Thank you so much! My process for creating names is a bit of a word salad, lol. I do base my cultures on real life ones, and the Iredicci are based on Latin and Italian cultures, so I needed a word that sounded like it could be Latin or Italian. Then I concentrate on how they look on paper and how they sound in my head. Basically I just play around with syllables till I’m satisfied. 😁
Some of the names for my cities are real world places, or a mix of. Baricenza, for example, is a mix of Bari and Vicenza, and Inizi really does mean “beginnings” in Italian. There are so many amazing words and places that already exist, I don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time. 😊