The World of Layonara
The Layonara Community => Just for Fun => Topic started by: ZeroVega on May 30, 2005, 08:44:00 AM
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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 of a 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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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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I just removed the vowels.
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The name of my first NWN character. An elven ranger on the Battledale server.
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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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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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Shadowblade...no idea...maybe a character I had one time...dunno.
225 = I compete in bodybuilding competitions and 225 = competitive bodyweight.
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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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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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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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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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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 :p
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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)
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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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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.
Etin
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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/vortexshadow/drownames.html It 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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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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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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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"
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freemen2: well because I try to live free as much as I can and I'm a man as for the 2...seeing the first always gets killed a horrible death in order to pass-off as a martyr I rather be behind him, it gives me enough time to save my skin by running away :p
Gamespy nick, Loky1: Viking god of trickery the 1 came after I sometimes would manage to log in as Loky and sometimes not...go figure...hmmmm
Pathfinder Anu-pilinn = Pathfinder True-arrow although me Elven be a little rusty ;)
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Thanks Talan for clarifying that.
I obviously need an elven dictionary.
Any good ones that you can recommend that would be relevant to Layo.
Regards
Aragwen
PS if wen refer to child usually female....what would male child be...
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LunchBox was my nickname in school, Every time i was in a wrestling match I was always anouced as the lunchbox, After a horrible accdent that badly injured 2 people in the other car and mortaly wounded a friend who was driving drunk I was dubed the Invincble Lunchbox. I was the only guy that walked out of the car. I tried to stop him from driving but he's... still reflecting. this happened in 99'. Anyways took up First person shooters and played alot of Day of Defeat. I used the name LunchBoxKilla
and known as the LBK on the -{Hj44}- server. My full name is Brandon Harold Killenbeck. Now them LBK and my initals BK. See how it fits? Well i got Killa from my father when he used to take me to work with him at Amtrack. one of his co-workers Called my father the Killer all the time and back in 01' He wanted me to set up an e-mail account on AOL. Well the name was ______Killa (left blank because he still used that Screen name on yahoo). So LunchBoxKilla stuck. it's one word because the darn forum for the -{HJ44}- clan wouldn't let me use spaces and thus the name stuck.
Now for Celgar and His little brother Talon.
Celgar is an off shoot name of the Space Marine Ultra marine comannder Caldar. (huge RP WarHammer 40K fan)
Still follwing me here?
Now for a little truth. Like Foxy I am an anthro guy.Errr I know Foxy your a lass but ermm never mind! ;).
I love the furry and anthro elks. (I'll explane that one for another day to keep this short)
In my old D&D and AOL anthro RP chat days (I no longer RP in chats because it's 100% pointless now because young kids always looking for that 30 paragraph fight) My chars names all ened with Magnus. It means Great in German
Also fits well with my blood line (Killen German, Beck Irish)
Still following me?
Now Talon is my oldest AD&D Char and the "father" of Celgar and Talon JR
So yeah and... Lighting Bolt!
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My forum name Andrios is the name of one of my characters from Talislanta. Andrios is based on a (ancient) Greek word for strength, implying strength of character as well. I forget the original word now.
The name Tha'Azail comes from a name generator (forget which one) according to them it translates (loosely) as dedicated to the giver of life. I think it is fitting and it sounds cool. Neverborn because of his background and I thought it would be a neat kind of ironic name for a priest of Aeridin.
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Karma Virus- the name of my industrial band in Orlando. My isolationist, super concentrated, burning rage at the injustices around me build into a 3x megaton force of pure retribution. Bad things happen to bad people because vigilante psychopath such as I make them happen. Initially it was the name of a Modron in a quest I wrote about mechanus being infected by a computer virus that made all the wee modrons deduce that humanity was too faulted to be allowed to live. The leader of the movement was named "Television", the great seer. I then wrote an electronic song based on the story and it stuck from there.
