User blog comment:EmBELLEm/After the Fall Preview info/@comment-5136196-20190506135148/@comment-29684190-20190506144833

New characters from the book and possible name explanations:


 * Professor Rumpole: Someone found Rumpole and the Golden Thread, or a joke explanation that it's just "Rum" and "Pole" Probably Rumpelstiltskin.
 * Professor Theodore: Theodore means "God-given"/"Gift of God"

I also like like shyoru's theory that he is (Thee-o-door, door-o-thee) a male Dorothy, following the Wizard of Oz character inspirations.

The Wicked Witch of the West is sometimes named Theodora, (also Wizard of Oz)


 * Hans: I couldn't really find much about Hans, but it evolved from Johannes and John and it means "Yahweh is gracious" (similar to Theodore)


 * Slate is a rock,
 * Topaz is a mineral


 * (The three locations mentioned: Gossan, Feldspar and Tuff are minerals, rocks and volcanic rock)
 * Carmine is a red pigment and Esclados is... the only thing I found was Red Knight in Arthurian legend,
 * Bertilak - Bertilak de Hautdesert is the Green Knight from Arthurian legend, his wife is Lady Bertilak (he has a green mohawk)
 * Bertilak - Bertilak de Hautdesert is the Green Knight from Arthurian legend, his wife is Lady Bertilak (he has a green mohawk)


 * Bast is the cat headed Egyptian goddess


 * Fox's tribe Kynete (Vacuo) might be Greek for "pour"


 * So several names based on minerals and rocks, two relating to God, and surprisingly two relating to Arthurian legend.