Something I'm kind of struggling to wrap my head around. Is there a way for multiple word given names to work in English? Have you ever seen it done well? Just from a grammatical standpoint, it seems very difficult to construct sentences around a character with a name that is made up of multiple normal english words.
I don't even have any examples of such names yet because while I have the concept of a world in which names are supposed to be very directly and unambiguously meaningful, I haven't come up with one yet that doesn't completely fail a basic "Hello, my name is" test
Basically, how do I break English name rules without it sounding 110% fucked up?
Maybe you could look at how traditional Native American names are used? I don’t know, but that’s a possible direction.
Yeah, that would be a good start. I should probably read some biographies about some people with fun Native American names and just get used to seeing names like that used, maybe my attempts wouldn't look so weird then.