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

Alcazanar

Alcazanar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Cavalon (swe)

Desert Flame [DF]

W/N

Im darth vader
Lord of the sith

LOL and i got a lightsaber (red chaos axe)

JediKnight

JediKnight

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

A Galaxy Far Far Away

W/R

I got 3 characters:
Stewbo The Great = My name is Stewart & I am great (My wife thinks so anyway)
Anti Social Misfit = Female W/Mo mainly Ironic
Attilla I = Male warrior name for Atilla the Hun. (spelling due to over use of the name)

junit

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

D/

Packed Punch=Hardcore Warrior?
Bone Masta=Hardcore Necro?
Im Sprung=Hardcore Slow Song?

Fungus Amongus

Fungus Amongus

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare] | [Rare] Alliance

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tathagata Buddha
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
House Party- Kid 'N Play

Kid was often referred to as, "Pencilhead," because of his six inch tall flat top. (see link)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099800/posters

Unbeatable101

Unbeatable101

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Nov 2005

USA

The Demon Dragons

W/Mo

My first char Muntis Aragon, was just a mystical name i made up. My 2nd char is a monk named the Bandaid which I THOUGHT was a cool name, but everyone has it now. I also have a char named Bush is a ranger which i thought was a funny way to make fun of Bush. I also have a char called Gengis Merkilian which came after Gengis Khan, and my favorite baseball player Merkin Valdez. In fact the Muntis comes from the pitcher Scott Munter. lol i base a lot of my names on sports players.

xxSilhouette

xxSilhouette

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Lost in the sands of time...

Blood Of Orr [BoO]

R/Rt

Silhouette Eyes(ranger) - Don't know really, I was listening to a song called Silhouette by thrice and they say "silhouette lies..." and i thought it would sound neat to make it silhouette eyes :P

Megan Deathlove(necro) - Named her megan beacuse that is my name and the deathlove i came up with beacuse i was in a really bad relationship and everytime he said he loved me i wanted to die....

Poisoned Faith(warrior) - Again, just kinda random, I like the word posion, and poisoned faith sounds like your faith has been destroyed by something, and warriors are good at destryoing.

Bumsen Gottin(monk) - its in another language...

Network

Network

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Marcus (my name) The Monk
Raged (my last name) The Ritualist <--- my future name for my ritualist for factions.

Ludi Cigan

Ludi Cigan

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Croatia, Zagreb

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W/

Ludi (crazy) Cigan (race from India, poor people )
Other... Didn't have inspiration for names, so they are crap

Whispering Siren

Whispering Siren

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Maryland

Whispering Siren - is my necro and is taken from a song by Vangelis. I like the oxymoron and the reference to Greek mythology. I also use this handle for forums (obviously) and email, etc.

Triage Nurse - my monk... the name should be rather self-explanatory. You always have to choose who to heal (or protect) first, etc.

Phantom Muse - (ele) liked the word "muse" for a name, looked up and saw my Phantom of the Opera music box... This is one name I would possibly go back and change.

Atiya Pacifica - this is my ranger and I wanted her to have a Southern Spain/Moorish feel to her name. Atiya, an Arabic name, means "gift" and Pacifica sounded good with it (and obviously means "pacific").

Emlyn of Lakenheath - my wammo! Emlyn is a Welsh name that (one website says) means "noble warrior" and Lakenheath is where I was born, in England. Feels like a very wammo name to me (as are most names: ____ of ____).

Carys Ceriden - last, but not least, my mesmer. She needed a very noble, poetic name. Carys is a Welsh name meaning "love" and Ceridwen (also Welsh) means blessed poetry and is the goddess of poetry... But I took the "w" out.

Fungus Amongus

Fungus Amongus

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare] | [Rare] Alliance

Quote:
Originally Posted by Whispering Siren
Triage Nurse - my monk... the name should be rather self-explanatory. You always have to choose who to heal (or protect)first, etc.
Ugh, you just reminded me of my all too many (50+?) visits to the ER in my first 25 years of life.

~Edit - Cool name, though.

Thy Shadow Wolf

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

Erie, PA

N/

Well, Thy Shadow Wolf started in my Diablo 2 days. I wanted Shadow Wolf... but well, it was taken. So I was thinking ... "Hmm... well, it could be something The Shadow Wolf... *taken* Bah... well let me try this *changes The to Thy* ... *taken*" That's roughly it. Now most all of my characters have Thy [X] Wolf if space works out.

manaleak34

manaleak34

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

Onslaught of Xen

E/Mo

<-Mandral Flametoungue(E/Mo)- The character name I used often in D&D
A Big Shock(E/Mo) (My PvP char):shes An Air spiker...so...yea...
Roxy Bander(W/Mo)-Named after a character in a story I been trying to work on.
Mod Will Win(Me/Mo)-A way to show my love for my guild.