Lonnarin Rydral- originally the name of the father of my 1st D&D character, I became obsessed with the wood-elf isolationist and naturalistic elite society. In LOA he went the route of ranger->wizard->arcane archer, which put him at odds with his past and eventually had him banished from his tribe in the Great Dale. He is also one of the main characters in a book I've been writing and re-writing for about 2-3 years now, about he and his "half-brother", a half-orc by the name of Zigfried Glammoroth (bowie root) who was raised by wood elves after his mother commited suicide upon seeing that he wasn't her husband's son. Now in Layo, Lonn has been remade as a purist ranger, and far more nature-fanatical than the way I've written him in the past.
Farros Galdor- Farros is both a popular celtic name and the anglicanized version of one of the Goetia demons I believe. Also, similarity to Ferris lent a bit of the fun-loving and slacker aspects of the personality. Galdor flowed well, and rearranged ar-gold... like all the paths to hell are paved with gold. In every incarnation of Farros, his ability to bluff is of chief focus, so the silver-tongue, gold pathed imagery came into it. (initially was a bard/blackguard of Beelzebul)
Brilligimble Gyre Laggerwocky- read the poem of the Jaggerwock and its long string of nonsensical words and you'll quickly find "Brillig" (the act of broiling eggs at noon), "Gimble" and "Gyre" somewhere hidden in the work. I used that poem as the basis for the inventor, as most of the words used in it were pretty much invented themselves. Lag-gerwocky used in particular as he is a chronomancer, ie: lag. I originally had him as an NPC I would spawn on players who complained OOC too much about lag, a short, fat, sweaty sorcerer who crept around invisibly and cast slow, hold person, timestop, etc on players in experimentation. I think Lonnarin 1st used to warn folk on that server of the great Laggerwock, which of course made everybody look at him as if he were insane at the explaination. He's also had familiars named "Furmious Puffy-stuff" "Frubious Jub-Jub" and "The Nefarious Mr. Quimby".
Rakish Feiwallen- John Masefield's quote, "We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull" set the obsession with the name for this pirate. It means dashingly and sportingly sylish, marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness, abandoned, chic, dashing, debauched, depraved, devil-may-care, dissipated, dissolute, fashionable, fast, flashy, jaunty, lecherous, licentious, loose, natty, prodigal, profligate, raffish, saucy, sinful, smart, sporty, wanton & wild. Definitely all words best describing the dread pirate. Also when I originally concieved of him for PnP he was a notorious substance abuser of things like Luhix Powder, Slannesh, Lich Dust and many other performance enhancing vices that led to his burnt out and comparitively frail heroin-chic appearance; perpetually sustaining life but dead on the inside. "Feiwallen" is a play on the words "Fey" and "Fallen-way". Once you get past the madness and the outward mask of indifference and intimidating coldness, there's a tragic sob-story buried deep inside. Others rarely hear it and live though, since he sees trying to find acceptance from others as a weakness.
Gunther Ogden- The long lost child of the barkeep in Mhordiem from LOA. He was sold into slavery to bandits when it was deduced that he was too mentally challenged for a NE father to find value in. He's a normal boy; he just likes to eat grubs.
Bjornigar Ironguts- The manliest, most nordic name I could think of. I've always written him as the grandson of the wizard that invented the Ironguts spell, hence why all in his clan have been born with an extra +4 vs poisons per the poison resistance feat. add in he 20 con and the +2 dwarven facial bonus, and you have a dwarf who can, and WILL eat everything put in front of him. The obsession with the hammer and the nordic name comes from my hereditary viking memories.
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Thunder Pants- came from a quick blurb for pink and the brain where pinky was saying "hi! this is pinky and the brain, or as i call him, Admiral Thunder Pants, we're up next so stay tuned" thought it was kinda funny and it kinda stuck
Lueanne Lightfinger- basically female variation of a male character i played in PnP Luie Lightfinger
Cyrine Skycaller- found the firstname in a DragonLance roleplayering book as a pregenerated PC and the last name i came up with due to her use of primarily lightning spells
Lily- self explanitory
Syclya Amalin- was a rondom generated NWN name that came up and i liked
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Vigg Belber - Vigg comes from the swedish word "Åskvigg", translation should be something like "lightning strike". Belber is a lastname I've used for a few dwarven characters I've played in PnP and on other servers.
