{"id":1838,"date":"2018-09-22T11:35:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:47:04","slug":"1838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/1838\/","title":{"rendered":"“Rayth” the Name"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cRayth\u201d the Name<\/p>\n

In my first edition of \u201cFun Facts about Expedition: Andromeda,\u201d I thought I\u2019d give you a little background on where I came up with the term \u201cRayth\u201d to define the race of hybrid human and Rayk beings.<\/p>\n

It was actually a long process. At the beginning of the story, I refer to the hybrids as Nix and was going to keep that. But as I got several hundred pages into the story, I grew to hate the term. They are, after all, not half-fish. And I hate fish.<\/p>\n

I had already decided that the ancient human race would be called \u201cMythicans.\u201d They were one half of the beings from which the Nix\/Rayth were derived. I had also settled on the word \u201cRayk\u201d as the evil race that the Mythicans were fighting to the brink of their own extinction and thus pushed their scientists to create this hybrid of humans and Rayk to fight the Rayk.<\/p>\n

Zy\u2019nayth, of course, is my leading male protagonist (though the story is more from\/about Victoria\u2019s point of view). His name was there from day one. I love anything with the letter \u201cz\u201d in it and I loved his name. It wasn\u2019t going anywhere.<\/p>\n

So I took out a piece of paper and began listing all types of combinations of words: human, Rayk, Mythican, etc. I agonized over this for months, especially when I decided to start posting the story on my blog. I had to have it finalized before I went through editing two million words (this was supposed to be a \u201cshort\u201d story).<\/p>\n

Then it hit me.<\/p>\n

\u201cRay\u201d from \u201cRayk\u201d and \u201cyth\u201d from \u201cMythican.\u201d It was staring me in the face all along.<\/p>\n

It also worked well with \u201cZy\u2019nayth\u201d since the \u201cayth\u201d was common with his race name and he\u2019s one of the last remaining fullblood Rayth in existence when the story starts.<\/p>\n

I also had written (before deciding on \u201cRayth\u201d) that \u201cnayth\u201d in the Raythian language meant \u201cwarrior.\u201d And since Rayth were created to be warriors, and Zy\u2019nayth was even further genetically modified to be the perfect warrior. Thus we have the \u201cayth\u201d carried through from the race to the name to the term for warrior. It seemed to work perfectly.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRayth\u201d the Name In my first edition of \u201cFun Facts about Expedition: Andromeda,\u201d I thought I\u2019d give you a little background on where I came up with the term \u201cRayth\u201d to define the race of hybrid human and Rayk beings. It was actually a long process. At the beginning of the story, I refer to the hybrids as Nix and was going to keep that. But as I got several hundred pages into the story, I grew to hate the term. They are, after all, not half-fish. And I hate fish. I had already decided that the ancient human race would be called \u201cMythicans.\u201d They were one half of the beings from which the Nix\/Rayth were derived. I had also settled on the word \u201cRayk\u201d as the evil race that the Mythicans were fighting to the brink of their own extinction and thus pushed their scientists to create this hybrid of humans and Rayk to fight the Rayk. Zy\u2019nayth, of course, is my leading male protagonist (though the story is more from\/about Victoria\u2019s point of view). His name was there from day one. I love anything with the letter \u201cz\u201d in it and I loved his name. It wasn\u2019t going anywhere. So I took out a piece of paper and began listing all types of combinations of words: human, Rayk, Mythican, etc. I agonized over this for months, especially when I decided to start posting the story on my blog. I had to have it finalized before I went through editing two million words (this was supposed to be a \u201cshort\u201d story). Then it hit me. \u201cRay\u201d from \u201cRayk\u201d and \u201cyth\u201d from \u201cMythican.\u201d It was staring me in the face all along. It also worked well with \u201cZy\u2019nayth\u201d since the \u201cayth\u201d was common with his race name and he\u2019s one of the last remaining fullblood Rayth in existence when the story starts. I also had written (before deciding on \u201cRayth\u201d) that \u201cnayth\u201d in the Raythian language meant \u201cwarrior.\u201d And since Rayth were created to be warriors, and Zy\u2019nayth was even further genetically modified to be the perfect warrior. Thus we have the \u201cayth\u201d carried through from the race to the name to the term for warrior. It seemed to work perfectly.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130,21],"tags":[29,33],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ea-fun-facts","category-ea","tag-rayth","tag-zynayth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Group-NotesHeader.jpg?fit=1640%2C662&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s15dwH-1838","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerinasquest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}