Bernie M

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

ECI (Evil Conservative Industries)

Mo/E

Knish the Calm = the wise one in the movie Rounders
Worm of Elements = "worm" the hustler in the movie Rounders

Layla Diamond Doll = someone I once knew

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

Grim Skybasher = I messed up suppose to be Skulkbasher but i wasn't thinking when i made my w/mo!

Ivy Spellbinder = Spellbinder the villain from Batman cartoon (the newer one) and Ivy since i like that name for my mes/necro

Thea Shadowstrike = I don't know why but i just thought about the first name Thea and shadowstrike goes well being a necro/mes.

xXxXx

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Canada

W/Mo

hmm, interesting names. Well, my warrior is named Hudson. However, i have been twidling with the idea of "Lord Rahl" for my ranger i am thinking of beginning

Rilder

Rilder

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

Mystic Shadow Soldiers (MSS)

R/

Rilder The Hunter, my main characters name goes back to RuneScape, you know that stupid n00b game ... anyway theres a quest were you get a "Name" well mine was Rilder, and I just thought that was awesome so I made it my "Official" Username... Do a search on google and type Rilder and I bet it comes up to something about me :P In fact the first thing listed is:

Quote:
Guild Wars Forums - GW Guru - View Profile: Rilder
Rilder. Professor. Rilder's Avatar. Last Activity: Today 03:03 PM. Forum Info, Contact Info ... Rilder is not a member of any public groups ...
www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/member.php?u=55258 - 14k - Cached - Similar pages
hehehehe

leareth

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/Me

I have "Heart the Healer" ... because you do ***heart*** your healer, right?

I also have Minnie Maxxed ... named after a particular strategy. (Min/Max'ing).

Inzilbeth

Inzilbeth

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

West Coast, Canada

Tomahn Tso D'ni

N/Me

All my character names are based on J.R.R. Tolkien's characters:
  • Inzilbeth Andunie - Dunadan of Numenor
  • Idril Silver-Foot - Noldorin Elf
  • Elbereth Tintalle - also known as Varda, one of the Valar
  • Morwen Steelsheen - Dunadan of Gondor

TheMosesPHD

TheMosesPHD

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Oregon

Mo Mo Patty Blinks [MoMo]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ray
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...


=/
RaybobIndustries? Just checking if that's you O.o

ubrikkean

ubrikkean

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

E/

Lets see... I have Pesii Thireburn, Thivot Thireburn, and Adorfand Thireburn. Pesii and Thivot were just acronyms for random things in the room when I was creating the characters. Adorfand was a random name generated by WoW when I made a character on my friend's account. Thireburn is again an acronym that I had to twist a lot just so it could be pronounced.

dr_james2k

dr_james2k

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

The Guild of Kings

Me/E

President Monkfish - Monkfish from the british TV show The Fast Show, he's always in charge - so to give him more control I made him a president.
Jimminy Mc Christmas - An exclamation of shock and suprise, coupled with the fact that he is Santa incarnate.
Jimminy Jones - Again, an exclamation of shock and suprise.
Ben Nevis Jr - A novice following in the footsteps of Scotland's highest peak.

Maedhros

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

Qu??bec, Canada

The Dark Aeon Knights

E/Mo

Haha I'm not original at all but all my character's names are from the Silmarillon from JRR Tolkien:

Maedhros The Cursed: Maedhros,son of Feanor greatest of the elves

Curufin The Cursed: Again same from above.

Maglor The Cursed: Again same from above.

Olorin The Grey: Olorin is the real name of Gandalf, he is assigned to
Manwë i think. A Mayar.

Melkor Mindreaver: My mesmer, the name is obvious, Melkor is a powerful Ainur or Valar whatever and he changed his name to Morgoth when Feanor(or some other important elf) named him like that. He's the boss of Sauron only a Mayar.

Minion of Morgoth: Bah my Necromancer the explanation is above.

Beren The Deathless: My monk. Bah Beren isn't really "monkbased" but he is the one who marry Luthien and get the Silmarils back from the crown of Morgoth. He is deathless by the power of the Silmarils.

Beren The Fearless: My monk. Same as above.

Curse of Mandos: May be anyone. Mandos is the messenger from Manwë who cursed Feanor and all his family and all who participated to the killing of the elves between them and all who passed the sea to be in the Middle Earth.(Manwë blocked the way to the elves to get back to their super nice island in the sea. Some elves were forgiven for their tasks in the Middle Earth like Olorin(Gandalf but he isnt actually an elf), Galadriel, Elrond and some others.) Thats why the name of Maglor The Cursed and etc etc etc are named like that; they are from the Feanor's family.

