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“Chang, what’s your first name?”
“Mohammed, Sir.”
“That’s unusual for a Chinese,
isn’t it, Chang?”
“Sir, all names are Centrum names. The Centrum embraces all bloodlines.”
“Chang, I’m not trying to trap you in Error, I’m trying to make conversation so that you don’t hover there like a constipated goshawk.”
Chang relaxed another breath. “My family is from Tajikistan, Sir. Lots of hybridity there, even before the Centrum saved us.”
The duty officer nodded; history wasn’t her strong point, even Centrum history, but the Central Asian tribes were traditionally very grateful to the scientific elite that had saved them from famine, warlords, and plague. “Understandable then, border vigor and all that. Use those ancestral border skills, Chang, and see what jumps out at you from this.”
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I'm running an infinite worlds campaign, in which centrum agents will be more than shadowy agents from the other side: I need names, personalities, hope desires ... I can get most of this from a variety of good NPC resources, except the names (and that's driven by ethnicity). Does anyone have a good base for naming folks from centrum? how english should names be? how thoroughly mixed should names be (Mohammad Chang)?
Thoughts? Solutions you've used?