Murin - Murin comes from "Mur" (Swedish for brickwall) and added a stylish "in" at the end to make it sound more dwarven.
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The names of my characters all came from me sitting here agonising over the character submission screens, twisting syllables around to see what I could create that sounded appropriate for the race I was creating.
"Maedhras" I later found was a real name - or as real as a Tolkein derived name gets - though as I'd just come to Layo from a Tolkein based Permanent World, I'm not surprised that was what I came up with.
"Ambryn" was a bit of a joke name though. On an RP MUD I spent a lot of time on, I had a very well received dark elven bard named "Brynnam". I was sitting here agonising over the submission thread, wondering what I could call a good, sweet bard (as opposed to a dark, cynical, nasty horror of a bard) when it it me - why not make it the opposite of Brynnam? Take the "am" from the end and stick it at the front and voila - Ambryn. And the name Brynnam originally came from a teenage idol of mine having a daughter named Brynn.
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I try to use a lot of musical terminology in my names. Otherwise I have a few core names that I have always used in all the games I've played. Volrath D'Andareth was a name I came up with on the fly when I played Shadowbane and created a rather offensive original name. I was asked by the GM to change it, and voila, I have a Volrath D'Andareth or a variation thereof in just about every rpg I play.
Scherzo is another one I use, obviously musical in nature, but it's also part of the name of my very favorite Saxophone Quartet, simply called "Scherzo for Saxophone Quartet" written by Warren Barker (Wrote a lot of music for Warner Brothers).
N'Azerimuth is one I like to use also, that came from when I was a Morrowind: The Elder Scrolls addict, and you could create and name your own items. I created a particularly mean sword and tried to produce a name equally as mean sounding and N'Azerimuth came to mind. Also one I use in almost all RPG's.
I sneak in simply "Steven" when I can but it's usually taken.
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Balit- Many, many ages ago, a great Biblical prophet known as Enoch was taken into Heaven by God. Centuries ahead in time, an astrologer and scholar in the court of Queen Elizabeth of England named Dr. John Dee, and the shadowy alchemist Edward Kelley, received the tongue of the Angels that took Enoch into heaven, and also the magickal method to be employed to come into contact with these spiritual beings. The language was labeled "Enochian", in memory of this descendant of Noah.
Okay, it may seem I digressed a little there, but back to the topic at hand. In the Enochian language (Enochian is an actual language. I own a dictionary of it. It has it's own syntax and grammer. Very beautiful language), balit means "just". Audcal is also Enochian, it means "Gold" (I've also seen it to mean "Mercury", which is actually why I chose it as my magickal motto)
Glenhobber- I don't know if any of you have heard of it, but there's an online game known as Utopia, where you create a nation, and forge alliances with others in your kingdom, to wage war against other kingdoms. My nation was known as Knaverton. The lord of Knaverton was Sir Farego Glenhobber the Rogue. I liked the last name, so I decided to keep it.
Oh, also, Frater is a title male magicians and mystics of several occult orders (or, for those who don't affiliate with such, just solitary practitioners of certain occult systems and sciences) gives before their magickal motto (a title a magician gives to themself to represent their Will). Thus, I am Frater Audcal. I have a very good friend who's motto is Frater Sapientia. Aleister Crowley, the famous magician and yogi from the early 1900s, took the motto of Frater V.V.V.V.V. at one point in his magickal career. A female takes the title of Soror _____, such as Soror Iris, or Soror Virakam.
Sorry for the long explanation lol.
