Male Viera names?

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Originally Posted by Iscah

The naming conventions say they are discarded or replaced, so characters are not necessarily surnameless even if we don't know it.

The whole thing remains a bit too vague as to how expected or optional it is to change names or keep them. It's sort of "here's the naming scheme... which canonically your character should have abandoned by now... maybe. If she feels like it."

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Right, I meant "discard" as "discard and use a new one", not as "do like Cher." I was gonna add a little ramble about how a Viera could choose the name of the city they first arrive to or which they choose as their new "home" as their new surname but... forgot (plus, it feels too head-canon-y). The whole "you could choose whatever, you're an exile anyway. Or you can keep your Forest name, that's cool, too." thing feels... complicated.

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Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage

Right, I meant "discard" as "discard and use a new one", not as "do like Cher." I was gonna add a little ramble about how a Viera could choose the name of the city they first arrive to or which they choose as their new "home" as their new surname but... forgot (plus, it feels too head-canon-y). The whole "you could choose whatever, you're an exile anyway. Or you can keep your Forest name, that's cool, too." thing feels... complicated.

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Technically retaining your forest name comes within "choose whatever", right? Because now they're choosing it instead of being given it at birth, or something. Who's going to come from the village to tell them off?

Maybe that's why Fran's surname is spelt differently. Change a letter, now it's not the same thing.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

(I think I am going with calling him Rejn in the end.)

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I like it.


As for me, the more I think about it, the more I realize my 1.0 character's name (take a wild guess) is probably a pretty safe starting point. Sanding down the phonetics and adding a tribe letter is how I landed at what I have now as a Seeker.

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Originally Posted by Kakurady

No, this is great. I love seeing everyone using my question as a jumping off point into the world of Final Fantasy XIV.

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Because at this time, we don't really have anything definitive regarding male Viera naming. If we kept to what has been confirmed, then this would be a very short thread indeed.

I was bored and started going through Viera-related threads.

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Originally Posted by Fenral

Since this will be critically important in the post-6.0 world, what's Icelandic for "Waffle" and can it be twisted into something lore-appropriate?

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Apparently it's "Vöfflu", which in a Linguistic-aside-ramble came from the (Middle) Dutch "Wafel", and refers to a "honeycomb", likely because of the square pattern (although did they just NOT think of making them with an actual honeycomb pattern?). This is likely because nouns don't tend to change THAT much between vaguely-related-languages (and English basically pickpockets other languages in search of loose words and grammar), especially when food items are concerned (by which I mean, pasta, certain types of cakes, tacos..., not, like, how Orange in Swedish is Apelsin or "Pome de terre"/"Ground apple" is French for Potato... ingredients are weird like that) we tend to use the "original" name or translate it to our language's proper grammatical rules.

As Iscah pointed out, "Waffle" would actually be 100% Lore Appropriate given we have "Cherry" and "Morning Glory" as city names (avoiding ANOTHER rant about those), but for a Forest name, I think Vöfflu would be kiiind of correct. However, even the Viera Naming Conventions thread mentions Viera Forest names "resemble" Icelandic and are pronounced "similarly"(most likely as a way to cover their behind should they goof, or to include not-perfectly-complying names like "Ruuj", which is meant to be phonetically similar to "Rouge", given that said name comes from Tactics A2 Clan "Cinquleur" member... Ruuj, a RED Mage), so feel free to change what's needed for character purposes.

(Also completely aside but ADD flares up and I forget but I've been meaning to apologize to Fenral because I was likely dismissive of G'raha coming back way back in 3.x, I was so sure they would NEVER make side-content necessary for MSQ which just shows how much I know about this game's writing, my predictions have been 0 to... 30)

Back on Topic, I wonder if and how the Viera Naming Conventions pinned post will update closer to Endwalker release. I'm glad Samniel Atkascha is already (headcanonly) an alias or at least an assumed name, but maybe I will actually make Mrjn an alt, his backstory's been rattling in my head since before 5.0 release.

I just did my name change today in preparation after a few weeks of reading up on Icelandic. My previous name was very referential, and this time I wanted to find something both lore-friendly and that felt more like me.

Very excited to see if/how the naming convention thread is updated!

My login streak lapsed, so I couldn't respond to this in a timely manner even though I logged in again days ago. Thanks, WoW-pocalypse.

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Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage

Apparently it's "Vöfflu", which in a Linguistic-aside-ramble came from the (Middle) Dutch "Wafel", and refers to a "honeycomb", likely because of the square pattern (although did they just NOT think of making them with an actual honeycomb pattern?).

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That is good to know. I could probably shorten it to "Vofl" and not be too far off.

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Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage

(Also completely aside but ADD flares up and I forget but I've been meaning to apologize to Fenral because I was likely dismissive of G'raha coming back way back in 3.x, I was so sure they would NEVER make side-content necessary for MSQ which just shows how much I know about this game's writing, my predictions have been 0 to... 30)

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Apparently, the original plan was to leave him in storage until a second MSQ reset happened, rendering all the old content unplayable again, so we were technically both right. Then Heavensward hit like a bomb and it became in their best interests to not cut off old content, I guess. I'm just satisfied that no crimes against Conservation of Detail were intended. Either way, it was basically half a decade ago, and, I mean, I was going through an IRL lot at the time and hardly the most mature or likeable person about the whole thing, but okay, apology accepted. /blush

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Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage

Back on Topic, I wonder if and how the Viera Naming Conventions pinned post will update closer to Endwalker release. I'm glad Samniel Atkascha is already (headcanonly) an alias or at least an assumed name, but maybe I will actually make Mrjn an alt, his backstory's been rattling in my head since before 5.0 release.

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Looking at the dates, it usually happens a couple weeks to a month after official launch for expansion races, so we'll have access to the in-game name generator first.