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Name help!
Okay, I've been turning my brain inside out on this one for ages, and I need help.
In the story I'mkilling myself with working on - last year's NaNo, actually - there's a reclusive female monarch who has an all-female cadre of bodyguards. This group features prominently in the story and I can't just call them 'the female bodyguards' so I need a name. As a placeholder last November I just called them "Guardians", but that's so pedantic and uninspired that I kind of feel ill whenever I type it.
I've been organizing other bodyguard organization to try and spark an idea. The closest I've come is the Indian National Security Guard which is also known as the 'Black Cats'.
So, anyone struck with the idea for a name? If it helps, the story is a fantasy and the setting is quasi-turn-of-the-20th-century.
In the story I'm
I've been organizing other bodyguard organization to try and spark an idea. The closest I've come is the Indian National Security Guard which is also known as the 'Black Cats'.
So, anyone struck with the idea for a name? If it helps, the story is a fantasy and the setting is quasi-turn-of-the-20th-century.
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Alternately, something with "watch" or "shield" in it?
It's hard to say without knowing the story, so just throwing a couple things out. :)
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Are there gods? Myths? Symbols that might be helpful in giving them a name?
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I can't think of any animals thus far in the mythology... the main religious belief is that God created the world by transforming his body into it. The dominant religion mostly comes from the north, though... I could see some animal myths or legends leaking into the culture from the south (which, actually, is where the idea behind female bodyguards came from).
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The Queen's Hawks? Or possibly Falcons? Birds of Prey? (I know, there's the magazine, but...)
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Or if there were *always* a particular number of them - "the (number)"
Elite (guard or something)