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

[Cilia]

The name "Temujin" isn't particularly significant, and simply means "of iron," meant to symbolize her unyielding will and resilience. However, this has two hidden meanings behind it: Temujin is the birth name of Genghis Khan, and is also a historically male name. So it's meant to convey strength as well as intimidation, and clue knowledgeable people into the fact that the player behind Temujin is a girl. (I'd have tried to find something else, but repositories of 16th-18th century Mongolian names with their meanings are kind of in short supply, and I don't really know Mongolian, heheh.)

(Only one person has made half of the connection. Despite wearing conservative clothing and a short haircut out of practicality, I've still been complimented / hit on a few times.)

For the tribe, I went with the Haragin because they sound relatively normal and their legend has a call to adventure in it. Temujin set out to find the mythical land covered in grey monoliths and inhabited by fire-breathing steel demons, but has a bad sense of direction and stumbled into Eorzea during her travels before being swept up in the events of the story.

My original character and name, Cilia Grayve, was a Highlander Hyur whose name was simply pulled out of the RNG; I changed to an Au Ra at 3.0's launch. For a brief moment in Heavensward I changed to a Sea Wolf Roegadyn named Wakkahtyn Rhotarsyn ([A]woken Judge, Son of the Red Eagle; meant as a pseudonym for someone who had a past in crime but decided to dedicate his life to justice), and before that I had pretty much the same character / avatar as I do now, just with the forename "Temulun" instead. (Happily the name change alleviated the issue of being confused with the khatun of the Mol once we finally got to the Steppe.)

[Berethos]

All but my original main (wasn't my first character, but was the first I capped on) use naming conventions now after I discovered the random name generator uses the established rules to generate its names when I was creating an Elezen alt (a name I've since retired here but still use frequently in other games).

While most of my time is spent on my main, I do have the others if I feel like running around (at this point it's literally just running around, haven't taken the time to level with them yet) as a different race for a bit (easier on the wallet than fantasias when the mood strikes me, heh).

My main, Ciara Dorne, is an altered spelling of Keaira Dorne, which is one of the names generated for Hyur Midlanders, and might be the only one that uses the generated pairing. With the others I ended up taking a generated first name and pairing it with a generated last name. The original character design features dark hair (and depending on the hair I'm using it goes back to dark), and as the name is a feminine version of Ciaran, which can (apparently) mean dark-haired, the name felt like a good fit.

For the rest of the names, it's just names I like the sound of and think I can pronounce with little trouble.
Highlander - Elia Thorne
Seeker - V'arimbeh Lhea
Elezen (Wildwood) - Sophiane Lothaire
Keeper - Khloe Zhwan (finding an unused pairing in this was really, really difficult).

[Theodric]

I always strive to adhere to the established naming conventions in any given setting. I don't like playing characters that feel disconnected from their surroundings.

I chose 'Ryuji Akagane' as my character's name since it adheres to what we'd expect for a character that resides in Hingashi. I didn't do much research into the name itself and simply picked what sounded good from a list of Japanese first and last names. As it turns out, they fit perfectly.

'Ryuji' can translate to 'governor dragon' or 'next dragon'.

'Akagane' translates to 'copper'.

Let's just say that he's a very driven individual when it comes to advancing Hingashi's interests and who is also deeply spiritual and reveres the Kami. If it ever came down to it and he was forced to rely on sheer desperation to succeed then he'd likely try and turn himself into an Eikon...and it'd likely take on the visage of some sort of fire dragon.

[Grayve]

My name is just a transliteration of my original Hyur name, Selena Grayve. When i finally made a Roe I liked, I kept it as close as I could.

[Tsumdere]

Both 'Anloix' and 'Etiegeant' are just syllables mashed together to make a French-sounding name.

My alts are :

Ix'ajaw Inihk. I have had a character named Ixajaw through all of my MMOs as an Ix-ajaw was the term for a Mayan female ruler. I just added an apostrophe and made my own clan the Ix to justify it as a lore name lol.

Qulangan Buduga. First name means 'white steel' because he is a big strong boy with white hair and eyes. It is so on the nose because I imagine that he was renamed when he joined the Buduga. I chose the Buduga two years ago (I was a Buduga before it was cool) because I was originally going to RP as a Borlaaq, but I cannot see female Au Ra as anything but weird looking. So, I did the reverse. Call me naive, but I was not expecting the amount of /tells I get now that SB has hit.

[swiss_Momo]

first name = name of waifu to honour her (no, not the Blazblue one)
second name = kept hitting that random name button in chargen until something I liked came up

[Rofel]

I made the Dokfel first based on the Rockbell family from FMA. Changed some letters and made the first name acording to the plainsfolk rules!

[Miyha]

Prefacing by stating I started out as a Mooncat with a Mooncat-based name, and became known by said name and didn't want to change it as a result. XP

Miyha is essentially a Miqo'te-fied version of "Mia" (both pronounced mee-yah btw), a name I've used in the past. Manaya just happened to be the last name of a favorite boss in a previous MMO I played (Shandra Manaya from TERA), and its spelling patterns seemed like it could work as one of the "lesser Keeper tribes" referenced in the lore. How I explain this name being attributed to an Au Ra: she was adopted. |D

Her birth name I decided is Kahlan Kagon, Kagon being the moon-worshipping tribe of Xaela residing in the Nhaama Desert, and Kahlan being a favorite character in one of my favorite books, also a possible spelling variant of Khulan, a wife of Genghis Kahn.

[Lunaxia]

Rin is my usual online alias I had even before knowing anything about lore-appropriate names, which by a stroke of luck also fit Raen naming conventions. I chose Aomine ("blue peak") because blue is my favourite colour, and I liked the imagery and kanji associated with it (青峰.)

I'd never actually seen or heard of KB before choosing it, which is where most people assume it's from, lol.

[Austratus]

My main is a Sea Wolf Roegadyn, and his name means "Bent Choir, son of Hollow Castle". I did have the help of a (now-defunct) name generator, but there wasn't any particular reason behind choosing his name other than the fact I wanted something authentic sounding for the official launch of the game-- I had named the same character in Beta as Hyurrim Greysky.


My alt is a Midlander by name of Chaucer Shawnes, named after the famous English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.