Easter Eggs
Congratulations! You found the secret pages!
I know, it's all fiction and as the author, I like to insert small tidbits of hidden things for people to look for. This is a list of many of these small things to include listing my sources for various names.
Characters
- Axios: Greek word for "worthy".
- Commander Neek: I used to play Commander Keen, awesome game!
- Desi'Rel: Named after a girl named Desiree.
- Drowtaht: "That word".
- Eleuthera: Greek word for "wild?".
- Emanpugnikam: Shortened from Semanpugnikamtadoogtonmi which is "I'm not good at making up names" backwards.
- Erom'Reven: A tribute to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" and the phrase "Nevermore".
- Hureto: AIM Screenname (Heretoannoy).
- Kell: AIM Screenname (kelldragon). I later discovered that kell dragons are a species in the Star Wars universe. However, it was too late to change this name by then.
- Klez: Klez is actually a computer virus which has been around for a number of years now.
- Leukos: Greek word for "white".
- Lowkee: "Low key".
- Melas: Greek word for "black, darkness".
- Pikole'Dil: Pickle, Dill.
- Rumsi: AIM Screenname (nicksmurf).
- Teof: Named after a guy named Teofilo.
- Yanna'Reh: AIM Screenname (Heretoannoy).
- Zarc: Crazy!
Places
- Amehtana: Anathema backwards.
- Amis: Named after my sister Amy.
- Bay of Anamnesis: Anamnesis means to remember the past. It was given this name as a tribute to the ruins of Atalan.
- Eema: Named after my sister Amy.
- Island of Kimb: Named after a girl named Kimberly who baked me some awesome brownies which I just happened to get as I was walking out the door to leave for the Army.
- Kimirad: Named after a girl named Kimmy.
- Nasad: Possibly influenced by the Fortress of Massada.
- Nerak: Named after my sister Karen.
- Nodnarb: Brandon backwards.
- Taor: Acronym formed by letters in a book title (The Art Of waR).
- Vernon: The last name of a girl I once knew.
- Wekined: Formed from the phrase "weak-kneed". Suggested by Grant Franke.
Did you know?
- The idea for the city Atalan came from the original idea to involve the mythical city of Atlantis?
- The strange names of the Canari were influenced by a Far Side cartoon?
- The race of the Huvudets was developed by writing a girl's name on a piece of paper and turning it upside down and that every Huvudet character has since been named after a girl?
- In the original story idea, the Dark Witch Narva was originally a high priest that was directly descended from the Dark Wizard Voth?
- There was originally only one line of prophecy: "Great evil fortells great good"?
- Greenberries were developed from barely developed pinecones?