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.
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.
