My character is a Hyr Highlander named John Spiegel. Since they released the naming conventions a couple months back, I decided to give him a Highlander birthname Jnsyn Silversheath, but sometime during his early years he "changed" his name to John/Johnson Spiegel. Going along with Highlander naming conventions, he's also adopted various surnames through his years from his feats in combat. ICly, JJ really doesn't care what anyone calls him... usually saying "Just JJ is fine!"
Nothing says you got to follow any naming conventions. As others have said, if you'd like an IC reason why your character doesn't have a racially-appropriate name, that's cool~!
Nothing says you got to follow any naming conventions. As others have said, if you'd like an IC reason why your character doesn't have a racially-appropriate name, that's cool~!
(06-20-2013, 09:42 PM)Caysen Wrote: It's also worth mentioning that it's perfectly within the lore for people from the races with more unusual naming conventions to change their names to something more general sounding, so that the other races can pronounce them easier. Similar to how people coming to America from Asian countries will often take a romanized name.Sorry for double post, but the changing-for-pronunciation-thing is part of of JJ's name change! (also, it wasn't just Asian immigrants, folks from Slovakia, Poland, Russia.... Europe in general also had their names "Americanized"!)
