A beautiful mind behind a beautiful name

Ashley, I see your point, and I understand. The problem I think is, and why Anet has had to filter certainly groups of words, is because so many idiots run with it when given the opportunity.

Coming into Guild Wars I had mainly just played single player games so I did not really have any history of names. Thus, I had to make up some. I decided to go with the same family names for my characters to give them some continuity and relationship rather then just a buncho of "toons" that I could care less about.

Tyria
Xenophon Ualtar N/Me - Xenophon is greek for "Strange Voice" and Ualtar is a form of Waltar. "Xeno" was my first GW character and I wanted a dark sounding name since he is a Necro. So I looked through a name book for the perfect combination of names and that is what I came up with. In fact, I like it so much that I have begun to use the name for other games too.

Saiki Ezekiya M/Me - I created Saiki soon after GW came out and in my mind he was going to be a monk like they are portreyed in Kung Fu movies. Therefore, I gave him a Japanese name. Little did I know that Monks are healers and that Smiting skills are not hitting but ranged moves for the most part. So he became a healer but I still like the name even though he never became a smiter.

Waldemar Ualtar W/R - Waldemar is German for "Mighty, Famous". I went back to the Ualtar family name with him. I picked Waldemar because it sounds fun loving to me. He is supposed to be sort of a big lovable dope that likes to smash things, especially bugs, with his hammer.

I also had a R/W named Sheena O Shea and a Me/E named Zygmunt Necarios that I deleted.

Cantha

Zahara Ualtar Rit/E - Zahara is actually a Arabic name but I like the sound of it. In my mind it is a very soft name and to me that fits with her being a Ritualist. It goes with the flow of the moves when she does her skills.

Ryo Ezekiya R/A - I decided that I needed another Ezekiya for this character and so I gave her a Japanese name. I know that Ryo is pretty common and I usually use uncommon names but I like the flow of it and the sound.

I have a theme going on. All of them end in Starlite..
Arwen Starlite - W/M
Adnil Starlite - E/M (Wife's Name is Linda)
Astra Starlite - R/E
Alexa Starlite - A/Rit
Aurora Starlite - PvP Assassin

My other copy of GW is based on Charmed.
Prue Whitelighter - 55Monk
Phoebe Whitelighter - Storage
Paige Whitelighter - PvP Ranger

Some cool names out there always wondered how folks came up with them..

Elementalist :: Miss Temptress account 1
well.. on the side of my computer tower.. i have a bumper stick that i got long ago when i bought something for my car online that read "temptress on wheels" so.. yeh >.> thats where i got that. lol ;D

Mesmer :: Ms Femme Fetale account 1
well.. femme fetale was taken.. but isn't that name just well suited for a mesmer? ;o

Monk :: Faithful X account 1
i originally had Miss Faithful, but then it sounded a bit redundant from my elementalist.. so i just put a X instead :x

Necro :: Tainted Touch account 2
well fitted for a necro, no?

Ranger :: Destinys Desire account 2
was listening to a song i have called destinys desire (by a korean singer) and i was out of ideas so i just used it ;d

Warrior :: Im So Cute account 1
this name was originally my pvp slot, which was usually a monk, and it well suited her. then i decided to make a warrior, didn't wanna give up the name. so i had no choice to name my warrior this. i've gotten a handful of compliments on this name on my way through ascension and RoF. lol

Elementalist :: Scarlet Kiss account 2
name was just random name i drew up, was originally my FPE ritualist, but had to delete her cuz no more FPE x.x and i used the name on my elementalist.

Ritualist :: Petite Charat account 1
another pvp slot for a monk, decided to make a ritualist had no choice to name her this. ;p google it if you dunno!

Assassin :: Soco Krystal account 1
after the drink Southern Comfort, krystal cuz i <3 krystal (pretty name/word). commercial was on tv when i made it. so yeh >.>

all my names are pretty straight foward, and somewhat related to what class they are. :P
i r not that creative to make out unique names out of teh blue? T-T

Well ill chalk my names up to being completely unoriginal

My name is nate.. all my friends call me N8 or Neight or Neighto

so due to my unoriginality all of my chars have neight in the name in someform or another. (being a guild leader it makes it much easier for all my members to know whos talking with out having to press G and see who i am lmao)

my chars are:

War/mo Neighto the mad
Mo/Nec El Neighto
R/Mo Neight O
Mes/nec Neighto das Kopfweh (just so ya all know the last part is german for The headache)
sin/mo Neight Ette A.K.A Neighto the Storage Unit
Nec/Mo Darkmistress Neight (picked a female char here as the males look like drug addicted goth kids)


so there ya have it..

