What's the story behind your name?

[Krokov]

Krokov is the name of the villain in the 1981 Disney movie Condorman. Reynall is just something I thought up.

[PerrinTaveren]

My name is Tiny Papoy.

My sister calls me a papoy, the word comes from despicable me movies. Minions call unicorn toy papoy in the movies. So i wanted something to remind me of my sister because i love her.

And i am tiny because i am lalafell

[ShanaShirayuki]

I was a fan of League of Legends back during 2.0, and my favorite character was Akali. Back then the lore for LoL was bare bones, so I took some creative liberty in coming up with a last name.

Fast forward a few years and I stopped playing LoL by then, so I incorporated the name into my character's lore / RP backstory. Sometimes I'll get the occassional tell or greeting from another player who still plays LoL, but for me it's more about the former.

Her name roughly translates to Light Dark, so much of my glamours pertain to cosmic dualism (such as Yin and Yang) and includes many black and white color schemes.

[Theodric]

Character Name:

It fit the Midlander naming conventions.

Forum Name:

I didn't put much thought into it. When I first made my account, I had no idea whether I'd stick with the game or not on a long term basis. So I just came up with something random. I'd like to change it someday, though it isn't currently possible.

[Kaizencorr]

Kaizen is a philosophy about making improvements everyday(very rough interpretation, I know it started in business) That mindset of just continually improving just resonates with who I am in real life.

And Corinthian (Corrinthian, because it was actually taken) is my favorite book of the bible. Most of it are letters calling out churches for not doing what they are supposed to do and how they are really supposed to conduct themselves. It's a call to action again to improve.

[Kamatsu]

My characters names come from WoW. Back when I started playing WoW I wanted 'lore' appropriate names for my characters, but didn't really know the lore very well... so used it's name-generator (which used list's of names that were considered 'lore appropriate' for each race) for every character I made. There were some names that I really liked... so tend to use them in games I play.

I tried the random name generator here in XIV, but just couldn't find a name I liked. So ended up using non-lore appropriate names I'd used back in WoW.

[Aeeninwen_Taldel]

I chose Aeeninwen Taldel because it was my DnD name back in the day. I also think it sounds pretty. It doesn't particularly mean anything that I know of, it's just a DnD style name, almost elvish.

[seida]

For my main she was originally Creamy Goodness, but I changed it to Creamy Choux to be... slightly more elezen-sounding, haha.

My alt is a roe named Dhemgeim Fyrlihtwyn, I really like sea wolf names so decided to go lore compliant with it. Looked up the rules and various words and after a while came up with one I liked. It translates as 'dusk jewel, daughter of firelight'.

[MikkoAkure]

Forum name: All the way back in 1.0 I was a hot midlander guy with the name "Mikko Akure" for all of one week, but it happened to be the week that I decided to make a profile on the forums. After that week I decided to go back to my main since I didn't feel like doing everything all over again.

My character's name journey started in 1.0 with my first main character, who was a cute little lalafell named "Mido Azeri". "Mido" from the solfedge musical scale for "mi" and "do" and "Azeri" because it was Basque language for "fox" and I thought it sounded cool lol. When ARR dropped, I retired my 1.0 main (still exists on the server as a hot midlander guy with a different name and an inventory of 1.0 stuff), and started from scratch in a new slot with a male miqo since we couldn't play those in FFXI. I kept "Mido" but changed my last name to "Ajihri" since that was close to my original surname and was also a surname used by at least one mithra NPC in FFXI. When I decided to switch to female miqo'te, I kept the last name but wanted to have my first name be similar to my old name, while keeping the musical theme and still being something short that sounds it would still be a proper miqo'te name, so "Midi" was the obvious choice.

I've pretty much permanently been a midlander hyur now for a couple of years (minus a brief stint as viera) and have given up my miqo'te past, but I haven't settled on a new name yet. I don't RP, but I prefer lore-correct names for all my characters in all different games so it still bugs me. But at this point, everyone I know in-game knows me as "Midi" so it would be awkward to change anyway.