(02-23-2015, 12:00 AM)MadWate Wrote: ... once I realized that RPing wasn't going to simply be a passing interest for me, I had to find some way to explain it. I made my character's birth name Bhaldswys, which is Roegadyn for Brave Sister. While she was evacuating from Ala Mhigo at age four, she had this conversation with her guardians:
Quote:"How come the sky isn't closer?
"What, dear?"
"We keep walkin' at the line of the sky, but it don't get closer."
"It never gets closer, Brave. No one can walk to the sky."
"Hmph. Well, I can."
"*laughter* Maybe one day you will brave the horizon."
And so, she became known as Brave Horizon. Yup. That's what I came up with.
 I really love that little story. Roegadyn names have so much meaning wrapped into them there are almost endless possibilities for their origin.
 My first character's name began in a similar fashion. Her appearance was similar to an old Wow character of mine. So I started by looking for a Sea Wolf name that resembled Kinza and wound up with Klynzahr Iyrnahctwyn.
 Her father's name Iyrnahct and her own surname reflects her family's origins as shipwrights and armour smiths. Iyrnahctwyn translates to Daughter of Iron River, and it suits Klyn's heritage well. Her first name is less traditional and ultimately the result of her mother's untimely death.
 "Klyn" was born six weeks early on the first day of the first umbral moon in 1550. Her mother died very shortly after, leaving her father beside himself with grief. When he initially refused to give his daughter a name, one of the midwives remarked "It is well that she is given none. Without a name, he will not grow too fond, and will shed only small tears when she follows her mother."Â
 Although no one had expected the tiny infant to live, she stubbornly lasted for moon after moon without a proper name. Rather than leave her nameless, the women who were caring for her adapted the midwife's first comment into a pet name for the child. Small Tears was translated into the Roegadyn Klyn Zahr, which eventually lead to the name Klynzhar.
 Ironically Klyn grew to embody the exact opposite of her name. She has grown to the formidable height of 7'2'' and approaches life with unquenchable optimism. The only remaining souvenir from her early birth and uncertain start to life, is her extremely poor eyesight that can only partially be remedied by spectacles.
 Over the years she has embraced her odd name and will cheerfully tell any non-roe that it means No Tears or Lack of Tears. She does get defensive when a more knowledgeable character points out that her name is actually masculine, but tries to shrug this off as well.