My first character was and is
Ciandra Trushot, I really thought that sounded archer-ish. Then I find someone like 4 or 5 quests in that has the last name of Trueshot.
Second there is my Warrior/necromancer, Her name is Arnis Fireforge. The I made up Arnis, but stole the last name from a dwarf in one of my favorite book series.
Then came My only male character, Lortan Spellslinger, Lortan, was thought up on the fly. He is a mesmer/elementalist, so Spellslinger seemed to fit.
Recently I started factions, I made a monk and a necro. I decided to make them related, we have the monk Liandra Bronwen, and the necro Sylphus Bronwen, I havent gotten around to writing a history about them but they are either gonna be sisters, or distinct personalities. (since they cant be in the same party so when one is around the other isnt.)

Criminally Sane... Guy who's sane enough to recognize that laws aren't necessarily representative of moral systems that he can personally support, who is actually thinking about what he want his moral system to be. A guy willing to risk breaking laws in order to abide by his own moral system.

Kar Ach Tur... Well, when you make a new char at 3:40 in the morning... <.<

Alcoholic Zombie... Refers to a few personal downfalls from the past. Drinking + not sleeping = bad, mmk. Mmmm, college.

Faaaa Therrrrr.... Arguably, DW5's best line. ;p

Anastasia Bhronn (Mo/X)
Marianna Bhronn (As/X)
Catarina Bhronn (E/X)
Baethory Delandir (N/X)
Teirin Delandir (R/X) and her pet pig, Lunchbox (logical name for a walking bacon sammich)

The surname Bhronn comes from a set of short stories written some time ago, and others in development. The surname Deladir hails from a series of short stories (and 3 novels in the works) set in a fantasy RPG MUD created and operated (and books co-written) by a good friend.

And the odd one out:
Leigh Onme (W/X) simply because she looked like all that and a bag of chips when I finished "designing" her, and well.. I felt like it.

If we were allowed to use one word names, I'd have a character named Obastable, simply because it's the alias I came up with 20+ years ago (anyone remember the internet on a C-64?!) and have used everywhere since. If you find an "Obastable" registered somewhere there's a 99.99999% chance that it's me.

QFT, with sadness.

Why there seems to be so many people determined to ruin a good thing is beyond my ken, but it wearies me nonetheless.

On the other hand, it's somewhat gratifying to see so many people who do seem to be interested in gaming for more than stats or gold or "pwnage."

Just because people have well thought out names doesn't mean that their primary reason for playing isn't one of these things. btw, don't ever put pwnage in quotation marks again...

I base my names from Dragon Lance.

Takhisis-W/Me The Queen of the dark
Huma Dragonbane-W/MO The truest paladin of all
Tanis Halfelven-R/ME Hated by his people but had a strong bond with his friends
Raistlin Majere-E/ME The greatest mage to ever walk Krynn

I have 2 characters at the moment, and I always try to come up with good names for them.

My primary character, with which I have played for almost a year now, is called Enkido Lycanfang. I have no idea why I came up with Enkido... When I make up names, the first name is always self-invented, but I have a friend who told me Enkido is also the name of a mythical Babylonian wildman. Anyone know anything about that?

Lycanfang, I don't really like. First off, I wanted something with wolves and nature but it ended up Lycanfang, which stinks. My new idea Feralfist sounds better in my ears but I can't change my name so, meh.

My secondary character is a Ritualist, Chandril Soulcaller. I'm pretty happy about her name. Chandril sounds good and fantasy-ish and Soulcaller is simply a reference to the fact that she summons spirits.

Normally, the last names of my characters refer to the role my characters, or their families, would have (I know, I RP too much). You know how people are called Smith? A person was a smith so his name ended up being Smith, atleast in the middle ages.
I try to do the same thing with my characters. My monk's (I delete her and revive her constantly because her looks never fit my taste) second name is always "Bladehalt"; reference to stopping enemy swords. This sounds good too, I reckon.

My names always reflect my characters RP role; it's an RPG so I think they should have names that could work in an RP.

Enkido is the other character in the story of King Giglamesh, he was his freind and companion, he was planted in the wild by the gods to be equal to Gilgamesh. It is also the Japanese word for "orbit".

The story of Gilgamesh is considrered the oldest writen story.

