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

X of Thulcandra

X of Thulcandra

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Sector 001

N/A

W/

Wow, this has to be my longest-living thread yet! Thanks for the feedback!

TheMosesPHD

TheMosesPHD

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Oregon

Mo Mo Patty Blinks [MoMo]

R/

R/X Steve Basnof: Steve Basnof is the name of my subconscious. He's a nice guy.

Mo/X Sister of Divinity: She's a monk (Sister) with teh gods on her side (of Divinity) :O

N/X Kiltiana Varoso: I just really liked the way this name rolled off the tongue.

W/X Crimson Resolve: Your resolve is sort of like your purpose or your intentions, and this warriors intentions are all stained with the color of blood.

E/X Crimson Eliad: I can't remember where I've heard the name Eliad before, but he's Crimson because he's got red hair.

PvP char: Mo Mo Patty Blinks: If you say it in an Irish accent it just starts to make sense.

Factions:
W/Rt Grook Plugalug: A tribute to the troll boss that gave me my first Black Dye drop. I'll never forget you, dear Grook.

Rt/?? ???? ????: I'm not sure what I'll name my ritualist yet because I'm still waiting to see if they'll have male faces/hairstyles that don't totally suck. I wasn't impressed with the 6 haircuts and 8 faces I got to choose from during the preview event. If not I'll have to make it female.

Me/X Kaelon Mendelev: This is the name of my old mesmer I deleted. Once again I just liked the way the name flowed and how it fit the look of the char. Perhaps I'll revive him to help out in the PvP aspects of Factions PvE.

Illusion

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Where do you live?

Elite Mercenary Legion

R/Me Paper Wings-song

N/Me Cut up Wings-Song

W/Mo Demon Blade Knight- made up on spot

Ju_Smurph

Ju_Smurph

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

In a house

[TaB]

Me/N

First Character:
Ju Smurph - Smurph was what i wanted (long time nickname originating from a random hotmail email addy) however you needed two words. Ju comes from my girlfriends name.

Secound Character:
Smurph Jr - Lazyness

Third Charcter:
Juju Smurph - **** I'm Clever

Forth Character:
Cara Wakelyn - Cara Wakelin was already taken, Cara Wakelin is my avatar here.

N19h7m4r3

N19h7m4r3

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

My lovely little apartment.

None

W/

Arathyryr Blackfire: Sort of a mix of Elven, Dark Elven and Human. Basicly it means Crystal Demon. Blackfire is the Human part meaning just what it says.

Sanarrius Blackfire: Name has no real meaning excapt that it was also the name of my Baldurs's Gate1+2, Icewind Dale1+2 and Neverwinter Nights character.

Lady Valentyn: Name of a very special person.

Fey Valentyn: Name of a very special person, used the word Fey to signify her size as she is the smallest size the character can be.

ArisB

ArisB

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2005

LowLand Lions

W/Mo

PVE
(w/mo) Sir Aris: Aris is my real name
(r/e) Miss Sira: Firstname backwards
(e/me) Lana Xylia: Means something like light from the forest

PVP
(e/me) Aris Bom Baris: I wanted to call him Aris Bombaris but that wasn't allowed for some reason. (no Bombaris is not my real lastname )

Selerious

Selerious

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Sunshine Coast, Australia

Veneratio Tutela

R/Me

Selerious Taren (R/Me): Selerious means silent in Latin, thought it good far a ranger. Taren is a bit of a name that i remembered form the wheel of time series, put it to good use.

Selena Victora (E/Mo): Just thought it up, came out well though.

Artemis mausolis(Mo/x): Was watching a program on the seven ancient wonders of the world, and mausolus was the guy that made the mausoleum at harlicarnassis, Artemis i put in.

Ariel Sacham(Me/R): Another made up name.

Kate Bloodspirit

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

New York, NY

Idiot Savants [iQ]

Nuova Speranza [Monk]: In italian it means "New Hope", I created this monk after finishing the game with my first PvE character (A ranger I deleted a long time ago) and having really bad times finding monks and actually getting good/competent monks for PvE. I pwned as PvE monk btw :P

Kate Bloodspirit: Kate is the name of an once best-friend. Bloodspirit cuz it was meant for a necro and the spirit addition gave it a lot of character/strenght. This became my main PvP name.

Kate Deadspirit: Used to use the name for necromancers only but now it's a PvE mesmer. The dead part cuz you know, necro/dead/necro/dead hehehe.

