124532-whats-behind-the-name

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			Seeing the discussion about the name that was offensive I'm wondering about the meaning or story behind you character's name.Elfarran, first time I actually used this name and I've grown to love it I normally went for Ithuuna for my main char. That name came from the goddess Ithunn who guards the apple the kept the gods etnerally young. Ithuuna was actually my main Esper in beta but I decided not to main an esper but a spellslinger at launch so I felt I had to make a new character. There is still an Ithuuna though and yes she is an Esper ;)For Elfarran, that name actually comes from the book the earthsea. She was called Elfarran the Fair and she was a Queen. She drowned when her island got lost beneath the sea by magic of enemies of her husband.'In the oval of light for a moment there moved a form, a human shape: a tall woman looking back over her shoulder. Her face was beautiful, and sorrowful, and full of fear.'It sounded so fitting for an Aurin that had to flee her homeworld and I wanted a strong character but still have her gentle and the name helps I think.Okay now it's your turn ;)	
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My name has very profound origin
 
 
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Hmmm,
 
Olivar is simply a name I have been using for quite some time as Roleplay character.
The last name Nax comes from reading the Lore, where Chua are supposed to have short, sound-like names.
That's all really.	
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Vince Blood is my YouTube/online in general name.  Been going by it for years, and I firmly believe that if I lived on Nexus I'd be OBSESSED with Resonator technology.  Shit's cool, yo.  To give some backstory to the name itself, I got it from a very temperamental British gent at Quakecon in my youth.  I kept blowing him off the map with a railgun, and my in-game name was just Vince (creative).  Eventually, he began swearing, yelling "OH GREAT, BLOODY @#$%IN' VINCE IS HERE!"  After 2 more rounds of me perforating him, he just kept yelling "HERE COMES LITTLE VINNY BLOOD!"  I thought that was awesome so I made it my own.
 
Imperator Deathgrind is a tribute to my City of Villains character Deathgrind, who was reincarnated in CO as Imperator, then went back to Deathgrind in a few DND campaigns.  Long Live AP33.
 
Zuja Steelrender, my Draken Stalker, was a joke about how I always tried to name a character in an MMO "Zujan" but they always ended up getting deleted.  Zuja isn't having it, and she's keeping the name.	
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			Well my name was at first Eden Vanelope.My name is based on my own personality. I try to be classy and pure like Eden. But I'm more like a clumsy not always charming young lady like Vanellope von schweetz in Wreck it Ralph. :PI however decided to go back to my very first nickname I gave myself (and made up myself) when I was about 8-9 years old. It's when I first started rolling into the online world and may have been staring at a box of truffles in the fridge for a bit too long... The full name was: Tuffle. Most people called me Tuff however and that's how it all kinda happened. c: Nothing too fancy, but I like how it really suits me, and my whole lifestyle as an artist, wich can be very tuff ;) 	
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FranBunnyFFXII pretty simple
 
Fran, is the most intelligent and enigmatic character from FFXII.
 
She's also a bunny girl
 
Fran, the Bunny, from FFXII
 
FranBunnyFFXII.
 
/throws confetti	
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Mr shackelberry, came from back when I played tabletop dnd as a youngster. 
 
The full name was Mr shshackelberry wonderfinger (I know what you are thinking, but no) 
He was a cleptomanic goblin with a knack for technology. 
 
The name just sorta stuck with me for a long time, it even changed to Mr slackelberry during Rift cause I lost a bet to some guildies (cleric tanking was quite relaxing) 
 
And now it has moved on to Wildstar and to my studies in multimedia design where I decided on shackel productions :-P	
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I chose Kaeret Greenleaf as a kind of inside joke to myself.
 
For most of my 40+ years, I've been a "meatatarian". I never really enjoyed the taste or texture of most vegetables (including carrots). As I've gotten older, things have ever so gradually changed. I've learned to re-tune my tastes and eating habits. I still don't enjoy most vegetables, but I have grown to tolerate (and I dare say enjoy) some of them in my diet (including carrots).
 
When I discovered WildStar, and learned it had veggie critters running around, I knew I couldn't pass up tipping my hat to them, so to speak.
 
Rather than just go with the traditional spelling of "carrot", I tweaked it a bit, slapped on what I thought to be a fitting surname and the rest, as they say, is history.
 
Needless to say, I'm over the moon at the prospect of having my very own Carrot Sproutling to accompany me on my adventures!
 	
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Wanted a 3 letter name (the minimum) and Dex (short for Dexter, which is my dogs name..) was taken during the butchered pre-registration thing before the game launched.
 
Not my first choice, but it's alright.  :P	
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Shields (Forum won't let me add an i :angry:)
 
It's uh, my surname.. :D	
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The name Moska comes from a supporting character from an awesome indie game called Dust: An Elysian Tail, all developed by one person!
I liked the sound of the name, and it seemed fitting for a chua. Nax comes from being Olivar's sibling in roleplay, short and snappy like a chua.	
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So much thoughts behind all these names, it's great. I wish it could have gone the same way with me. Popufette Lazypaw is the result of my clumsiness and lazyness.
 
