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During some recent interviews, I’ve had people ask me where do I get the names and and language of Lampion.The names – both character and place – are a combination of invented and real. I find it amazing how many interesting names are laying around if you just start paying attention – on billboards, road signs, articles, etc. So I keep a notepad handy and jot any names or ideas for names I see – for example I often will reverse a name, or jumble the letters to see if it comes up as an interesting combination of sounds. Danaí’s name came from an old western dance hall I passed for years which had a fading “billboard” painted on the bricks with the name Dania. The languages are a conglomerate. I also speak French, Spanish and smatterings of German and Italian. Plus I love the cadence of Gaelic. So to invent words and a working language structure is more an iterative process of tracing the grammar and syntax of those tongues I know and grafting a new language on it.