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RE: Meaningful names - Kattoki - 10-29-2015
Originally my character was a Miqo'te named Katsu Toko, A sort of play on words with Cat being in her name, but it wasn't really meant to be meaningful at all.
Rin Qestir is a little more meaningful, Rin being the japanese name for "Bell" or the sound of a bell. Which is an odd name for a Auri who cannot speak. So in a sense, Rin is a silent bell of sorts. And I always thought that was a bit of a cool little thing about her name.
RE: Meaningful names - Kellach Woods - 10-29-2015
THE ORIGINS OF KELLACH'S NAME.
First, I looked up a unisex name - Kelly fit the bill. However, Kelly as a "medievalish" name? Nah son. I wanted to show that regardless of their standing - the land where Kell came from was still relatively backwater. So I attempted to reverse-engineer the linguistic evolution of Kelly which went something like :
Kelly > Kelley > Kelleh > Kellah > Kellak.
The ch is just to make the written portion look good.
Woods was just timed to have a last name like thing, except I wanted to avoid the pigeonholing usually associated with the occupation names (Smith, etc.) to show the fact that they have to perform multiple tasks on the farm in order to survive - instead concentrating on where the family originated (Woods, Rivers, etc.) as possible last names.
RE: Meaningful names - EkheiBalduin - 11-01-2015
Ya know, I never really think about things like that. I just kind of fart around with names until it fits. I became curious about the surname I chose for E'khei after reading everyone's posts, though.
E'khei is just Miqo'te naming convention stuff ... BUT ...
Balduin or Baldwin is Anglo-Saxon and Old German in origin. It means "bold friend". So, something like E'khei the Bold Friend or something. Eh ... it fits in certain scenarios.
RE: Meaningful names - Momoka - 11-02-2015
Therese I named after a french saint, all my elezen have french names that I like. Her full name is Therese Celeste Orycia, and Theresa (or therese) is my favourite girls name hands down. Celeste is  my second favourite. IDK what Orycia means, I didnt make it up, this character was made to be a family member to my SO's main. Luminous Moon was named after the fact that shes stark white, with blue hair and white eyes. Also the Moon is my favourite thing ever.
And Lothaire is just a very masculine french name. His surname is Beauchemin, the surname of my close friend from Quebec.
RE: Meaningful names - K'nahli - 11-02-2015
(10-29-2015, 04:12 PM)Bearclaw Wrote: I just looked around my room and saw my half-eaten breakfast bearclaw danish and named myself after that. Better than stapler I guess.
Saga just because it was an old norse girls name I liked that still has modern usage as a word.
Dragoon got named after my favorite character in Wakfu, Evangelyne and a video game I liked a lot, Recettear.
Seseto Seto was just named after Seto Kaiba because that's her gimmick.
My eyes immediately went looking under your avatar in search of: Half-eaten'Danish Bearclaw ;
With exception to Hyuran names and parallels for the same race in other games which are obviously based on existing ones, all of mine are simply made up in my head after taking some time to sample various sounds, haha ; That's why I was secretly annoyed to see names bearing a striking resemblance to K'nahli's. (Q'nahli, anyone?) *fumes* !
In this case of my lalafel whose name is supposed to rhyme in according with the lore, I deliberately choose something that sounded fruity like a drink and somewhat cute!
RE: Meaningful names - Kurt S. - 11-02-2015
Kurt Steel, well yanno...i mean Steel because eventually it was just hard to break him. Or rather it looked that way but he had beem broken into a variety of pieces.
Eventually, just like how you can work to shape steel into whatever, he sort of just became 'fluid' in a sense. There was no real him but rather just following the mold he was previously left in. Only a scant core traits carried over each time he was asked to don another form, name and be another person.
Nah was because I just finished binge playing FEAwakening. Amariyo because well...the generator said so. Eventually some people just blended the name and came up with something like Namaryo.
All the other names I came up with either had their first names predetermined. Francesca, Ramomo, Batu, etc. Then took the first thing the generator shoved in my face.
Then there was Kihl. U'kihl Tia/ Kihl Amalle. Back then I thought it was witty making it sound like kill em all.
RE: Meaningful names - Cliodhna Eoghan - 11-02-2015
names usually take awhile for me. like most that already replied; i tend to look at the character that i'm trying to flesh out and give a name that goes with at least once aspect of them.
granted, when i first first made clio; she was briefly in another rp (forum based but typical/open generic fantasy setting) when i brought her here; her father was vastly influenced by gradania lifestyle and ignoring naming customs for highlanders; named her himself (to her mother's disdain...)
cliodhna (pronounced "KLEE-u-na" ) Possibly means "shapely" in Irish Gaelic. In Irish legend this was the name of a beautiful goddess. She fell in love with a mortal named Ciabhan and left the Land of Promise with him, but when she arrived on the other shore she was swept to sea by a great wave.
being the typical doting father type, newlyn was overjoyed to find he had a little girl and wanted a pretty sounding name for her. something delicate and sounding to fit a poised lady.
eoghan (pronounced "YO-in" ) Possibly means "born from the yew tree" in Irish, though it is possibly derived from EUGENE. It was borne by several legendary or semi-legendary Irish figures, including a son of Niall of the Nine Hostages.
