What's the story behind your name?

The name was from a character in a book—I just like the name and use it frequently in video games.

My main's name, Chymea Sum, came from my main in Guild Wars 2, Chymea. Chymea was a name I randomly thought of then when making my first character there. Chymea in Guild Wars 2 is an Asura and their home city is named Rata Sum. So for Chymea's last name in FFXIV, I took the last part of the home city of Asura, making her name Chymea Sum. I even chose a relative race here in FFXIV to Chymea, as Asura and Lalafell are small.

My other two characters, Zozore Zore (another Lalafell) and Rivienne Cahernaut (Elezen) are from the random name generator. I just hit random until I found names I liked.

My forum name is what I was told was the Japanese version of my name along with the month and day I was born.

My character's whole name is from my WoW RP character way back in Burning Crusade (though didn't really exist in-game until Legion). I needed something Night Elf-y. Settled on the last name to be Stormchaser, but was stumped on a first name. I was brainstorming and watching Saint Seiya, specifically the 3rd movie. Starts introducing antagonists, and I'm like "y'know, Jaou (it was the way the sub group spelled it) is a pretty neat name." Not the most lore-accurate name for a Night Elf, but it stuck. Most people wouldn't know it came from Saint Seiya, particularly since it's not that popular in NA.

I took that name with me to GW2, and then to here.

I like to stick to race naming conventions when I can. My first character was a Hellsguard Roegadyn, and I had read that their conventions were [Adjective] [Noun, preferably a plant or animal if female]. So I just played around with several combos that I liked until I landed on "Spirited Mare", and it just sounded... right!

Unfortunately, I made multiple mistakes with my current character. I had read Au Ra use Japanese names, so used Google Translate to get "Nesshin'na Fuketsu" from "Zealous Filly" (yay synonyms :p). Mistake list time!

1) Didn't research long enough, simply stopped at "Au Ra have Japanese-sounding names"... only to find out after I'd created the character that Raen Au Ra have Japanese names, while Xaela Au Ra (which she is) are supposed to have Mongolian names.
2) I don't know how it happened, but while I swear I plugged the word "filly" (as in, young female horse) into Translate to get Fuketsu, every subsequent time I tried to reverse-translate it, it said "fuketsu" actually means "filthy"! Noooooo!!
3) Any time I joined a party, the party list shortened my displayed name to "Nesshin'na Fuk...", which I didn't love, heh.

So, when I married my IRL hubby's in-game character, I just paid the extra few bucks to change my character's surname to his, just like IRL! And now even though it's not a strictly fitting or conventional Xaela name, I've nonetheless grown attached to it by this point. :)

I just copied names from Magic the gathering. Xantcha was Urza's companion for a time and I quite like her (it's?) character. Argoth is the site of the final battle of the Brothers' war that started the dark age and ice age. I may have some of that wrong it's been awhile since I read the books

The red giant Arcturus exists in the real life Boötes constellation. It is the brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere.

I just changed that into a Miqo'te sounding format, to make an original name. His last name is Lyehga, because it is appropriate for a moon cat, and that it sounds good with my chosen first name.

That's how I got the idea for Arctur'a Lyehga.

I have a habit of creating little story and story ideas frmo time to time. The name came from a pre-existing story idea I had years ago but I am fond of. In the story, the character came from a kingdom with a more alliterative naming convention that has some French influence/twist in it.

It is inconsistent lore wise with lalafells though, so I just chalk that up to a headcanon "theyre adopted" or something akin to that.

My full name ingame is Jirah Dal'riata. Jira was just a name that came to mind at the time but strangely was unique enough to claim in most of my MMOs. The first MMO I played was this crappy mobile MMO and that was the first time I used the name Jira, (also called celtic heroes for those who are curious) . Since customization was very limited I gave myself basic ass anime dark green hair to stand out more and the ingame world was named Dal'riata. I always liked the name and have used it ever since

My mostly main character, Chuchuru Churu I chose because I thought it sounded cute. Chu is the sound of kissing in Japanese.
Kokoharu Koharu was chosen because Koharu is one of many Japanese names I find pretty. And I wanted to have a Lalafell with a pretty Japanese name, while also being Lalafell fitting.

Eirol Ocarrol is because I was inspired by the fact the first preview I had of Final Fantasy XIV, an alpha video by "MrPlainsfolk" was set to Eiko Carol's theme from Final Fantasy IX.
https://youtu.be/58EkSc4emyE
This was the video that made me fall in love with Final Fantasy XIV. And I made my first character a Plainsfolk because of her. And I tried to make my character look like her.

Eirol was my first character, on Besaid server in 1.0. I fell in love with the game then, and wish I had stuck with it. I have so many regrets not being there more. I think at some people at the Curse forums, when people were calling me a Final Fantasy fangirl, I started getting a serious degree of burnout and isolation. And decided to just play Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Symphonia until Tera came out.

I loved playing these Tales games. But I wish I could go back in time and experience something I can't go back and do any more. I wish I had stayed loyal like I wanted to in my heart of hearts.

My other character, the one whom I got a citizenship certificate for, has sadly been Fantasia'd and name changed. I've become so fixated on Lalafells, that she was my one non-Lalafell character. Her name was Geala Dreamstar. I still have the certificate to prove if. Though she's now "Mimichu Michu", and Dunesfolk.

Dreamstar was the name of my Final Fantasy XI Mithra on Siren server. Back when I played XI in high school. I have so much nostalgia for XI, and Windurst still lives in my heart. As does Vana'diel in general. My two favourite things to do were to go to Heaven's Tower and let the spiritual and mystical feelings there wash over me. And to ride airships just to slowly take in the sights.

I did research about XI because at first I couldn't play it. I couldn't get my PlayStation 2 connected to the internet for some reason, even though I had bought the PS2 HDD and had a wired cable. So I eventually saved up for the PC version as well, and a very old graphics card. So I spent that wait biding my time and researching the game and obsessively playing .hack// games. And discovering that I had fallen in love with Windurst and mages. I really liked Star Sibyl as a character and leader.

Star Sibyl is still my favourite XI character. Despite.. revelations and truth about her abilities. I still hold to my first impressions of her. I really thought she was a great leader. Hence I named my Mithra "star" in reference to 'Star' Sibyl. And a Red Mage because I couldn't decide whether I wanted to be a Black Mage or White Mage.

I think I also liked the name Dreamstar because it sounded lofty and I liked thinking about Dreams and ambitions and cute ideas and words like 'Dreams' and 'Stars'. I was equally as inspired by the Kirby games. And the fact that I didn't have a Dreamcast, but if I did, I was also really wanted to try Phantasy Star Online.

Thus, Dreamstar.

I wanted to carry over that character's legacy to Final Fantasy XIV.

I have quite a few other characters, but these are some of the major ones I have a long history with.

Logan is the first name I always wanted. Drake is from my dad's first name, Draco. He died four years ago and I've been using it in all the games I possibly can.