My nickname is Pouf and comes from Pouf le Cascadeur. He was a really famous stuntman in France and known for performing really dangerous stunt like the Hairy Surf, etc. This guy kept pushing the limits beyond possible and thanks to him many people worldwide can finally place France on a map. Anyway, my first MMO character was a gorgeous female tauren. I spent a huge amount of time on the character selection making the perfect cow and naturally I choosed to name her after a female version of Pouf. Poufette was born. She was beautiful, kind, flawless.
 
Unfortunately I realised at lvl 5 that I did a terrible mistake. Like a barely conscious drunk father I made a typo while writing her name and spelled it Popufette... Now, I don't know if you played Wow back in 2005 but pexing as a druid in Mulgore was pretty awful. After 5 seconds of internal struggling I decided I was too far in the game to start again. My poor female tauren was doomed to have a mispelled name for the rest of her life because of my clumsiness and lazyness. It turned out that I love it (way more than Poufette) so I kept it so far on all the game I played :)	
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I've been "Tex" in the last three MMO communities I've been a part of. When I saw Spellslingers, at first I thought I wanted to be one, and since they were kind of like magical cowboys "Tex Arcana" was a good play on words.
 
Come to find out, I don't like the SS playstyle, so Tex is a Stalker now, but since I was already known, I kept the handle.
 
The "sheriff" bit comes from Champions and DC Universe, where my Tex-toons were both cowboy-themed heroes.	
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All of my characters were originally named after poets.  The double name changed things a bit, as I tried to relate it to their actual character:
 
Houngan Seeger:  Houngan isn't a name, it's a title.  It's a high priest in Haitian voodoo.  He's actually named after Alan Seeger
 
Herrick RedCoyote:  He is a scout from a tribal people, and he is also named after Robert Herrick
 
Nightengale Donne:  His nickname comes from his inability to shut up, but he is also named after John Donne
 
Jonson Stonemason:  Is a Granok doctor (hence the stonemason part), but he is named after Ben Jonson
 
Mr. Marlowe:  Is an ex-Black Hood and thus doesn't reveal his full name, but he is named after Christopher Marlowe
 
Vincent Hawthorne:  Is actually named after two poets, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Vincent Voiture
 
Trajan Spenser:  Is an aristocrat named after a Roman Emporer known for military conquest, and also is named after Edmund Spenser
 
Bishop Audelay:  Bishop is his title, and he is named after real ecclesiastical poet John Audelay	
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Doc Saunders, my Dominion Medic main.  Got the name from the show "Dollhouse" :P
 
Vera Cobb, my Exile Engineer.  Got the name from "Firefly".  Vera was Jayne's favorite gun :D	
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Cirinde has been a name I used for the past 11 years in all the games I have played. It is derived from 'Redwidow' (used to to be my online chat name), which was put in a dwarven translator and came out as Cirinde.
 
SpousalUnit Fitch: SpousalUnit is what my hubby calls me when talking to his colleagues, it just stuck. Fitch was the last name my hubby and I used in Pirates of the Burning Sea.
 
Yalanna Fitch: Yalanna was from the random name generator and I just liked it.
 
Aingeal Fitch: Aingeal is from a website I use to get ideas for names (Names of Other Folks). It is Celtic for Angel.	
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  I had just finished the first book of Stephen Kings the Dark Tower series, Gunslinger, when the game was first launched so I made a spellslinger.  Her name was what I used for my screen name here, Quuarm.  It sounded scifi-ish enough.  ( And for extra coolness I uused two 'u's to spell it.  Youu can never have enouugh uu's).
 
      When they changed to a mega server and I had to change my name, I had just finished a book by Asa Akira, 'Insatiable: Porn — A Love Story'.
As you can see by the title she is in the adult entertainment business.
 
I just changed one letter and it's now Asa Alira.  Which gets bonus points for sounding sort of scifi-ish. 
 
 
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When I was a kid, my favorite toys were the Micronauts. This character was named マッドブルー (MadBlue) in Japanese.
 
 
I never use the name for characters, though. It's my internet handle.	
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			I have a whole list of names I use in MMOs.  I have played quite a few (like 50 I think).  Some of them are profound, some are just goofy.	
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My main character, Antimony, takes her name from one I've used regularly in previous MMOs. She was originally an undead priest in WoW who I rolled as a bank alt and thus wanted to give her an appropriately nerdy name. Cue browsing the periodic table, and I thought "Antimony" sounded pretty. xD Eventually that bank alt actually became my main... oops. Now it's the name I generally go for when I roll a particular character concept, though she's varied wildly from game to game in terms of roleplay.
 
Her last name, Stibine, I just got from studying various chemical compounds involving the element antimony.
 
Ariadne Faraday, my engineer, is Ariadne because... I like that name. Faraday comes from the historical figure Michael Faraday, a scientist who studied electromagnetism and electrochemistry. It has... RP implications! Also, the two names flowed well together. XD
 
Elym Wildrye, my stalker alt, got her name after browsing through a bunch of wetland plant species.
 