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Fenrir - Nordic mythologies - means Fire... sounds dwarven to me :p
Okay, I must first start with an apology, as this is going to sound really...mythologically anal haha. Fenrir, in Nordic mythology, is a very, very bad, big 'ol wolf. He was a brother to....Oh wow, can't remember that much. Anyway, the gods saw his power, and decided it would be best to subdue him, and enprison him. So they tried many things. He broke out of every chain they tried. Finally, they got a dwarf from one of the 9 worlds (Asgaard, Midgaard, Someotherwordthatendswithgaard, Niflheim, Someotherwordthatendswithheim) to create this chain made of wolf urine, balrog tooth, deity spit, Swedish ale, and other ingredients, and asked Fenrir if he'd be so kind as to allow them to chain them up with it. He said, "Hey, yeah, only if one of you sticks your hand in my mouth". So Tyr does it, and Fenrir, realizing he's screwed as he can't break this one, bites good ol' Tyr's hand right off.
To make a long story short, at Ragnarok (means "Doom of the Powers"), Fenrir will break the bonds that hold him, and swallow Odin, to only be killed by one of Odin's children (can't remember whom), and all the gods will live happily ever after, dying one by one, only to be reborn, and start this cycle, this mortal coil, anew. Of course, I'm an ignorant American, and know little of Norse mythology, so anyone who knows more, please feel free to correct me.
Also, sOulz, I'm not belittling you in any way. I'm just a very annoying teenager who thinks he knows it all lol.
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FraterAudcal - 6/5/2005 7:13 AM
Fenrir - Nordic mythologies - means Fire... sounds dwarven to me :p
Okay, I must first start with an apology, as this is going to sound really...mythologically anal haha. Fenrir, in Nordic mythology, is a very, very bad, big 'ol wolf. He was a brother to....Oh wow, can't remember that much. Anyway, the gods saw his power, and decided it would be best to subdue him, and enprison him. So they tried many things. He broke out of every chain they tried. Finally, they got a dwarf from one of the 9 worlds (Asgaard, Midgaard, Someotherwordthatendswithgaard, Niflheim, Someotherwordthatendswithheim) to create this chain made of wolf urine, balrog tooth, deity spit, Swedish ale, and other ingredients, and asked Fenrir if he'd be so kind as to allow them to chain them up with it. He said, "Hey, yeah, only if one of you sticks your hand in my mouth". So Tyr does it, and Fenrir, realizing he's screwed as he can't break this one, bites good ol' Tyr's hand right off.
To make a long story short, at Ragnarok (means "Doom of the Powers"), Fenrir will break the bonds that hold him, and swallow Odin, to only be killed by one of Odin's children (can't remember whom), and all the gods will live happily ever after, dying one by one, only to be reborn, and start this cycle, this mortal coil, anew. Of course, I'm an ignorant American, and know little of Norse mythology, so anyone who knows more, please feel free to correct me.
Also, sOulz, I'm not belittling you in any way. I'm just a very annoying teenager who thinks he knows it all lol.
I must admit that I had to look some of this up, even though I have spent every summer since I was 2 on playing a Viking in an outdoor theatre.
But Fenrir wolf (or fenris) is the son of Loky and Angrboda, it has two siblings midgaardsormen (middleearth snake/dragon/thingy a big monster that reaches around the earth and can bite its own tail) and Hel (leader of the realm of the dead, more specifically those he did not die gloriously in battle). But the chain that was used in order to tie it down wasn't made of Swedish beer, they have a sort of prohibition and therefore very thin ale not suitable for chain making. The ingredients are: the sound of cat pores, women’s beard, root’s of the mountains, fish breathe, and bird spit, put onto bear veins.
At Ragnerok (I think it means apocalypse (now redox)) Fenrir kills Odin, and Vidar (Odin's son) puts his foot in its mouth grasps it’s upper jaw and tears its mouth apart. For this purpose Vidar wears a very thick boot on one of his feet all his life. But the old Nordic mythology is not cyclic at Ragnerok all but 6 gods die, and these surviving gods build a new home for themselves. Similarly 2 humans survive and repopulate earth. In the know sources one of these gods (Balder god of justice) is white and seems to be a bit like Jesus, unfortunately this was written by a monk and it is hard to tell if it is correct.
