So, you named your character after lore conventions. What did you name them & why?

[JonestownJuice]

I am new and mostly unfamiliar with the lore, but I clicked the "random" button a few times on my Elezen Wildwood character and saw that there was a very French influence on the naming conventions. My plan was for my character to be a sort of a goodie-goodie knight type; honorable and noble. I chose Valor and Lion as root words for his given and surname and gave them both a French flair to come up with Valorien Lyonnaire.

[Oraros]

Well, I just changed my name for lore reasons yesterday. It originally was "Orcus Oraros". I got Orcus from the Latin god Orcus, a god of the underworld and the punisher of broken oaths. I could not find anything short in the Mongolian language that meant "oath", so I just put two words together and went with "Ganbatu", which I think means firm steel. And I chose "Dotharl" because I like the tribe

[Bright-Flower]

I named my main Karen Brightflower. I figure Karen works well enough as a hyur name. Brightflower I didn't initially put much thought into. Later down the road I made a small retcon where her actual surname was Ashwood and 'Bright Flower' came from her time int he blood sands. In her backstory Karen was trained for the blood sands alongside a few other pupils by a Hellsguard and the idea was they all used hellsguard style names in the blood sands as a sort of tribute to their mentor, and Karen went with Bright Flower due to other backstory reasons I'm not going to get into right now.

I have a Xaela alt named Xinal Moonblade. Moonblade isn't a Xaela clan but I explained that by having her having run away from her birth clan, and having no desire to continue using that clan name, and making up a surname because she eventually found her way to other nations where having family surnames was a normal thing.

Another character of mine goes by Alice the Red, or in game Alice The-red because it was a stage name of sorts from a traveling entertainment troupe she grew up with, with her being an orphan. She goes by that over her actual surname. I suppose I could use the 'the red' title now in Stormblood, but I like my current setup and the character is an arcanist rather than red mage.

[Iscah]

I'm now on the verge of renaming my non-lore-accurate characters, and just trying to decide whether I'm happy enough with the names to commit to it.

For my female Roegadyn - after many readings through the name dictionary, I've settled on 'Brynwyda' (Spring Willow). As I mentioned before, I liked the association of the tree with the Bole card/constellation and her role as tank, so it was a matter of finding something for the first half of the name that made sense and didn't look too unpronouncable once combined.
EDIT: and I've just had it pointed out that 'Ver' is Latin for spring. Her name is currently Verdalyn. Clearly it's meant to be!

For my male Duskwight - I didn't really like any of the names from the character generator (plus don't really want to have a name that others will get by chance), so I ended up looking through the NPC database for areas with high Elezen population, and found 'Sylviel' which I really like. My only hesitation is that it turns out the NPC is from the bard questline which is my character's main class! So it's going to be "Sylviel, meet Sylviel"....

I also started another character, a male Raen, and I've named him Haru which can mean 'light'.

[Rhus]

Didn't want to call myself something jarring for gameplay and wanted it to fit in. So with some research and trial/error I eventually paired up Y'dyalani Rhus. Sounds nice and flows well and fits with the lore of naming. Also seems to be rather unique with not many dyalani running about on the server....that was until I got to Ala Ghiri and there is an NPC there called J'dyalani. I had finally met my Nemesis!!!! >.>

[EnigMatt]

I had a lot of fun looking up terms in the Roegadyn dictionary here before making my FemRoe character. Given that the Sea Wolves are associated with seafaring exploration, I wanted to create a name that had words for tree species. Ships are made of wood, and I wanted her name to convey the strength and protection inherent in a well-built vessel. Translated, Zedyrskylt Rhotulmwyn's name means "Cedar Shield, Daughter of Red Elm."