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

Cottage Pie

Cottage Pie

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Birmingham, England

Taking Aegis

Mo/Me

Cottage Pie....a fun, stupid name that has never grown tired. Vertexis Greezachki may have initial WOW but after a few days you would hate that name...cottage pie is perhaps the only name that will never end up annoying me.


Plus people remember me from ages ago. yay

Killion

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Lonely Ranger.. > I like to play solo. All my chars are > Lonely *****

Opeth11

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada

Demon of the Fall [Opet]

Mo/Me

Hmm lets see if I can remember..
W/Me Dion Phaneuf - Hockey player. Watched him play through the minor leagues. Expoded in joy when the kid got drafted onto my beloved Calgary Flames <3

R/Mo Harlequin Forest - Always loved the music of Opeth, as suggested by my name, and the word 'forest' fits well with a ranger in my mind.

Mo/W Jessie Tuirc - Had a guild mate whom i've bonded with named Tessa Tuirc. I stole that name and put Jessie in front because..I..don't..know..

N/me Rusting Water - My bands name <3

Crevic

Crevic

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Elite Vipers Of Hell [EVOH]

Warrior: Unauthorized User, because at the time, I had no idea how to use a warrior, and I had just finished watching Tron.

Ranger: Rocket Science Made her have blonde hair. She really lived up to her name today after running straight into 50 Scarab traps in Prophets Path. XD

bongo-666

bongo-666

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

Nl

Mo/W

W/Mo morbide engel => its morbid angel in dutch just cuz i like the band morbid angel...

E/R bomben hagel => great song from sodom and it can be seen as the meteor attack

Mo/Me bathory heal => i like the band bathory and its a healer

N/Mo chyn drakia => no idea the name just popped into my head and i liked it

so most of my names i use i get from the music i listen to except the last one

Frits

Frits

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Nederweert, The Netherlands

Guild Of Dawm

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Riotact
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.
Good to see an other Pearl Jam fan!

My name MIthrades was loosely based on an ancient Greek, Mithradates I believe.
Oh and my Necromancers name Eurydice is of the Orpheus and Eurydice story, those of you who know it might find Eurydice very suitable for a Necromancer.
My rangers name Elessar is lame I know but I couldn´t think of anything else

Shusky

Shusky

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Flying Purple Hippos

Shusky The Penguin - quite a long story. Shusky is short for Silver Husky, which is named after a random car of which I saw a commercial when I was thinking about a new username. So there. "the Penguin" part comes from an old myth of Nile Penguins, a noble tribe related to Flying Purple Hippos. I'm not going into details here

Randomly Explosive - seemed like a good name for an ele, since Magical Trevor was taken I like the idea of a homicidal cretin with great knowledge of earth or fire magic.

Kill My Ally First - a variation of Rush My Ally, a name I saw in one of online RTS communities. I thoght it would be fitting a warrior.

Were All Gonna Die - a panicky and scared shitless monk makes a good team with a mythical ranger, an idiotic ele, and a cowardly warrior. Hell yes!

GraceAlone

GraceAlone

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Phoenix, AZ

Semper Reformanda [SeRe]

Shenkei Kuusai = roughly means God's Grace Saves

EternalTempest

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

Eternal Tempest (Ele) = Mage / Fantasy sounding name and Tempest sounding as in Magical Engery storm.

Tempest of Ascalon (Monk) = Still like the tempest angle but did the old school naming convention of Name of (Insert Town Your from) from the old days.

Toll Booth Willie

Toll Booth Willie

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

tn, usa

E/Mo

My Red Stapler - Office space
Big Tom Callahan - Tommy Boy
Tps Report - Office space
Mary Samsonite - (its a movie, i'll let you guess)

Kitty

Kitty

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2005

Germany

EI

N/Me

The Hoarse Raven(N): From Shakespear, MacBeth, in Lady Macbeths speech there is the sentence: "the raven himself is hoarse, that croakes the fatle entrance..." I won't go it the meaning of it, find it out yourself.

Maken Chan(W): japanese, Maken: the true sword, Chan: a cute ending

Lady Chiltern(Me): A character form "an ideal husband"

Sakura Naosu(Mo): japanese, Sakura: cherry blossom, Naosu: healing

Dash Logan

Dash Logan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

England

Nightingale Knights

W/Mo

Dash Logan, a name i brought from my freelancer days, got the logan from a game called tachyon the fringe and dash from a game called shadows of the empire, i think its cool and it sort of rolls out of your mouth, all my other chars are part of the family logan, original eh

TehTomato

TehTomato

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

NBK

R/Mo

Frea of Kryta- My first char and ele, me and a friend were making chars at the same time in the same room so we picked out names we liked and added of kryta. I know.

