Favorite character names ?

Adamantine · February 2023

What are your own favorite character names in games, or names that have a special story, or anything like that ?

Angrakhan · February 2023

The most popular names seem to involve picking two completely random and unrelated words that also are unrelated to the game and use that. Leadpickle, pinkbicycle, fuzzycircuit. Anything like that is what 90% of people choose so yeah I think that's you're general answer.

As for me I have a handful of names I reuse depending on genre that are names I've used before all the way back to my table top D&D days. It's either due to nostalgia or my lack of creativity. Maybe both!

cameltosis · February 2023

Anstalt

Spit

Scab

Ragnar

Jennifern

Those are my main names.

Anstalt means "asylum" (as in insane asylum) in German....or so im told, i dont speak German! I feel like it suits melee focused characters well, especially if I can have a beserker spec. Plus, I've never had the name already be taken. I tend to use it on Dwarven characters.

Spit is my favourite orc name, and with orcs being my favourite fantasy race I tend to use it a lot. I wanted a name that was both aggressive and a bit disgusting, so I feel like I nailed it with this one!

Scab is similar to Spit, but less aggressive and more disgusting. I use it for goblins, or alt-orcs.

Ragnar is just because im a big vikings fan. This is usually my go-to name for human males, but in MMOs its usually taken.

Jennifern is because Jennifer is my favourite female name, and with the "n" on the end it felt a bit more homely, a bit more country. I used this name on my main in LotRO for 5 years and became very attached to it.

Mendel · February 2023

I use Mendel a lot because it could be many different languages from Arabic to Polish. I also use Walvis, Chesterton, and Palmerdale a lot these days, they sound like characters. I've also used obscure words, like Quend, Uvvu, and Zyzzyva.

AlBQuirky · February 2023

My favorite name came from Skyrim: Riik Stormdancer.

"Riik" means "Gale" in Dragon Tongue.

"Stormdancer" was cool (I thought) Nordic name.

My "idea" was to create a Dragonborn Nord and run around using my Storm Call shout with dual blades. Call a storm, start "dancing about" lopping off heads while thunder rolls and lightning strikes my foes. This worked until my first involving city guards. Those strikes do not know friend from foe. lol

Another name I use frequently in gaming is Menolly. I took this from Anne MacCaffrey's Dragon Riders of Pern books (The Harper Hall series). In her book about the Harper's Hall, we get to meet and follow Menolly from her fishing hold to being discovered for the Harper Hall. I love that story!

I've tried using "Al B. Quirky" a few times, but that never stuck with me

Hope this wasn't too boring!

Gorwe · February 2023

Depends on the character. And what's my intended story for him(/her). I can explain more if you want.

AlBQuirky · February 2023

Gorwe said:

Depends on the character. And what's my intended story for him(/her). I can explain more if you want.

Do! I like hearing how players come up with names

OG_Solareus · February 2023

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spectrala · February 2023

Lara Croft is a beloved character in the gaming world for many reasons! Not only is she a skilled adventurer who can take down any challenge, but she also has a killer fashion sense and can rock that signature braid like nobody's business. Plus, who wouldn't want to explore ancient tombs and uncover lost treasures? Lara Croft is the epitome of badassery, and that's why so many gamers love her!

Grymmoire · February 2023

In ESO:

My Khajiit is named Kitty-Did-a-Bad-Thing;

An Argonion is named Cries Crocodile Tears;

My Warden (a pay class) is named Knot Free

In LOTRO

Pitterpatter Paddywhack

Several more in GW2 I can't recall right now:

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Scot · February 2023

LiamEvans210 said:

I usually name my character Krugos; I don't really like my real name, so I never use it. If playing with a female character or several characters, I have a few other names that I use often.

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Gorwe · February 2023

AlBQuirky said:

Gorwe said:

Depends on the character. And what's my intended story for him(/her). I can explain more if you want.

Do! I like hearing how players come up with names

Ok. Whom should I use? Let's use my SWTOR Sith Warrior. I wanted an example of a slow burn, of internal, everburning, controlled rage. So, my thoughts naturally went to Embers and such concepts. But that's a silly, non Sith name. So I was like ... Lord Ember ... ? Emberspear. That sounds Sith Pureblood enough. Especially when I imagined him coming more from the Hunter Caste.

But! That isn't enough, is it? Yes, let's be 100% original. What can we do? Well, this is a 1000s old species(even at time of SWTOR), no? Do they have their own language? Most certainly: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sith_(language) . And so it is:

Lord Chwuq'Sutta.

(There is a chance I should invert the order of those words, but this just sounds ... right and as such, I don't care. Besides, should anyone decide to copy me, I can easily check stuff, with that ace up my sleeve)

(I generally invest great effort into merging who my character is{class, looks, name etc} with what my vision for it is)

Scot · February 2023

Just a warning, if you are ever discussing a game that is about to launch, don't give out your name. I have seen people post later that someone had taken the name, you don't need three guesses to work out what happened there, some players are just bast****.

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Adamantine · April 2023

cameltosis said:
Anstalt means "asylum" (as in insane asylum) in German....or so im told, i dont speak German!

Well the famous tv show "Die Anstalt" or "Neues aus der Anstalt" (news from the asylum) is indeed an insane asylum ... as the backdrop for political comedy.

But the word has many meanings.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anstalt

Examples:

Strafanstalt = prison

Heilanstalt = sanatorium

Badeanstalt = swimming bath (for the public)

Versicherungsanstalt = insurance company

Etc

Basically its some kind of institution, often in public service of some kind.

Adamantine · April 2023

Scot said:

Just a warning, if you are ever discussing a game that is about to launch, don't give out your name. I have seen people post later that someone had taken the name, you don't need three guesses to work out what happened there, some players are just bast****.

Yeah I was more thinking single player games for this thread.

In single player games I usually pick names like:

- Rose

- Marilyn

- Morgan

- Faye

- Alicia

- Diana

- Norma

- Joy

- Arthur

- Lance

- Merlin

- Martin

- Christian

- Siegfried

- Matthew

Or, in short, I try to find pretty names.

My multiplayer names are easy to explain: I always use a new one that I never used before. Pretty much like forum names. The difference is, with multiplayer names I try to come up with names that actually fit the scenario. Like when I was playing Qaliathari in Vanguard, I looked up arabic names for my characters. For the record, it was actually pretty hard to find names that I actually liked, and that was also still available.

Adamantine · April 2023

Angrakhan said:

The most popular names seem to involve picking two completely random and unrelated words that also are unrelated to the game and use that. Leadpickle, pinkbicycle, fuzzycircuit. Anything like that is what 90% of people choose so yeah I think that's you're general answer.

I also like the idea of picking a name and changing something about it.

I got the idea from Baldurs Gate, where "Victoria" turned into "Viconia".

cameltosis · April 2023

Adamantine said:

In single player games I usually pick names like:

- Rose
- Marilyn
- Morgan
- Faye
- Alicia
- Diana
- Norma
- Joy

You have Morgan as a female name? Morgana I could understand, but I've only ever met men named Morgan.

Adamantine · April 2023

Morgan La Fey is definitely a woman.

cameltosis · April 2023

Adamantine said:

Morgan La Fey is definitely a woman.

Interesting! I've always called her Morganna La Fey, but looking at Wiki it seems she had an awful lot of names, depending on which language the legend has been written in.

Morgenes83 · April 2023

John Doe or Max Mustermann

Adamantine · April 2023

For the record, I was wrong.

She is called Morgan *Le* Fey. Not "La Fey".

Its gaelic, not french.

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