i just need some help naming a new goddess for my game, she is the goddess of serpents subterfuge and trickery, any ideas would be nice.
How about Inadu, it's Cherokee for snake.
The Whore Queen Ardad Lili who is somewhat like that. LE Goddess of seduction, snakes, women. Domains: Charm, Evil, Law, and Scalykind. There is a small stub about her in Book of the Damned Vol 1.
i just need some help naming a new goddess for my game, she is the goddess of serpents subterfuge and trickery, any ideas would be nice.
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Traditionally, a snake-goddess might have a name with a lot of sibillant 'S' sounds, going for the onomotapoeia effect.
Shiress, for instance, or Essasha. If she's intended to be seductive, words that evoke sensual or sinuous could work, even if just importing a word-fragment, such as in Sualis.
Using names associated with legendary serpents, such as the Iroquois Unktehi or Uncegila (which White Wolf uses as the Uktena), or Apophis, or Typhon, etc. could work.
Or you could just grab a random word and use it completely oddly. The goddess could be named Porphyra (greek for purple), and have purple scales, or Heme (pronounced 'heem,' a word for blood, used in 'hemotoxin,' and slightly suggestive of her venomous nature).
Obviously, a pseudo-Iroquis, Greek or Egyptian name isn't going to be much use if she represents a Persian-esque group, and a a more 'Qadiran-sounding' name like Hayyati (viper) would be relevant, or for a Vudran snake-goddess, something like Shesha (the great serpent who floats on the cosmic waters, upon which Vishnu sits).
Various other mythological serpent / wyrms of significance;
Ouroborous or Ashanti (symbol of eternity, serpent biting it's own tail)
Caduceus (twin entwined serpents, symbol of healing)
Jormungandr (midgard serpent)
Nidhoggr (dragon who chews on the root of the world tree)
Coatlicue (water goddess with a skirt of serpents)
Quetzalcoutl (cloud serpent / storm god)
Damballah and Aiyida-Wedo (rainbow serpent-gods of voudon faith)
Mucalinda (king of serpents, protected Buddha from a storm)
There's also a bunch of mythological snakes / snake gods I've never heard of here.
Naganada for another Indian inspired mythos name. Portmanteau of naga (holy serpent) and ananda (bliss).
Lilith, Uraeus, Pythoness, Sethess, Phalsess, SILF, Sylph, Caecilia or Cecaelia (replacing tentacles with snakes)...
my friends and i are creating our own world to play in and we all are making the different gods, i will be working on some more, i just needed a little help naming this goddess.
these are all good names and ideas, thank you every one for your comments.