"Well, you can name your island whatever you like, but you'll have to explain all those things to me before I let you name any of my islands after them."

"Of course I will. I think I will reserve Calastra for mine."

"Why, who or what is Calastra?"

"Calastra is an island from my second-favorite series of books by my favorite demon author. I don't know if they've ever been translated into English, although they probably have and I can check. The island is inhabited by flying cats, and they bite."

Sable giggles. "No flying cats here!"

"Still."

"But if we did have them, they would certainly bite."

"Exactly!"

"Do you want the others explained now, or another time?"

"Now. Why not."

"Let's see, what all did I list -" He pulls out his computer and writes down the ones he can remember. "Azkaban is a fictional prison island from an excellent series of children's books. It is guarded by nasty soul-eating monsters whose mere presence causes crippling depression and the loss of all happy memories, very unpleasant."

"Sounds like a good thing to name my Corruption reserve."

"Sure. On that note, R'lyeh is a sunken city in which the 'old god' Cthulhu is stated to lie dreaming. Horror series."

"......Cthulhu?"

"A figure from H.P. Lovecraft's oeuvre. Squid-man-dragon evil thingy."

"Two of the big monsters in Terraria, the really tough ones that only show up under specific circumstances, are called the Eye of Cthulhu and the Brain of Cthulhu. I really don't want to meet the Rest of Cthulhu."

"Who? How? To what purpose?"

"I don't know. But fucking Cthulhu?"

"I have no explanation for Cthulhu, believe me. Anyway, call me superstitious, but I don't want to name any islands R'lyeh."

"That is entirely reasonable."

"So what are some of the others?"

"Númenor's an island from the world of Middle Earth. I don't remember much of the history of it besides the name, it's been at least twenty years since I re-read the books. Lilliput has little tiny people on it who are alarmed to encounter a normal-sized visitor and overpower him with great numbers and tie him up. Oz is a magical land divided into four parts, one of which at the time the first book opens is ruled by a wicked witch who is dispatched by the little girl who is the protagonist and her friends. Myst is a video game and the eponymous island is full of puzzles. Wiaam is a sky-island inhabited by leftover technology from a lost civilization. Yüa is an island most notable for being made entirely of angelic cloud-fluff despite being located - both canonically, and after the movie became popular - in Hell. Metza-pa is a sci-fi island on Mars used as a political test site for various ideas the author likes to illustrate that way."

"What sort of a thing is angelic cloud-fluff, anyway?"