What's the story behind your name?

[Chie_M]

I have Viera names on my mind at the moment since I'm wanting to make a new alt once the males are available (and already have a character visually in mind because I liked one of the example characters from the reveal), but the names are confusing.

The naming conventions in the Lore forum say to look at Icelandic names, but browsing that list on Behind the Name doesn't seem to have any of the examples or the feel of them - though it does seem to be the direct source for Ronso names in the First (Bragi, Magnus and Runar are all on there).

I'm not even sure which gender I should be looking at, because if their genders aren't apparent at birth, they logically can't have gendered names... and then on top of that, if they leave the forest they usually abandon their birth name and pick whatever they feel like calling themselves. Great for people who want to invent their character names, not so good for those of us who need prompts.

Anyway if Icelandic is indeed correct I am leaning towards Ragna/Ragnar, depending on which gender's list I should be picking from. Though (browsing as I write this) Ragnar is a variant of Rayner so for a new adopted name I could handwave the etymology and call him... Rain? Reyn? Rayn? Something like that. Give it a few days and see if I like calling him that.

I might be able to help a bit! If you want to have him change his forest name but still hold to the general conventions, Viera will typically replace i's and y's in names with a J (still pronounced the same) -- so Rajn or Rejn!

[Iscah]

I might be able to help a bit! If you want to have him change his forest name but still hold to the general conventions, Viera will typically replace i's and y's in names with a J (still pronounced the same) -- so Rajn or Rejn!

Definitely an interesting thought! I'll play with that too. I think it needs to be Rejn for the spelling-to-pronunciation in that case.

I like the idea but it does feel like a bit of a stumbling block for reading it. Might just need practice.

[Ahnog]

Ahnog is made up from the letters in my wife, daughter and son's name. Nogginbash just sort of went with it.

[Reksanden]

Myifee is a name I really liked and stole from Ninety Nine Nights despite being somewhat unknowable in pronunciation. (I say "Me-fee")

Asurai was originally Azurai, and was a combination of azure and Asura - but z sounded a bit harsh the more I said it, so it became an s instead.

Both together end up being 6 letters each, and the syllables just roll off the tongue well.

[Shadream]

"Amathel" is an elvish name I made for a Hobbit lass in Lotro, created as a Warden. "Amath" are Noldorin, meaning Shield, while "-el" is a feminine suffix meaning -daughter. This then became "Shield daughter" (although I guess someone who knows elvish better could tear this apart). This matched the class which used a shield and the background story I made for why a hobbit had an elvish name.

And because my character in FFXIV is also a small race, and my main job is Paladin (which also use a shield), I saw no reason why not to keep the name.

"Somnium" is Latin and means something like "Dream" or "Dreamer", depending on the source of the translation. I'm a huge daydreamer in RL, so it suits me.

[Vahlnir]

I wanted to have a unisex name for starters since I had been switching between male and female characters for a long time. I settled on Elan Centauri. Haven't switched genders in a long, long time but it's fine. I like where I ended up. lol Elan was largely inspired by a song by the same name created by Nightwish, one of my favorite bands ever, the song being from their best album ever created (in my opinion at least). Centauri was inspired by Alpha Centauri, one of the closest star systems to us in our galaxy. I absolutely LOVE astronomy. I had a character in Phantasy Star Universe many years ago named Rigel Kentaurus which is an alternate name for Alpha Centauri, and my character in WoW was named Kentaurus. So...decided to keep the name going with this variation. My character's first name was Vahlnir (inspired by my character name in FF XI) at ARR launch (hence my forum name) but I gave that name to my chocobo after the change, with an alteration or two.

[_Koneko_]

Ko = Young, Neko = Cat ... and i play a cat so :P

[HollyJollyPaca]

With my first main--Y'jhimei Y'lshaweh--was literally just a copy of the Y'jhimei from the FFXV collab, surname added by myself.

But for Adonis Peachblossom, it honestly came to me in a dream along with her design. Adonis was the lover of Aphrodite and the god of beauty/desire. Peachblossom I'm sure was influenced by the peachblossom items, which she wears on a regular basis.

[MilkieTea]

previously, X’Kaia Lue was the name I chose for my suncat, I chose to go with the Lynx tribe because I initially thought of her (post fantasia) as very elegant in an adorable way (like a lynx). So her name would be pronounced “She-Kaia”. And then i chose Lue because i have an unhealthy obsession with Lue-Reeq, the physical DPS questgiver in shadowbringers. I headcannoned that after the events of Shadowbringers, Kaia and Reeq settled down together, and everything that happened afterwards happened to Liliru (I just needed to wait to fantasia).

I dont have any reason for going with Liliru other than wanting a lore appropriate name, ahah. Almost went with Osasa Osa but thats the wrong tribe.

[Shinzo]

Kissaki Mikazuki

Kissaki is the tip section of a Japanese sword;

Mikazuki (三日月) means "crescent moon"