I also know that people sometimes have a lot of trouble with naming! I personally find that going off the parents as a springboard helps give me direction with that, and I've been asked to help with naming a couple times (which I always have a blast with). So I figured I'd briefly share my naming process with people in the hopes of sparking some ideas.
Likewise, if you find another method really works well and comes up with spectacular names for your foals, please share it! I am so up for new naming resources. :3
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I'm going to use these lovely little angry-babies as an example. Normally I wait until adulthood to get a better feel for their personality. I always start with the parents, though, because it squees me to see name bits carried down through generations in my lineage trees.
Mystic of the Yawning Deep x Glacier of the Steady Seas
So - Deep/Depths, Yawn, Glacier/Glacial, Steady/Steadfast, Sea
All of those are really good tie-ins to mum 'n dad for me. I usually try to throw both of them in there, although I've been known to just go with one sometimes for magical species like Mystics because you have slightly less flexibility. I end up with lists like this:
Mystic of the Steadfast ___
Mystic of the Glacial ___
Mystic of the ___ Deep
Depths of the Glacial ___
Yawn of the ___ Deep
And then I open up thesaurus.com and have a field day!
Mystic of the Steadfast ___ (Plummet)
Mystic of the Glacial ___ (Twilight, Expanse, Fathom, Chasm)
Mystic of the ___ (Briny, Plummeting, Hidden, Secret) Deep/Depths
Depths of the Glacial ___ (Twilight, Expanse, Fathom, Chasm)
Yawn of the ___ (Briny, Pelagic) Deep/Depths
Aaaand I keep going and just start playing with things. I switch them around a lot, try new words with totally different meanings, go here and there and everywhere, and they often don't resemble what they started as. But! Hopefully this ramble helps at least one person name their lovely new offspring.
...if I had to pick, I think the name I'm still "proudest" of is Stillness of the Mazarine Sun. xD It incorporates an unusual word without making it feel clunky or wordy just for the sake of wordy, at least to my ears, and it was pretty perfectly suited to the mare's appearance.
