Oh, heyyyy. I have some Dream trivia for you today. Specifically, about the names of the characters and why they were chosen.
Since Cris is a nightmare and nightmares are typically associated with nighttime and (thus) the moon, I scoured the names of the seas on the moon for his name. Mare Crisium won the naming jackpot. Mostly because Crisium could be shortened to something mostly human-sounding. So…Cris.
Incidentally, Mara is the Old norse word for Mare, so…I’m guessing you can see where that came from.
Somehow I ended up down a mythology researching rabbit-hole and connected garnets (the gem) to nightmares. I couldn’t tell you how or where that connection was made, but Garnet’s name was a given after that.
Honestly, I usually choose whatever name fits the character for a book (sometimes the character evolves into their name and sometimes the name I originally chose doesn’t fit and they end up with a new one), but this was one instance where I actively worked on finding names that had meaning to the story being told.
There you have it. Cris Mara and Garnet in all their naming glory.
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