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Jahara Zeppelin

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

England, UK.

Total Limits

E/Mo

21 May 2005 at 17:56 - 1

Hi, I'm wondering how all you guys think of these wonderful names, just randomly ones like:

Neutron Star
Draconus Xen
Zero Hope
Jorge Llorens
Alathys Tylderaan
etc...

List just goes on, I just think names randomly like that are really cool and I just some inspiration ideas for 1 of my own when my CD of GW comes in the post tommorrow (hopefully).

Vynn

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

21 May 2005 at 18:02 - 2

I think they are cool :-)

I usually give my RPG characters a typical RPG firstname and then a suitable last name that descripes his or hers primary profession, ie Wyrm Carcasseater or something crazy like that ;-)

Cragz

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

West Yorkshire, UK

GigaSquadTeam

E/Mo

21 May 2005 at 18:07 - 3

Mental Ellie is an Elementalist (thought that bit'd be obvious), plus I like the name "Ellie".

Angel Delight is one of my favourite childhood snacks!

(I assumed you meant character names, and not forum usernames)

Arran_Pellaeon

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Newfoundland, Canada

R/Mo

21 May 2005 at 18:18 - 4

Arran Pellaeon - A take on a name from Star Wars some people may or may not get.

Matthias Cole - Name of one of the main characters in a story i'm writing. It's also a play on my own name.

Pevil Lihatuh

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Yorkshire, UK

R/Me

21 May 2005 at 18:57 - 5

hehe i tend to play on my favourite series of books

iscworld novels (and anything else by Terry Pratchett)... although I haven't this time! All my characters have the last name Lihatuh (randomly inspired by a friend) and these first names:
Pevil - my main character in any game is always called this, coz its my nickname

Stariana - Elementalist and the "third eye" thing she wears inspired this name... pretty rubbish really lol
Lutze - well this is from Discworld, trouble is the one in the books is male, but mine is female! She's a monk
Gearrik - well he will be a necro/warrior and the name was made up by a friend of mine, but he doesn't actually exist yet so there may well be a sex and name change yet

Adaria

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Florida

Wayward Wanderers

E/Mo

21 May 2005 at 19:34 - 6

Adaria Esuri - E/Mo - Just a name I came up with once upon a time. Original no?

Kea Aero - R/E - I got cheap with the last name on this one, but I like the name Kea, Aero mostly just connecting to her rangerness...

Sahera Mohana - Mo/Me - Went searching for an indian/hindi name for my monk, since most true monks are from the far east or middle east. I just liked the names and thought they worked well together.

Scyleia Asteria - W/Mo - Both are names of famous amazonians. Scyleia means 'leaper' and Asteria means 'of the starry sky' so Scyleia Asteria means 'leaper of the starry sky' Nifteh huh? She's a warrior but I thought amazonians, since they are warriors would fit well enough for a femme warrior name.

Banzia

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Manchester, UK

Soldiers Of Honor

W/R

21 May 2005 at 20:12 - 7

Banzia The Banned - kinda of a joke with my guild mates and friends cause i got banned a few times in swg

Khrysyl

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

21 May 2005 at 20:59 - 8

My comments reflect my preferences only and are not intended to be critical of anyone else's.

I do not personally care for names that are the name of anything else, so for me, Neutron Star and Zero Hope would be out.

I like names though that do have a basis in a real name, and if they sound like something else as well, all the better. For example, I first used Khrysyl for an Orc Mystic in Lineage 2. the name came from the real name Crystal and sounds like chrysalis and thistle. I especially liked the veiled symbolism of an evolving warrior spellcaster hinted at by her name.

To me personally, it is more important that I understand the symbolism of a name than that it be so obvious that no one could mistake it. This also leave opportunities for me to add extra detail to one of my character's back stories if or when I see that as important to her development.

SOT

Banned

Join Date: May 2005

East Texas

21 May 2005 at 22:20 - 9

Fatal Kiss - Like the kiss of death from her arrows

Sir Typhoid - Fighter who WILL become badass

Aetherfukz

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

My own private hell

none

E/Mo

22 May 2005 at 05:33 - 10

I usually always try to get some names that don't sound like our common tongue (be it german or english or whatever) in fantasy RPGs. Although most of the time they got some inspiration from the Lord of the Rings... we'll you can only learn from the master ^_^

My character names include (some chars only made it thru 2-3 games of PVP, then got deleted to make space for another):

Alamos Undomiel, Messina Kaitos, Aether McLoud, Kitsune Torinasu, Valar Sauron and so on...

Juhanah

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

in my house

22 May 2005 at 10:31 - 11

Nice names. I personally wouldn't use Zero Hope and Neutron Star tho.

