Names

Bellator

Hopefully this is the right spot for this

Just wondering where people got their names from , like did you make it up as suggested or take it from elsewhere , any reasons behind your name?

Bellator - is  two fold , it means warrior/fighter in roman and thats what  i plan to be eventually , i have a long way to go though and its a name of a mma promotion company - the second being what helped me pick my class

feel free to share yours if you'd like.

Aerek

My name's Eric. I was not creative in high school.

Davio

My name is David, but since I was 15 I went by Davio. Starting here at 16, I didn't even plan to play after the first week so I just went with it.

Vayne

Vayne was the name of character from Green Witch in the Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper.

I did not get it from FF.
I did not get it from LoL.

Bluef

Bellator said:

Hopefully this is the right spot for this

Just wondering where people got their names from , like did you make it up as suggested or take it from elsewhere , any reasons behind your name?

Bellator - is  two fold , it means warrior/fighter in roman and thats what  i plan to be eventually , i have a long way to go though and its a name of a mma promotion company - the second being what helped me pick my class

feel free to share yours if you'd like.

Bluef was Bluefairy in the Trial of Rebirth. Yeah, that should tell you how much I'd played a MUD or roleplayed before Flair dragged me into Achaea one weekend. Now I roleplay that it was the sound @Amunet made when she slid off the barstool and gave birth to me though (it's in Bluef's background that way, heh), which explains why most people pronounce it "Blooooef." 8 /

Edit: I should probably clarify that Flair and I are both writers, and at the time we were writing a series of poems back and forth in response-style with lots of allusions to Pinnochio (the real story not the Disney movie). Otherwise, the initial name choice might sound even weirder than it was. 

Tvistor

Err.

Vistor was taken (no influence at all, I just like the letter 'v') so I added a 't'. Hashan didn't have enough of an RP environment at the time for little things like my name or ideology to matter.

Melodie

Melody was taken, and thus she became Melodie.

I was obsessed with the name when I made her at 16. She also started out as a Bard, in Cyrene. Creative, I know. I hated swashbuckling with a passion, though.

Nizaris

Nizaris was originally a serpent. As an assassin, I wanted to pick a name that embodied his profession. The more obscure, the better.

So, I went to Wikipedia, and searched for the Muslim Hashashin, the namesake for our current anglicanized word "assassin". I found out that the word was actually a misnomer for a particular sect of muslims at the time, known as the Nizari Ismailis.

Now, Niz is an apostate, so ... oops?

Jiraishin

One of my friends read a manga called Jiraishin and I thought it sounded cool, plus I like the letter J. I was basically making a username, not a character name. I also had no idea HELP NAMECHANGE existed until somewhat later, which was kind of a shame because I would have used it had I known.

Novak

I did a generator name search and I found this name and it sounded cool so I took it.

Jacen

Star Wars, obviously

Amunet

I was obsessed with Egyptian mythology when I first began playing Achaea, and I loved the name "Amunet" when I came across it. I can't remember whether or not I ever explained away the name in-game, but I did deliberately give Amu a terrible, pseudo-Egyptian middle name, to which only a few people are privy. It's a source of roleplayed dismay whenever anyone rifles through Amu's personal effects and discovers it.

To carry on the tradition, I've given every one of my text-children a middle name, which they mostly hate. As for Bluef's name, I've always pronounced it "blue-eff", likely because I remember the initial "Bluefairy" attempt. I've always written off the peculiar moniker (and all of her faults and shortcomings) as the fault of her father.

Thaumas

Random Greek word adjusted to avoid gender confusion.

Azuhi

Wanted something unique, so I tried making up a name. I can't remember what first try sounded like, but I recall checking it on google and turned out it was some kind of bean. Then, on second go, I wanted it to sound unisex, so if/when I would get involved in combat, people would get shocked she's actually a she. Turned out it worked too well because people still think Azu is male.
It also took Achaeans like a month to realize I'm not actually the ex char Azu and all that time I've been wondering why are people talking to me like they've known me for a lifetime.

Corbeaux

Corbeau is French for raven or crow. Both birds are symbolic in a way that I thought worked well for a serpent/thief character.

Jiraishin

Works well for a Nihilist, too.

Eld

Some kind of bean, maybe adzuki. Not sure if there are alternate spellings.

Started with a character named Olethros, from the Greek name used for Destruction in The Sandman. An early experience with dying and someone taking a long time to res due to not being able to type the name correctly, combined with a lack of knowledge of how targetting worked in Achaea, made me think a shorter name would be better, so next time around, came up with Eld. Later learned that eld is Swedish for fire, which is kind of neat.

Xae

I got mine from a random name generator, only to have my friend tell me it's Drowish for "Warlord", "Nobility", and/or "Sword". (Although it's supposedly a suffix)

Lodi

Lodi was an alt originally, one that was failing miserably. I was board one day and thought, "Hey, I wonder if area names are locked out?" and, because I was about to abandon him, I typed in NAME CHANGE LODI. It worked. Then completely out of the blue, Lodi took off big time. I've been cursed with it ever since. Go figure. 

Edit: I say IC that his parents where Forestals (i.e. Hippies) and thought it would be cute. Lodi has mummy and daddy issues. Does it show? 

Anaidiana

When I was 16 and started playing, I was geeking out about mythology and I loved Diana (Goddess of the moon, huntress with the silver bow). I also like palindromes. I still get people who come up to me and ask if I know my name is a palindrome (as mentioned in another thread at some point). 

Beya

My name is Ben, and I find it easier to relate to characters who have similar names - less renaming to learn! It originally started out as a name for a female character in the turn-based game Urban Dead. When I couldn't use my usual go-to name in the game, I used Beya as a substitute after a long and hardy battle with Romeo.

