Dog Latin needed!

[gridlore]

I'm doing some work on my campaign setting, and need actual names for the four major deities. They are, in no particular order

• Law. The ultimate expression of order. Father of the Dwarves. Known as the "Building Father." Symbols include stone pillars, perfect towers, masonry tools.


• Chaos. Wild, unformed, energy and motion. Mother of the Elves. Commonly known as the "Growing Mother." Symbols include circles, trees, and the eight-pointed arrow.


• Life. The deity of all living things and Good. Child of Law and Chaos. Known generally as the "Child of Light" or "Life-Bringer." Symbols include a perfect child, the sun, and skulls (in his role as the end of life), a young warrior with an unhealed wound.


• Unlife. Twin to Life. Lord of Evil and Destruction. Locked away by the other gods, he plots the end of all things. The perverter of nature, father of monsters. Known (in whispers) as the "Unspeakable Lord" or the "Foul Despoiler." Unlife's cultists tend to call him the "Coming Darkness." Symbols include a black circle, broken skulls, chains, and a black tower surrounded by flame.

There are other, minor deities, like the Elemental Lords and the Powers (drawn from the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony) along with a plethora of demigods who serve as patrons of the various orders of the church and of cities and nations. You also have demonic lords who scheme to reign in the twisted planes of the Unspeakable Lord's influence, and to eventually supplant him. It's all based heavily on Medieval Catholicism, complete with schisms and heresies.

Doesn't have to be Latin. I'll take Greek or Esperanto. Just has to sound good and reflect the nature of the deity. Having a good German name for Law would be nice.

Yeah, I completely suck at languages.

Comments

How's about some Hebrew and a little German?

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

That would make life Haim or leHaim (l'chayim) and death could be Todt (tote).

Re: How's about some Hebrew and a little German?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I think I'll go for the classic Thánatos for Death, who will be one of the Powers. Life/Good includes death as part of the natural cycle of things. I'll probably write him as a dying/resurrected deity around Midwinter. But Thánatos (and his minions) would serve as the traditional collectors and judges of souls.