Wolf names

I've been hunting for ideas for hours, going through name Web sites, wolf Web sites, etc.

Here's the deal:
I have a character who was taken to the fairie lands (very dark fantasy version) and turned into a wolf. There she acted as a hunter/tracker for her master, hunting down other humans who had been kidnapped and were trying to escape. She was completely in the thrall of her master and as such had no control over her actions even though inside, she hated it. Sometimes she was forced to kill those she hunted.

Eventually she gets out and returns to our world.

I'm trying to come up with a name her master would have given her in wolf form. It needs to be descriptive of what he had her do but nothing I'm coming up with is resonating. "Wolf" can be in the name. I'm trying to convey that she was a good hunter and/or tracker or always brought back her prey, etc.

BTW, she HATES that name but back in our world, when dealing with other escapees, she might be stuck using it. Well, she won't want to use it, but others may be able to sense/discern her name from the fae realm. She's deeply ashamed of what she did in the fae realm and now acts as a protector.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Bahamutchild said:

Pick a nationality for the master. Say, Russian.

Have him name wolves accordingly, in the mother tongue. Shaggy. Whitefang. Cujo. Scooby. w/e

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That's good in theory except the master is from the fairie realms. I don't mean a given ethnic group's fairy tales. I mean the fae realm behind them all so there's no correlation to human language except that they're able to make themselves understood to their human slaves. I could make a name and say it means whatever but that still leaves me with the main problem -- what does the name mean in English?

sigh. I've been wracking my brain for a week on this before searching the internet today, but I'm still stuck.

Also, this version of the fae doesn't give a damn about human pop culture so I can't be ironic and use Cujo or Scooby or such. This version of the fae view humans a mix of lab rats, bugs and convenient tools so they have little to no interest in our culture; only how they can play with us or how we can serve them.

Inky said:

If not, try looking up stories regarding Fae, versus wolves, and the names of the Fae characters.

Also, the Fae of Tuatha da' originate from Irish and Scottish folklore, so you might want to look at the Gaelic language in order to help you choose a name as well.

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I tried Fae stories, wolves, cross connections -- not really working so far. The Gaelic thing didn't produce much either (ditto for other languages. The Germanic languages also have a lot of names that derive from wolf). I can find a million names that mean "noble wolf" or "wise wolf" but that has nothing to do with what she did in the fairies lands nor would her master have given her that name. It would have been like a drug dealer with a trained attack dog naming it "Einstein" -- it has nothing to do with what it does.

Ciera_ said:

He could call her 'Terror', perhaps. I like it.
'Bringer' (she brings him what/who he wants)
'Dragger' (sounds sorta cool, but a bit too much like both 'dragon' and 'dagger')

I know none of those have 'wolf' in them...

Deliverer? (of PAIN!...or not)
Hmm, something minioney...
Thrallwolf
Vengewolf (ooh! but is it about vengeance, anyway?)

Sorry, that's all I've got right now.
Good luck!

Vengewolf and Terror are my favourites of those.

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Ohh, ohh, ohhh -- that's more like it! I never thought of "terror." I'll play with that and see what pops up.

VengeWolf is really close. It might work, though refining it somehow might be nice. She's VERY angry over what happened so somewith with vengeance has multiple levels. She's now sort of betwixt and between -- not fully human any more due to her time in fae but definitely does NOT want to return to the fae. She also doesn't quite trust other escapees like her because some of them act too much like the fae or could sell them out to the fae, yet at the same time she'll protect humans and those like her from being taken again.

These are getting my mind working on the right track. Thanks!

Tsu Dho Nimh said:

Perhaps he could ask her, "What should I call you?"

And she replies, "Cujo."

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Her master never asks her anything. She ends up in the wrong place, is taken forcibly to the fae realm, changed into a wolf and then given commands she has no choice but to follow. There is no discussion and while a wolf, her intelligence is severely curtailed so discussion would be impossible anyway. Some tiny part of her understands what's going on and hates it but can't react, do anything about it, etc. She's not even sure how she escaped. She just remembers being ordered to chase something/someone, running, running, and somehow breaking through the barrier between their world and ours.

It's a reasonable suggestion but doesn't work with the absolute dominance and superiority of her then master. He gave orders -- end of story.