The meaning behind your character(s) name(s)?

Welllll......my primary character, X of Thulcandra, was sort of a rushed name, but in many other games, I use the simple alias of "Mr.X", and I had just finished reading a book way back when by C.S. Lewis called "Out of the Silent Planet". In that book, Earth is called Thulcandra, so my name (to me, at least) means "Mr.X of Earth".

(Too bad Mister X and Mr X were already taken way back when I started playing in July)

Darth Kindor = Well its a name i made for KOTOR 1 and 2. He had some good times in those games

I Want a Spanky = ummmmmmm i wont acknowledge this at all.

Lets Get To Healing = Just because i (believe it or not) heal.

Yeah i have been playing guildies for months and only 1 person has known where my name came from. Its off a sticker on my guitar -name of a Pearl Jam album, Riotact and all my other names r Pearl Jam based.

I'm lazy so my mains name is my real name, and my necros name is um im a necro.

For pvp characters I always name them woot im a (insert class here).

All my character names stem pretty much from my original char name Myth Randir....gandalf's elvish name...lol....so im a lord of the rings fan...so sue me lol.

I pick names to match the personality and profession of my characters

E/ME-Malchior Devenholm

R/N-The Zombie Ranger *undead ranger and all that was taken, meh*

W/MO-Maximus the Sturdy *I know i used maximus-IM SORRY, i was fast in making him for my money input so i couldnt think of a good name*

PVP air spiker-Galeforce Winds

PVP mesmer-Mister Mystic Man

My monk: I Wont Heal - thought it was funny, people always ask me if I heal or not .
My Ranger: Distance Duck - Dont really know, I have something with ducks in my name.
Warrior: Big Eend - Were Eend is Duck in Dutch.
PVP: Obey Me Or Die - Dont really know.

All my characters have the second name "Aragoth" , simply a made up word when i realised they needed a second name, now i use it for naming characters in all games

First names are

Tainek -R/* - my standard callsign for the last few years, i litterally made it up of the sounds i like
Kathandra -M/* - talking to my freind kathy at the time
Anlia - N/* - looks worryingly like my ex girlfreind (pale complexion, stupidly thin, and blood red short hair) so i took her name and cut a few letters out of it
Altharea- W/* - i wanted a more "upper class" name to differentiate from all the Frenzy Mending Whammos

My character names:

Obi Lou Kenobi (mesmer)- take a wild guess
Charcoal Grill (ele, but I used the name on all my PvP characters)- random (I wanted to grill steakes when I made that char)
Rilian the Smasher (warrior, but not always hammer)- Rilian is a character in one the books of the lion witch and wardrobe series
Mylo Aires (monk)- random (I have no idea where it is from)

The reasoning behind the name is funny.

Kathryn The Sly (mesmer) - Mesmers are tricky *shrugs*
Lirael Saraneth - reserved this name for my ritualist, if's from the Abhorsen trilogy, by Garth Nix... basically it implies great skill with spirits and death

Grace Helfer, I combined the names of Grace Park and Tricia Helfer (both are actresses in the Battlestar: Galactica remake)

Father Antonius, most rl Christianic monks are "Fathers" so I wanted one too.

Kaylee Rhodes, my first ele´s surname was Rhodes too so she is kinda his daughter... the first name came from the series "Firefly"

Valerie Trevean, I have always wanted a "Valerie" the surname came from one of the episodes in Star Trek: DS9

R A A B - From the show and jackass movies "Raab Himself". Weirdest guy alive.

*Lili Birchflower---a DnD ranger originally, a half-elven who was awarded her surname

*Catrin Artaith---"pure torment" in Welsh, a healing blood necro

*Cait Nic Cailleach---"pure daughter of the (hag) goddess" in Gaelic/Scots, a cursing healer monk

*Briallan Awel---"primrose breeze" in Welsh, a shut-down mesmer

*Teva Daracha---"twin from the oak" in Scots....she's Lili's sister, an air elementalist/ranger with a bird

Roy Keane was probably the greatest Irish footballer of all time. I'm from Ireland..hence the name.

Fiery, alias I used to shutdown 200 computer mainframes.

Inure Face - Name based on {iNUReFAcE} that I used in this old game called Tribes 2. I really miss my friends there and in a way, its to let them know if they ever find me in some game that I am the old inureface lol. Did you know that my name could mean something like I've been through the agony of looking at your face so many times that I'm used to it. And you can spell urine feca with it lmao.

