[quote=Mammalia]
... That's a really good idea. Gilda would probably try to bypass the whole thing the first time by just asking what their name means. Bam, you've got your bearer. Lolnotoobad.Also I was planning on having the names deal with talents, since in the canon for this story, the name of an animal is determined by a special spell. The spell connects to the weave of fate (which, just so you know, is malleable and not set in stone, hence ) and finds the destined talent of the animal, before giving them a name related to that. The weave explains why some ponies have names completely unrelated to their talent (the weave ends up changing the end talent enough to not be related to the original name).There won't be too many minor characters, and any minor characters will likely only be stationed in one tribe/flock/herd/whateverthing. But yeah that adds a lot more depth to the whateverthings than the original idea.
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welcome :p
ah. that weave thing makes sense I suppose.