What is the story behind your character's name?

[SenorPatty]

So you know how Roegadyn Hellsguard is basically description and a noun?

At the time when I was going to name change (can't remember what it was before), I was playing yugioh online.

And I was making a water deck

And one of the monsters was SharkDrake Vice.

After fantasia'ing into my femroe, it looked like it would snap at any given moment. And thus, Vice Shark was born!

[Tint]

at first i wanted to name my character Robin Shirley. Robin, since i really like the name and it's super tomboyish, and Shirley after Anne Shirley - she is awesome ^___^

but then while the waiting between the closed and open beta i found out about the lore names, and since i wanted to roleplay i decided a lore name would fit better. i wanted to play a Plainsfolk Lalafell, so i needed short syllables. I was going through every single syllable you can build with only two letters, from Aa to Zu and was writing down the syllables wich i find sounded nice. then i was combining the written down syllables in the ABB AB pattern until i found the best sounding combination. wich in the end was Karuru Karu. but maybe i have to tell you that i am german, so i am talking about the sound in german, not in english xD

[Synrin]

I sometimes wish I went with a lore accurate name, but now everyone knows me as Mandar, so it seems silly to change it. Anyway, there is a story behind it: -bunch of cute stuff snip-

This is so sweet! But yeah, I know the struggles, old character names or even RL nicknames stick around. Same happened to me when I play ESO as 'Face of Melinda'. Been called Mel by most ever since..

[SaitoHikari]

My character's name originally came from an old RPG series that ended long ago, the Megaman Battle Network series. It was a pretty big series about 10-15 years ago, though hardly anyone would recognize the significance of my name unless they reached the endgame of any of the games in the series AND happen to know about the Japanese names VS the localized names.

So I took the name when another MMO known as Dragon Nest launched about 5-6 years ago in NA, intending to have a cosplay character of sorts there (though I originally wanted a more blatant name referencing the series, and am now glad that I never got it, for THAT name would have never passed for anything even remotely resembling realistic). Things happened, and after two lore-friendly fanfics later (minus the naming conventions) and a lot of community drama since I somehow ended up being tapped to become an official volunteer forum moderator for that game, the name started to take on a different life of its own for me, now representing a new character with an entirely different background and personality.

And so it was natural that when it came time to migrate to FFXIV, the name would come with me, now representing a memory of two games and a group of friends that also moved to FFXIV from that previous game. And of course, the name in my mind has now taken on the form of another unique character within this game. Though I don't think I'll ever write a fanfic for this game.

It's not lore friendly, but it could be a lot worse.

[Nyxn607]

Hai all, I named my Elzen Gowther Herrit because of the anime The Seven Deadly Sins. Gowther is the goat sin and his bow or sacred treasure is called Herritt. Not the most original, but I like it

[Lambdafish]

Spammed the random name button until I got something not terrible

[MaethusXion]

X'talo >>> Lynx Tribe (X) + Given Name (Talo)
Maethus >>> ICly she was adopted by my original character (Maethus Xion) after her village was wiped out by the Garleans, and she followed Sunseeker tradition of using her "father's" name as her surname

As for the ORIGINAL Maethus Xion... I honestly don't remember for his given name. His surname was sort of a bastardization of 'Zion'. Zion became 'Xion' (technically should probably be spelled Xyon, like Xylophone to retain pronunciation)

I went with Oraina simply because it was my mage's name in WoW and I liked the name. Fhey was a result of hitting random until I could find something that wasn't jibberish. Sun seekers have a weird naming system.

Also I have found 3 sisters and 2 brothers. (all of them cool people)

To me the only weird part is combining the Tribe Name/Letter with the Given Name to have it actually pronounceable. So lore-wise your character, as a Seeker, would be a Daughter of Fhey.

[Ameela]

So Re:Zero was the hot new thing when I first started XIV and I really liked Emilia's name, but I'd feel like a poser if I just stole it so I altered it a bit and that's how I came up with Ameela.
White is just the name of my in-game husband, I was Trussa before which I guess I just chose because it sounded cool.

I don't have a lore-friendly name because I had no idea that was even a thing back then and now I'm too attached to my current name to change it to Ameemee Amee or something.

[Synrin]

To me the only weird part is combining the Tribe Name/Letter with the Given Name to have it actually pronounceable. So lore-wise your character, as a Seeker, would be a Daughter of Fhey.

Seeing as she met long-lost brothers and sisters, it seems like they had an active father :'D

[Capriana]

My dog's name is Lady Capri (hence my Chocobo's name). In most games or online I am either Capriano or Capriana depending on the gender of my toon. Capri attached with an ending to make it sound cooler.

Waterfall, I don't know why I picked it, I clicked random few times, didn't like it, or maybe I saw Rainfall or something and I wanted to be original picked Waterfalls.