What's the story behind your name?

[LyraMaru]

Salia is one of my favourite characters out of the game I'll always be in love. Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time. Her name was changed because of localization and in english it's Saria. Maru is a combination of the two first letters of my two cats names.

Oh and my forum name Lyra is because of Lyra Silvertongue - His Dark Materials.

[Linadae]

So, Dracyn was a name I created using two syllables that looked and sounded nice. It was originally for an alt character on SWTOR. Then I quit and moved to FFXIV. I liked the name so much that I decided to use it again just with a different last name.

I picked Navarre because it’s the last name of the main character from one of my favorite movies, Ladyhawke.

[Mahoukenshi]

My first character was purely chosen from the name generator: Altani Qestir. From all the first names, I liked Altani the most.
My second character is a blatant reference to the Trails of Cold Steel series: Altina Schwarzer (even the choice as a Viera might be a slight attribute to that lol). Had even a few tells who noticed it right away .

[Xeltoris]

Honestly, I can't tell you where this last name came from. The first name mostly comes from liking Anna as a name (used for a lot of different games), but the last name was... not random, but sort of picked from a list of other names I've used because I felt like it would fit as a last name.

[lolicon09]

https://granblue.fandom.com/wiki/Charlotta

[Berkilak]

Raen have Japanese-esque names. Kawa shares a similar meaning to my actual surname, whereas Tokugawa was my favourite faction in a certain Total War.

[Bright-Flower]

Nyr Ardyne doesn't have that much of a story behind it, I just played around with sounds in my head and that's what I came up with.

[Recon1o6]

My viera alt's name is Tarynis Arda. Arda is the name of the village she grew up in. Tarynis however is named for the fields next to the forest she was born in since her mother used to like gazing over them and watching the outside world.

My other alt I made up on the spot :P

Avarnia's got a fun name. Its her best guess translation into eorzean from dragonspeak (not helped by Eorzean according to the first lore book, having a bit variation on how things are spelt) with some slight changes to make it easier to speak for those that aren't auri, miqote or ishgardian. The first is what the eorzean translation would be, the second is her actual name

ai[h]-fa[h]-nee[h]
afa[h]-fa[n]-ai[h]-ohle[h]

high-ancient-journey
eternal-fire-high-knowledge

Her last name corthal... i dont actually remember

[-Mira-]

On the forum and also in game kind of. Well forum I wasn't sure but I think Mira normal was taken or maybe not I don't know but added some dashes to it.

As for my oldest character on this account I kept Mira for a first name and Amariyo was just a random name option that clicked with me when I made the character. Irl my family name starts with an A too. Mira is kind of a short version of my actual name. I don't mind being called Mira and it will certainly also make things less awkward if per chance (if let's say a fanfest is to happen) and people are like oh hi Mira, I won't have to correct people too much. Like some people may still call me by my full name but at least I know I respond to Mira just as well without feeling awkward about it. Also my second name if put into katakana in Japanese ends on Mira so all together it suits me well actually.

Feel a little less about Amariyo I may change it someday. I play on a NA server and some native to Spanish people thought I am a Spanish speaker because Amariyo sounds like amarillo which makes my name sort of sound like "Look Yellow" in their language... ehm... Sorry I wish I knew the language, but I don't.

Same fun thing sort of happened to my Chaos alt I gave her the name Mira again and added Celeste to it because I like the name Celeste (and also the colour of sky blue and the Celeste green we got). I like that it means "of the sky / heavenly". But also learned that in Italian Mira Celeste means Aim Celestial or Celestial Aim or so? I umm idk not really what I meant to I just like the sound. I am aware Mira is a word in some latin languages but in my case it is really just closer to my own name. I do dress up my chaos Mira in som blue clothes often though I also have an affection for soft pinks and stronger reds so don't be surprised if I dress my character in those.

I think my favourite colours are Blue and Green with a high liking of some Reds that certainly can be called favourites too.

Edit wanted to add:
My JP alt got the name Madelief Hinagiku, both words mean Daisy one in Dutch and one in Japanese. Japan and the Netherlands have a long trade but also somewhat cultural exchange history. The foreigners were to stay on a little man made island called Dejima also sometimes spelled as Decima or Desjima. The beginning sounds a little bit like Daisy phonetically if you use some fantasy. The Dutch (and possibly also Japanese?) word is a girls name so all together I just thought it would be the perfect name for a character on Elemental to get to know the other side of the world a little better.

EditEdit: Not even sure if anyone sees this still but I wrote Hinagiku wrong. Only noticed when in bed already lurking on the tablet and I am not logged in on there

[BunniEclair]

It’s fun to read the thought everyone has put into their names and characters.

As for me? I just like little pastries.