Inez Houndstooth - Inez is my real middle name. Houndstooth because my husband and I wanted character names in rememberance of our old game's character names. He played a dog-like race, so we became the Houndstooths.

Swampgirl Inez - I'm from south Louisiana and Inez is my middle name.

Phoenix Dark Dirk and his pet Herkimer - Mystery Men reference

Morgus Magnificent - Named after Morgus the Magnificent, http://www.morgus.com/

Eliza Do Little - I like My Fair Lady and this character was originally created to be a mule. Play on words.

Armand Leblanc (Me/x) - Mesmers look filthy rich and pretentious. I ran with the stereotype and made his name pretentiously French. The name actually originates with a White Wolf Games character I created sometime back, but I couldn't remember if the surname was LaBranche or LeBlanc.

Desiree Delacoeur (Me/x) - Another pretentiously French name. If I recall correctly, her name literally translates as "Desire of the Heart." And since she's a female mesmer, it's very fitting indeed.

Elias Higharrow (R/N/Mo) - "Elias" is the name of one of my favorite (book series-only) Star Trek characters, Elias Vaughn. Go figure. Higharrow was randomly generated from the Random Elf Name Generator. I just liked how the two names sounded when linked together.

Sir Binky (W/R/Mo) - Binky was something of a "joke" character when I created him. He's a very short warrior dressed in all-pink armor, with matching pink weapons. I may or may not change his name if that becomes an option in Factions. He was named after a friend I had in university, whose nickname was "Binky."

Whisper Who Dares (R/Me/Mo) - From a book by John M. Ford, "The Last Hot Time." The book character's full name was Whisper Who Dares The Word Of Words In Darkness, but shortened to "Whisper Who Dares" for GW's sake.

Cyhiraeth Dagda (N/Mo) - Both names are Celtic gods. Since she was a necromancer, I found it fitting to use Cyhiraeth, who was the precursor of the banshee legends. Deleted character.

Sigurd Dawnfire (W/Mo) - Another mythology name, followed by another Random Elf Name Generator spawn.

Foulrot The Angry (N/R) - I couldn't figure out what would be a good name for a male necromancer. As he's not meant to be a "serious" PVE character (just something to kill time with until Factions), I tried to find something vaguely humorous. I find male necromancers to be adorably goofy, particularly a lot of their emotes. So I hit up the Evil Name Generator.

Spring Heeled Jim (R/W) - Perma-Presear character. Named for the Morrissey song of the same name.

Dinitrogen Monoxide (PVP Elementalist) - It's the technical name for "laughing gas." Get the pun, anyone?

Anonymous Hex (PVP Mesmer) - Another pun.

Corwin Avalon W/X - A nod to one of my favorite book series. It would have been Corwin Amber or Corwin of Amber but both were taken.

Amber Convolesce Mo/X - The first name is another nod to the above mentioned series. The last part is Latin based and means heal or healer roughley.

Grantes Calsair R/X - The first name is a nod to an old ps1 game called Legend of Legia, the last is just a random made up name.

PvP slot is always named "X Nocturne" where X usually has various book/game/movie/etc referances or something to do with what build I am running. Nocturne is part of my guilds name. On a side note the reason I do not mention the secondary on my toons is because I change it depending upon what build I am running.

My name "Former Ruling" comes from the fact that in most games/forums i go by "TheRulnig" (no typo...TheRulnig), and this game requires a space, So I named myself Former Ruling...Formerly going by the name ruling.

Future Ruling I made as sort of an opposite to that.

Griefer Ruling I made because I heart griefing.

my pvp character changes names everytime I roll it. I've used "Rez Me or I Quit", or "Spirit Spammer Noob", or "Im A Monk Target Me"

My ranger, Mari Moonblade, is a name that I just pulled off the top of my head when I made the character. I know it makes no sense, she doesn't use a blade, she uses a bow, but my first character in any game is always just whatever sounds good to me at the time, because I just want to get in and start playing.

My necro, Lonely Ada, got her name because it sounded appropriate for someone who played with corpses as a child.

My monk, Gabriela Asha, I put more effort into because I coudn't think of a good name and I didn't just want to name her "Hey Im A Monk" or something like that. I decided that a monk should be named something spiritual, so I took Gabrielle, which means hero of god, and Asher, which means blessed, and modified it a bit.

