What is the story behind your character's name?

I didn't like the highlander random name so I made my own. I was thinking of Fionna from Adventure Time and Mae West for some reason.

My wife would shorten her maiden name to kochie, pronounced cookie, for store surveys and email spam. So in ff11 i was a little taru named Kochie. And my Galka alt was kochiemonster.

I wanted a short but "powerful" sounding (but not race specific in case Viera were added) surname for my boyfriend and I, so I went with Reign. And then realized afterwards that someone on our friends list had it so I cringe a little bit every time I see them because I'm paranoid and feel like a copycat.

I also wanted an uncommon but not ~snowflake unique~ first name that felt princessy and girly but authoritative, and thus Ximena Reign was born. And of course I had to pick my boyfriend's too because he doesn't care at all, so Dareios because it's sexy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I dabble in writing, and have written a lot of stories. Brianna Blackburne, and just about every alt I have on here, is a character from one of my old stories. As for how I came up with the name Brianna Blackburne, I wanted my characters to represent a certain aspect of the story, something that would define their actions, and values. I needed a name that would be supportive to the main protagonist of the story, one who would keep the hero grounded. After days of searching, I settled on Brianna. As for how I came to use the last name Blackburne- I wanted a name that sounded dark, but at the same time noble, so I decided on that. The reason I wanted to put them in game, is because I wanted to see my creations in the flesh :3

I've always loved black cats (I have 2 of them!) so, ever since Morrowind, I've played a black cat named Stormfur. Since FFXIV required a last name, I went with Greymane at the spur of the moment, which may or may not have been influenced by Skyrim (I think it was spelled Gray Mane there -- and they were forgemasters, so since I love crafting in FFXIV, it was a natural fit!).

I chose my Name Taka due to the reason I love eagles and is the sign of my Familly crest and the name Karasu is due to my Wife as she loves Ravens and suits her personality. I chose Japanese names because I like the tradition and above all the Samurai history.

I just picked a bunch of French sounding syllables. I really like this name now because it's unique and no one knows how to pronounce it, so I've gotten colorful nicknames instead.

Pronounced "Ahn-loah E-tea-john" for the record.

I chose PUG as my first class and I alternate male / female on each game. It was female's turn for FFXIV. Thus, I needed a female character that could KATN in melee combat.
Jordan O'Niell was inspired directly from the main character in the movie G.I. Jane.

Rin is a name I've often used for various things online, and by a pleasant coincidence I later learned it's also lore-appropriate for my character's race. Farodis was my abysmal attempt at making up a "fantasy-ish" last name, which lore-wise I put down to my character taking on a more neutral last name when she came to Eorzea in a bid to not stand out.

(I just realised Rin may actually seem like it comes from Rinoa, but that wasn't the case. Not consciously, any way.)

My real name is Erik Mynhier. The sound of the last name and its odd spelling has lent itself to my character style well, so why not right?

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My real name is Erik Mynhier. The sound of the last name and its odd spelling has lent itself to my character style well, so why not right?

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Isn't it sort of scary to expose your real-life name online like that?

Hope you don't mind me asking, don't mean any harm :3

I Liked a movie called Hudson hawk. It starred Bruce Willis who played a thief that timed all of his robberies with song. It was a fun watch. I kept the Last name Hawk but changed the 1st name to Harlequin as in a Harlequin puppet. Thus The Name Harlequin Hawk.

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Isn't it sort of scary to expose your real-life name online like that?

Hope you don't mind me asking, don't mean any harm :3

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I would be a bit nervous myself using my IRL name! Erik is brave ^^

Hehe...my boyfriend uses my IRL name as one of his alts...well, first name only lol.

I loved Sea Wolves from the moment I saw them. I also joined up with some RPer friends from WoW so I definitely needed a lore-appropriate name. Problem is, I don't like the idea of my toon having a name that looks like a giant scramble of letters and that's fairly unavoidable with Sea Wolf lore-based names.

Then I saw that Hellsguard roegadyn use translated versions of the old language names... so I made a weirdo wandering adventurer Sea Wolf who decided to borrow that idea from the other tribe. I looked on the "naming conventions" post and picked a name that I liked the sound of when translated, that also fit within the universe as a legit given name in untranslated form.

I like "Elara" and "Hojaplateada" it's a surname I use for my DnD paladin long ago, is also is a way to let other people where I'm from.

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Isn't it sort of scary to expose your real-life name online like that?

