Help me come up with a fictional city name!

    What it says on the tin, trying to think up a name for a fictional city but I'm having problems. So far I have:

    Carter City (Sounds too much like the one from Manhunt)

    Nathan City

    Luther City

    I like Nation City but that was used in Poke and I'd prefer an original name, your suggestions are appreciated!

    Ps: This isn't EOT, so no 'buttsecks city lol' please

    It'd be easier to come up with a relevant/clever name if you gave an idea of what scenario the city would be used in and/or the general theme and tone of it.

    It's for a horror themed thing im working on.

    The main theme consists of a team of anti-terrorism soldiers dropped into the city to combat a group of religious terrorists who are causing havok in order to aquire the four pieces of a talisman to open the gateway to what could be considered 'Hell'.

    The city itself has become quite depopulated due to rising crime over the years so there's a lot of areas that have become abandoned and consists of condemned buildings. City would be kinda like New York/LA with less people, an area of tall skyscrapers wrapped around miles of disused crumbling buildings.

    So what you want is a name that emphasise the once grand nature of the city, to clash with the comparably opposite tone it now has. Nobody would name a city after something bad (eg: Shithole City") so it'll seem cooler if something less obvious such as Pioneer City or something else related it once being superb.

    The other option is to tie it into the hell thing by using some really old reference to hell (use Wikipedia) to imply that an ancient community knew of the hell aspect of the place and named their pissy little village after it (now a city) but it's been forgotten over time.

    I'd stay well away from cliché or unimaginative titles such as simply sticking a real person's name before "City" as they don't really mean anything.

    Racoon City

    Lucifer's Corner

    Not many cities themselves have the word 'city' in them, so finding another word for city would make the place even more grounded in reality. Another thing to try (Thrik's ideas are good) is go to google maps and look up names in Maine and other NorthEastern United States and just look at small towns that are along the highways away from major cities.

    Names I found in Maine:

    Moscow

    Belgrade

    Rome

    Belfast

    Corinth

    Troy

    Detriot

    A lot of towns with Corner or Hill

    Yeah, I think using City in the name is really something reserved for comic book realities, as it's rare to encounter it otherwise. If you're going for a "This could actually happen in our current or future world" reality then I'd stay well away from it just like Mojo said.

    Quote from Thrik

    Yeah, I think using City in the name is really something reserved for comic book realities, as it's rare to encounter it otherwise.

    I plan on actually having a graphic novel Max Payne style actually

    New Dresden (yes, Dresden is a German city that was bombed in WW2)

    Cliff City

    Drift City

    Wicker Falls

    Parker Falls

    Pike Falls

    Pike City

    And in the completely-out-of-my-ass-but-may-be-the-same-as-a-real-city-I-don't-know-about category:

    Dolson

    Grissleton

    Fletcher Park

    Mojingville

    Thrikville

    :roll:

    Wicker falls.. seems good!

    Also:

    Hmm.. Castle Rock anyone?

    Anyhow, here are my suggestions:

    - red moon

    - moon falls

    - wolf creek

    But those aren't names you'd use for a city that once knew greatness. Maybe this comes closer to what you mean?

    - rotgothen (made up lol)

    - rot lochos (made up lol)

    - justice city

    - excellence city

    - archfreedom city

    - estrangeles (looks like Los Angeles wich is an awesome name and is an anagram (sort of) of greatness)

    - grace city

    - magnit city

    - grand majestic

    - splendor city

    That's it.

    Succes

    Tautological placenames kick ass. Pick a random language (not english) and find out what they use for "city" and name your city that.

    There is a hill in England called Torpenhow Hill where Tor, Pen, and How, are all the words for "hill" in the languages of various previous waves of settlers. So it translates to "Hillhillhill Hill". Do something like that!

    Mythological Underworlds/Otherworlds or gates to such places:

    Avernus

    Mictlan

    Niflheim

    Tartarus

    Xibalba

    Buddhist “Hell” equivalents:

    Arbuda

    Avici

    Hahava

    Naraka

    Nirarbuda

    Raurava

    Utpala

    Words with connotations of hell you can mix it up with.

    Abaddon

    Abyss

    Aether

    Dis

    Gehenna

    Miasma

    Makai

    Nether

    Ordeal

    Pandemonium

    Perdition

    Pestilence

    Purgatory

    I quite like the sound of Tartarus. It doesn’t sound like a silly name for a modern city and the reference isn’t cheesy sounding when you know what it is. I also wrote Miasmapolis, but stared at it a bit and deleted it – then wrote it again to tell you all my silly name.

    Or you could go the opposite route and name it somewhere really pleasant sounding. Like Clearwater or Haven, whoa -- juxtaposition, it’s like poetry.

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