Yttria Monazite is a modification of the element "yttrium" and a chemical compound it exists as.
 
Naunet was the name of my original WoW main, an undead prot warrior. It comes from Egyptian mythology (representing the primordial watery abyss, deep mystery, etc). She's never actually had a surname in any game, so I just gave her one appropriate to Mordesh naming conventions in this game - thus, "Naunet Beresov".
 
And lastly there's Eilor Corvinus! Eilor is a god in the Cthulhu mythos also known as the Star-Seed or the Plant-God. The surname is just me trying to be in-keeping with Cassian naming conventions. xD
 
Each of the name backgrounds have some application to the character's RP personality and/or backstory, but no spoilers for some of them. :p	
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Great to see how you get your names, some are very personal and others are more inspirations, really cool ^^
It makes me feel less bad thinking half a hour about a name and then discovering it is already taken XD	
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Regarding character names, my 6 original characters are:
 
Skayde Shadowfury (f Draken Stalker) is named after Skade from Revelation Space (I couldn't remember how it was spelled (my original Skayde was a DK in WoW), but the "y" kind of stuck, and I've spelled it that way ever since - although some of my guild members call the character "Skay-dee")
 
Vaxina Ventrix (f Mechari Medic) was originally "Vaxine"(Vaccine) in beta, but the name was reserved, so I changed it to Vaxina. I could have changed it back when we had to rename characters, but it had grown on me by that point, and my guild members were familiar with that name) 
 
Roscuro Blix (?? Chua Engineer) is a shortening of "Chuaroscuro" (a pun on "chiaroscuro") which sounded clever at the time, but looked rather unwieldy spelled out. Blix is one of the Goblins from Legend.
 
Zordius Voltar (m Cassian Esper) is named after a Darth-Vader rip-off mask that I had as a kid.
 
Garidan Kade (m Human Spellslinger) is named after a D&D Ranger/Rogue I played for a few years. It just sounded like a good name for a "space cowboy" as well.
 
Vishas Morrow (f Mordesh Warrior) is a variant spelling of "Vicious". It sounded more exotic spelled that way, but after choosing the name and Googling it (as I usually do after picking a name), I realized that it was a boss name from WoW, so that may have been in the back of my mind.
 
I created 6 others (Megaera Redstone, Raife Blackthorn, Korrok Hellstrike, Quinn Harlock, Azora Valentis and Zoltan Angorov) with links are to the inspiration for the names, if applicable. I usually try to make names fit lore, even though I don't actually roleplay the characters.One thing I realize, though. It's almost impossible to come up with 12 first and last names and not have a crossover with some NPC, spell or monster in another MMO. :D On the other hand, looking back at those links, I have some pretty eclectic tastes. ;)	
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			Well for me...I've used "Nerifes" for a lot of games, which is the name of the final boss from Tales of Legendia.As for my first name, "Raging" was first used it in FF14, the first MMO I ever played that required a First Name/Surname. I played a Lalafell (the obligatory short race) in that game, and I thought it was funny to think of this little dude raging at people (even though I never did.) "Raging Nerifes" is also technically from Tales of Legendia.My alt, Lunarae (Loona-ray) Vess, is based on an Original Character I created for a story. Her last name is just a name I felt kinda fit for a "aristocratic" family that everyone would know of in the story. And her first name I just thought sounded cool.  	
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My names normally use Lost in them somewhere, as that is what I have been known as since I started playing MMO's, starting with NexusTK. It has traveled from game to game with me since, in various forms.
 
Obviously Lost is my go to. I have an Esper with that name and a Spellslinger named Lost Slinger. The other half of the name is that I'm the worst in game with directions and tend to get lost easily. Thank the stars for the map...  :blink:	
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I usually make up my own names for characters with some help from Google, which can be time consuming and frustrating, and sometimes even leads to the end of the character an hour later...
 
"But it's not MY fault! YOU picked out the name! Oh gods, no! Please don't kill me!"
 
*sheds a tear, typing out the name once more for character deletion*... "I'm so, so sorry, Johnny Nippleheart..."
 
 
Onto the ones that survive...
 
My mechari Proxima Dust was named for two other NPC characters I invented; the Exile scientist who reconfigured her to be his 'maintenance droid' (I think his name was Warren Dust), and the mercenary Mordesh simply named Proxima, who 'saved' her by sending her back to the Dominion after Warren died. But not before slipping in a simchip that contained parts of Warren Dust's psychological profile— which is why my mechari is basically an obssessive builder with limited social skills and (don't spread the word) sympathy for the Exile resistance.
 
Uta Gaus was conceived as having (way, way distant) Japanese and German blood. I honestly don't even know if Wildstar has any connection to our universe, but I'm going to guess not, so it's a bit of an RP foible. Anyhoo, Uta is Japanese for song, and Gaus was taken from Carl Friedrich Gauss. I was trying to go for a bit of contrast with the word concepts (something beautiful and something rational), while also establishing harmony between the words' sounds.
 