Finfolfin, Feanor, Fingon, Felagund, and some others name i use sometime when i feel like it.

~Maedhros

Ray

Ray

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Denmark

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheMosesPHD
RaybobIndustries? Just checking if that's you O.o
Nah, not me.

Beau Nolan

Beau Nolan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

[Jedi]

W/Mo

Legolas Nolan
My 1st Character after I had just purchased the game I named after watching LOTR...so I made a Ranger and of course named him Legolas....something I would change but he's now my maxed char....Nolan is the last name on all my characters...something to identify me. Nolan is the last name from a character in a series of sci-fi books I read. I use Nolan on all the Forums that I visit. Everyone else's first names were just random male names that I liked.

Lance Nolan - Elementalist
Beau Nolan - Warrior
Derek Nolan - Mesmer

JediKnight

JediKnight

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

A Galaxy Far Far Away

W/R

Update:

Stewbo The Great (E/Mo) - My name is Stewart
Attilla I (W/Mo) - Named after Atilla the hun
Elvira I (N/Mo) - Named after Elvira Mistress of Darkness.

ElinoraNeSangre

ElinoraNeSangre

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Near Seattle, WA

Talionis De Cineris [EXUR]

N/Me

Elinora Ne Sangre - Sangre is pretty obvious; cliche, but it ended up looking cool (sangre is from the latin word for blood). When I'd first played GW, it was during the Factions PvP weekend. I'd created an assassin named Rildran Ne Agrene (I don't know why, it just came to me), and Ne came from that. Elinora... well, for lack of a better way to explain it, I looked at the picture of her and just knew she was Elinora. I'm dorky that way.

My Monk, Imden Salmalda, came from me playing with a random fantasy name generator and fiddling with it until the name fit him.

This site is good for generating names: http://rinkworks.com/namegen/ Usually I have to fiddle with it a lot, but it's good when I need something different than what my brain tends to come up with on it's own.

Csquirrelrun

Csquirrelrun

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

New Zealand

Me/

Monk, Mu Adib- intentional mispelling of the character Muad'dib from sci-fi novel "Dune"

Mesmer, Cahira Aigneis- Warrior pure (Gaelic)

Warrior, Tana Fangatua- Tana after the famous All Black (New Zealand rugby team) Tana Umaga and Fangatua means wrestle in Samoan.

Forgive me if I made a mistake, it was a while ago I made these names.

Phaern Majes

Phaern Majes

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Anywhere but up

The Panserbjorne [ROAR]

R/Mo

Well one day I decided to rearrange the letters of my name to form Majes (guess what my name is :S) Anyways I needed a first name for my char, and just came up with Phaern. I think I choose it cause I like words that have ph and ae combos in them.

HigherMinion

HigherMinion

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2008

East Anglia, UK

Order of [Thay]

N/

My character names are just taken from a list of psychological disorders, no depth and no hidden meaning, although you can make one and work a pun for any name if you wanted. If this thread wanted a "hidden" meaning, it would be all the disorders I've accused my brain of having.

As soon as you throw the word hypochondria in to the mess of names, everything becomes irrelevant.

Daesu

Daesu

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2008

My Dervish name is Aello Bremusa based on Greek mythology.

Aello is the name of a demon harpy whose name means "Stormswift" or whirlwind.

http://wordinfo.info/unit/41/s:a%20llo

Bremusa is the name of one of the 12 Amazonian warriors in Greek Mythology. It means "Raging Female".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremusa

Together they mean "Whirlwind Raging Female". She looks kind of like that as she swings her scythe.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Phaern Majes View Post
Well one day I decided to rearrange the letters of my name to form Majes (guess what my name is :S)
James?

~ Angel ~

~ Angel ~

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2010

Ohio, USA

Slash afk[afk]

That's a hell of a necro post

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

6 of them are named after the Tyrian gods.

Their 'surname' matches the god, and the name a Mythical Earth god.
- W Babd Nic Balthazar.
- R Flidais Di Melandru
- N Hel Grenthdottir.
- Amaterasu Dwaynakin
- Me Maya Lyssandis
- P Nidaba Ibn Kormir

The rest are named after characters in things I wrote.
wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:MithranArkanere#Characters

Whatway

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2011

WTB Q11-13 Str -2e/-2s Eternal Shields

A/Me

Necropost of the Year goes to minion. Nicely done sir.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Shh! Just go along with it, and nobody will notice!

Absolute Destiny

Absolute Destiny

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2006

Oklahoma City

Forgotten Realms [FR]

W/

Sephiro Maximus - Combination of "Sephiroth" (FFVII) and the dude from Gladiator.

