Three Dollar Quill

I just remembered I have this category, and I have no recollection of what I was doing in it last time, whoops.

Anyway, as I was saying before, I'm really unhappy with the names I've come up with for the fantasy species in my fantasy setting, so I decided to devise a naming language so they can have names that sound related to each other, distinct from existing concepts, but aesthetically grounded in the general vein of mythology they're drawn from.

That mythology is, more or less, Norse mythology, so clearly the naming language should sound like Old Norse.

And some major aesthetic features of Germanic languages derive from ablaut, so clearly, the naming language needs a proto-language inspired by Proto-Indo-European.

(By the way, I'm calling it Cosmopolitan because I figure it might as well be the lingua franca of the setting, and I wanted a name that was different from "Common". This can be rationalized as "people didn't like the language's word for itself, so they used a descriptive adjective".)

Anyway, on the one hand, this is kind of an extreme idea, but on the other hand, I don't want to compromise on this.

Anyway, I'm not sure what's the best way to get started on this... I can just put together some independent documents or whatever, but I want a chain of derivations that generally hold, and I'm not sure how to validate that between lexicons. I should see if PolyGlot can handle this, but unfortunately, I was taking things easy before, and I don't have time to look into it now. In fact, I shouldn't be still writing this entry...

Good night.