About tok'ra names
Hushed sibilants thread through results like "Silris", "Lophas", and "Zin'af", with an occasional apostrophe splitting a name the way a symbiote splits a life. These fit undercover operatives and centuries-old advisors in Stargate inspired fiction, names meant to pass unnoticed in an enemy court. Save the apostrophe results for the oldest and most formal characters.
How tok'ra names are built
Names chain chunks around a recurring connector in patterns that can mirror their middle, and many draws set an opening chunk off with a glottal apostrophe. Worked examples from the bank: "Pak'rer", "Jalu'dec", "Gistidac".
Pak'rer
the long seven-chunk pattern with the connector repeated
Jalu'dec
the swapped five-chunk pattern
Gistidac
the long seven-chunk pattern with the connector repeated
Naming notes
The phonetic character is liquid with hard caps and glottal breaks, an apostrophe splitting many names (Pak'rer, Khu'ran) before a close on k, c or n, which reads like a refined resistance offshoot of the overlord style. The mirrored patterns give subtle variety. Use these for symbiote-resistance characters or original allied beings in a fan story set in that style.
Questions about tok'ra names
- Are these official names?
- No. They are fan-made names in the style of that resistance faction, not canon ones.
- Why do they resemble the overlord names?
- The faction is an offshoot, so the banks share a related liquid-with-hard-caps texture by design.
- What do the swapped patterns do?
- Some patterns mirror the middle chunks, giving two related arrangements of the same parts.