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Names names names!

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:43 pm
by Hybuir
People have some weird stories to how they got their names. Mine is relatively simple, I misspelled Junior when my right hand was one key to far to the left. Look at your keyboard

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H -> J
Y -> U
B -> N
U -> I
I -> O
R == R
How about you :)

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:51 pm
by Ceto
Haha, I like that one. I usually find a Latin word list and scroll around 'til I find one I like.

My male character name is usually Aestus, it means "passionate fire" or something of the ilk. Ceto is Grecian in origin, "the personification of the dangers and horrors of the sea."

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:08 pm
by Tdk1
well i saw a video tape on my table...and...well the letters were:

TDK

:P

and deeds came out...after i saw the video Mr. Deeds

hybuir if i use u metode my name would be:

N->M Nicolai will be transfered to Movikso ;)
I->O
C->V
O->I
L->K
A->S
I->O

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:15 pm
by Rollie
Rollie sounded like a good Roguish name.... after Rollie Fingers =)

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:54 pm
by Harry077
My character in FFXI was a female Hume named Rheakira. Rhea is my wife's middle name and Kira is my daughter's name. When WoW got loaded and I made a Male Troll, Rheakira didn't fit. So being open-minded about interracial relationships I created Rheasson, the offspring of Rheakira and a long-forgotten one night stand.

Now my wife has her own account with Cailet as her character. I created an alt to party with her named Caisson.

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:23 pm
by Xianna
X =CH
I = I
Anna = Anna

Chee Ahnna.... chiana and yes my nightelf is bluish tinged for you farscape fans
=)

Caraga was from a D&D Name Generator.
Sociopath is self explainatory, and yes, we also have Psychopath

Blazie cuz she has a pink `hawk, and well back in the day so did I and i blazed alot then =P

Bleedangel cuz danzig makes me drip

Unleibbar = huge smiths fan back in the day. ex bf has it tattood on his biceps in honor of morrissey

LeMu/LeMoo um... duh?

Warrgazm... cuz i could =)

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:48 pm
by Skyfire
<- Had to do with Fire, so I looked for words that went well with Fire =)

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:14 pm
by Balgair
Grew up in the Scottish Highlands, and although I never learned Gaelic myself, I was used to seeing placenames and words in Gaelic, and thought some of those words could make good names. So when I was making my characters I took a Gaelic dictionary, plugged some suitable words in and took the ones that sounded alright! General list is as follows, and generally they make the class or race pretty obvious :P

Balgair = rogue
Sgoildubh (properly sgoil dubh) = magic (literal translation black school, although she's a mage and I think of her as making good magic not bad!)
Droch = evil (warlock)
Cathach = warrior
Tairbh = bull
Sagart = priest
Sealgair = hunter
Uaine = green (orc)
Beag = small (dwarf)

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:59 am
by chimo
I'm a gnome and Ticul in french means shorty :)

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:08 pm
by Hybuir
Warrgazm... cuz i could =)
Nice :twisted:

and "lapriest" meaning 'the preist' (feminine) in Spanish.

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:40 am
by Phreeze
my Warr is named Kromos....just tought about names and yep i found sth :)

my WL is named Mokktar, sounds cool for an UD WL, then as I was walking trough WoW I saw a NPC named Mokktar...shame on me, I don't like users that use NPCs Names, then I gotz one by myself :( But I didn't know this :)

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 4:42 pm
by palomanegra
A lot of the names I wanted just looked weird in the format we have to use. So I used Spanish because I could mix the words around a little easier. Got a more lyrical result.

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:46 pm
by NiennaMiriel
The first character I created was Adelyse. I wanted to use NiennaMiriel, or Nienna (elven name generator - cousin to hobbit name generator), but they were taken, so I hit randomize a ton of times and all of a sudden Adelyse popped up. I thought that it was a perfect elf name. (Long A)

I created Helene a bit later. Again, I was feeling uncreative, so I hit randomize a ton of times. And Helena popped up. I realized that I liked Helene (pronounced hell-ayne, not hel-een).

I put the pronunciation in there because it's fun, and because no matter how many times I pronounced my characters' names for my ex, he still pronounced them wrong. ARGH! lol

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:29 am
by Chim
My priests name is the of a server from a diff game, full name is Chimaera
and my hunters name is pretty simple, my irl last name :P

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:39 am
by Vek
Tdk1 wrote:well i saw a video tape on my table...and...well the letters were:

TDK

:P

and deeds came out...after i saw the video Mr. Deeds

hybuir if i use u metode my name would be:

N->M Nicolai will be transfered to Movikso ;)
I->O
C->V
O->I
L->K
A->S
I->O
Nicolai eh? Name of one of the high warlords on my server (Windrunner) is named Nicolai.


....I just made my name up. Haha.
The first character I created was Adelyse. I wanted to use NiennaMiriel, or Nienna (elven name generator - cousin to hobbit name generator), but they were taken, so I hit randomize a ton of times and all of a sudden Adelyse popped up. I thought that it was a perfect elf name. (Long A)
Barrowdowns.com or something like that, right?

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:09 pm
by NiennaMiriel
Barrowdowns.com or something like that, right?
Actually http://www.chriswetherell.com/elf/ and http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:40 pm
by Vek
Spiffy. Same format I believe.

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:22 pm
by voxirongrin
my stories pretty dull. and old RPG character name :(

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:46 pm
by Sianni
That's pretty much my story too.

Rhiasi, Sianni, Siani, Lytara, Nyktasia, Alyanah, Tyger, and Zyphyr are all old D&D characters of mine. Rhiasi (Ree-AH-see) is always a Cleric class, Sianni (See-AH-knee) is always a Mage class, Lytara (Lah-tah-rah) is always a Druid, Tyger (Tiger) is always a Rogue class, Alyanah (Ah-LEE-ah-nah) is always a Paladin, and Zyphyr (Zephyr like the wind) is always a Bard class. Zyph is currently acting as a name holder in my character list until Blizzard finally gets a Bard class added. I can't think of these characters in any other class than the one they were build to be originally!

Nykkita, my little warrior, is named so because I'm a fan of the La Femme Nikita TV series. Narcyssa is actually a character name I used in an old Vampire: The Masquerade game, and then her named showed up in the Harry Potter books!

Yes, yes, yes... I'm an alt-a-holic

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:53 am
by foxy1983
Catriona = just liked the sound of it!

^^ her pet is called 'Lyonesse' (a moonstalker), the name is taken from the myth of the Land Of Lyonesse which was supposed to have sunk off the coast near where I live)