I'm making a campaign to run for my friends, and I wanted the main plot to be about a corporate-esque businessman, you know the type, wants what he wants and he usually wants money and progress, but I can't for the life of me think of a name for a business in a fantasy setting, the only ideas I'm getting are stuff like Future Tech which, in my opinion, doesn't fit. Any ideas?
Do these business men have names that are established with the party yet? If not, you could do a "Johnson, Johnson, and Jones" style name, but with more appropriate names.
Many real companies have, or at least had this style of naming convention. M&M (yes the candy) actually stands for Mars and Murrie, the latter of which was the son of the then president of the Hershey company. Murrie was mostly taken in by Mars with a promise of a share of the company in return for the then rationed chocolate of WWII, but later Mars marginalized his patsy and bought him out once he could get the chocolate himself.
As this anecdote shows, you can use an outdated name maintained for branding in order to characterize the businessmen. Taking on the air of the all too familiar corporate shark will take on the atmosphere of the "modern" far better than a brandname ever will. Even if he never turns out to be the villain, you establish a sense of tension and power using these tropes.
As a sidenote: the history of chocolate companies is dark as #%^&. Corporate espionage and draconian security measures galore. You can take note from this type of stuff since patent laws would obviously be nonexistent or unenforceable in most fantasy settings.
Thanks you! and I did not expect to get a history lesson on M&M on Paizo :P
Granted, it's a little later period, but I'd think about East India Trading Co., or something along those lines.
If he's crafty, it may not even have any immediate links to him, but rather he's sort of using it as a front or a shell company. So you could simply go with Katapesh Exploration and Advancement Co. or Kerse Trading Concern or Woodsedge Venture Corp.
This book has a lot of ideas and fluff that can be adapted.
What type of business is it? That could be a great source for the name too. Combined with geographical, founder's name, or even an evocative monster name.
It's going to probably be either a forestry, realty, contracting, or all of the above... definitely all of the above. The three CEOs would be a Bard, a Wizard, and a Fighter, all brothers, I'm thinking maybe Geyer, Geyer, and Geyer Ltd.
Though, I'm not too sure about the Ltd, maybe Corporation?
Wolfram & Hart
Not sure about Ltd or Corporation, honestly. Consortium might be a better fit, or Company, or the Geyer Brothers Land Guild, or something.