Good cerebrate name

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Re: Good cerebrate name

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If you're still looking at this topic since last year, mysterious X-man,
The hard thing with Cerebrate names (or any word in English for that matter) is that English has many representations for one sound that we jumble ourselves up with...
Unless you want to go for something more Terran inspired, use Quirriff's suggestions or perhaps even Merlin the Magical Cerebrate. Maybe you would want to go with Ceech the Celebratory Cerebrate or some celebrity who's a scientologist.
But yes, Manus Dei and angusheart are on the best tracks to follow.

Norse mythological names are indeed of the Zerg Brood names as claimed by angusheart and http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Zerg_Ce ... Cerebrates
"Garm" used by Blizzard seems to be a name of a Norse beast (also "Garmr").
The infamous "Daggoth" in the Blizzard campaign may have originated from Marvel Comic's "Dagoth" demon... with a bit of googling.

Going into more phonetic analyzation with my Linguistic nerdishness, a good cerebrate name that correlates with what Blizzard has done is to use turbulent sounds. Manus Dei pointed out "oth" and "ath"

Other turbulent sounds include "F" in "Fight", "Sh" in "Shazbot", "S" in "Snape", "Ch" in "Cheese", and turbulent H's in Spanish as represented through the letter "J" like "rojo" ... Sephiroth has three of them.

However, sticking to Blizzard names, they seem to like to use:
-Low vowels, "A" in "Audience" also represented with "O" 's
-High "i" attached with an "L" at the end of names
-Glottal sounds "K" in "Kit" initially and "G" in "Gate" initially and in the end (sound of "K" can also be represented as "Q")
-The letter "Z" beginning or end
-The letter "L" medially or at the end
-English's rhoticized "R" 's ... in "Art" or "Sardines" medially
-"N" initially

So Blizzard ended up with Cerebrates
Araq
Auza
Daggoth
Gom
Kagg
Kaloth
Nargil
Zargil
Zasz

However, to not limit yourself, my only advice is to not use high vowels ("I" or "U") in the beginning or very of the names unless accompanied by an "L" or "K" and play around with the given letters and sounds in the analyzation and add another associating letter to ugly up the ugly name for a Cerebrate (in a good way to make it sound threatening). An apostrophe is nice to seperate the symbols for a tougher looking name. For example, and you can take these if you want:

Simple: Gaq, Zoz, Koq, Arg
Bit Outlandish: Argoth, Galz, Kurtz, Dazl'goth, Naq'tor, Far'zil
More Outlandish: Roq'il, Grawq, Azqa, Shazgil, Horoth, Horothy, Zutral, Genchth,
or More Norse Beasts: Skol(l), Arvak, Ratatosk, ...
Also some nice brands you can satirize: Kelloggs, Koq (Coke), Musak, PopTart, Soltzur (Alka Seltzer), Googil (Google), Moq (Macintosh), Dagl'nol (Tylenol), Ag'vil (Advil),

Think caveman with a bit of decency.
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Milldawg wrote: gygax
He's not dead, he's just been reincarnated as a gigantic slug in charge of a lot of crickets.
Yeah. Makes perfect sense.
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