Nanami Himemiya - Combination of names of two characters from Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Cecilly Moncrief - I'm an Oscar Wilde fan.

Kristina Asininia - My best friend in highschool plus a nominalized "asinine".

Hooded Vengeance - Wanted a cool name for a Dervish.

Bran Ravenking - I'm a huge fan of Stephen Lawhead's King Raven Trilogy, and Rhi Bran, Bran ap Brychan were both taken.

Martin Cloudfist - All of the Monk stuff reminds me of the sky (by color, shape, etc.) so I figured Cloud-FIST would be cool for a Smiter.

WarcryOfTruth

WarcryOfTruth

Site Contributor

Join Date: Nov 2009

Atlanta

[LIFE]

P/

Silence And Despair - my Paragon (ironic, but I didn't know anything about Paragons upon creation), created after I failed my first midterm in school.

Shield Of The Realm - my Dervish, based on one of my favorite Magic: The Gathering cards, Sustainer Of The Realm.

Im Hard As Rock - my Elementalist, self explanatory name, matching with an old friend whom I no longer speak with.

Cascade Caradoc - my Mesmer, Cascade is a name from a book I read, Caradoc is a knight of the round table.

Those are really the main ones I'm fond of, some may transfer over to GW 2, but not sure

agrios

agrios

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

South America

Naked Stalkers of America[Nude]

W/

I create my toons as characters. All of them have a personal story within Tyria. I like to use names in various languages: ancient greek, russian, english (Proph) chinese and japanese (Factions), arab (for NF), depending on the part of the world they come from.


The meaning of some of them are:

Savagery Undefeated : Warrior
Ice/Cold Princess : Necromancer
Jewel : Paragon
Pious Lion: Dervish
Firstborn of the Greatwest: Sin
Red Lotus: Mes
..

Woman in Heat

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

E/Mo

guess i was just demented when naming chars.

1st. female Ele. -Woman In Heat -was trying to think of a name that would be funny when you click on anothers char-such as "I am following Woman In Heat" and i also thought it went with Nuker(Fire).

2nd. female Ele on other account i named Mutha Naitcha Biach -guess cause the ele uses the four elements Air,Water,Fire,Earth-just like ole mutha nature.

War. Dragun Bonur -Ummm Errr get your mind out of the gutter,he does not bone dragons the way u are thinking- he slays them-not lays them

Necro- D E T N E M R O T - yes that is TORMENTED speld Backerdz

Monk -Billy Bandaid- got idea from term "Billy Badazz" of course i had to think of someting to do with healing so i came up with Bandaid. He is a Badazz Healer.

Female Necro -Hagg Onda Ragg- the action of the necro when the necro rez's minions reminded me of how my old lady looks and reacts when its "That Time of The Month"(PMS) and she has a problem with me not doing something she asked in a timely manner because i am Playing GW. "a Hag on the rag "

Burger Beard

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2010

BBQ

R/

I always get brain freeze when it comes to naming characters:

1. Burger Beard - It was my first character and I wanted something funny.

2. Hotdog Mustache - I thought the combination of meat and facial hair was kinda funny.

3. Bacon Sideburns - Okay... after 3 I changed things up.

4. Shiros Love Child - I love using this toon when Imperial Sanctum is the Z-Mission and right before Shiro gets killed, I yell "DADDY, NO!!!!!"

5. Charr With Guns - Made this in anticipation for GW2.

Relyk

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

W/

  1. Shadow Relyk - Warrior: I use the Shadow prefix because my cat was named Duncan, which meant "Black Shadow" on a baby name site. Relyk is my real name backwards.
  2. Shadow Sapphire - Elementalist: I originally wanted Shadow Ruby because she was a Fire Elementalist, my favorite color is blue and Shadow Sapphire was available. I did try Emerald and Ruby prior, a slight reference to Ocarina of Time.
  3. Shadow Rioc - Monk: Rioc is a word a called up whenever I couldn't use Relyk. I like it because it sounds similar to Riot and Roc.
  4. Shadow Gandiva - Ranger: Gandiva is a legendary bow of a Hindu epic. Look on Wikipedia.
  5. Shadow Cythe - Dervish - Scythe => Cythe
  6. Shadow Knifes - Assassin - Knives => Knifes
  7. Shadow Ellven - ritualist: Ellven is a name used by my brother for his IGNs, Typically Ellven Arrow.
  8. Shadow Zana - Mesmer: Zana Storm was an old friend that was a leader of a guild in the alliance in the early days of Guildwars.
  9. Shadow of Living - Necromancer: Normal abuse of the Shadow prefix.