Daria of Kryta- Warrior, second char, still yet to be finished, stuck with the suffix but I'm a fan of daria

Jane Lane- Necromancer, In the show Daria, Jane is Daria's best friend

Quinn Morgendorffer- Ranger, In the show, Quinn is Daria's sister

Symeon

Symeon

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Well, it may help to say my RL name is Simon.

Therefore Symeon/Symeion relates to that, I just thought it sounded more interesting than Simon. In fact I first used Symeon back in the days when I played Rome Total War online.

So, Symeion Axewielder = ...Simon with an axe

My other character names I kind of thought up over their professions/builds.

Blessed Dark (Mo/N) = Blessed is the monk part, Dark is the necromancer part. Simple, huh?

Shashiya Devilfire (N/Me) = I invented the name Shashiya a lonnngggg time ago, can't remember what for. Devilfire...well...it kind of makes sense, and it sounds good to say Shash-i-ya De-vil-fi-ya...you with me?

Mylena Swifwind (R/E) = Mylena, is just a name. Swiftwind...dunno. Not much meaning there.

Stormfall

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Soviet Canuckistan

Makil Astalder [MAR]

Faerian Stormfall: (R/E) The Guild Wars version of an old RPG character (who made appearances in Neverwinter Nights and Ragnarok Online).

Swordreaver Karla: (W/E) Karla's another carry-over from past online RPGs - she started out on Diablo 2 as a battle-oriented sorceress named Karla Greywitch (cheap gank on Karla the Grey Witch from "Record of Lodoss War", I'll confess). Over the course of a couple more games she shifted toward more "battle" and less sorceress...ness...

Linka Soviet: (Emo) Well, this one's kinda embarrassing. Anyone who was a kid growing up in the 90's should really get this one.

Archangel Appolyon: (N/Me) Appolyon is the Greek name for Revelations' angel of destruction, more commonly known as Abaddon. The character was originally an N/E where the point was to use a high Soul Reaping to fuel heavy-damage Fire and Air spells (thus the whole "destruction" thing). I'll give you 3 guesses as to how well it worked.

Yichi

Yichi

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2005

Guild Hall, Vent, Guesting, PvE, or the occasional HA match...

Dark Alley [dR]

Mistress Yichi - Named after a prostitute in Japan. (was bored and couldnt think of a good name, cousin thought of this on a DAoC char)

Myk

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Nov 2005

Newcastle, UK

E/N

My E/N is boring, just a composite of my daughters names, one is called Amethyst and one is called Breeze, hence Amethyst Breeze. Every game I play always has an Amethyst Breeze in it, whether it be the name of a spaceship or a cute creature.
The thing is that Amethyst actually decides what colour scheme I have to use and it always ends up as pink... well she is only 4 years old

Indira

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

Virginia

E/Me

Almost all of my character names comes from horses. I used to be in charge of registration of a particular breed of horse that originates in Europe. All the female names with this breed end with 'a' so they make some pretty cool game character names.

Siara Koflach Mo/N - Koflach is the village where the breeding farm is located

Faewyn Piber E/Me - Piber is the farm

Starsha Trompeta R/E - Trompeta is the Italian line of horse breed

Lydia Von Lietzig Me/Mo - Like someone already said, mesmers can be so pretentious and elegant looking, I thought 'Lyds' needed a 'stuffy' name. (And, my daughter was watching "Beetlejuice" when I created her LOL) But, in keeping with my lack-of-imagination theme.. Lietzig was also one of the breeding farms.

Oh.. and 'Indira'.. that's my mare!

Teklord

Teklord

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Lloyd.ab.ca

Lords of All

R/Mo

First character I made:

Anakin Landrunner (Monk) - Just some obvious fun. This character was later replaced with...

Brother Skywalker (Monk) - Brother of the Monk order, obvious Star Wars reference.

Tyr Anasazi (Warrior) - My short lived Warrior character, obvious Andromeda reference.

Tess Stormcrow (Ranger) - Probably my most used character. First name came from a show called Roswell, second name as I recall I picked up from Lord of the Rings - Gandalf's last name as known to the people of Rohan I believe.

Vilandra Darkstar (Necro) - Another Roswell reference in the first name, the second name I just invented thinking it should have something to do with darkness/death for the Necro.

Oberon of Avalon (Ele) - Tall male character with long white hair. Idea taken from Gargoyles. This character was recently replaced with...

