THE ORIGINS OF KELLACH'S NAME.
First, I looked up a unisex name - Kelly fit the bill. However, Kelly as a "medievalish" name? Nah son. I wanted to show that regardless of their standing - the land where Kell came from was still relatively backwater. So I attempted to reverse-engineer the linguistic evolution of Kelly which went something like :
Kelly > Kelley > Kelleh > Kellah > Kellak.
The ch is just to make the written portion look good.
Woods was just timed to have a last name like thing, except I wanted to avoid the pigeonholing usually associated with the occupation names (Smith, etc.) to show the fact that they have to perform multiple tasks on the farm in order to survive - instead concentrating on where the family originated (Woods, Rivers, etc.) as possible last names.
First, I looked up a unisex name - Kelly fit the bill. However, Kelly as a "medievalish" name? Nah son. I wanted to show that regardless of their standing - the land where Kell came from was still relatively backwater. So I attempted to reverse-engineer the linguistic evolution of Kelly which went something like :
Kelly > Kelley > Kelleh > Kellah > Kellak.
The ch is just to make the written portion look good.
Woods was just timed to have a last name like thing, except I wanted to avoid the pigeonholing usually associated with the occupation names (Smith, etc.) to show the fact that they have to perform multiple tasks on the farm in order to survive - instead concentrating on where the family originated (Woods, Rivers, etc.) as possible last names.
