-regus

  98. Silipa says

    TinyJellyfishOfDoom – Pekipaki is the Tongan name of a stealthy tiny blue jellyfish in the South Pacific that blends so well into the ocean that you don’t see it until it is too late. Sneaky little buggars. You don’t even see them on the beach until it is too late!

    MadammeFweeba- Fweeba Wibbith is the name my nephews have me because they could not say ‘Silipa Elizabeth’. I have used it as my name a time or two while gaming because it still makes me smile.

  101. Silipa says

    Pekipaki- Tongan name of a tiny blue jellyfish that has a huge sting. You never see these guys coming! They blend so well with the ocean, and even on the sand they’re so small you end up sitting on these without realizing it. Lol. Could be fun for a hunter or a rogue.

    Talamasina – Tongan name of a Princess, kind of translates to ‘story of white ‘ or ‘telling the white’. Could be a fun name for a mystic or a bard.

    🙂 Happy name choosing to you!

    • Merie says

      I just thought, for the latter, you can have “Kip” for short or something
      Just a thought 🙂

  104. Ghostly Water says

    Fyre (because to me it seemed like it might fit with at least one of the personalities that would go with your brief descriptions of these characters)
    Naeris (seems easy to read and pronounce but also really fantasy to me)

  108. Michelle Rudell says

    Names my husband & I like/have used in our mmorpg gaming- Females: Echoe, Zeeva, Calypso; and Males: Rabadash, Threshage, Tisroc

  110. foxinsox says

    For the Swordsman: Gallinore (which I thought was an Actual King Arthur name, until I looked it up)
    For the Rogue: Euryloches

  116. Lydia says

    Mystic – Mnemosyne (it might be slightly easier to drop the first ‘M’) is the Greek Muse of Memory. Mystics are usually seen as people who can understand the future, but I heard it suggested that they can do only because they know and understand the past.

    Swordsman: Edmund Ironside; real Anglo-Saxon king, known as the warrior prince. He was really cool, but had a gruesome/humorous end…

  119. Kaitlin says

    Anadda (uh-nah-thuh) Gherund and Tamaliya Kapoor. I went with a Welsh-ish spelling for the first, lol.

    • Megan says

      OOH! I like Wren Silvertongue! It’s the sort of name that whispers stories to me!
      So, Kitty, if none of these get used in the other Revived books…does that mean they’re up for grabs, lol? Or at least revert back to their originators?

  121. Alyssa says

    Bardaga Wardance and Bleikur Pinkdanger. Bardaga means battle in Icelandic and Bleikur means pink.

  122. Ellena insley says

    MalevolentDay, MalevolentNight, cool name for any female character.

    Arcane Winter (female)
    Thyane Bloodstone (male or female)
    Lopt Seawind (female, if you wanna do male would be Loki seawind)
    Tazmin Noir (female)
    Athena Rayne (female)
    Isadore Bellablanca(female)
    (These may or may not be my gamer tags, and names of characters, but have at them. Lol)

  124. Jemma says

    I reckon a LOTR universe name or a King Arthur kinda name would be cool 😀

    Genevieve for female bard
    Brynn Swiftfoot for a female scout

    🙂

  127. Devon says

    Female Mystic- Tiva means “loves to Dance” or Dancer, also my shortened gamer handle

    Hunter – Mason Ryan get them to go by either name as both are unisex.

  131. Rebekah says

    Female Scout – Lasaravis
    Gender neutral name- Sheath

    In case any one is wondering, the name Larsavis came from the names Lasaraleen and Aravis from The Horse and His Boy in the Chronicles of Narnia.

      • Edel E.M. says

        I like The Horse and His Boy too!!! It’s just sad that no one films it bc the Pevensies are only only in one scene! 🙁 it has intrigue, adventure, and a “wilder” Aslan. Sometimes I wonder if it would have been more popular out of the set as a stand alone.

      • Suzie says

        Maybe my favorite of the series! We’ve pulled a lot of gamer handles out of this book, too … my brother-in-law still mains with Tisroc, may he live forever.

    • Megan says

      HORSE AND HIS BOY!!!!!
      One of my all time favs!!!!
      I feel like “BoltOfTash” would be an interesting user name…particularly if the character could fly/fall.
      Or get stuck on a nail halfway down 😉

    • Georgia says

      Actually, would like to change entry ‘Indigo’ to ‘Renee’- comes with ample opportunity for nicknames (Wren, Nae, Nae-Nae, etc)

  134. Jenny says

    High Fantasy – Thimbrythil
    Female Mystic – Lorea

    😀 Looking forward to the next installment!

  141. Kimberly says

    Percival Blackdragon – male swordsman (this was my LOTRO main for years and would be awesome if it was a book character) Gremlyn Pursestrings – Male Rouge – seems like an appropriate rouge name.

  142. Anthony Romero says

    male spellbinder – Ciarán O’Callaghan
    female bard – Kabrina (Brina) Harper

  145. Peggy Brown says

    Suggestions: Aurora for any female and Raven for any male. And a comment about naming – Please make all the names very dissimilar. I read fast and HATE it when an author names two or more characters very similar names. Chuck and Chase. Mary and Maria. Jose and Joe. Areile and Araible. Evan and Eva. Unless they are twins or from the same tribe or clan or something, then I pay attention, but the rest of the time I just register the look of the name and go on. Later I am into a scene and get yanked out because the character is doing something that makes no sense. Oh, that isn’t Miles, it is Mike. Now, who is Mike? Help! And fantasy books can be the worse because so many of the names are made up and there is no associations to each in my brain. So, PLEEEEASE, help a reader. Thanks. PBB

    • Leila says

      Oh this is true with my dyslexic brain too. I read super fast but struggle with Proper Nouns can’t read Russian novel because too many names are the same shape.

    • Megan says

      Oh, I have the same problem!!!
      “Sauron” vs “Saruman” caused me no end of confusion the first time through LOTR…

  146. Agnes says

    Sparkly Unicorn- weird fantasy name
    Hunter- hunter

    I thought they would be pretty ironic…

    • Edel E.M. says

      I think Hunter could be a great name for a non-hunter too. Oh the comedy of explaining over and over that you associate with something completely different from your namesake 🙂

  147. Katy says

    ill go with what i hope to name my kids one day: Phoenix and Siren <3 for whichever characters youd like~

  165. Rebecca says

    Rei for a girl. Or guy. It’s the gender neutral one! And Hugo for a male spell whatever. Thing…

  170. Edel E.M. says

    Grunsweth
    Roven

    Just names, not meant for any specific minor character listed

    This is a super fun post! Please announce the fan suggested names matched to the minor characters at the end! 🙂