Kate Furious Spirit: PvE warrior. Mighty and powerfull spirit, kate bashes your face :P

DJ Josh

DJ Josh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

movie inspired.

n/mo-Elvira (the sexy vampiress) Lived (devil backwards)
w/mo-Wansanchez Ramirez (highlander movies)
e/mo-Isabel Bigelow (bewitched movie)
r/me-Nikita Fem Fatale (from the movie/series)

TheMosesPHD

TheMosesPHD

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Oregon

Mo Mo Patty Blinks [MoMo]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by N19h7m4r3
Arathyryr Blackfire: Sort of a mix of Elven, Dark Elven and Human. Basicly it means Crystal Demon. Blackfire is the Human part meaning just what it says.

Sanarrius Blackfire: Name has no real meaning excapt that it was also the name of my Baldurs's Gate1+2, Icewind Dale1+2 and Neverwinter Nights character.

Lady Valentyn: Name of a very special person.

Fey Valentyn: Name of a very special person, used the word Fey to signify her size as she is the smallest size the character can be.
I don't understand. Someone made up an actual "elven" and "dark elven" language? Does fey mean small in some real language or is it elven too? Is this whole elven language sort of like the people who speak Klingon? I'm quite confused. Fey Valentyn is a strange spelling of the lady from Cowboy Bebop :O Is that the special person?

Exoudeous

Exoudeous

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Honor Warriors

E/

E/mo Mai Sharona = based on the song My sharona, Spider Pet named is Penny Lane.

R/Me Blast a joint = take a wild guess, Warthog Pet named is Fatty Blunt

Mo/W Buddha Of Suburbia = Bowie song

W/N Die Ein Von Satan = Tool song

Tictac

Tictac

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

Xen of Onslaught [XoO]

E/R - Tribat Karn - My roommates name for Xbox Live is always some form of Trigun and my nickname is Batman, hence Tribat. Karn is from Warhammer 40000.

Mo/W - Tribat Atrius - I already explained what Tribat is from. The Atrium is a club I go to around here, but I thought that Atrius sounded more monky.

QuuTip

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

R/

Santo Pickleroy: Santo is Portuguese for Saint, so it fits a monk. Pickleroy is a mutation of my former online name that I used for years and grew a bit tired of.

Honk Pickleroy: my friend's rabbit is called Honk. I think it sounds dumb enough for a warrior

Lina Lightwind: Lina is my cat's name. Lightwind because I like alliterations.

Victoria Witherhand: my necro looks like that Spice Girl (Mrs Beckham). Witherhand is just an awesome name for a necro

S E V E R

S E V E R

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

Lechlade, UK

Our Name Is Legion [ONL]

R/Mo

These are all my characters and why I named them such:
Agent Nuke E/Me - I created this guy in mind of being a TriNuker (Echo+Renewal) and my guild call on him often to help with Thirsty River for an ensured win
Lyra Of Maguuma R/W - The first character I ever made was called Lyra Starcloud based on a character I made in Anarchy Online and spent waaay too much time playing. When I killed her off (N/W wasn't all that great) I named this ranger in mind that she could be found deep within the jungle
Taximan To Kryta W/Mo - People often shout on the local channel about how 'great' this guy's name is. I made him with the intention of doing runs from Ascalon City to LA. However, after being dropped superior absorb and superior vigor runes before level 20, and finding the Droknar run not all hard, I made that route my primary business for several months before getting tired of scammers. I now only run on a licence basis.
Tazmanic The Healer Mo/E - I made this character on the premise that 2 other members of my old guild would make 'identical in appearance' monk for smiting and protection. However, they turned out to be lame and now I'm left with this guy. Wish I'd called him 'The protector' now...
S E V E R R/Mo - My primary character nowadays. I witnesses an awesome soolo action in Gates Of Kryta by a R/Mo with gaps between letters in my name and found it cool. I tried a few neat sounding names and S E V E R just stuck.
Taxigirl To Kryta W/Mo - Identical to Taximan except haven't found that superior absorb rune yet ^^. She's on my 2nd profile so both can run together.

Worthington

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

South Beach, FLA

APU

W/Me

Worth the Hack= Worth being shortened version of my name and what all my clan mates call me, and The Hack is a tip of my hat to a super old D&D (at least I remember it being a D&D) computer game. The first one if I remember. It was super cheesy and your toon's name was Crag the Hack... so Worth The Hack.

and I get accused of hacking a lot when I play BF.

Ray

Ray

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Denmark

Ray Himself Myself o.o?

Ray Pwnzyou My warrior pwns you D:<<

Ray Ninja MY ranger is a ninjar.

And for PvP i go for silly names like
Ray Hates Debbie
Rayhates Pvp and sometimes just Ray Pvp

Ninja Pirate Ray etc etc...


