Barrowdork · Bullywugs of the Rushmoors

A Croak Given

"In the Legion a name given is a croak given, and a croak given is a life pledged."

Blunk

Deep marsh. Nobody out there has asked this one anything. One name, one syllable. A spear.

Deserted once, came back, and nobody has decided what to do about it.

Custom name forge Build one by hand — pick origin, rank, and borrowed names

1 · Origin — where this frog has been, which decides everything below

Deep Marsh

Tribe

Bulwark Legion

Rolled origin

This one is spawn — not named yet

2 · Given Name — the marsh-native layer, or a human name the marsh got hold of

From the record

Combine

Type my own

Recorded name

The native pool is small on purpose. Frogs collide, and that is why they need epithets.

No human has ever said a name where this frog could hear it. Borrowed shapes belong to the frontier.

Name the father — "Son of ___"

Given name: Blunk

3 · Mud-Name — earned, and often the only thing anyone calls them

This one has earned a mud-name

4 · Stone-Name — eight words of Mithric, all of them misheard

Only the Legion has stone-words. Eight of them, and no bullywug outside the Gilded Croak has any claim to one.

The Four Registers

Marsh-Native. Short, hard, wet. The oldest layer, and the whole rank and file of any tribe. A frog with only this name has met nobody worth borrowing from.
Mud-Name. An earned epithet, and often the only thing anyone calls them. A quality and a body-part, or a mark and a body-part.
Borrowed-Shape. A human name heard on the frontier and chewed until it fits a bullywug mouth. It means contact — or the ambition to look like someone who has had it.
Stone-Name. A word of the old empire, learned by ear from a human reading a marker aloud. Only the Legion has them, there are eight, and the Legion is certain it knows what they mean.

A bullywug carries one to four of these, in that order, and the stack is a biography. Spawn carry none: a name is given, not grown.