Kuro Shiro was one of my rare naming nods to an external concept. Ever seen Tekkonkinkreet? Well there you go. Also, Kuro Shiro is a chua with a big skunk stripe, and has a Takeshi Kaneshiro-capacity to be incredibly placid until he's suddently gone ultraviolent. So it all works. :P
 
My one Exile alt, Jacoban Kanly, was named after the kanly concept from Dune (which suits Exile ideology), which I believe derives from a Turkish word meaning revenge or justice? Something like that. Jacoban just sounded nice and seemed to flow well. It's also supposed to be pronounced 'Yakoben'.	
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			I have been using the name Maelya (May-LEE-a) since 1999 and EQ1 random name generator spit it out. So boring.... But about 5 years ago in EQ2 land, I decided since my whole server knew me as Mae, I might as well change all my alts to be some variation of Mae. And thus, the Mae Brigade was born.	
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			My name originally started back when i created my Tauren Warrior in classic wow all those years ago. I names it as a crazy warrior but never liked how psychotic was spelled so i just morphws the word into Cycotik and it stuck. My taurens name was CycotikBull, but the Cycotik.part stuck and i have been confusing people ever since. My go to female character name is Cycilia, since Cyc("Syke") was a nickname i kept so i turned that into the female names and most my namea revovle around that. Cayden and Vexx i just randomly plucked outnof the air XD	
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I usually go out of my way to have all of my characters have individual names. A lot of times I kindof sit back in my chair after I've made a character and just try to come up with a name that fits them. I'll often start with a more normal name or names of other characters in the game and mess around with them until I like it.
 
There are exceptions of course. I made Django Cutts as kindof a pair of jokes. First off a friend of mine started Cutts Co (A chua family company!) and I wanted to add a character. Since he was going to be the security guy I decided to make him a fan of old Cassian action movies, and I'd watched Django Unchained not that long ago. It also sounds vaguely chua. 
 
Salasazia Skychaser is completely my own thing (i think), though it may have had its roots in some draken names I saw before coming here.
 
Visectria Sciscovox was an interesting one. Since I wanted to do something with spooky forensics, I went for something vaguely like vivisection. Sciscovox is derived from a latin word, if I remember correctly it was about questioning or inquiring. Essentially a mechari who is curious and perhaps more than a little morally unscrupulous.
 
Unfortunately, I generally get the comment that my names are too long and people have trouble spelling them. XD
 
 
 
My username on the other hand.... that ones easy.
 
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=3526&type=card	
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I'm just incredibly gifted at creating truly unique female draken names. Kezra just came to me.
 
What's that? Kezrek Warbringer? High ranking commander of the dominion military? Draken? Never heard of him
 
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Dances withLeaves was originally an alt who became my main in Guild Wars 2. It's a play on "Dances with Wolves" and the character being a sylvari, one of GW2's plant people.
 
The name is a bit on the edge for an aurin vis-a-vis the lore, but I went with it anyway.	
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Lucy was originally named Kakariko, and then LonLon because I love Zelda stuff (I name changed from Kakariko though because I didn't think it through how people would shorten the name...instead of Riko, I became, well...) As server hops progressed I became Chayla, a character from one of my favorite books. Then megaservers happened...and I became Lucy Fur. There was no real special meaning, it was just for funnies. Over time, guildies started calling me Lucy Lu and Lu, etc. After some recent, unpleasant in-game name drama that lasted several long weeks (not getting into that) I took a name change and became Lucy Loo (since Lucy Lu was taken). We like to joke that since it's such a cutesy name, it hides my true "evil" nature. I can seem like the sweet, innocent guild recruiter when secretly I'm luring the guildless to give up their souls to our esteemed gleader in my eternal search for minions ;>.>
 
My stalker, Kavi Bloodthorn, used to just be Kavi. I wanted a short, simple name, and Kavi was it. When megaservers happened, I wanted to stay Kavi but figured I might as well make it more of an aurin name, and Kavi had bright orange hair and fiery eyes, so she became Kavi Bloodthorn.
 
Hug Jobs was, well...to be honest, just a dirty little aurin pun.
 
Merryl Everfrost...I've always loved the name Merryl (in fact I'm thinking about using that name if my baby is a girl). It's really pretty, simple, and sweet. Merryl has white hair and skin, like ice, and her eyes are deep blue. I wanted her to be my potential RP character, so she is Merryl Everfrost.	
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			The story behind my characters name is the random button. :(	
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The story behind my characters name is the random button. :(
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I was a 10 year old weeaboo in the making, watching the animonday show on techtv and hearing the amazing sounding name Kyosuke and having no idea how to spell it, so I spelled it my way and 15 years later I'm still using it.
Not forking Kyo Sky! >:C 	
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			Just be careful, they can deem any name offensive they like, and force you to change it They won't give you an actual answer on why they deemed it offensive.  Doesn't matter if the name doesn't actually violate any policies, or not.  Choose wisely, or not since it doesn't seem to matter I guess.	
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Hydal is a carry over from FFXIV, and has kinda become my MMO name at this point. It's just a small twist on my first name, I'm horribly indecisive/never satisfied about names and other permanent self-identifiers that can have their meaning scrutinized by others. If someone put a gun to me and forced me to get a tattoo, my head would probably explode just trying to pick one...
 
