How do I come up with my character names?

Well, I get them from lots of places, one of them is news reports, take all the reports on Typoon Rammasun. Isn't that an interesting name? So I had to Google it and Rammansun is a Siamese word for Thunder God! Now wouldn't that be an interesting character.

I like to look up the meaning behind names and use several websites that do that and try to match it to the characters but sometimes a name just jumps out at me. Like Ynyr, I just really liked it and it is associated with 'honor' and that fit perfectly.

Grim and yes, I made a conscious decision to not spell it the common way, because Grim isn't a common guy. It just needed to be his name, I can't tell you why and it took forever for my computer to stop trying to change it.

Others like Oryon and Isis I pulled from mythology.

Isis was the most powerful of all the female Goddesses in ancient Egypt and I wanted that for the character even though others don't see her that way. She was strong for the stand she took on not leaving Oryon.

Oryon, of course, is a different spelling for Orion from Greek mythology who was a mighty hunter. I liked that and made him the Lord of the 'Hunt' planet that I called Betelguese because Orion is also a constellation, and Betelguese is one of the brightest stars in that constellation. Rigel is the other one so therefore he became Lord Oryon Rigel of House Rigel on the planet Betelguese.

M.K.