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tearsofthemuse
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RE: Names, Where Do They Come From?
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July 28, 2005, 12:19:00 pm »
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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MJZ
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February 27, 2007, 10:40:55 am »
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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Faldred
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February 27, 2007, 10:52:26 am »
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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LynnJuniper
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February 27, 2007, 10:53:20 am »
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
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February 27, 2007, 01:12:11 pm »
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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LordCove
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February 27, 2007, 01:18:14 pm »
*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
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February 27, 2007, 01:23:15 pm »
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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ShiffDrgnhrt
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February 27, 2007, 01:27:16 pm »
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
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February 28, 2007, 09:05:33 am »
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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Zelda1
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February 28, 2007, 06:14:34 pm »
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
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February 28, 2007, 08:40:51 pm »
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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Black Cat
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February 28, 2007, 10:52:21 pm »
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 GrĂ²in (if I remember correctly)
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Kindo
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March 01, 2007, 02:56:26 am »
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
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March 01, 2007, 08:44:29 am »
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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Nyralotep
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March 01, 2007, 09:09:49 am »
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.
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