Bloodeyes was actually only decided on because a coin landed tails both flips. It was a good Aurin name for the head RP of my character I never used (there's a pretty extensive backstory rattling around up there). Had the coin come up differently I would have just used my middle name of Hartwell as in FFXIV.	
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Just be careful, they can deem any name offensive they like, and force you to change it They won't give you an actual answer on why they deemed it offensive.  Doesn't matter if the name doesn't actually violate any policies, or not.  Choose wisely, or not since it doesn't seem to matter I guess.
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Dude, just either communicate to us the name, indirectly if need be, or shut up about it already. No one is dumb enough/ready to blow so much to get mad for you just because you said so. We can't even agree with you / disagree with CS without the name. 
 
Someone reported your name, probably more than just one person. Someone else paid to handle such problems decided that your name was not appropriate. End of story.
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I don't remember who exactly, but someone complained about a name ban on their character "Jesus Christ."
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I'm honestly surprised I never got reported from being Lucy Fur the Unburnable of the Crimson Cross. I know how touchy people get about religion!
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I've been using PlasmaJohn for almost 20 years on various gaming related sites.  The plasma portion was based on my friend's habit of using "Launch plasmas!" (plasma torpedoes) as a warcry in Star Fleet Battles.  I just googled the nick and discovered somebody else has been using it in console circles *shrugs*
 
So for pre-order we got to reserve a name and for the life of me I couldn't figure one out.  I had created an Aurin stalker placeholder alt on Stormtalon for the times I needed a break from my Dominion toons (and tbh, when I felt like being anti-social).  Her hair was blue and she had cat ears so tada BlueKitteh got reserved.  The guild I was part of was not a roleplay guild so we didn't care about silly names.
 
Eventually the guild migrated to WoW.  Long story but I only stayed there for a few months and left for good when Megaservers launched here.  I had been missing RP and since the Evindra folks were folded into Entity I decided to check out that scene.  Since I had to rename her she became Kitty Starwraith.  Kitty because she was taken in by a human family after the Ravaging and the youngest child of that family didn't know any better.  Starwraith because she was all angsty and junk :lol:
 
The problem with Megaservers was that it required me to think of last names for any of the toons I wanted to log in with.  So I stuck with a ghost theme (wraith).  My Draken's last name is Bloodwraith, my Granok's is Shalewraith, all of my humans (Cassian and Exile) use Spectre, my mechari are named Daemon, my Mordesh use Aratarovich which was derived from the Romanian word for ghost or some synonym.
 
The only one that doesn't follow that standard is Elsa Lansaheart, Kitty's sister.  Elsa because, duh, Frozen (Bite me, I like the movie. She's got black hair so not Mary Sue <_<).  Lansaheart was because the backstory I came up with was that the family came from the center of the Lansa forest on Arboria.	
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Oh geeze, this name is the nickname of a character I RP'd back in WoW. It's supposed to be something that he was called as degrading by others due to the fact he was kind of a bumbling idiot until he was killed later. I tend to use this name for the forums of any game I play, mostly because I like to keep my IGN separate from my forum name. 
 
As for IGN? You know assuming any of you cared, I've gone by Ryudozidian for so long in online gaming that some of my RL friends who game with me call me Ryu at times. That name is also an RP character, but I don't feel like writing a short novel for you all to read as to how he got that name, as it is technically an Alias.	
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 Lucy Fur the Unburnable of the Crimson Cross.
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			As for my forum name,  well it's nicknames I had in the Army :P  "beattle" for Beetle Bailey(I intentionally misspelled Beetle so I'd have a greater chance of getting it :P), because I was shorter than most everyone else, when they were looking down at me I looked like Beetle Bailey because it looked like my hat and helmet covered my eyes.  "billy", because apparently I looked like a farm girl that ran around in overalls and barefooted most of the time, it was funny to me because it was given to me before the guy found out that I really was a farm girl :P  Won't admit to ever being in overalls and barefooted though :ph34r:  And it was also funny because my aunt wanted my parents to name me Billy Jo  <_<	
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I've used Remillard as an online moniker for a long time.  However I decided that it wasn't very Mordesh and when the megaservers launched I poked around slavic name generators, real and "sounds like" varieties until I hit something that seemed to have roughly the same sort of syllables.  I also have a friend in Eastern Europe and checked with her about it (which ... turns out she didn't think it was all THAT great as a ethnic name, but... whatever megaservers launched.)  Hence, Remil Malik (call me Remi).
 
