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Layonara is so much more than a game. We started off as a tabletop Dungeons and Dragons campaign more than a decade ago. Since then we have developed into a fantasy world with as much compelling and engrossing detail as you will find anywhere.
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#1 | | Lich Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fort Mill, South Carolina
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|  Names, Where Do They Come From?
 Title says it all. We have a lot of weird forum and character names out there, so lets here how you thought em up. (Bound to be something interesting in there)
ZeroVega- Zero was the name ofÂa character in the Megaman X game series. Always liked him cause he was a sword's man so I picked that. Then Vega is one of the first stars I learned about in Astronomy and when I first heard of it I thought it was the coolest thing so... Vega.
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#2 | | Giant Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Denmark
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Destropterammer. Well the name came to me in a class some years back. My old nick used to be Destructo, but that got too used around the internet etc. so i took that, along with the CPU Opteron and Clawhammer and TADAA! DESTROPTERAMMER | | | | |
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#3 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Las Vegas
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
I just removed the vowels. | | | | |
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#4 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Denmark
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
The name of my first NWN character. An elven ranger on the Battledale server. | | | | |
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#5 | | Beholder Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Milo - nickname, nuff said = )
Athus Dephillie - Both "Athus" and "Dephillie" came from a Korean fantasy novel called Dragon Raja, written in 1st person perspective, really interesting. Athus is the god similar to Toran in that world, and Dephillie is the god that governs luck, I believe. So I stuck them together
Lomir Welteel - random name that came from the NWN name generator
Alfnad - Also came from Dragon Raja, a minor villian wizard that later turned good | | | | |
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#6 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Pontefract, West Yorkshire, UK
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Bilviki....well that was a two fold process. I first made Bil as a rogue when goblins were first allowed on the server. The film Kill Bill had just come out and that inspired me to call him Bil. But I didn't just want him to be called Bil so I tried to think of a way to lengthen it. So he ended up as a goblin rogue called Billick. But it didn't feel right so I remaid him as a wizard and at that time I had a new trainee I had to teach at work and her name was Vikki so the name Bilvikki was born 
Buppi Fallenleaf....well that was a combination of names from the NWN character generator
Other Characters....mostly names or variations of names from books I've read
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05-30-05, 06:38 AM
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#7 | | World Leader Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Boston
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Shadowblade...no idea...maybe a character I had one time...dunno.
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#8 | | Beholder Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Finland
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
IDii? Hmm... Probably from a bottle of vodka or something like that.
Seriously though. ID as in identity. ii as in second. Could be IDII but that doesn't look as cool... Well actually it used to be just ID but I added the ii a while ago when me and some friends of mine had this great idea to add ii to our nicks... So it's IDii then and kinda stayed that way.
Yeah something like that. | | | | |
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#9 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Portugal
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Flamestrike... well what can i say, i'm addicted to NWN... i just added all those 1337 characters to look cool at the time, heh.
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#10 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Ohio
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Owen Lo'Kiar
Owen is a character mention in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. He was a male who was born with a little extra inside of him.
Lo'Kiar is just a play off of Loki. I try to make Owen a little bit of the trickster.
As for my nwn and forum name, Regnus, it is a combo of two latin words. Regius means of a king or of royalty. Regnum means something like power of the king or supremacy or something like that. So I just combined them into Regnus.
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#11 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Rasterick - From the famous Yorkshire Brass Band, The Brighouse an Rasterick Brass Band, because it sounded similar to Raistlin, the sorcerer in the Dragonl Lance series.
Ulver - Many years ago I visited Norway whilst serving in the Navy, a friend wanted to go see the new Kevin Costner film at the time; Dances with Wolves. We told him it was very heavily subtitled, he didnt listen, and spent the whole three hours watching a film with subtitles in Norwegian (Well what did he expect, it was Norway), his commanche was not very good either. I think it was called Danse med Ulv, (forgive my poor attempt at Norwegian).
Maz (Marion) - Name of a girl I knew when I was very young (before colour television).
Reef - A famous knot, O'hagan; a bar I visited in Ireland once. Sold the best pint of Guiness I have ever tasted.
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#12 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Estonia, Tallinn
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Ok let's see...
s0ulz... em actually it's supposed to be s0ul, since that's my nickname. It started from CounterStrike and has sticked so far. The z in the end is because in most popular websites, s0ul is taken as a login name 
Fenrir - Nordic mythologies - means Fire... sounds dwarven to me 
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#13 | | Gamemaster Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Africa
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Aragwen - combination of two names from Lord of the Rings - Aragorn Elessar (arag) & Arwen Evenstar (wen)
Always played with this name in NWN, but when I joined Layonara the name got denied on character submission due to copyright issues.
Jacchri Abianca - combination of four names of my family - my name Jaco (jac); wife Christien (chri); daughters Abigail (abi) and Bianca (anca) | | | | |
05-30-05, 09:19 AM
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#14 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Dec 2004
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Acctually... not to burst your bubble. But in tolkien elvish, wen means child, more often with female connotations.
Talan Va'lash - I completely made this up after thinking about the name of my new character for about five seconds. | | | | |
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#15 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Deep in the Heart of texas
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Pet names for me-sometimes with a kick. Oliver Greystole- a chilldhood cat-Calvin Elenese- one of my dogs with something that began from the generator that sounded Elvish.
Nivlac Nacnud- Calvin(dog) Duncan(other dog)
Etinfall- I have always been a night person. And I have always liked dreams. And I am a litle backwards. Started out as Maerd(dream), then nighteram(Nightmare), then Etinfall(nitefall).
course when I am lazy(alot) it just comes out as Etin. Alot of people call me Ettin though. Guess that is an axe.
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#16 | | The Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Brac'ar Fireface: I used a dwarven name generator and combined two names into Brac'ar I think. Fireface because his face is all burned.
Zaraun of the House of Torlyl: made it using this website http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/vortex...drownames.htmlÂIt means "Shadowdancer of the House of the Mistresses of the Blades"
Sulo Banaka: Don't know where I got Sulo from. Banaka came from Baneke which is an insurance company I had an envelope on my desk from when I was writing his bio. | | | | |
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#17 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Missoula, Montana
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Hmmm, how did I end up Vyris. It is because one day I had a couple friends over having a LAN party and my wife wanted to go somewhere, we were playing C&C, Red Alert I think, mixed in with some Unreal. Anyway, my wife made the comment that I was harder to get off the computer than a virus, so I changed my player name just to make her mad. *I* thought it was funny, SHE on the other hand didn't think so, and ever since every time we change ISP's or something she always signs my account up as vyris@wherever.com. VyrisPoL is just an extension from my previous affiliated with the D2 clan Paladins of Light.
As for character names, I just start typing and see what comes out.
Vyris
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#18 | | Gamemaster Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Africa
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Oops....shows you how much I know about elven language....I know that Ara mean Lord or King but stopped my research there....But it still sounds cool....*smiles*
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#19 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Dec 2004
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| RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
Aran is king
Erain are kings
The prefix Ara- in Aragorn came from Aran
Gorn meaning tree or somesuch (Fangorn, Rhingorn, etc.)
So arwen likely means "Daughter of Kings" | | | | |