Hmm..

Nex Violentus, my warrior who gets her name from the song 'exitus' by E Nomine and translated from Latin to English means 'Violent Death Violent' which sorta sux considering she's a tank who doesn't do much damage.

Dhana Ne Niero, my monk gets her name from an over active imagination, no idea why I named her that.

Phive Kay Okey, my female ranger, plays on my username lg5000, but.. you can't have a char called 5k in gw without it being 5k ok? .. trying to figure out what her pet should be called currently, maybe I should go with Elle G?

Joe Skase, my mesmer, actually has a 'normal' name. He was originally (and still is) a rp char of mine. The name taken from the infamous Christopher Skase and an incredible lack of imagination back then. He, of course, shares certain trades with Christopher Skase, which translate soo well into the mesmer profession. While his rp persona is anti-social, he gets a fair amount of blind invites in gw.

On my son's account:

Angelus Violentus, who is a fire ele, doesn't need any translation, you can guess what it means

Nequitia Oculte, female mesmer, roughly translated comes to 'evil secretive', which suits a mesmer

Culpo Fatum, necro female, bluntly translates to 'blame fate' and refers to her being created in the first place.

Phantasmagoria : A fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever.

Steve Bender: Ever watch the video or hear the song "Moskau"? Yeah, he's the bald guy of the group. My name isn't Steve.

Steve Blender: Remix time.

Octopus Prime: I said Octopus Prime instead of Optimus one day and itj ust worked.

Prime Octopus: Remix time.

Your Message Here : Mo/R and my pet warthog : Your Ad Here.

They're my favorite duo...

c r o n k - the kronk from emperors new groove, hes funny, guess i spelled the name wrong

princess mahina - mahina is moonlight or the moon in hawaiian, hawaiian is a beautiful language

ranger guenivere - always kinda thought guenivere was cool for games like this

dead in a web - a good song by my favorite band, and good name for a necro

I made mine Acherulis Maximus as a different form of Maximus Aurieleus

Warlock Superstar - :s
Divinus Stella - latin for Divine Star
Curatio Fontis - latin for Healing Fountain
Arianell Corryn - welsh for Silver Spider

Took a last name; thus, just add a first name or title.. ^.^

Evelgest basically is (this gonna be lame, but--) Evil-guest.
Hence,
Ashton Evelgest
Alana Evelgest
Lady Evelgest

My characters are not just instantaneous beings of the mind made for the leisure of one particular game or another. They are characters with a bit of actual backstory to them. If every I come into opportunity to implant them as perhaps a written story/illustrated story/etc. I probably will, till then...

The Deian Clan:

A group of very powerful beings, the clan was originally made up of beings created at the beginning of time, however, over time, mortal specialists who had great skill or who became attached to those in the clan were inducted by ceremony and granted immortality and the same powers as the rest of the clan. The clan as a whole functions as various mercenaries for both good and evil, keeping in check the balence of the two across time and space. However, at times there seems to be a higher authority guiding specific actions, whereupon the entire clan moves for a singular objective.

Ken Dei: Pronounced "Ken-dai, said as one word, but he tolerates using the first syllable Ken for shorthand introductions."
Gender: M
Age: Various, generally 18-24
Persona: Vigilante/Tactician

A being made from the basic strands of time and space, Ken Dei has almost limitless power and subsequently travels through various dimensions, weeding out evil, being a mercenary, and learning the ways of military arts. Generally in human form for the sake of communication and challenge. Weilding the power of the universe all the time would make things very boring. However, for all intents a purposes Ken Dei can not die until the end of time and space themselves.

Reso Dei: Pronounced "Ray-so-dai, Reso for shorthand"
Gender: M
Age: Various, generally 17-22
Persona: Archanist/Thief

Ken's younger "brother," Reso's less then "noble" profession choices generally put he and Ken at odds. However, they do cooperate at times when it suits their objectives. As with all of the Deian Clan, Reso also spends most of his time in human form. Also, Reso tends to lean more towards magic and mysticism as opposed to physical combat that Ken prefers.

Arron Dei: Pronounced "A-rone-dai"
Gender: M
Age: Various, generally 16-19
Persona: Spy/Drifter

Little is known about this person, it's rumored he has some direct relation to Ken, possibly his son. What is known is that Arron keeps to himself, and usually takes up the profession of a archer/ranger in the worlds he visits, though he has been known to dabble in magic.

