In my WIP, there is a race if shapeshifters living apart from humanity in the forests. I want to give them names that sound like ones people living in the wilderness might use. Descriptive ones, kind of like old Native American names, you know what I mean? Here's what I have so far and what I still need. What do you guys think? A gray wolf named Stormcloud Fang (Storm for short) A gray and red fox named Glowing Cinders (Cinder for short) ^at first I was going to call this one Ember, but I didn't want to confuse people since I have another character named Amber. An owl named Silent Wings (Silent or Silence for short) A child squirrel named Acts Without Thinking (Act or Ax) A young rabbit named Leaps Without Looking (Leap) The ones I haven't decided on are... A mountain goat. A grizzly bear. A whitetail deer (male, preferably referencing his antlers)
In Turkish, names all have a literal meaning e.g. Ayşe comes from "ay ışığı" = moonlight. So I would keep the names as straight descriptors. You don't want them to be like cliches.
