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Character name inspiration

Post by Vibius » Sun May 23, 2010 2:21 pm

Hello all!

I would like to throw this question, which I think that might lead to interesting answers.

How did you end with that character name(s) of a particular character(s) of yours?

Perhaps you did like how did it sound, it's a derivative of the name of god/place (it's not unheard of this in the FR settings), or is there more to it?

For my part; Veluem

Veluem is a hopeful Lathanderite, and was meant to be it before it was created, so I I wished to think about a name somehow related to light, then I picked the latin word for candle "Velum" and added an 'e' to make the difference between the original word and for "sound effect".

What is yours? :D
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Re: Character name inspiration

Post by Brar » Sun May 23, 2010 2:58 pm

Well, mine is easy... Brar, which is my real name. Can't be more simple.
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Post by Dapher » Sun May 23, 2010 3:16 pm

Actually, the first names of my characters are generally names that I come up with in my head. But the last names are names that I often get from books, or games. Such as Falgorn Felldew. I am in the Navy, so I changed foghorn around a little bit and it sounded pretty cool lol. And Felldew. If you have ever played Oblivion Elder Scrolls, expansion pack with the Shimering Iles. You may have done the quest for the Duke of Mania. He was addicted to a spore, that was called Felldew. Felldew seemed to go good with Falgorn, and I was heavily addicted to Oblivion when I created Falgorn anyway lol. Honestly it is hard for me to create an RP for a character before I start playing them. I choose class, and that sort of thing. But as for deity and attitude, those come over time. So Jarris was an accidental Tempurian. Originally I had the idea of Torm or Helm. But I ran into like 4 hopefuls of Tempus in the howling peaks and poof, there ya have it, a war priest of Tempus.
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Re: Character name inspiration

Post by Nysan » Sun May 23, 2010 3:57 pm

Hmm, lets see if I can remember.

Siros and Nysan are old names. They were the names of my first table-top D&D characters, from my younger years playing on the weekends with my parents and their Navy buddies. Siros was an insecure human wizard with a fear of clouds (don't ask). Nysan was a half-elf priest that constantly argued with a green rock named Reese (which was also the name of a short lived bard character I played here on FK).

Trilev is a slightly altered version of a randomly generated name I used in the game "Icewind Dale". Basically stayed with me as a back-up name.

Garz Muckrot was a NPC I created in one of my dungeons for table-top D&D. He was a goblin zombie servant of a lich. He constantly lost his rotting fingers, often replacing them with spare body parts til he found his old ones. His career in table-top dungeons ended after taking a swan dive into a rather large pool of acid, trying to recover one of his feet that rotted off.

Gilain Orebearer is nearly as old as I am. Years before I could play D&D, I tried to draw characters I wanted to play. Gilain was my first dwarf and his original image is a stick figure with a beard and a pick. The drawing thankfully no longer exists. He did not get a name for several years and his first name was actually a nickname. He was obsessed with finding "the perfect ore vein" everywhere he travelled and was nicknamed Orebearer by his peers. He was referred to simply as Orebearer for about 6 years until I started reading materials on dwarves. Eventually, Orebearer shifted to his family name and Gilain was pieced together from several sources for his first name.

Thats it for the main characters... :mrgreen:
-Gilain- -Trilev- -Siros-

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Re: Character name inspiration

Post by Kallias » Sun May 23, 2010 10:11 pm

Kallias is an ancient greek name meaning beauty. Chessenta = Greece in my eyes.
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Re: Character name inspiration

Post by Aveline » Mon May 24, 2010 12:02 am

For my names, I usually think of a meaning I want the name to have and then go to babynames.com and search for a name with that meaning, then alter it a bit to suit my tastes. For Ynaura however, I think my names were denied something like five times in a row, so I put letters into a hat, decided the name would be six letters long, picked a pattern for the name (consonant, consonant, vowel, vowel, consonant, vowel), and then drew letters out of the hat. Well, two hats, one for vowels one for consonants. I was ready to quit the game if a name out of a hat got denied!
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Re: Character name inspiration

Post by Duranamir » Mon May 24, 2010 12:59 pm

Most of my names i pick pretty randomly, however there are a few exceptions. Duranamir being the most obvious. the original Duranamir was a paper and pencil RP character but the name itself was made up using one of the Tolkein elvish dictionarys. It has a meaning that i leave to any one interested to work out.

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