Got to love Google

Here are a couple places I get my names from:

-Make them up
-Name generators (usually take too long and aren't worth my time)
-Wikipedia: I searched up the Xmen and combined Sabretooth's first name Victor with a lesser know Xmen's code name Wolfsbane for Victor Wolfsbane. Stuff like that. I also look up stuff on villians.
-Babynames.com, yeah yeah but it works. Has a list of meanings next to the names so you can get the right story behind your name.
-Searched medieval names: gives list of popular names of that time, first and last.
-Tweak letters of real names, i.e. William might be V'illam.

You get the general idea. Thats what I do usually.

Whoa. Didn't mean to tread on anybody's sacred cow with the "pwnage" thing. Sorry, but I refuse to bow to "leet-speak" in any way, shape, or form; I'm not about to start.

As for the actual comment, I was not solely referring to this thread, but to many gamers in general, some of whom self-represent very well in the Guru forums. Sure, there are lots of exceptions. I was merely indicating my feelings towards a specific group.

I'll be the first to admit I'm not very creative in naming.

On my first account, I named all my characters after women artists (mostly dead ones).

On my second account, after artist's subjects or literary characters. (My ranger has a bird named Moa Lisa.)

It IS gratifying when people recognize them. I had one person whisper me one day that I stole the name they really wanted. (Rrose Selavy)

In a way, I wish I were a man in real life, to use that name. (Google, you'll see why )

Plak Band....dutch name for scotch tape .
Took this name because i don't like fantasy names or most other names.

Plaku Bandu
Japanese variation i came up with after watching some japanese show on the internet once. They were shouting stuff, so i tried to pronounce my name like they would: PLAKUUUUU BANDUUUUUUUUUUUU. Really funny if you shout it a few times .

Neus Haar
-> nose hair.
Whaaat???

My first IGNs are probably pretty obvious. Being a hopelessly creepy goth chick, I took "Sister Mercy" from the band Sisters of Mercy, but it's also an inside nickname that I'd had from earlier. The next 2 characters followed along the Sister theme ("Sister Sin," "Sister Sinister" -- I wanted "Twisted Sister," but it was taken ), and then I stopped that after some guild was mandating the use of Sister names and everyone assumed that I was part of it.

Of my recent characters, my monk was a smart-@$#ed snip at people who were always complaining about Factions changes and whatnot ("Crimea River"). And my ranger ("Kay Challis") comes from one of the few comic books that someone was actually able to get me to read and really like (bonus points to anyone who guesses it). It's also a name which that author borrowed from Yeats ("Kay" originally having been "K." and "Challis" being an allusion to chalice, or the Holy Grail).

My kitty's name is also probably obvious: Cheshire.

Tips of the hat to Tobin Spirit Guide / Egon E Spengler, Hammered was Kvan, and the Moa Lisa.

My warrior carries a nick from a legend in the elders scrolls.

St Nerevar

It is been told that indoril Nerevar was a legend and a general who died at the red mountain at Vvardenfell in the district of Morrowind.

It is also been told that the reincarnation of Nerevar, Nerevarine would face the false gods and bring peace to Morrowind.

Hence my 2. war is called St Nerevarine

my newest pvp character's name is ruhig krieger which in german means quiet warrior. and guess what profession he is? thats right assassin/warrior. most of my other characters are named for what i feel at the time or thinking about

my chars name is unda dawg cuz its spelled gangsta and is a cool name

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oh...yeah i'm joking

I kind of cheated, but I searched Kay Challis on Wikipedia and she belongs to the comic books Doom Patrol. Kind of interesting, Doom Patrol seems extremely similar to the Xmen, but are supposed to have a unique twist to their team. Cool stuff, I'll be expecting those bonus points in the mail.

I personally enjoy sprinkling my characters names with little meanings or references- some obvious, most appropriate, some not so much

Merun Mitis Mo/E
She Who Forgets Rt/Me
The Vanu Curse N/W
Jebediah Bullfrog Me/R
Funky Billy Chin A/R

I mostly do PvP, and my PvP name is Beneath The Mire, after the Opeth song. But somebody took the name while I didn't have the PvP slot used, so now I go by I Mire I or something containing 'Mire'. >:|

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

I was only joking leet-speak is more tongue-in-cheek than anything else, I've never seen anyone use it completely seriously. I've never seen anyone respond to it seriously either, until now :P

Fallot, I am truly (sheepishly) sorry. I was way over-the-line with the tone of my reply, and it was certainly not fair.