=/

Mournblade

Mournblade

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

Houston, Texas

Dawn Treaders [DAWN]

W/Mo

Ischade Anariel - A name I use regularly in my RPG's. 'Been using it since Wizards Crown was produced on the Commodore 64. She's my Eternal Champion (Michael MoorRED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO reference), as it were. Sometimes she's a fighter, sometimes a wizard, sometimes a rogue. She always has white hair, grey eyes, and deeply tanned skin.

Xiombarg Swordqueen - Taken from the Swords Trilogy by Michael MoorRED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO, one of my favorite fantasy authors. I thought the "queen of chaos" would be a neato name at the time, but the more I look at it the less I like it as my character name. I'd delete her and make another character but she has 15k bonelace armor now and I can't bring myself to destroy it. lol

Cotton Swab - Go ahead, giggle. You know its a cute monk name. =)

Tyche Orb - I think this is a Dungeons and Dragons artifact but I don't remember anymore. I just always liked the name and it seemed like a good fit for a hottie elementalist.

baz777

baz777

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

South East England

Leader: Lady Hairy Armpits S[mell]

E/

Dr Baz

Dr - monk
Baz - (real name Barry)

Not very imaginative but nice and simple

Celdor Nailo

Celdor Nailo

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Mo/E

My forum name is Celdor Nailo. I got this name using the random name generator Neverwinter Nights uses. My first character was an elven ranger and the generator came up with Celdor and I've used it ever since for my forum names.

My main character is a healing monk named Casper Boh. One of my favorite characters in the Shanarra books was Walker Boh but that was taken. Not sure how I picked Casper, but that is where Boh comes from.

Most of my characters use a part of a name from a book I've enjoyed.

labsenpai

labsenpai

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/E

derived from HK/wuxia film legend:

Tathagata Buddha

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Old Wrinkly Ninjas

Mo/

My name is the name of the father Buddha - seemed fitting for a monk

My other char is called Son of Pencilhead - its mentioned very briefly in a film - I would be interested to know how many people know what film its from

Sagaris

Sagaris

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Netherlands.

R/xx: Sylver Eagle Eye = In my early America's Army days I was called QuickSylver, and I love the name Sylver. I was creating a Ranger so it had something to do with the sharpness of Rangers, so after some consideration I went for Eagle Eye.

W/Mo: Kratos of Cantha = As you all (should) know Kratos is from God of War (PS2). That game pwns hard, so he deserves to live on in other games. In addition it's a cool name. When I created Kratos new information about Chapter 2 arrived, a world called Cantha had landed upon the Guild Wars community. Maybe you could say Kratos is the first player character from the mystic land called Cantha. All hail Kratos of Cantha! :P

ROASTBEEP

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

W/N

My friend's character was Corn Beep from another game so I copied him and named my characters food but changed the F to P.

Roast Beep

Spicy Beep

Beep Stew

These are names I used but deleted:
Beep Jerky
Beep Patty
Beep On Rice
Beep A Roni

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

Numa Pompilius is ancient latin, and means "He Who Walks As Though His Balls Were Big As Basketballs".

Well, approximately.

Morangen

Morangen

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mountain West

Xen of Onslaught[XoO]

Mo/W

Mine really have no meaning behind them

Morangen Dromere Mo/W: Made it up years ago and liked it.
Maxus Lightbringer W/Mo: The name of a Paladin I made in some RPG
Alennia Swiftwing R/E: I liked the sound of Alennia and Swiftwing was ranger-ish

Ronin of Elgo Woods

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

KM

Mo/

Well I only have 3

Merrick AxeMaster: Well I use an Axe!

Ronin of Elgo Woods: Ronin is a name I use in all games and have for about 5 years now. Means Rogue Samurai. Elgo has to do with real life name and Woods because he is a ranger. His pet Spider is Socoro.

Sol Shang: uh, Don't know really just messing around and made my monk Sol Shang. Sorry nothing too interesting!

Papi Chulo

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

Legends Of The Hidden Temple

W/R

Don Rico Suave= Just made cuz ppl when i was in high skool said i had "suave" curly hair so the name Don rico suave was made. Orginally wanted it to be Papi Chulo.
Don Rico= from Don rico suave

N19h7m4r3

N19h7m4r3

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

My lovely little apartment.

None

W/

To clear it up elven is a made up language created by JRR Tolkien. It been used by people in singing and actually helps in Role Playing games.
basicly its been turned into a language that can be spoken or written. Same goes for Dark Elven.

Oh Fey is a word for fairy. A small magical creature.

Valentyn is my actual surname. Its the dutch/afrikaans version on the english Valentine.

X of Thulcandra

X of Thulcandra

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Sector 001

N/A

W/

Bump.