Disciple of Ori (Mesmer) - Stargate SG1 reference. Prior of the Ori was taken.

And soon I'll have to come up with something for a Ritualist and Assassin.

tommarrow

tommarrow

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Shyft Machine [MYTH]

E/

Gail Force Winds(E/Mo)-just a mix of a girls name with an elemental effect.

Deathbringer Guy(W/Me)-just making fun of some warriors names.

Eyes on the Prize(Mo/Ra)-no meaning just what came to mind.

Count to Potato

Count to Potato

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Imagination Land

I Swear She Was Eighteen [Gwen]

W/

My name Count to Potato came from the movie The Ringer when Jonny Knoxville says he can count to potato, and my other one God of Sorrow is just cuz i like gods..

Francis Demeules

Francis Demeules

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada, Qc

[Holy]

Me/Mo

Ysulan Silverarrow R/Mo: Inspired from Baldurs Gate: DA2 and my first character. Ysulan Unduil was the moon elf necromancer. He had been remplaced by...

Tirsha Silverarrow R/Mo: Kinda funny to change male to female char. Ysulan sister and Ranger from Champions of Norrath. Pantera is her stalker's name.

Blue Cathor N/Mo: My necro who has been between life and death. Heal my party and use Corpses to attack. The build I wanted to create has never worked anyway... Delete

Karmina Of NarniaN/R/E: After reading the first two books and seeing the movie, I wanted to create a Char from that world (just one). So, I decided to create a Vampire (Karmina DUH). I wanted to name her Jadis Of Narnia but its already taken. Her pet's name is SilverFangs (Elderwolf), the name of the snow wolf of Ysulan Silverarrow before.

Malinium IphisisMe/N: Very a long story. I've got like 10 000 mesmer deleted to finish with him and keep him alive as long as I can. His First Malinium has the French word ''Malin'' in it. Everybody knows how a mesmer can be tricky. And for Iphisis, Something original and maybe egyptian with ''isis'' at the end.

So for now, my characters are: Tirsha Silverarrow, Malinium Iphisis and Karmina of Narnia. The fourth slot is used to test and create new builds in PvP and PvE (Isle of Nameless for practice) or Play PvP with my Water Elementalist: Blue Shard

warren_kn

warren_kn

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

London, England

Hida Seijuro - W/E
Hitomi Kaede - Mo
Iuchi Daiyu - Mesmer
Bayushi Yokuan - A
Kisu Okura - Ri

All from Legend Of The Five Rings game

Jas

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2005

Piken Square - American District 1

The Everchanging Path [lost]

Mo/E

My chars and their names with some explanations

Anilya Alabaster - Anilya just sounded as a cool first name when I created her, and Alabaster comes from MtG-card Alabaster Potion..... a healing spell in that game and she's a pure healer too, hence the name.

Misa Foulmouth - Surprising surname for a Curse-necro :P

Crista Greenleaf - My only Ranger to survive past Pre-Searing. Actually just reserved the name if there ever will be elves... [still wishing]

Luna Moonflower - Luna is moon in latin (I think) and I was trying to get her lastname to be Crescent. It was taken... so I spent a long time thinking for a good name for a blonde monk. And I really think I found a good one...

And then come ap Gwynneth-family, Rea, Shanna, Lyra and others. The surname was created way back in time when I still was playing AD&D with my rp'ing group. I took it in the use and just begun to take various first names as it seemed that all the good names were already taken (and I'm not gonna be Adwqrth Grztbhn..... I want to be able to pronounce my chars names myself)

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

hokay...

Kedric Troltwatter was my first char, a Wammo who likes to twat trolls. That word is UK English slang for slap or similar. Guild Wars filters the word twat as it's also a mild expletive. Then again, GW filters 'damn'.

Old Man Trigger/Old Man Messy - after I joined a guild for the first time, people found the fact that I'm in my forties quite amusing. So I go with the flow - I like using the 'Old Man' prefix so people know what they're getting!

Trigger is a nickname I've been blessed with since early teens when I walked into my local bar proudly wearing my new cowboy boots.

'Oh look, it's Trigger!' said one friend.
'Why, cos he looks like a cowboy?'
'No, he looks like a frickin horse!'

It stuck. (And for you Brits out there - I was Trigger BEFORE Fools and Horses!)

Old Man Messy is a Mesmer :/

Think I'll start up a nice female Ellie next - Old Man Woman.

That'll fix 'em!