As for Glory -- I honestly am not sure.  I sussed the Aurin naming conventions immediately.  They're not particularly subtle.  I knew the character would be esper and Aurin, didn't care for the male models, so went with the female.  I started pondering whether the compound nouns in the surname might indicate some sort of familial relationship.  I didn't really intend to roleplay but it doesn't hurt to have at least a hook in mind, and 'star' was part of the Aurin queen "Everstar" so perhaps there was something that could be used as a story idea there.  Then looking for something else more personal related, since she was esper, I tacked on 'mind' as the other part of the compound.  So in one sense the surname was done before the given.  Then... I honestly don't exactly know.  There is a "Glory" character in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and I've always thought it was simulatneously lovely and unexpected.  There are Morning Glory flowers.  It just felt like it worked.  Thus Glory Mindstar.
 
The warrior I knew was going to be granok.  I knew the body coloration I wanted was that deep purple and so I was toying with phonemes of Obsidian.  "Sid" worked out really well and would make a fantastic shortening, and they were from Gnox, so I stole that suffixed phoneme and created Sidiox.  The surname for Granok was just dumb and I couldn't think of anything better than the suggested one at megaserver launch, thus Sidiox Hellhammer.  (Still hate the surname.)
 
Medic was to be human, and I'd latched onto the surname Sinclair for no known reason.  I was trying to avoid any real-world Sinclairs while finding something that sounded alright, and just settled on Morgan.  So, Morgan Sinclair.  No other real reason.
 
And finally... wanted to make a spell slinger, also made her human and I was in a hurry so I just shamelessly outright stole a book character name.  Couldn't get the exact spelling but it was alright, thus Anathema Devyce was created.	
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			Mini stabber from my old WoW name ministabber.....small Gnome Rogue	
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			I've been using "Bucket" for close to 15 years, but it's becoming increasingly unavailable with each MMO launch,, so I finally decided I needed something else; My daughter was watching Muppet Treasure Island and I love Fozzie, so I chose that as my first name, the suffix "the Great" came from playing Stronghold Kingdoms with a guy named Edward the Great and I always thought his name just rolled off the tongue simply because of "the Great" so I adopted it.	
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Just be careful, they can deem any name offensive they like, and force you to change it They won't give you an actual answer on why they deemed it offensive.  Doesn't matter if the name doesn't actually violate any policies, or not.  Choose wisely, or not since it doesn't seem to matter I guess.
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Phandaal is a character created by Jack Vance, one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
 
As for my characters, that takes a little explaining.
 
My old roommate has a black Lab named Dumis, so my wife and I used to joke that we'd get another black Lab and name it Moomis just to mess with him. Flash forward a couple of years and we got a second rescue dog, who at the time appeared to be a little black Lab (turned out to be a Lab/Border Collie mix... dang mutts). Since we're huge fans of Parks and Recreation, and by extension huge fans of Lil' Sebastian, we joked around that we'd just call him Lil' Moo since we couldn't come up with a good name at the time. After calling him that for a few weeks he started answering to it, and the name stuck: Lil' Moo became the stuff of legends.
 
My first character on the live servers was a Chua Esper, and I thought it looked fuzzy and adorable so I named it Lil Moo.
 
The next, a Mechari Engineer, is named Moo Bot.
 
My Mechari Medic is named Doctor Moo, and my Draken Stalker is named Moo Bee, because it sounds like "Mooby," which is what I call Lil' Moo when I'm singing the Scooby Dooby Doo song to him.
 
I recently activated the 10-day free trial after a long time away from the game (I'll try to post some impressions in a few days), and made a new character to test out the leveling experience. Thus was Normal Moo the Granok Warrior born. Normal Moo comes from another joke that we'll have to start calling Lil' Moo "Normal Moo" now since he's older now and not quite as Lil'.	
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Just be careful, they can deem any name offensive they like, and force you to change it They won't give you an actual answer on why they deemed it offensive.  Doesn't matter if the name doesn't actually violate any policies, or not.  Choose wisely, or not since it doesn't seem to matter I guess.
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I'm honestly surprised I never got reported from being Lucy Fur the Unburnable of the Crimson Cross. I know how touchy people get about religion!
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I have a long (huge!) list of names I regularly use for MMOs.
 
None of them have any actual inspirations except for that I thought they sounded cool. Except for one...
 
Bloodrose.
 
There is actually a female Blood elf Death Knight in WoW that has this name out in Zul'Drak, and ever since I noticed her name I'd completely fallen in love with it. In WoW, however, it was nigh impossible to snag the name since it had been years since she'd been out and every server I played on already had it. In this game, I totally jumped on the chance to reserve the name. I do not regret it to this day. Her first name, Verana? Totally made it up. I wanted to do something a little more abnormal for my style of name (a bit deeper sounding of a name), and I fell in love with it.
 
Then I rolled an esper alt who I thought it would be funny to make Blood's counterpart: white hair, blue eyes, white/blue outfit scheme. And thus, Illyria Dawnlily was born.
 
And then all of my other alts got the same last name treatment, except each had a combination of Class theme/flower name, i.e. Shadowblossom, Furydragon, Stormviolet. Their first names were all names taken from names I made up, except for a tiny few.	
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Melawen Saralonde (human medic) is the name I've been using since I started playing MMOs in quenya it literally means mela - love wen - female name suffix sara - fiery or bitter and londe - land locked haven. I've always said it means Lover from the Bitter Havens or Lover of the Fiery Haven or something along that line. 
 
