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A personal name comes from one of three stocks.

Names from Swahili and Hausa, the languages of the settlers. They are the most common stock on the surface. From Swahili: Alia, Amani, Amira, Asha, Bakari, Baraka, Daraja, Eshe, Faraji, Furaha, Hamisi, Imani, Jabari, Jafari, Jelani, Juma, Kesho, Kesi, Kibo, Ki...

Names from Mandarin and Tagalog, the languages of the crew. They are most frequent in the old technical lines, among Archivists, and in the fortified cities of the north. From Mandarin: An, Bo, Feŋ, Hua, Jiŋ, Jun, Kai, Lan, Lian, Lin, Mei, Meilin, Min, Piŋ, Re...

Names made of Creole words. They are the newest stock and the one that grows. A Duskaran name records a circumstance of birth or a wish for the child. Name Meaning Given when Tufani storm born in a storm haven Angataa aurora born under a strong aurora Sori sta...

A bonded animal has one short name, nearly always a Creole word: Kasi, Wimbi, Taa, Shimu.

A line name passes from parent to child. Either parent's line may be chosen. There are three kinds.

Family names that came from Earth. They no longer show what a person looks like or where a person lives: after eight hundred years, every Duskaran has ancestors from all the peoples of the ship. Chinese: Chen, Gao, Hu, Jao, Jaŋ, Li, Lin, Lu, Shen, Shu, Sun, Ta...

Names taken from the work of a founding ancestor. They are Creole words. Line name Meaning Bahariji fisher Majitunga water finder Motokazi geothermal engineer Tulanga builder Shandaji trader Siriji keeper of secrets, Archivist Kinaji teacher Tibaji healer Nond...

Names that mark the home of the line. They use Dan-, from the Hausa word for "child of". It does not change with gender. Dan-Bahari, Dan-Birni, Dan-Harmatan, Dan-Liko, Dan-Bukal, Dan-Patag, Dan-Angataa, Dan-Liwanag Nomads and people of small settlements often ...

A few families keep the lines of both parents, joined with a hyphen: Kamau-Chen. This is most common in the Elder lineage.

The Compendium describes how Duskara works. This Gazetteer says where things are. It gives every named place a position, a name, and a short entry, so that distances and travel times agree across the stories, the games and the lore. Each entry carries a status...

This book is about the ordinary day on the Living Edge: what a person sees, hears, smells and touches between one bell and the next, what the hands do without thought, and what people feel about it. The Compendium describes how Duskara works, and the Gazetteer...