I always have mixed feelings about fantasy names. Any name that required an apostrophe or had more than four syllables makes me want to roll my eyes. I have yet to fully recover from a fantasy romance writer who named one of her minor characters 'Shiraz' (a ruddy character with an acerbic aftertaste). But on the other hand a magical paladin or berserker barbarian really isn't going to proclaim 'behold the might of Alfred' as he poses majestically against the skyline.
My current story has characters Fisk, Levin, Albreckt, Fae, Rudith, Halry, Jess and Tessa. Generated basically by slapping together some random syllables. Hopefully none of them is also the name of an obscure form of cider or a kind of rare Canadian cheese. Because if it was, you'd tell me, right? For a game you can all play at home: which if these names are for female characters? (Hint, there are three of them).
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Are the females Fae, Rudith and Tessa? BTW, Fisk is a city in Montana. But it's not a cheese. I don't think.
Carl Levin is a US Senator...he's not a cheese, though.
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