I'm not a teenager but i still think I know i all. ;)
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My character's name (Dagon Reth) came from morrowind.. i just took the end from the old dunmer fortress Andasreth and the beginning from the village Dagon fel, and combined them. simple yes but im proud of it ^^ other names i made up have come from nowhere (Drethalar). annoying enough people kept calling me "Dragon" in PoA servers suspecting my firstname had a typo x( then, in wow my name was stolen by some stupid lvl 5 orc rogue! and he DARED to beg money from me! FROM ME! ... well, wow sucks anyway lol..
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as I mentioned in the pronunciation thread, Rayenoir came about when I was taking high school french.
Ars Lifbahn was conceived as a necromancer from the start. What is necromancy? Toying with the dead. What do you need to do before you get the dead? Kill something. Ban the Life. Life Ban. Lifbahn. As for the "Ars" part? "Arts of the Life Ban" Take out the t.
Anita Pultz? Not a clue. That was off the top of my head one day.
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Orignally trying to build around my own name, I came up with "Marswipp" after thinking for a short while. "Mars", the first half of my first name; "wi", the first two letters of my last name; and the double "p" does good in rounding it off.
"Carr" is actually a real name, hardly used though.
"Lossëhelin" was created from an Elvish name generator. The root name used was my last name.
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Hmm some of my names go way back, you guys are lucky i only have one char on this server so far or else you'd have to hear stories about half a dozen names i once used being put together :)
Shotgunbunny: an event which alcoholics refer to as "a moment of clarity" while staring at the GTA2 multiplayer menu :)
Duran Dragonslayer: Dragonslayer is the name i use on a lot of not so RP RPG's like Diablo and Duran was the name of the warrior in the game Seiken Densetsu 3 which is (i believe) Secret of Mana 2 for us non-japanese.
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Wow. I just put random letters together and hope they make sense.
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Well ... I was watchng Dr. Quin Medicine Woman .... Just kidding!
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Serissa - I enjoy training bonsai. The serissa is a small tropical tree with tiny white flowers. It grows slowly, stinks when you cut it, and dies if you look at it cross-eyed. Since I prefer bards as characters, the description seems apt.
Ayla Bineau - Ayla is the resourceful heroine of "Clan of the Cave Bear" and sequels which describe ways of life and important inventions in prehistoric Europe, using archeological evidence. I like her.
Bineau - Last name of a neighbor I like.
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Screen name Xerina the femine version of my NWN login name Xerum, a old name from my PnP campaign. It is the wizard that in my world is allot like Elminster only more excessable to the average person.
CHaracter names
Real name given at birth: Seh’spar Ariliaeden (Soft fist Mistress of silver autum)
Called by family: ErN`aer Poldora (One without strength)
Called by village: Aneunyiraw ed kuruni (Touched by the curse) mean
Called by village: Nost en’ Hrive (Born of Winter) nicer
All come from elvish: Some is Tolken elvish some is D&D elvish.
My Orc
As a human I was called Lillian Rodgers. As a orc I go by the name Lirulzk kind of a orc sounding combo of her human name.
Aelayenn Hathwaynn I think I got this from one of the random elvish name generators I use online.
ANd for a good elvish dictionary http://myth-drannor.net/DlabraddathNet/z-Cormanthyr/languages.htm It has D&D elvish and some great links to tolken elvish.
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It is a bit convoluted (as is a great deal of Gaelic myth and legend), but here goes:
Cú Roí mac Dáire is an ancient king of Munster and a sorcerer who could change his form at will. When Cúchulainn, Conall Cernach and Lóegaire Búadach were incited to compete for the champion's portion by Briccriu, Cú Roí was one of those who judged between them. Like all the other judges, he chose Cúchulainn, but Conall and Lóegaire refused to accept his verdict. When the three heroes returned to Ulster, Cú Roí appeared to each in the guise of a hideous churl and challenged them to behead him. Cu Roi would then return and behead each of them in turn. Only Cúchulainn was brave and honorable enough to submit himself to the churl's axe, so he was declared champion.
In exchange for his choice of the spoils, Cú Roí joined Cúchulainn (a pre-eminent hero of Ulster) on a raid of Inis Fer Falga. They stole treasure and abducted Blathnat, daughter of the king of the island, who loved Cúchulainn. But when Cú Roí was asked to choose his share, he chose Blathnat. Cúchulainn tried to stop him taking her, but Cú Roí cut his hair and drove him into the ground up to his armpits, before escaping, taking Blathnat with him.