Romeo appeared at the arch of Minia, and told me my name needed changing. I challenged him on it, and he called in the Divine. I tried to make my roleplay position that my father had given me this name, and he'd be very disappointed if I changed it. At this point, a large selection of the Divine was there, and Romeo was getting tired of being shown up. He looked me up and down and said, "I'm only asking one thing of you." His expression changed then when he said, "I want about three fiddy."  Well, it was about this time I noticed Romeo was an eight story tall crustacean from the Palaeolithic era. I said, "I ain't givin you no three fiddy, you God damn Loch Ness monsta!" He was eventually placated by Neraeos and sent back to the ocean. I still had to change my name, though.

And that's how I came to be known as Beya Storm.

Katzchen

As a teenager I liked wearing a cat-ear headband absolutely everywhere. This got me the nickname 'Kitten'. Then online, I decided I preferred the look & sound of the german  'Kätzchen'. Which I would guess would be pronounced like Mädchen, but because this isn't germany I can pronounce it Katz-chen if I like. :P

Tahquil

The Bitterbynde trilogy - The first book was really, really good and the other two just turned into a major mary-sue author insertion wank. The main character changes her name frequently. A one stage she styles herself as "Lady of the Sorrow Isles" (which fitted for Mhaldor) but then changed to 'Tahquil' so I took it to remind myself not to play a special snowflake character.

IG reasoning - She was a slave so long she forgot what her real name was. She worked in the library of the cathedral and there was a fable about a girl called Tahquil rising from slavery to Tyrannus through hard work and dedication to the Twin Lords so when she walked the trial she took that name for herself.

Trey

Jacen said:

Star Wars, obviously

You get your arm cut off like a simple bitch, son.

Eld said:

Some kind of bean, maybe adzuki. Not sure if there are alternate spellings.

Started with a character named Olethros, from the Greek name used for Destruction in The Sandman. An early experience with dying and someone taking a long time to res due to not being able to type the name correctly, combined with a lack of knowledge of how targetting worked in Achaea, made me think a shorter name would be better, so next time around, came up with Eld. Later learned that eld is Swedish for fire, which is kind of neat.

I actually thought you took your name from the surname Eld in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King...

Ephram

After all my newbie female characters kept getting hit on by random male characters, I decided the best thing to do was gender-bend and create a male character. My roommate at the time was watching some television show with a character named Ephram on it, and I liked it. And then that was the character that took off, mostly because I could get to level 40+ without always being hit on and propositioned. (Seriously. It was all sorts of ridiculous.)

Two biggest regrets - My character is a guy, which I pretty much don't care about anymore. And his name is Ephram rather than something creative that I made up. To be honest, I didn't expect he would last. That was seven years ago.

Jacen

Trey said:

Jacen said:

Star Wars, obviously

You get your arm cut off like a simple bitch, son.

Immune to pain though, bro. SO wanted to end up in Apollyon's order. RIP

Katzchen

Ephram said:

After all my newbie female characters kept getting hit on by random male characters, I decided the best thing to do was gender-bend and create a male character. My roommate at the time was watching some television show with a character named Ephram on it, and I liked it. And then that was the character that took off, mostly because I could get to level 40+ without always being hit on and propositioned. (Seriously. It was all sorts of ridiculous.)

Two biggest regrets - My character is a guy, which I pretty much don't care about anymore. And his name is Ephram rather than something creative that I made up. To be honest, I didn't expect he would last. That was seven years ago.

When Katz was about 25, and kept hearing stories of all these newbie females being hit on at random, I questioned why I'd never run into this, despite having made several female characters. (though I was very glad of it) Then it clicked. All those random as hell people who sent her totally random 'hi' tells as a newbie, I just thought they were being weird, and brushed them of with a 'who are you, I don't know you.' or 'What is it you want?' because I found getting tells at random just bizarre. Of course they never responded beyond possibly a 'just being friendly'. Yeah right.

Melodie

That's pretty much what I did, and was never propositioned in any way, thankfully. I recently made an alt who had one troublesome bugger, but it never got to that stage, either.

Kyrra

Kyrra was just a name off the top of my head, as I like K names, and it sounded pretty. I hadn't realised when I started playing, that there was a female atavian named Kyra. The first time I ran into Kyra was so great.

Since I returned from dormancy, I've made a few alts. One of them had a really terrible time with creepers. From 18 to 22, she was not left alone and some ass was making new characters to stalk and harass her. I actually felt obligated to go and get an hourglass at age 19 just to get a brief respite. It's kind of sad because that sort of interaction really discourages getting to know other players and forge some IC friendships and relationships, because you constantly end up wondering if so and so is a sleaze, and anyone else age 18 might be that person on another alt.

Oddly enough, most of my characters end up with names that have double consonants because Trey always made comments about Kyrra, Kierra and Kiella.

Bellator

Oh wow i had the same thing happen to me but with some young siren wont mention names but she kept sending me hi and asking what i liked to do for fun , one day i replied hunting and being polite asked what she liked to do , she rambled off a list of hunting and talking with friends before ending with naughty stuff and a wink face - luckily Bellator or i havent heard from her or anyone like that since

lucky she didnt follow me around or anything

Katzchen

My characters in achaea have always somehow ended up with repetitive sounds in first & last names, and I never planned it that way. Wintir Winterhart was just lol.. I didn't find out her father's surname until after she bloodlined him. Khari Kaimelar, then when her mother changed it to Khari Caderyn, and now the double z sound in Katzchen Xanatov.