Made possible entirely by the language web-thing I made a few weeks back, or else there would've been a crapload of names far too similar, probably. Least this way I know which consonants and vowel-combinations represent which influencing cultures in the story, so there's some (basic) consistency. Without being repetitive.
But yes, thank goodness for illustrator, without which this would've been a scrawled-out illegible mess on some old graph paper. Woo!
Asterisks indicate love-matches (as opposed to political alliances). Red [outline] means the character's dead, but is still aged proportionally. So even if someone died at 16, if they'd be 50 during the story, they're in the age-50 vertical bracket, just so I know proportionally the age-relationships as well as family relationships.
(I had a much rougher draft I was using for a long time, until I realized that it didn't tell me or remind me who's older or younger or by how much. And since I'm going on the assumption that women have some basic control over childbirth, children are spaced out anywhere from 3-7 years between each child, instead of bam-bam-bam of six kids by the age of twenty-two. That made it even harder to recall who's age-equal with whom, since it means Tsiu is only a few years older than his nieces, and his eldest sister is just a few years younger than their youngest aunt, and so on.)
haha, I can tell you're very impressed with my impromptu bout of obsessive behavior! Hyperfocus ftw, due.
I figure either I had to start consolidating my notes somehow or start killing off characters so I'd have less to track. I went for the killing, but then realized I'd still have to track who I'd killed, too. No way around the necessity of a family tree, it seems!
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Date: 27 Oct 2012 04:38 am (UTC)And everyone has a name! That is a ridiculous amount of naming, I take my hat off to you.
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Date: 27 Oct 2012 04:47 am (UTC)But yes, thank goodness for illustrator, without which this would've been a scrawled-out illegible mess on some old graph paper. Woo!
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Date: 27 Oct 2012 05:09 am (UTC)Also that is an impressive amount of effort. :O
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Date: 27 Oct 2012 05:18 am (UTC)(I had a much rougher draft I was using for a long time, until I realized that it didn't tell me or remind me who's older or younger or by how much. And since I'm going on the assumption that women have some basic control over childbirth, children are spaced out anywhere from 3-7 years between each child, instead of bam-bam-bam of six kids by the age of twenty-two. That made it even harder to recall who's age-equal with whom, since it means Tsiu is only a few years older than his nieces, and his eldest sister is just a few years younger than their youngest aunt, and so on.)
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Date: 27 Oct 2012 05:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 27 Oct 2012 09:20 pm (UTC)I figure either I had to start consolidating my notes somehow or start killing off characters so I'd have less to track. I went for the killing, but then realized I'd still have to track who I'd killed, too. No way around the necessity of a family tree, it seems!