Blathnat betrayed Cú Roí to Cúchulainn, who besieged his fort and killed him. In one version of the story, Cú Roí's soul was hidden in an apple in the belly of a salmon which lived in a stream in the mountains of Slieve Mish, and only surfaced once every seven years; Blathnat discovered the secret and told Cúchulainn, who killed the fish, enabling him to kill Cú Roí. However Ferchertne, Cú Roí's poet, enraged at the betrayal of his lord, grabbed Blathnat and leaped off a cliff, killing her and himself.
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I just use nwn char creation screen, Generatename... generate name...generate name ooooo that looks good, not to find a good matching last name... generate name... O:-)
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Well, Caelte is a transliteration of "Caoilte," who was a warrior in Finn's band, in Irish pagan mythology. The last name Amargein is a junction of words meaning "song" and "birth." :)
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Forum Name: Faldred -- just a name I've used for years, typically for Elvish characters (one day I will make and submit an Elven character, likely a Bard, with the name Faldred E'Tai
Character Names: Zug -- actually started out in my mind as Rug (pronounced "roog" -- that's supposed to have a carat over the u, but I'm not sure how to do that on the boards), but I was afraid that people would pronounce it like "rug", i.e., the thing on the floor. Variations like "Rhug" and "Ruug" were discared for the same reasons. "Z" was just a random substitute, and I left it as an "ugh" sound.
Aeoleth Ellyn -- made up name from one of my NWN single-player characters, a rogue/wizard/AA
Ruh Zraht-hatubnot -- Orcish, roughly translated as "adopted child of the wolf"
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Hmm , Sounds fun.
Lynn Juniper -- Middle name, Street name
Kailyn Eleishion -- First character, taken from the greek/latin choir songs we always did. basically: Kyrie Eleison (lord have mercy)Well, and Kailyn was the name of my first boyfriend.
Rhynn Saebhel -- Rhynn - Lynn -L +Rh. (I like Rs) Saebhel:
Well, I was in school making the name, so it came out as
*scribbled on a piece of paper* Shay...Say...Sae..Sae..Sae...*bell rings for next class* Saebel. And, because I shove Hs into places they don't belong, and wanted to eventually allude to the fact that this guy made Rhynn's life a living hell, it became Saebhel.
The rest just were made up randomly.
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Stephen Zuckerman is my name. Ayup. That simple. I got tired of going by usernames that doubled as character names, etc. etc... So, I started using something much more separate from any of my characters.
And yes, I'm checking LORE to find all of my characters. XD
Pyyran Rahth: Well, I started off with Perrin, the name of a character from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, and... Well, this way WAY back when I started playing PnP. I had used the name Perrin for lots of my characters before, and decided I didn't want to just blatantly rip the name. So I altered it, and, loving odd consonant/vowels, and doubled letters, it became Pyyran. Rahth I liked because it sounded neat, and had an unnecessary h in there.
Cynn Reyer: I started making noises, and this popped out.
Tyeaan: This is actually the in-game Elvish for Poet.
Lora Fearshield: Lora was from making noises, and spelling it funny, as I like to do. Fearshield I thought sounded nice and strong.
Bjosef Bourne: Another of those fun noises and love of unnecessary consonants.
Barret Glib: I started thinking about Ballistae, which became Barrister, which I found out means lawyer. So I shortened it to Barret. Glib just because he's a bloody sneak. Or was.
Ceviren Lightstaff: I'm not actually sure what Ceviren means in in-game elvish any more. I think Light? Glow? Something. Lightstaff... It was an Aeridinite thing.
Grok: GROK SMASH!!!
Merry Lark: Originally, the character's name was Robyn Derakin, whose sister I played on Narc's 3.5 server... Her name was Lark Derakin. Merideth is a name I saw elsewhere and liked (perhaps from Laurell K. Hamilton's fey series), and Lark seemed fitting.