I usualy use my first name and a random second name. Or i use Gods name from the Norse mythology with their Hall in Asgard as second name.. Such as my elementalist "Freya Sessrumnir".

I have trouble chosing a name. Last character i created, i spent no less than 45 minute in the creation screen thinking about a name.. That's mainly why i just use my first name.

I did the same with my guild.. After 1 hour, i ended naming my guild after a reggae song just to see if the name would be too long.. so now my guild is named "Zoungouzoun Gougouzoungouzen" .. Most of my guildmate want me to change it lol.

CatLady

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

No. Calif

22 May 2005 at 11:10 - 12

I have this big, fat, 'unusual baby names' book on my shelf...

...or I use descriptive terms as names, when in a hurry/too lazy to think of something less elegant/cornball, aka Raven Windcaster

...or I take names from films/books/games that I liked, altering their spelling quite a bit, and mixing and matching last and first names. I've used 'Trania' (and varations of it) a lot, which was an alien drink in an episode of original Star Trek.

sybban

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Beaufort Fun Park

I don't remember the guild name

Mo/W

22 May 2005 at 17:36 - 13

Ms White: Mo/W20
Sir Wiggles W/N18
Sybban Dahk:R/E20 (Soon to be deleted, not really happy with ranger)
Ms Singe: E/Mo8

I'm not really big on names

C-Tzar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

North AL, USA

E/Mo

22 May 2005 at 20:55 - 14

Any names that come straight from any movie, TV show, book, game, etc. (especially popular ones) just leave a bad taste in my mouth, but I'm just cranky like that. My RPG character names are generally word plays that could sound like regular fantasy type names but often have to be read aloud to "get" them and I generally try to make them in some way fitting to the type of character. In this game I have:

Jennis Idol - my nuker
Sensei Shanull - my asian-looking, sword-weilding warrior
Imac Oolgai - my friendly healer
Mark Twang - my archer and his huge, crazy chicken sidekick (Pollo Loco)

For the record, "Imac Oolgai" (gai pronounced like guy) is one a friend came up with MANY years ago (before macintosh computers existed) and I just loved it so much I've been ripping him off since. And "Pollo Loco" (literally "Crazy Chicken") was the name of a crappy mexican restaurant I went to once in Houston when I was a kid, but it just seemed so perfect. The rest are mine, though.

d4nowar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Mo/

22 May 2005 at 21:01 - 15

Keyboard Commando. in the movie "hackers", the plague calls them Keyboard Cowboys, and i thought commando was better. my other character is a female mesmer named "man man man man man". and i'm a guy. i just wanted to make it clear to the people that didn't know any better.

Kirb

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2005

22 May 2005 at 21:18 - 16

Kirb Anima. My online nickname is always Kirby, and 'Anima' means 'breath' in greek. =P

Draconus Xen

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

11 Jun 2005 at 03:46 - 17

Wow, my name is up there. I dont know if it came from somewhere else first, but Draconus is the name of one of the main characters in the book I am writing right now. My ranger Xantara Xen (yeah I am bad with last names) is the other main character in the book. Heh, even my guild name, Keepers of the Dragon Gems, is the temp name of my book.

Padre

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

Dragon Eye

Mo/W

11 Jun 2005 at 03:58 - 18

To make things easy for my guildies to figure out who i am (and because i'm uncreative) all of my characters are named "Alanya the" something. For instance, Alanya the strong for my mo/war protection/smiter, and "Alanya the trickster" for my PvP mesmer/necro

Ollj

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

11 Jun 2005 at 09:09 - 19

Your nick MUST contain the terms "Monk" and "Tank" or nobody will ever take you serious !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VoDDe

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

11 Jun 2005 at 13:11 - 20

Alatheia I - E/Mo ( Greek godess of Truth )
Panakeia I - Mo/Ra ( Greek godess of Healing - actually it's Panacea )
Mnemosyne I - Wa/Ra ( Greek godess of Memory & Mother of the Muses )
Okypete I - Ra/Me ( a Harpy - actually it's Ocypete )

All female characters ..
I don't like having a last name for my chars,
so I just put an I as last name

( Roman Numeral )

first I was going to make a male Warrior, and name him "Atlas I" ( a Titan ) , but I changed my mind ..

Principa Discordia

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

England.

11 Jun 2005 at 13:21 - 21

I currently play a monk/warrior named Sister Jalena. Jalena itself means "light", and it's a name I've used in a number of RPGs.

Other names I tend to use include Eudora Euridice (Eudora = Honourable Gift, Euridice = Justice) and Axis Kast (no real meaning, just a name I like).