How do you choose your ingame names?

mine are all japanese names (with some twists).
Yuki is snow and my monk wears white tats ..so he is the snow man
haru means spring
mimi is hear or listen
mei is a popular girls name in japan (I lived there and taught jhs and had many girls name mei), ai is another popular girls name in japan as well as mamiko (had a student with that name thought it was pretty so I named my monk after her)
tsu is a harbor or port of somekind (a city I lived near)
shinin is a corpse--death
ko is usually just used to denote a female or young (inu is dog so koinu is puppy)
hime means princess
fuyu is winter
kinno is golden
hanabi is fireworks
seishin is spirit
shinno is prince
taiyouko is sunlight or sunny

I have combined them into names too

I was doing the seasons for a bit, but I think I was too slow and they already exist. Many of mine are hime or shinno....princes or princesses.

now you know where they come from.....so please leave me a few names for the next chapter ok?



and I think someone did a thread like this a while back.....

Mostly obscure pop culture references or some quick creativity:

Rhona the Salubri : Mo/N Based on an obscure WOD vampire bloodline that uses blood to heal people.And everyone wants them dead too.

Fingers Rico:Me/W Fingers = magician from Lucky Luke, Rico = like Spider Rico from Rocky.

Concubine of Baal: N/R Because "Priestess of Baal" was taken

Keiko shakiko:E/Rt Very very asian this one.

Known as Petiet : W/A I wanted to make a small but very angry axe swinger, but you can't really make a Warrior tiny in GW,unfortunately.

Tinga Summerisle: R/Mo. Tinga= One of the manticore girls from "Dark angel", Lord Summerisle = the bad guy from "The wicker man". Very druidic.

Mister Dumah: P/D Like mister Eko from Lost combined with Dumah from Legacy of Kain.

Erik astfgl (My dervish) Is from a terry pratchett book.
The main character is erik, and the evil demon guy is king astfgl.
It's an awesome book.

Hand of Apollyon is from something i found in a book.
Apollyon is hebrew for Abbadon.
(My necro.)

used my runescape name and added a title like master before or after it

Both names are from my own manga.

There is an amazing story behind how my names are chosen...


Not really ... they are usually the result of me trying various names for 5 or 10 minutes only to find they have all already been taken.. so i start putting in random nonsense and usually end up with something stupid.

Each campain has it's own last name

I started off with making the first names from the video Game series Grandia. Then I started a ranger and named her after the Greek god of the hunt and her pet after the Egyptian Cat god of protection. I like the idea so I just started using the names of gods.

So:

Prophecies last name: Dragonhart-it sounded cool and my grandmother's maiden name was Hart. Then I discovered a problem the long last name, limited what I wanted for first names.

Diana and her pet Bastet-Greek God of the hunt-Ranger

Selene-she is a warrior monk from Grandia II-Warrior

Gadwin-a warrior from Grandia-Warrior

Lilith-The Jewish demonesse based on the Babylonian queen of the dead Ninlil.-Necro

Factions last name: Nian-Chinese for Beasts, this allowed me more freedom for first names

Fengh Huan-This one was supposed to be Feng Huan, a Chinese Holly Beast, a great pheonix, but I had people waiting and I didn't see that things like puntuation wren't allowed, I didn't realize my mistake until after the "Day of the Tegu" was over and I didn't want to give up her mask.-Ele

Meng Po: The Chinese bureaucratic god that is in charge of giving the spirits that are about to be reborn a potion of forgetfullness.-Rit

Guan Yu: One of the great Chinese Generals and one of the gods of war-Sin

Aslan: I broke with tradition, but the movie just came out.

Nightfall last name: Bumba, the creator god from Congo

Anansi: the trickster god from West Africa.-Mes

Oya: From Nigeria, she id the goddes of the river, and a warrior goddes.-Para

Yemya: Nigerian goddess of the seas, her colors were blue and white so I used her, which meant I had to make a female instead of a male.-Derv

From TV, movies, history, etc. Huntress Velasca for example - Velasca comes from a char in Xena , fyi her pet is named Lady Heather a char from CSI. Both chars were played by same actress.

Gentle Selene - Selene from Underworld. And a improperly spelled Mary Magdelan, I know it should be Magdalen(e) , but it was taken so I went with that.
Sephora - Moses wife. Domino from movie - is I Domino in game, after trying several variants. April Wine, name of a band. Was taken so went with April Wine I.

Could go on, but I think you get the idea.

Open All Bags - figure it out .

Political, religious(or the lack thereof), jokes etc..

Examples:

Marx For President (Karl Marx)
Odg Si Eadd (anagram for a famous quote)
prefix, Deleet (I don't like Dell, so logically, i wanted to delete them, deleet. I then realized I also had 1337 in my name, just made it better)

etc.

The Ankh is an ancient egyptian symbol, wich happens to appear a lot in GW, used on healing skills. It has been my nickname before gw too, but i like how it appears everywhere. Even on my trustworthy heal siggy!

Almost all of my characters have the initials AC.

Musical References for some of my characters (song titles etc), but lots of the older ones were deleted or replaced at some point or another:

Ave Samael (Monk, best character, original song title reference from a track by SynSUN, personally I thought and still think this looks like a great name for any female character.)
Ava Samael (Ranger, simple variation)
Eva Samael (Warrior, simple variation again)
Eve Samael (Elementalist, simple variation once more)

Then I stuck with Samael for most charnames since it saves so much thinking (i spend way too much time trying to think of names):

Kameko Samael (Mesmer, variation, but i felt like using a different first name for this one)
Katara Samael (Necromancer, same case as above)
Naomei Samael (Assassin, same case as above)
Evelia Samael (Another Mesmer, she looks similar to Eve)

Some of my older characters include my first one:

Queen Ayla (First character, Elementalist, Ayla was also a musical reference)
Mr T (Monk, no need to explain that one :P)

Canadian names:

Andrea The Canadian (Old Ranger)
Canadian Influence (Ritualist)
Acolyte of Canada (Dervish, Avatar bosses inspired this one, combined with a canadian flag of a cape, and red/white armor, this worked.)

and one sortof random name

Foobar Two Thousand (Paragon, yes... Foobar2000 :P)

A latin english dictionary... then I just call my characters what I think suits their profesion/personality.

Or, random rp character names from characters I'd like to bring over into the gw universe.

The majority of my characters are named after Greek or Roman heroes, Gods, politicians, generals... I think you get the picture. I have copies of Plutarch and other classical texts handy to give me some inspiration.

leeky baby = nickname

leeky the second = because was the second leeky ^^

leekys yellow shoes = i played mesmer in ha alot and it always had yellow shoes so people started to get to know that name which i made into a pve char which i deleted.

I Orginally wanted Ouida Ryker "Quick Blade" becasue it was the handle for my main RP character. Somehow it was taken, so I went with ____ Fox. All first names are people I know in real life, whether their first/middle/last.

Erik Fox
Spencer Fox
Thomas Fox
Andrea Fox
Rene Fox
Meagan Fox
Sarlic Fox - This is actually my responce to a guildie - "You should name a char after a boss"

i just pick names i like, in order of when they were created -
Celeste Ereth - ranger
Zara Saleem Numa - monk
Ananchel Eloa - mesmer
Penelope Iscariot - dervish
Phaedra Exos - necro

all have some sort of meaning associated with them google the names if you care

I am such a fan of music that I just picked my favorite band and named all characters after

either a song, or somebody in the band.


(try and guess the band)

A more appropriate title for this thread would be "How did you choose your ingame names?"