Author Topic: Names, Where Do They Come From? (Read 2557 times)

aragwen · « **Reply #20 on:** May 30, 2005, 02:56:00 pm »

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...

lunchboxkilla · « **Reply #21 on:** May 30, 2005, 07:33:00 pm »

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!

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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!

Andrios · « **Reply #22 on:** May 31, 2005, 12:17:00 pm »

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.

lonnarin · « **Reply #23 on:** May 31, 2005, 04:00:00 pm »

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.

Thunder Pants · « **Reply #24 on:** May 31, 2005, 04:32:00 pm »

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

slipperhero · « **Reply #25 on:** June 02, 2005, 04:54:00 am »

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.

Cattery · « **Reply #26 on:** June 04, 2005, 01:02:00 pm »

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.

Nuzatch · « **Reply #27 on:** June 04, 2005, 09:23:00 pm »

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.

FraterAudcal · « **Reply #28 on:** June 04, 2005, 09:57:00 pm »

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.

FraterAudcal · « **Reply #29 on:** June 04, 2005, 10:13:00 pm »

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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.

Harloff · « **Reply #30 on:** June 09, 2005, 11:38:00 am »

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FraterAudcal - 6/5/2005 7:13 AM

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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.

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.

Fista · « **Reply #31 on:** July 18, 2005, 08:30:00 am »

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..

Rayenoir · « **Reply #32 on:** July 18, 2005, 09:01:00 am »

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.

Marswipp · « **Reply #33 on:** July 18, 2005, 10:03:00 am »

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.

Shotgunbunny · « **Reply #34 on:** July 18, 2005, 11:16:00 am »

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.

Jeff_K · « **Reply #35 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:07:00 pm »

Wow. I just put random letters together and hope they make sense.

Zhofe · « **Reply #36 on:** July 25, 2005, 10:07:00 pm »

Well ... I was watchng Dr. Quin Medicine Woman .... Just kidding!

Serissa · « **Reply #37 on:** July 26, 2005, 06:00:00 am »

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.

Xerina · « **Reply #38 on:** July 26, 2005, 09:12:00 am »

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.

CuRoi · « **Reply #39 on:** July 26, 2005, 10:17:00 am »

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.