What is the story behind your character's name?

[Nakaress]

I've been doing hidden perverted names for my MMO characters since EQ in 2000 and this character is no exception and really dirty tbh. lol

[Heliantheae]

I was looking up tricksters and came across Reynard. He was Northwestern European which fits the naming convention. Saw Reineke was an alternative spelling and looked more feminine. And Isengrim was his uncle and it looked like a family name.

[Tachyon]

I made up the last name Scindaire (Combination of Scindere [Scindo - to cleave/divide], and -aire suffix) and chose Rhode as a nice sounding first name that although does not strictly adhere to naming conventions, is close enough for me.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It was my enjin username when I joined a 1.0 linkshell for the games launch, and while I had planned on using a more unique name for XIV, it kinda stuck during pre-launch communication.

[Mhaeric]

Mhaeric Llystrom as a name began back in 1993... 94? Something like that anyway.

I loaded up Dungeon Hack for the first time and created a neutral evil wizard with the red hooded picture as my avatar. I needed a name, and my usual one at the time wouldn't work for the character, so I came up with Mharic (without the e). I can't remember if it was randomly generated or made up on my own or a combination of both.

I go on to use this as my name for most games since I like it, including a MUD that I played off and on, mostly on, from 1997 to 2017. In 2000 I was creating a new character after returning from a break and wanted to use Mharic as a name for my Bard, but I didn't want to delete the original character. So I added the e, and the name became Mhaeric. This new spelling instantly became my more preferred spelling. The MUD had the option to choose a last name during gameplay, so I needed something elven sounding because I was an Elf. I remember going to various name generators and came across one that output some double L's which i liked the sound of. I imagine them rolling off the tongue and sounding like it would fit easily into what Tolkien elvish sounds like. and so I came up with Llystrom. Ever since then, my name is always Mhaeric Llystrom wherever I go.

It's strange to think that I've been using the same name, not counting variations, for over 23 years now.

(It was only years later that I realized the first name is an anagram of Chimera, and the last name is very close to Maelstorm and ends in a homonym of strum which is appropriate for a bard, which in that MUD uses elemental magic to create elemental maelstorms. Total coincidence, but nonetheless a serendipitous one.)

[seanbugg]

My name gets me asked fairly often if I'm Vietnamese -- I'm not but my husband is. In FFXIV and Diablo, I use Vietnamese food to make my names. Bun Bohue (beef noodle soup), Bo Luclac (shaky beef), Bahn Mi (sandwich), Dac Biet (special). It's silly, but I've grown attached to them.

[Kaelah]

Massive bump. Saw this topic while I was away from the game and enjoyed reading all the stories.

Kaelah Tae.

The first MMO I ever played was XI. I remember talking to my friend trying to come up with a name, and he asked me to name 3 Final Fantasy female characters that are my favorites. I said Yuna, Tifa and Aeris (Aerith). He then sent me back a bunch of names made up of characters from each of their names. I don't remember them all sadly, but the one that stuck out to me and I chose was Taeyu. (TifaAerithYuna.) Taeyu the Mithra WHM was born.

My next MMO was WoW. I started as a Rogue Forsaken named Taeyu. When TBC came out a week later, I decided to create a Blood Elf mage, Taeyu was taken on my Rogue so I had to come up with something else. I knew a girl in one of my classes at school named Kayla and I always liked her name, I tried that but it was taken, so I got creative with the spelling. Kaelah the Blood Elf Mage was born.

When XIV was released I knew I wanted to keep the name Kaelah. In WoW I often received tells complimenting the name, and after a few years using it I just love it. When I heard they were introducing surnames I figured it'd be a nice nod to my XI character to use Taeyu in some way. Kaelah Taeyu sounds ok, but it just felt like a bit of a mouthful, and everyone in XI called me Tae anyway, so I went with Kaelah Tae.

[Halogen]

Honestly, I was trying to come up with something race-appropriate for this character so I was hitting the random button a few times for inspiration. Decided I liked "Painted" as the first part because I love artsy-craftsy stuff (I have another Roe Hellsguard named "Cashmere Yarn" because of my love of knitting). Then was trying to decide on the second part...decided on Oryx, because one of my favorite novels is Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake".

Of course, I've gotten multiple tells asking me if I played Destiny and/or if I named my character after a character from that. Nope, never played the game.

[Marxam]

Blackiron Tarkus. Summoned to this world to help all the dank players and solo bosses after people fail to do simple mechanics. \[T]/

[Dualgunner]

Sora from Kingdom Hearts and Milla Maxwell from Tales of Xillia :3