Lin Xu: It sounds kinda oriental. It might mean something naughty, but I wouldn't know. I don't speak anything not rooted in Latin or Germanic.
Joshua Byrne: I like names with Js. I also like ys, and unnecessary letters. Thus was born Joshua Byrne.
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*shrugs and starts writing*
Sallaron Tempest - The anti-hero of dozens of short...long....and unfinished stories I've wrote from wee little toddler till now. Although not exactly RP'd how I wrote him, it's bloody close enough.
Gak - Klingon kind of wormy food
Sara Sezane - Totally made up....but sounds kinda cool I think. Plus....as a bonus....she's cute
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darkstorme - it sounded cool when I was in Grade six. What?
Kell Ereptor - I was re-reading the Wraith Squadron series of books, so the first name was probably lifted from that, and "Ereptor" means thief. (I'm not creative, so sue me.)
Therise Silverstar - Therise rhymes neatly with things, and, when combined with Silverstar, had the right number of syllables. (Yes, I basically wrote her for her ballad.)
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Shiff Dragonheart:
[INDENT]Shiff Is actually my real name (first middle last etc) chopped up and mixed together based on some Old "Make your own Jedi name" I found in a Lego Magazine. Dragonheart... Got that from the Movie... Gotten Love Draco and Bowen.[/INDENT] Latherian Leefwalker:
[INDENT] Latherian was me trying to make a cool sounding name that MIGHT have been common in The Lord of the Rings. I basically took Lothlorein and kept saying it in different ways until Latherian Came out. Leefwalker... Well it was LEAFwalker, made sense for a Elf Ranger...
[/INDENT] Yukimura Hyoujin:
[INDENT] Yukimura is the name of a legendary Japanese Samurai (because there are other kinds :p). Hyoujin means "Glistening Sword" in Japanese. I thought that was cool, so I put them together.
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Desicardo: Printed on the shield of Ivanhoe said to mean "disinherited one"
Armolas: Play off Legolas
Tadashi: Name of an old friend from my SCA days who was actually very much like Tadashi in game.
Hanibal: name of a mage I played in college for D&D and Fantasy Trip campaigns. Nothing to do with Hanibal Lechter from the books. Lots of attitude and penashe so I brought him back to life here.
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Larissa: My best friend in kindergarten. She always acts halflingish.
Ash Willo: I watched a movie called Dream's Ashes when I was creating her. Willo cause I wanted her to be foresty. No 'w' cause I needed some oddity with her.
Oh, and Zelda: Speaks for itself. A kick but girl with blonde hair that isnt sleazy at the same time.
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Serissa is the name of a small tropical tree used for bonsai. It has tiny white flowers, stinks when you cut it, and dies if you look at it cross-eyed. Seemed appropriate for me.
Ferrit is because I have a ferret named Penny who rules the house.
Sala was just a short easy sound byte.
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Xandrian - he's the son of XANa and aDRIAN
Allean D'oremm- same thing but ALLia and AshEAN, D'oremm is an anagram of another name *grins*
Grohin - name is an adaptation of a dwarven name of Tolkien stories... written Gròin (if I remember correctly)
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Kindo - It is a shortened form of Kindoffer, which basically is a made-up word meaning 'cheek-victim'. The current form, in turn, means 'cheek-o', I suppose. It stems back many a-years, when I was in sixth or seventh grade. I had big cheeks, okay?! In any case, I use it everywhere on the Internet.
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tubasolo was a word a friend and I put at the bottoms of our letters. Just for whatever heh.
Sammas Gondo comes from "Samas" my very first D&D character back in 1975, he was a fighter as well. Gondo comes from "Gondol", a name I used for my favorite Middle Earth Role Play scout. Gondol means rock head in sindarin.
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My forum name is a misspelling of Nyralathotep for two reasons, one being that on most boards the name was taken already and two I have always liked HP Lovecraft's books.
My character names have no real significance since I made most of them up with a random name generator.
But Zup is the funniest one I came up with that way and I try and make him live up to it.