I know of more than a few folks who take their "leet-speak" a trifle more seriously, or who use it in a more elitist manner, and it aggravates the heck out of me. Sadly, a consequence of that is that I tend to over-react a bit much. (Yes, I know it's silly to get bent out of shape by something so trivial; I can't help it!)

I apologize profusely.

Well my first character got named Deanna Frost for some reason, later I thought I should put "Frost" in all of my future characters' names as well. Mostly they've been normal names, but the latest character got named Grand Arbiter Frost, a slight nod towards the british metal band Bal-Sagoth.

Kainui is my middle name, so I pretty much RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO that out there as much as possible along with Nevets and Iuniak. They're part of my name backwards, the last two are anyway. I try to have a good hidden meaning.

Like Harry Beamis. Do you know who he is? He's the character of the person in the twilight zone who had thick glasses and they fell off his head and broke and he was the last man alive from a hydrogen bomb because he read so much and was in a bank safe.

I tend to choose names based on professions or characters of my own creation. My main charrie, Ninetail Trickster, for example, is a mesmer. Hence, the pseudo-kitsune theme seemed appropriate. More recently, I've cycled (and recycled) through various characters, all named according to their build. ('Heavy Chainer', for example, has been my most recent tried/deleted. Warrior/Ranger. I'm not explaining my idea; it sucked. xP)

Yep, actually I'm not even sure that ppl had surnames before official census came into being, and then they simply took surnames from their occupations (i.e. smith, thacher, hunter) or even personal traits.

All my names are RP too, I'm afraid...

These names have a suspicious lack of "pwned u" and "lolz" in them!

One of the most amusing names I saw was some battery necro called "Energizer Bunny"

well where do i begin

Tarn Vedre- my warrior - hehe scifi name of the planet dillin hunt came from

Mia Temaro- my monk- not sure where her last name came from just popped in my head when i made her

Min Mai - ranger- another scifi name the girl from the robotech series

Rachel Jen- ele- named her after my neices

Shin Mia - my assasin- just seemed right when i made her

Kia Temaro- my other monk- well named her like my other

thats my first account

Flash Gordan - my warrior- well hes a runner mostly hehe

Tira Fleshcrawler- my necro- well they seem to go together

Tira Devine - my mesmer- lol

Little Healling- my 3rd monk- shes a 55 monk so the name says it lol

I tried IWAY once with a PVP character named 'Baz So Ashamed'

All Is Not Forgiven - MY Ranger
Named after a line in 1 of Agnostic Fonts, songs ^^

Fenrir from the name Fenrir Greyback in Harry Potter
+
Whitefire from Bonfazz Whitefire the charr army leader.
=
Fenrir Whitefire

I've noted that you can usually spot an IWAY team a mile off simply by reading their names. The leader of the group is almost invariably a 'Lord' something or other. The trapper's titles generally contain the word 'Trap' or a variant, in case you weren't already aware of their role. The tainted Necro will also give his proffession away by placing 'Tainted' somewhere in his title, often suffixed by one or more x's; e.g. X Tainted X , Xx Tainted Xx, etc.

And for the record, the most delightful and witty name I have seen so far is 'Smelly Poo Poo Bum.' Genius..

ROFL...Smelly Poo Poo Bum!

Well, my PvP name is Evil Muffinator.

My warrior is...Dare Devil

My monk is...Monk of Bliss

And, my ranger's name is...Silent Barrage

I think they are pretty nice names, what do you guys think of them? My PvP name is just...Relates to muffins because Blueberry Muffins taste so good.

These are the names of my chars:

Warrior = Lardazz Buu... from my favorite char in DBZ

Monk = Dr Of Proctology... because I heal aholes. I get a lot of comments about this name.

Necro = Minion Boss... this is my MM

Ele = Storage Bln... shes a mule

Rit = Coco The Moo Cow... no idea why i picked this name

Scout Master Syra (Ranger)

- derived from the npc Master Scout Kiera in Henge of Denravi. Syra is the name of a special girl.

Violent Syra (Warrior)

- loves blood bath, violence, in-your-face smash smash.

Lets Go Bowling (Assassin)

- i just want an upbeat name for a female assassin. and coincidentally, when it runs, it assumes the "bowler stance".

Tom Cruise Jr (Mesmer)

- Maverick of Top Gun, Ethan Hunt of MI series, ex wife of Nicole, father to Suri, Scientologist, couch hopper. made during the betas and was chosen coz i ran out of names to give to a mesmer. Tom Cruise was taken way back then so i put the "Jr".