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In Tamora Pierce's Wild Magic series, last names are based off of parents. So, the main character's last name is Sarrasri, because her mother's name was Sarra and "sri" is attached to the end of a female name. When the MC finds out who her father is, she realizes she can change her name to Weirynsra.
My surname Marlow originates from Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Hill as a surname was from John by the Hill, Fletcher means the persons ancestors worked for making the flights on arrows...smiths (self explanatory), tuckfield - someone who lived on a field owned by a tuck... skeffington is a localised one from Leicester in the UK and is for those ...
In one of my writing projects, I have a fairly common type of fantasy world; regular Earth, but with secret magical elements hidden in plain sight. One of those magical elements is an ancient civilization located somewhere around the Caspian Sea, most likely in Iran.
My MC was actually a morphing process through the brainstorming phase. She started out Allysa (no surname), which then morphed into Allison Cole, then Allison Connor (that came up after watching the Terminator), then Alésia Connor because I'm really obsessed with the Gauls and I was reading about the siege of Alésia that day.
Likes Received: 3. Location: Void. what i usually do for last names is consider what ethnic backround they may come from, and then google common surnames from that language. however this might not help you, cause it looks like you're writing a fantasy story. Carter. Strousser. Renkin. Porter.
My favourite TV show is in the "no" camp, though, although it is fantasy. Only one character has one, and she's from an important family. (It is interesting to note, however, going back to the Japanese thing, that although it's based on Asian cultures, where the surname comes first, her names are arranged the Western way.)
My story is set in a fantasy universe strongly based on Victorian England. From reading a few steampunk books, I've learned that people living in such a society refer to others with their surname and title (like that Mr. Darcy I keep hearing so much about).
Like TVTropes, Springhole, and Wikipedia, an author could spend hours following one link (Black Panther Fanfic Writing) to the next (Bad to have a Disabled Love Interest?) and the next (Baby Banks in an Infertile World, Eugenics and Racism) into the wee hours of the morning, only this one is tailored specifically to people who want their fiction to have as much positive impact as possible on ...
As I noticed, the best or successful novels have great main character names (e.g. Harry Potter, Percy Jackson) and for my fantasy novel (including wizards and mages...) I would like to have some name-surname suggestions. As I noticed — again — the names and surnames consist each of two syllables (Per-Cy Jack-Son; Har-Ry Pot-Ter).
Ironically, considering using the root name for Melzaar as a pen name, which would then mean my fantasy is published under a real name, and my realism is posted under my fantasy name. Melzaar the Almighty , Sep 20, 2010