Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
I have Viera names on my mind at the moment since I'm wanting to make a new alt once the males are available (and already have a character visually in mind because I liked one of the example characters from the reveal), but the names are confusing.

The naming conventions in the Lore forum say to look at Icelandic names, but browsing that list on Behind the Name doesn't seem to have any of the examples or the feel of them - though it does seem to be the direct source for Ronso names in the First (Bragi, Magnus and Runar are all on there).

I'm not even sure which gender I should be looking at, because if their genders aren't apparent at birth, they logically can't have gendered names... and then on top of that, if they leave the forest they usually abandon their birth name and pick whatever they feel like calling themselves. Great for people who want to invent their character names, not so good for those of us who need prompts.

Anyway if Icelandic is indeed correct I am leaning towards Ragna/Ragnar, depending on which gender's list I should be picking from. Though (browsing as I write this) Ragnar is a variant of Rayner so for a new adopted name I could handwave the etymology and call him... Rain? Reyn? Rayn? Something like that. Give it a few days and see if I like calling him that.
I might be able to help a bit! If you want to have him change his forest name but still hold to the general conventions, Viera will typically replace i's and y's in names with a J (still pronounced the same) -- so Rajn or Rejn!