Goethax Eisenbrecher (granok engineer) Goethe is a german philosopher, Goethite is a mineral of roughly the same color as my granok. Eisenbrecher means iron breaker in german.
 
Zuhara Vineweaver - Zuhara is arabic for flower, Vineweaver is pretty obvious 	
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Goethax Eisenbrecher (granok engineer) Goethe is a german philosopher, Goethite is a mineral of roughly the same color as my granok. Eisenbrecher means iron breaker in german.
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Thank you for using "eisen" properly.  I've seen a few characters, both in this game and others, with "Eisbrecher" which is icebreaker, or more colloquially a Rammstein album.
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Maybe that was their goal? ;)
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I really have landed in the right community ... references to Micronauts and Jack Vance! Nerd heaven!!!
 
Ahmra is a variation on the name Amra the name of Conan the Barbarian's inner lion spirit in the Savage Sword of Conan comics. Valarauko is the Quenya ('high-elven') form of Tolkien's 'Balrog'. It followed then that I named my plot 'Utumno', Tolkien's first age fortress where the original dark lord Morgoth (Sauron's master) bred Balrogs.
 
I wanted the name Ahmra because I'd used it before for Sci-fi characters. I chose Valarauko as I thought it went well with the Mordesh eastern european name theme.	
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I have no idea why my previous post in this thread is blank.  But, oh well.
 
 
 
     The name Quuarm i chose simply because it sounded scifi-ish.
 
     I made a spellslinger because I had just finished reading 'Gunslinger'  the first book in Stephen Kings Watch Tower series.  By the time the megaservers went live I had just finished reading 'Insatiable:Porn - A love story'  By Asa Akira. As you might guess from the title she is in the adult entertainment business.   I just changed one letter and Asa Akira became Asa Alira.
    
     I have a mordesh medic who I named Mortilly Sepsia.  Mortilly taken from Mortal and sepsia derived from sepsis - a whole body infalmmation caused by infection. 
 
     And I have a granok warrior called Obsindia Slate.  She is dark skinned so the first name is taken from Obsidian and slate is another black stone and also Fred Flintstones boss.
 
     On the topic of banned names.  If someone finds some name that's offensive and they complain, someone at carbine gets the report and bans the name if it offensive.  I was just wondering how often do they decide not to ban a name?  If I didn't like someone in the game for some reason could I just make up some story of how the name is offensive to me and get it banned? 'Olivar was the name of my favorite hamster and he died today.  Can you ban the name so I wont cry everytime I log on to the forums?'  Does it take more than one person complaining to trigger a ban?
 
 
 
 
 
PS  No I don't want Olivar banned.  Maybe a nice flea dip but not banned.  His was simply the first well known name I could think of.	
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I have no idea why my previous post in this thread is blank.  But, oh well.
 
 
 
     The name Quuarm i chose simply because it sounded scifi-ish.
 
     I made a spellslinger because I had just finished reading 'Gunslinger'  the first book in Stephen Kings Watch Tower series.  By the time the megaservers went live I had just finished reading 'Insatiable:Porn - A love story'  By Asa Akira. As you might guess from the title she is in the adult entertainment business.   I just changed one letter and Asa Akira became Asa Alira.
    
     I have a mordesh medic who I named Mortilly Sepsia.  Mortilly taken from Mortal and sepsia derived from sepsis - a whole body infalmmation caused by infection. 
 
     And I have a granok warrior called Obsindia Slate.  She is dark skinned so that was the first name is taken from Obsidian and slate is another black stone and also Fred Flintstones boss.
 
     On the topic of banned names.  If someone finds some name that's offensive and they complain, someone at carbine gets the report and bans the name if it offensive.  I was just wondering how often do they decide not to ban a name?  If I didn't like someone in the game for some reason could I just make up some story of how the name is offensive to me and get it banned? 'Olivar was the name of my favorite hamster and he died today.  Can you ban the name so I wont cry everytime I log on to the forums?'  Does it take more than one person complaining to trigger a ban?
 
 
 
 
 
PS  No I don't want Olivar banned.  Maybe a nice flea dip but not banned.  His was simply the first well known name I could think of.
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Dude,  Do you get an alert whenever someone mentions your name?
 
I'm just trying to picture what sort of large 'daww eyes' a chua might have.	
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Dude,  Do you get an alert whenever someone mentions your name?
 
I'm just trying to picture what sort of large 'daww eyes' a chua might have.
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I was Luluna before the mega merge, which was a name I liked and borrowed from an old gaming buddy ^^But when we had to take second names, things got tricky. I had just really settled into RP so I had to craft a storyline for my name, I couldn't comfortably have an OOC name was didn't have some relevance IC.
 
IC my toon is an amnesiac with no memory of her youth, and thus her name. When she woke up with no memory she found a charred clipboard with "Subject Name - Lulu Na...", she bundled it together and called herself Luluna. Shortening it to Lulu gave her odd headaches, so she referred to herself as Luna.
 
