I asked him where the phonetic choice in the naming of characters, names, places came from, given that they are so “unheard of”; he replied that for some of them he got his inspiration from American “mythology” (…), as with Nynaeve which is the name of a really existed historical figure, while for other ones he created them out of nowhere, trying to keep consistent.
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