EnvyHax

EnvyHax

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

I like my names:

Ember Loreweaver (healer Mo/??)
Iliel Feykin (Water/Air Ele)
Crux Willbreaker (domination mesmer ^_^)

I only have 3 characters -.-

EnvyHax...I just add the Hax because I like how it sounds and envy is always taken

X I Cynn I X

X I Cynn I X

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

Fatalis Combine

W/Mo

X I Devona I X - (W/Mo) - Who's this named after?

Karis Longshot - (R/Mo) - No idea where the Karis bit came from but the Longshot obviously says "hey look at me! i'm a ranger!". Oh - I made her because I got a Drago's Vamp Flat drop.

Karis Overseer - (Mo/Me) - Still don't know where the Karis is from but I nicked the Overseer from the Charr. Yoink!

Karis <insert name> - (?/?) - My yet to be made char.

Then theres my old mesmer's name: Paraffin Macrogol - I got the name from the back of a tube of medicine... hey! Its original!

boxterduke

boxterduke

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

Me/

Nadeen The Purple (mesmer) - first is personal and as for the Purple part, anyone with a female mesmer should know why I picked purple if they look at their mesmer with no armor on.

Darth Phobos (warrior) - starwars and I always liked the Phobos moon of Mars

Darth Psp (necro) - I was excited about my new PSP but to this day I have no idea why I actually went through and kept the name without rerolling.

NADEEN (monk) - Personal

Em Enoon (ranger) - Nick name for Nadeen.

Darth Elaine Dance (male ele) - still in pre but I thought its just a funny name because of the sienfeld dance.

obastable

obastable

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Mo/

The names I use are all variants or direct copies of character names that I've used in my writing. For the most part, anyway... As strange as this may sound, I also use the game to test names against skill structures, as an aid to character creation and development for my novels.

There's no real explanation behind any of the names I use/have used. When creating a name I choose a letter that I'd like it to start with, then cycle through the alphabet until I find another letter that compliments the first in some phonetic sense. Lather, rinse, repeat until I'm satisified.

Some past and present names include:

Teirin Delandir
Anastasia Bhronn
Kiven Meller
Bastian Staebor

Maxiemonster

Maxiemonster

There is no spoon.

Join Date: Jun 2005

Netherlands

Mo/

My favorite book used to be "Max and the Maxiemonsters" when I was like 5 or so, and since my original name is Max, I always take that Now I have:

Mrs Maxiemonster (mother)
Mr Maxiemonster (father)
Mini Maxiemonster (son)
Pre Maxiemonster (Pre from Pre-Searing)

dont feel no pain

dont feel no pain

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Uk,Wales

"dont feel no pain" ..... hehee "i dont feel no pain" Mr T owns all

"psycho chicken" ...... that has yet to be found out what the hell it means , it was just the most random thing i thought of

~ Star Maiden ~

~ Star Maiden ~

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

In Sil's bed or stuck to Kailynn's legs

Silhouette Stars [sil]

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Maxiemonster
My favorite book used to be "Max and the Maxiemonsters" when I was like 5 or so, and since my original name is Max, I always take that Now I have:

Mrs Maxiemonster (mother)
Mr Maxiemonster (father)
Mini Maxiemonster (son)
Pre Maxiemonster (Pre from Pre-Searing)
That's cute

Skuld

Skuld

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2005

Thousend Tigers Apund Ur Head [Ttgr]

A/

Lyra Forgerunner - lyra from his dark materials and forgerunner after the bow
Clarissa The Smart - mindless self indulgence song clarissa, you'll know if you've head it
Luna of Valhalla - I wanted a character called luna.. the last bit was just random
Space Vandal - it's a cool name! shut up!
Luna Mindwrath - Luna from the other, mindwrath is mesmery sounding
Skuld the Great - Skuld has been the name i've used for years, skuld the great was what I used on the sims uk forums and sims 2 uk forums

fun

lord manure

lord manure

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2005

Belgium

Belgica Nostra

E/W

Captain Dung (R/Mo)
Lord Manure (W/MO)
Fungus Mcpoo (N/Me)
Rhand Altor (E/Mo)

I just wanted some funny names, rhand altor is from the wheel of time.

Lord Iowerth

Lord Iowerth

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Atlanta, GA (#guildwarsguru FTW!)

Biscuit Of Dewm [MEEP]

R/Mo

Well, I tried to keep a "Lord" theme to my names (not because i'm an egotist, just so it would match the first name I ever used).