Hope you don't mind me asking, don't mean any harm :3

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Only a name is not enough, you need more info to do more like know where he lives or a picture, in special for peasants with only one surname! :P

I googled Lissandra way back in 2010 (I liked the way the name sounded) and it said it meant defender of man; man's defender in Greek. I liked the meaning too, and decided to use it. As for my last name I was thinking of Kingdom Hearts for whatever reason, and decided I wanted heart in there somewhere. From there, I wanted something that sounded nice with the word and I came up with wine. In 1.0, I have had people ask me if I loved wine (cause of my last name), but no one has ever asked me that 2.0 and onwards.

For the record, I don't drink at all. No wine, beer, etc. XD

I've been a Shadow fanboy since I saw him in FFVI(III for the US at the time), so when I started playing FFXI I wanted to name myself such.

It was, of course, taken.

So I started dipping into other languages and whatnot but all were taken, and then it struck me to start phonetically butchering it until something stuck. Jattou took shape as I started to tune it a bit to my liking. Aveiros just rolled off my tongue when thinking of a surname years later, and I've been informed since that it's similar to the name of a city in Portugal.

Catgirl. I couldn't go wrong with a name like Meowmeow. It made me laugh and was very Henrietta Pussycat-esque.

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Isn't it sort of scary to expose your real-life name online like that?

Hope you don't mind me asking, don't mean any harm :3

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No I've told people before. I sort of look at it as if someone wants my name that bad they will find a way to get it.

Can't live in fear.

I am Cron Job. For those who do not do much programming and avoid Linux system, the task scheduler of that OS is known as cronjob.

Why? Because when I was at my previous job, my colleagues thought I kept referring to a sexual act as they never did programming. So, they convinced me that I should rename my character to that and it has stuck over the past couple of years.

Was a Hyur Midlander before I switched to Miqo'te. Since not all Miqo'te, particularly Sunseekers, obey traditional naming conventions, I decided NOT to spend $10 on a name change. Can't say I care for traditional Miqo'te naming conventions anyways. Technically Male Moonkeepers don't even -have- a name, just a number.

Good lord this thread filled up quickly didn't it? Must be the maintenance.

Anywho, my name is fairly simple. I stole the name "Dameron" off of the Wintergrasp Quartermaster in WoW, and I previously used it for a Paladin on a private server. So when I quit private servers to go play FFXIV, I took the name with me.

As for my surname, it was simply something I found online while looking for something cool. I thought the name "Dameron Blakesley" had a good ring to it.

I went with Eris because its a character from one of my favorite anime series.

I've received many tells from other players saying Kacho Nacho is the best lalafell name ever. I don't know about that. All I can say is other players like it.

Surprisingly, the random name generator sort of suggested it. Really!

Kacho was (is) my first character, and even though I read the naming convention thread, I was pulling a blank. So, I hit the random name for inspiration and up popped Cacho Nacho. I liked the name but thought a 'K' would look better graphically for a comic title.

Thus was born Kacho Nacho, a plainfolk lalafell from the South Seas homeland, out to be the best healer he can be, when he's not slacking off at the beach.

I don't have a super exciting story behind mine unfortunately. I ended up using the random name generator and it came up with something like Cillian Quemperlain. So I switched a few letters and made it into Cillien Temperlain.

Sinha being from Yona of the Dawn which was also a nickname (among 1 other nickname) given to me by a friend. Sinha roughly translates to moon light. Kumori roughly translates to Stormy weather, I have a sleeve tattoo (japanese style) that is of a storm (rain, clouds, lightning and japanese maple leaves). You could say I have a thing for storms :)

Thus Sinha Kumori was born.

Yoshiyuki comes from the sword in Final Fantasy VII - when one ally is down, the sword's power doubles; when two allies are down, the sword's power triples. I'm a healer main, so I think it's interesting to imagine that my morale increases when the party's struggling. I'm also support-oriented in general. I want to do my best to help others succeed. My last name, Ly, is a Vietnamese surname. I had a bunch of Vietnamese friends in high school. They taught me a lot, through bad experiences, about why I'm better off isolating myself and my own needs from others, but I still care about helping other people with whatever they need.

Basically, I have a lot of devotion and empathy for supporting others while keeping myself closed off and minding my own business.