Angel Dei: Pronounce phonetically.
Gender: F
Age: Various, generally 18-24
Persona: Healer/Assassin

The most common companion in Ken's travels, she provides him with assistance in either covert operations or as a healer when he's picked to big a fight. Rumors persist that she is Arron's mother, but this can't be confirmed. Angel was inducted into the Deian Clan through ceremony, rather than blood.

Star Dei: Pronounced phonetically
Gender: F
Age: Various, generally 17-20
Persona: Bodyguard/Strategist

Angel's best friend, she's usually off on assignments in other dimensions and thus has little contact with the rest of the Deian Clan. Again, inducted by ceremony rather then blood.

There are other characters for the group but the post is long enough.

Please refrain from bugging me about having female characters in the group, please try to remember that these are generic characters for a "storyline" so I'm not a loser for having females in the group. I hope that put that to rest.

My characters:

Countess of Carnage - was originally inteded to be a life-stealing Necro/Warrior, (blood and carnage!!) but went MM, kept the name.

Empress Yuna - Healing Mo/Me... actually I never played any of the Final Fantasys, and was told that Yuna is the name of one of the characters... honestly, I made it up, had no idea...

Marduk Bladesong - Wammo... strictly for soloing... Of course my first character, but definately not my main. Marduk is the name of a Sumerian God, but also a Tekken 4/5 character. Bladesong just sounded good

Priestess of Wisdom - Monk pre... Though this is honestly the character I keep deleteing and re-making... think I want to end up with an Ele/Mo... wanted to try a Smiting/Air spike build. Name just sounded innocent, powerful.

Santa Clause - named after a general in the first world war.... I used to use this name in CS and TFC because I thought it was funny to see "Santa Clause head shot Noob pwons"

Ms Santa - someone took Ms Clause before I could get it.

Mr Enginerd - family joke, many engineering colleges sell t-shirts which say enginerd and someone saw one and I havent heard then end of it.

Feminist Terrorist - I wanted something that would stir people up. And it kinda rhymed, and amused me. Since then I've named several other characters with the Terrorist surname: Eco Terrorist (who's been deleted), and Monastic Terrorist, who never gets any lip about her name.

Almost forgot about Malev(olent) Lifedrainer, who was my first character ever made. She rocks.

Valerius is a Roman name derived from the Latin word "valere"... which means "to be strong"

damn straight :P

Bram was just a name I like and Davon was my brothers idea. I don't know if it means anything.

Al Lan Malkier is "inspired" (read: Stolen) by al'Lan Mandragoran from the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

Mimi Miyagi - Asian porn star
Seal Clubbette - She clubs seals in her off time
Desiree Cousteau - 70s old school porn star
Angelique Collins - Character name from old TV show "Dark Shadows"
Linda Loveless - Play on name of most famous porn star of all
Shay Sweet - Porn star

All Stargate SG-1 chr names
Ishta of Haktyl
http://gateworld.net/omnipedia/chara...ks/ishta.shtml
Linea Kera aka: "the Destroyer of Worlds"
http://gateworld.net/omnipedia/chara...ks/linea.shtml
http://gateworld.net/omnipedia/chara...nks/kera.shtml

My Characters:

Griff Mon - after my son, warrior

Fire Nub- Don't know, sounds kind of dirty (didn't realize this till after the fact), elementalist

Little Miss Rowie - After my Daughter, a monk

Lady Di Die - Well, Lady di did die (sick I know, but it is a necro)

Wrath of Kristen - my wife, no further explanation needed, ranger, pet is named after family cat.

Bad Actress - thought it was funny, other people don't know what to call me in game.

neoteo ex animo

neo = new
teo = god
ex animo = from the heart

Gonzo Dr - Because Dr Gonzo was taken
Gonzo Salvato - Decided to stick with Gonzo and Salvato is the name of the Family I had in omerta (text based maffia MMORPG thing)
Gonzo Oniichan West - Again with the Gonzo, Oniichan means brother and West was to refer to my brother who has Westland in his name, but I was out of characters so it came out as West
Lilliana Salvato - Well, couldn't name my female character Gonzo, now could I. Lilliana is the name of my character in NWN and Bulders Gate 1/2. Basicly whenever I have a female Character this is the name.

Petname: Tequila, cause my cat is named that and that is because I love Tequila.