Ranger - Lord Iowerth (named after a runescape ranger ... shoot me)
Warrior - Lord Mauler (hah, named after one of my favorite battletech mechs )
Necro - Death Rasp (couldn't use lord, as she's a girl, and sounds scary)
Monk - Lord of Healers (who is ironically now a prot monk)
Mesmer - Mesmer Riffic (yes, ran out of good names)
Ele - Titan Themis (Themis was a greek earth titan in mythology, my ele is an earth ele, you see the correlation)
Ranger # 2 - Im a Pack Mule (take a wild guess)

and PvP chars either get "The Harmless Ranger" for ranger builds, or "Really Im Harmless" for everything else (and sometimes "Samuel L Jackson" when I make a PvP monk)

NinjaKai

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

UK

Duality Of The Dragon

Memoria [Insert second half of name here] - Somewhat of a tribute to the first rpg I ever played. It's from the final stage of Final Fantasy 9 called Memoria. (And for all the FF fanboys and fangirls I mean serious noob fanatics. So I didn't play the older ones til later. Burn in hell noobs.)

Pevil Lihatuh

Pevil Lihatuh

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Yorkshire, UK

R/Me

Well first of all my surname, Lihatuh. Completely made up... sort of. It's actually a mix of my online friends real last name and the last name always used in their characters. Onto my chars:

Pevil, R/*: My first and main. I always have rangers as my first chars and Pevil is always my online alias. Comes from a year 10 (thats age 14 - 15 for americans) biology class where we were doing some experiment that involved crushing peas, and I ended up being called an evil pea for some reason. Striders name: Deathbird. Dunno why, originally in the beta it was Choccy (coz striders/moas look like chocobos ) but then I had no inspiration and realised the bird usually did better than me, so the reincarnation was called Deathbird.

Lutze, Mo/*: Second character, named after the Sweeper in the Discworld novels, my favourite books. She's actually female whereas the guy in the novels is male, but oh well, whaddya gonna do?

Gearrika, Me/*: Third char, was just a name that someone suggested to me, originally for a male Necro as Gearrik, and I decided I wanted a female Mesmer and added the a.

Rinoxya, W/*: Ok well this is a mickey take I have a great online friend who I talk to a lot and we have this insult/insult relationship Anyway I bought him GW as a christmas present and his online name is always Rinox, and he's usually a dwarven berserker type. So naturally, my warrior needed to be a female warrior who acts just as dumb as him

Stariana, E/*: Just a name I made up when I first made an Ele (then deleted her after about 2 hours). Sounds sorta mystical and magical so I stuck to it when I remade her.

Shadra, N/*: Again, simply made up, but this time it was made up in UO. I tend to find a few char names I like and then stick with them in all games, and this one just sounds kinda like she belongs in the shadows...

Dye Collector, R/*: My odd mule type char. She's in pre atm, and will be for a long time, partly to do as her name suggests and partly coz i'm using her to get pretty pictures for my desktops

Kattox1

Kattox1

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

In your mind

OMNI clan UK

D/N

About 3 years ago I was wanting a cool gamertag for my cpu games, one that could identify me and stand out from the rest. I literally spent about 5 hours doing charts of things I could base it on and came up with KATTOX: fast as a cat (K sounded better) strong as an ox.
Well um I've used Kattox as a name for my people for quite a while now but I realised it wouldnt work well as a girls name. So when i created my main (W/Mo) who was a girl I wanted to do something different. So i used the first name of the girl I fancied at the time and a random cool sounding last name and there you go; Becca Rownbridge.
For PvP chars I go for Kattox for blokes or Kassie for girls cause I cant copy Becca can I?
On a side note after I invented Kattox as my tag, about a year after in fact, while on holiday in Ibiza I found out that Kattox is the brand name of a spanish herbal laxative. LOL

Denny Pace

Denny Pace

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

Good Eye Sniper [GeS]

Denny is my wife's nickname. Pace is my wife's maiden name. It takes the edge off as she watches the back of my head during my 20+ hours per week away from here and on Guild Wars.

Somehow, this has worked for me!

Linsys

Linsys

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Afk Mac N Cheeze Dun [LOOL]

Mo/N

L I N S Y S

All my names are after Linsys = Linux System (Administrator)...

In real life I'm a Unix Hacker (large companies pay me and my company a lot of money to "hack" into their networks and design security models to prevent real hackers from getting in and destroying their business).

I also ran the ever so popular intrusionsec.com website... we where one of the first Hacker War Games sites on the internet.. and at one point we where pulling over 5,000 visitors a day.... thats me!

Although people always confuse my name with linksys.. which is annoying... and my friends call me "Router Boy" just to make me mad! lool