like his own name, newlyn adopted a different last name than the one he had prior to leaving Ala Mhigo so naturally; he passed that along as well instead of the more traditional concept of letting cliodhna pick her own last name when she came of age to do so.
actually her name has been a minor source of hangups for her ic. she's rather picky about who gets to call her "clio" and up until the wedding rolled around, she was having a hard decision on changing her last name to "mynhier" or leaving it as it was; she finally came to a decision and has gotten a tad more relaxed about who can call her clio but it's still not an open nickname for anyone (ic, ooc i don't care xD)
RE: Meaningful names - Cailean Lockwood - 11-02-2015
Vachir means Thunderbolt and was picked from a list of Mongolian names. As I found out, it can be both male and female, as most of those names on said list. I just thought it sounded cool. ^^
RE: Meaningful names - Zelmanov - 11-03-2015
Orrin from greek origins means "Man of the Mountains" which is fitting since he was picked up from the wreckage of a razed town in Coerthas and adopted, essentially a child born of the mountain, akin to Moses being "drawn from the river"
Halgren comes from gibberish I put together, meant to mimic old elezen names akin to Thordan or Haldrath. I only found out LATER that it is a name in scandinavian countries (Hallgren, Halgren, Halgrin) and has no real meaning
RE: Meaningful names - Ignacius - 11-03-2015
I sometimes work backwards. Â A good example was my WoW character.
I originally pulled a series of orcish names, intending to have a Night Elf that was aligned with the Horde (I was younger then). Â I came up with the names Zumok and Zotaga. Â I combined them into Zumoktaga and called it a day. Â I transferred servers a few times, adding character traits and retconning my cheesier backstory and ended up making his name a lynchpin of this evolution. Â That Zumoktaga was a Fel Night Elf, created as a sort of joke by the Burning Legion in Kalimdor as a baby after the rest of his family was murdered. Â He himself grew into a sort of roaming monster, one that terrorized later Horde members. Â Even the humans who eventually captured him and broke his bloodlust knew him by the Orcish name they gave him, Zumok Taga, which I said in the Orcish language translated to Devil Face. Â He then used that nickname, Devilface, as a callsign when working with his airborne military regiment (he was an Alliance paratrooper).
Orleans actually worked forward. Â I didn't have much personality, but I picked the name from a French language site (I didn't like the randomly generated names). Â Ignacius was the name of my character in FFXI, also taken from a name site. Â Since I didn't have much to go on at first, I used a sort of New Orleans take to make him. Â He turned into a gambler of good dress and polite, if seedy, mannerisms, with a tribal religion behind him. Â That later went on to spawn my little FC my friends and I use, the Ghost Wolf Dancers (the tribe) and his later career as a smuggler and general criminal background.
RE: Meaningful names - LadyCleriseaux - 11-03-2015
I love getting in-depth about names! Usually it takes me a couple of hours and lots of scribbling down possible combinations to come up with a good one.Â
Despite the fact that I RP a lore abiding Elezen her first name is Spanish. It is the Spanish feminine form of Noël. That's because I got the game for Christmas. Her surname "Cleriseaux" is a twist on the surname Clérisseau. This comes from the name of the French architect and artist Charles-Louis Clérisseau. I found this through one of friends who happens to be a student of architecture. She just happened to have some work about him, I saw the name and something just clicked.Â
For my Raen I followed the naming conventions as much as I could. Her first name Izayoi can be translated at "16th night" or the night after a full moon. I liked the moon connotations and 16th is her IC birthday so it fit her perfectly. For her last name I did a bit of research in to more traditional Japanese names. I tried incorporating something that would make her whole name mean something but it didn't really work that way. I settled on Fujiwara which means 'Wisteria Plain' and it links to her homeland where a tree similar to wisteria grows perennially. It's also the name of the greatest clan in the Heian period of Japan. I intended her family to be quite important in their little village.
RE: Meaningful names - TheLastCandle - 11-03-2015
In 1.0, I played "Teveriel Anduin." It's a name I've used in several MUDs and MMOs over the years for various "elf" like characters. Teveriel isn't inspired by anything; I actually thought of it on the fly when trying to come up with a name for an elf. But "Anduin" is a river from Tolkien's Middle Earth.
Here in ARR, I wanted to follow the lore's naming conventions. I took the name "Navarre" from a real-world French surname, more specifically the character Etienne Navarre from the movie Ladyhawke. It's an old favorite.
"Yvelont" actually came from the name generator. I was playing with the name generator, landed on this one, and instantly loved it.
RE: Meaningful names - Zhavi - 11-03-2015
See, I tend to pick names with meanings, but then a month after creation I completely forget what the meanings are. Oh well. At least I can remember what streetrunner means!
RE: Meaningful names - Eliane Dufresne - 11-03-2015
My logic was simple but a bit clunky.
"Eliane" in French means "daughter of the sun". The sun being a star, and Ellie being an Astrologian, well...there you go.
RE: Meaningful names - ChewableMorphine - 11-03-2015
Prepare for underwhelming revelation:
Flynt -> flint -> a rock, also a really plain midwestern farmer name.
Reddard -> Red (Favorite color) + Eddard (Stark, despite me not even liking GoT, I just liked his name a lot.)