What's the story behind your name?

[Nethereal]

A specific section of Skyrim mods. You can just google my character name. As for my forum one it's a variation of many old names I used to use, Nellentha, Nethena, Netheria, etc.

[Xia_Thas]

I hit random on the WoW name generator back in vanilla and it showed up

[CalliopeDragonsong]

Calliope because my first char was a bard and I thought about Apollo’s muses.
Dragonsong because this song is very important for my special someone and I (we met on the game as I was starting during HW). It was Goldstring first because of the bard job but I forgot that “string” hasn’t the same meaning in French (but FC mates surely did not XD) so I changed for Dragonsong a couple months after.

[squidmonarchy]

Tristen is a variation of the Arthurian Knight Tristan (I was amused to see the latter used for an NPC in the game). Iskallion is completely made up. I've decided it's probably a reference to scallion onions.

[Talraen]

I have two stories! My forum name is one I've used forever, and came from a random D&D name generator the first time I played D&D. I altered it slightly (I forget the original, something like Talerean), and have stuck with it ever since. And indeed that was my first character name in FFXIV.

At some point early in 1.0 I switched servers along with some friends, and at that point I decided to change to a female character. Some years earlier, in college, I invented a whole family very loosely based on myself and my siblings for use as NPCs in another D&D campaign. Since FFXIV required a last name, and they had one, I thought that was a good source of names. And so I named my character Amileigh Galashin. However, the reason we had switched servers was to play with a friend of a friend, and his character's name was Amelie something or other. I didn't want to have such a similar name, so I switched to the other female character in the group, Ryelle, who was the least defined of the four. It wasn't a name I'd ever used for anything, but it stuck and I've been using it in FFXIV and any other game where I have a female avatar since 1.0 (with a brief switch during Heavensward because I wanted to try Au Ra).

[BunnBunn]

Forum name - I started as a Viera but didn't liked that you can't wear hats. D:
Character name - I changed it when I switched races and well... have you ever played Age of Empires?

[Joeking]

I bought from a guy in an alley.

[Chie_M]

The Rhana Dandra or "End of All Days" in the Aeldari Lexicon, is the legendary final battle of the Aeldari species against Chaos that will end with the destruction of both, as prophesied in Aeldari mythology.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Rhana_Dandra

I like how similar "the End of All Days" and "The Final Days [of Amaurot]" are to each other. It's like a reference within a reference. ^_^

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

First name is carried over from my FFXI days. Added "Rose" as a last name cause it sounded good together.

[Soge01]

My name I just picked through the randomizer back when I was a Keepr of the Moon female Miqo'te. Recently, I finally got around to changing it so I wouldn't hog up that ne anymore since I'm not a Miqo'te anymore. Plus, it felt a little weird playing through the story and having characters call me by a Miqo'te name when I wasn't one anymore.

I'm trying to get used this name, as it's just basically my old name, but changed so it's not an official Miqo'te name anymore. But I feel I'll be changing it slightly hear and there until I feel satisfied with it and I really don't as I love to horde my money. xD