What's the story behind your character's name?

[Soukyuu]

Soukyuu (蒼穹) is "azure" or "azure sky" in Japanese, and I really like the color of the sky, especially right after clouds clear after a brief rain that clears out all of the dust. I've been using "Azure" as my nick for some time, but as you can imagine, it's quite common (one reason being that blue is one of the most common favorite colors). At that time I just started learning Japanese and heard the term "soukyuu" for the first time in Soukyuu no fafner. Since then, I've been using it as my nick.

Now, FFXIV was the first time a game wanted the first AND last name from me. In beta I just went for Yuri Soukyuu (azure lily) for my testchar, but at release I decided to play a male lalafell. So now I needed a first name...

I don't remember how exactly I ended up choosing Crim, but it was partially a certain game having the saying "crimson and azure become as sun", .hack//SIGN's Crim and a play on words "crimsoukyuu = crimson soukyuu = Crimson Azure".

So basically it ended up being a concept of the calm, blue sky and the crimson opposite.
A sort of ying-yang, I guess.

my mains a combination of my first Name "Ivan" and the sword of legend "Durandal".

Oh hi, namesake

Talshara Blade as far as I know was original. I didn't get it from anywhere that I know of.

I keep reading that as "Tal Rasha" all the time!

I read all the 32 pages, lots of interesting stories. Great thread :P