What is the story behind your character's name?

[Chiramu]

"Fate Peddler" is the description on the Blood thief goblin from Diablo 3. I had the idea to create my FFXIV character with the look of the goblin(I fantasia'd since then, just love creating characters lol), I love the name, I changed it to my priest in WoW too :3.
I started FFXIV as "Fairy Tails" which I made up for my Blood Elf Priest back before Burning Crusade came out. Got a bit sick of all the Fairy Tail comic book comments about it, and Fate Peddler is an awesome name .

[Faliandra]

I always go for something that sounds soft and feminine and has some sort of....innocence/purity feeling to it, since I always main healers
and like to go for elven races.

Lumielle has its origin in Aion...as one of the lore's female deities' name was Lumiel.
But I didnt like the spelling too much....so it became Lumielle.
I also liked it because it reminded me of the french word for "light" (=lumière).

Everyone calls me Lumi...and I was told, it means "Snow" in the finnish language...which is super nice as well.
(sadly...not everything works out nicely in the finnish language. One of my retainers is called Persephone..."perse" translating to "ass".... Assphone. Yaaay....lol. Lovely language!! )

As for my last name "Whisperwind":
Nothing fancy there. Blatantly stole it from a WoW nightelf lore character cos Im not used to having to pick a last name in MMORPGs, so
I just had to come up with something. And again, I just like myself some fancy elf fantasy names.

[Slirith]

Amestra was the name of my norse berserker in DAOC after hitting random name
Blackoak is a random last name(in this case Viktor Blackoak) of a evil mage(or was it evil mage lord?) enemy npc in Ultima Online

[Synrin]

"Fate Peddler" is the description on the Blood thief goblin from Diablo 3. I had the idea to create my FFXIV character with the look of the goblin(I fantasia'd since then, just love creating characters lol), I love the name, I changed it to my priest in WoW too :3.
I started FFXIV as "Fairy Tails" which I made up for my Blood Elf Priest back before Burning Crusade came out. Got a bit sick of all the Fairy Tail comic book comments about it, and Fate Peddler is an awesome name .

It really is! It is from such a random source, too.

As for my last name "Whisperwind":
Nothing fancy there. Blatantly stole it from a WoW nightelf lore character cos Im not used to having to pick a last name in MMORPGs, so
I just had to come up with something. And again, I just like myself some fancy elf fantasy names.

This made me laugh :'D

Wait.. Am I biased when it comes to Blizzard's lore?

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

My character's name is simply a slight variation on my RL name. >_>

[DreamAngel-Ren]

Ren means lotus which I find the aquatic flower absolutely beautiful (just like my character!) and I love the symbolism behind it which is hope, rebirth
Kurosaki (not Bleach related) means black mantle or cloak; in other terms, it could represent darkness

Ren Kurosaki means one who is hopeful during harsh times and will rise to become something incredibly beautiful.
When you read about the lotus flower, it grew out from the mud then later rose above water to become the flower it was meant to be.

My character - along with the name - was thought of waay before FFXIV arrived.
This name is indeed Japanese origin, but since this is FFXIV, the name can be Doman/Far Eastern.

[Chrallmal]

Horribly uncreative, I simply took two things in my environment. Was watching Stargate, so Ori. The kid was nearby playing with a 20 some-odd year old Qui-Gon Jinn light saber toy of mine. So, Jinn. I put them together and realized I could change the last name to Gin in order to make Ori Gin. Origin.

Named my chocobo "Ally", so we are Ori Gin Ally.

[Iromi]

Cesil has been the name I've been using since I was very small. It came from my little brother actually...we were playing FF6 and I told him to name Celes...he asks me what to name her so I said anything..lol so I went out to let the dog out, come back and notice her name was Cesil. My brother was like well I love Cecil from FF4 so I made up a girls version of his name! Used it ever since :P

And Rapture...the last name came from that song by iio , same meaning/idea ^^

[Sprinks]

My dog's name is Cupcake, she is my baby so I knew I wanted to use her name. After a week of hating every variation of "Cupcake lastname" I could think of, I made it her last name instead and started hating things less. Almost went with Strawberry Cupcake, then I decided I liked the way Sprinkles Cupcake flowed. It wasn't until someone sent me a tell saying that they loved the cupcakes from there that I even noticed what I had done.

[Remus]

Story behind my name?

In-game Random name generator. Might as well have a lore name. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