Higurashi anime, bout all I can say. Do kinda wish I had gone with something different but my usual username wouldn't work (as most mmos I play dont require a first and last) so just went with the current anime I was hooked on at the time. Do enjoy the reactions I get from some people, thought it was funny doing an Aurum Vale run had a person get mad, not because of my name but because the name she tried (also a character in Higurashi) was not available.

Simple meaning. Raen lore friendly. And it sounds cute.

The only interesting name story I have is for my alt, "Vhalla La", which is a name I've used for alts in other MMOs (including the last name). I typically create her as a rather statuesque nordic/valkyrie type. So, she was born in FFXIV as a Highlander. This was an alt, so when it finally struck me after several weeks that just by name she HAD to be a Lalafel, I was fairly embarrassed that I didn't see it right off.

Needless to say, she's now a cute lil blonde Lalafel valkyrie thanks to fantasia.

Mine was a carryover from my Runescape playing days, which was mostly played by teenagers with names like "Ipwnj00noob", "Psykogodkilla", "l33t badaz", "Ipwnurmom", etc. With a name like Joe Schmoe there's no way I'd be mistaken for a 12 year old.

Whispering Whiskers, a fitting Ninja kitty name I thought. :D

Kavan Longfellow, Midlander Hyur. I like picking names that fit the ingame naming conventions used by devs. I researched & found that Celtic names were used for Midlanders, & found Kavan in a list of names there. Longfellow fits the surname style, & makes a fun play on words (he isn't particularly tall, you see).

Both my first and last name are names I made up for some pets when I was still playing Mabinogi. Rilasha is the first and I dropped the i for an apostrophe to make it lore friendly. Nereshyl is one I chose because it fit more than others I thought of at the time, and to bypass the convention I'd make a backstory to say that she's mixed Seeker/Keeper and that the last name is her mother's. Looking at it now, I'd most likely change her last name (if I can be bothered to spend the money) to Feyndra as I've been using that for some other characters as well as my online persona.

As for my alt, Yukikaze Yumishi, the first name actually comes from the series Dog Days (from Yukikaze Panettone), and the last name was a lore friendly name that fit the class I leveled first (Bard), since Yumishi means bow-maker. Also, alliteration!

Techically the name I've been using for my 1st (& usually only) fem avi in any game for years, however the her "last" name existed a year beforehand. First name comes from a combination of 2 anime/game characters I liked, Riza Hawkeye from Full metal alchemist & Rita Mordio from Tales of Vesperia, Solair is as it looks, Sol (name for our sun, warm heat) & air (also known as the stuff we breathe or wind, usually givin the elemental color green). Random headcannon is she's my avi from White Knight Chronicles as both games have a Void rift like side-planes and traveled to Eorzea threw it by accident (was try'n to go to the Geonet, that games version of a forum & instance hub, but as the servers are gone who knows what "error's" can do)

I got the name Alynn from an Otome game, and I just fell in love with the knight (Alyn Crawford). I originally used Xinlu as an indication of my Chinese roots and I liked the way it sounded, but I changed it to Kertia recently. While I made fun of people for having seemingly "weeb" names, I finally understood why people named themselves after characters. Rajak Kertia was one of my favorite characters in Noblesse, and I fell in love with his attitude and character in general. When he died, I felt immense heartbreak and cried for a good while mourning.

The honest, boring, and probably egotistical answer is that it's a vaguely lore-appropriate fantasy-style mangling of my irl appellation (which shares similar roots to the fictional roegadyn dictionary).

my character's name has a lore reason behind inheriting his name from his father Briar Amadeus Aeon, an old but still common tradition of naming. but the name itself is of latin origin the 1st name composed of two words "Amare" = Ama meaning to love or be loved or greatly admire and "Deus" = meaning deity, god, goddess, god-like being. then we have Aeon which means eternity,eternal, everlasting, forever, never-ending, etc. and yes as some point out Amadeus was a name used by Mozart lol

Mine was the name I used in FFXI. I chose "Rhaegar" cause I thought it was a suitably fantasy name for a high fantasy MMO. Turns out, I had read first book of GoT 3-4 years before I made the character and I guess the name from the book somehow stuck in my subconscious. Now, every third person I talk to thinks I'm a HBO GoT fanboy, so I'm prolly gonna change it come SB. I'll maintain the "Rhae" in there because there are friends who have known me by that name for 12 years now. Still not gonna go with a lore name, though I'm thinking something Cumbrian inspired would be fitting.

It's my job title.