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

Well... They didn't invent it.
Keroberos = japanese spelling of Cerberus = this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus

jciardha

jciardha

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

International Districts

The Labyrinth of Night [LoN]

Me/

I find/make up more names than I have character slots. The latest atrocity: Polyatomic Ian. For an elementalist, of course. My chemistry instructor happened to be discussing polyatomic ions one day. Ion ... Ian, plus the fact when I hear "element" I'm less likely to think of earth, wind and fire than noble gases.

I already have Anonymous Hex and Spring Heeled Jim reserved, so to speak, on existing "temp" characters, PVP and PVE. But I'd love to add Polyatomic Ian and Guy Of Frustration (puns FTW) to my roster on a more permanent basis. Just ... no character slots left.

96TSi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Fort Worth

Clowns of Wrath[CoW]

W/R

all my characters have Osiris in the name because of my website. www.osirisforums.com

osiris the souless
osiris the hacker
osiris the cursed
and,
Homer Sexual (my first character i made in the first beta event )

shadowfell

shadowfell

hamonite anur ruk

Join Date: Jan 2006

Echovald Forest

[PhD] Teh Academy

Me/A

Lialla Shadowfell was kind of a rushed character create back when I first bought the game and wasn't sure if I would be sticking around. No meaning, but I do like the word shadow =P

Cynnamon Gurl, I chose this because my ex bf, a guy that I loved a great deal and has now passed away told me that this song always reminded him of me.

Lillith of Babylon, Naturally, the seductress and bride of hell, she even has the red hair and pale ivory skin. I just happen to know a lot about such matters....*cough*

Aeon Fuxx, I made this character originally as an assassin for preview weekend, and the whole get up reminded me of Aeon Flux, so, when I deleted that character, I kept the name as I thought it cool and now, it's on my mesmer.

Callista Aurelia

Callista Aurelia

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

Bay Area, CA

Kitchen Pirates [CKIE]

E/

Awesome thread :-)

I've joked to my boyfriend several times that I must take the most time of any GW player making up my character names, because I will literally take half an hour to an hour looking up name meanings trying to find the perfect combination for the character I'm trying to create.

My first character, Callista Aurelia (R/Mo), was completely arbitrary. Callista is my favorite name (got it from the star wars novel Children of the Jedi) and what I always name my game characters, and Aurelia just seemed to sound good with it.
Next came Aurora Ember (E/Me), which literally means smouldering dawn, which I thought was fitting for a fire elementalist.
Then I made Teria Chaim (Mo/W), which means vital life, which has served her well in her healing specialization.
Joined the masses of W/Mo's with Arianna Pallaton, which means strong, holy, brave warrior. Self explanitory.
Most recently, on my shared account with my boyfriend, I created Caesaria Decessus (N/Mo), a minion master who's name is latin for Leader of Death.

I'm rather proud of the names I'm come up with thus far, and I already have one picked out for a ritualist in factions. Keeping it to myself till release though. :-)

FireMountain

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Joe Atlas, Trip Wire, Will Tallmountain, Darby Twigs, Daisy Joe, Lee Cho, Deb Ra, Joe Bob Mustang or is it Jim Bob Mustang

Go for the really short names now like Lee Cho or Deb Ra think you might be more apt to get invited to a group if they only have a few letters to type. Oh one of my latest characters was Little Debby

forgot a name I liked and have used. Sally Rand, that name is way before everyone's time who plays this game shoot I'm old and it's way before my time she was a famous American stripper back around 90 years ago maybe less.

Jalmari

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

DWA

W/Mo

Princess Crissy: Crissy Moran is pornstar.. then I just added princess to it.

Adrian Validus

Adrian Validus

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

W/Mo

My names have been taken from Latin Dictionary

Warrior: Adrian Validus
Adrian is just a latin name.
Validus -> strong, mighty, powerful, exceeding.

Ele: Excrucio Flamma
Excrucio -> to torment, torture, cause great pain
Flamma -> flame, fire

Necro: Excrucio Dolor
Excrucio -> to torment, torture, cause great pain
Dolor -> pain, grief. misery, pain, suffering

Ranger: Ocius Peritus
Ocius -> quick. fleet, sooner, faster
Peritus -> skilled, expert

Been waiting for this Thread forever..

Adrian

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

Adrian, you'll like this one, I have a ranger called Felix Silvestris...

Wortan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Eire

You Never Beat The Irish

W/Mo

Wortan Thor is my W/Mo and is named after the oldest RPG character I have. Gos back to the Dragon Warriors book series (still looking for 2&3). He has shown up here and there wherever there are barbarian/warriors to play.
He really needs a beard, cleanshaven dont work and he's not Fat enough.

linh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Mo/

Gl Hf : just a simple and short name for pvp char. They are 2 popular words in pvp