She's a kind, curious, "jack of all trades, master of none" scientist, who strives to learn all she can about the universe, to make up for the 40 years of memory she lost. Taking even a neutral position in the war, having no memory of Grismara or the blockade that now surrounds it, in an effort to learn about all species and cultures.Thats the super short version of the lore for her original and regularly used name. =DBut my two pronged name is Lulu Navra. And I couldn't have picked a name without some relevance. The name causes Luna distress. So who is Lulu Navra? My guild just found out, and EU role players might do too soon ;)For more juicy Luluna lore, you can check out my bio HERE, and some more detailed IC information HERE.
 
EDIT: Last time I leave comments open on a google doc =p Thanks "poopyton" but your changes have all been rejected. 	
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When I got in the Star Wars Galaxies Beta I chose to play a Rodian and since I didn't want to spend time choosing a name before actual launch I let the name generator choose one for me that would only last during the Beta : it came up with "Shoogli" !
 
When the game launched I created my character and chose another name that I came up with myself. But after a few days playing this character something started to feel odd... I rerolled and tried another name... Same thing... And then I realized I missed that name a lot, so I rerolled my Rodian Artisan to Shoogli and after that it felt really good... And since then :
 
Shoogli has also been a Gnomette rogue in WoW, a Dark-Elf rogue in DDO, A recon in Global Agenda, a Vanquisher in Torchlight, a Demon Hunter in Diablo 3, a Asuran thief in GW2, a TigerClaw in FireFall, a Mechromancer in Borderlands 2, an Outlander in Torchlight 2, and many many many more... And now is an Aurin Stalker  ^_^ !	
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			Fuku Naga......My last name separated.	
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			Rubble McLeafStubble was once my Granok main, named for his leaf mustache and his broken face.  	
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			I was very into Homestuck a couple of years ago and still read it occasionally. An alien clown Gamzee was one of my favourite characters so the name is inspired by him.	
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An alien clown Gamzee was one of my favourite characters
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Many many years ago I decided to start playing Dragonrealms (this was before there were graphical MMOs).  So I needed a name so looked around the room for inspiration.  My gaze came across this bottle of Ibuprofen...
 
Ibue as a first name was taken.
 
Thus moving on to the next syllable and expanding it a bit.  Proffy was born.  And Ibue became the last name for the games which use last names.
 
My other character names are just kinda made up with no story (or based on people I know) but Proffy has been my "main" in most games since. 	
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			I wish I had an exciting story about my name here on the forums, but alas, my main criteria was that it had to be a name I had never used before in any manner. I was freezing cold, and welp, that's how Chillia was created! :) 	
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My name is an amazing story full of adventure and battle.
I saw a Goren
I saw a Chua
WoD hype> Wildstar hype (at the time)
Gorenkillchua
 
 
 
 
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I wish I had an exciting story about my name here on the forums, but alas, my main criteria was that it had to be a name I had never used before in any manner. I was freezing cold, and welp, that's how Chillia was created! :)
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My name originates from a game I started playing in the mid to late 90's.  Some of may know what i'm talking about. 
 
Ultima Online 
 
Maybe the first mmorpg?  (probably debatable)
 
Corp Por    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AUltima_Online
 
"They are the power words (ultima online language) for the spell Energy Bolt. It is a very common damage spell that mages cast". - BondGamer
 
Played the hell out of that game for years lol.
 
 
 
 	
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			I like to smile and needed a name I hadn't used before.	
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			This thread is very interesting to me. I like how everyone has a story on how they came up with their name(s). The most interesting ones are the ones that were 'pulled out of the air' at the time of creation, like Chillia's, MrSmiley's, Kal Skirata's, etc. These really show how creative you all can be at a moment's notice. :)	
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I wish I had an exciting story about my name here on the forums, but alas, my main criteria was that it had to be a name I had never used before in any manner. I was freezing cold, and welp, that's how Chillia was created! :)
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My names usually relate to breakfast foods, so if you see @@@@@ Breakfast running around....that's me.  Sometimes I will go off on a tangent and create some names that might be tongue-in-cheek for some people (not naming them here in order to help them last :P).  But anyway, I used to not care what my characters were named in mmo's due to the fact that as a kid, I just plain didn't care.  When I moved to swtor at it's launch I had the bright idea to create one guy by the name of Bacon, since well, I like bacon and why not?....So my other characters were odd names that I had come up with or names that made me chuckle. 
 
After the first major server merge almost every one had to rename their characters, so as I was on TS/Mumble and I asked guildies what I should theme my names after and that's how my current names were born.
 
Plus......had I just said look at my name, it kind of speaks for itself :)
 
Edit ---  I like to get raunchy with some names....but they usually don't last....and it's surprising one of my char's names on swtor was never reported....the name in question you ask?... Bluewaffle Breakfast.  I just found that funny.	
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I've been using this name for a few years now, usually for little fey critters and elves.  I wanted something forgettable, longish, easy to pronounce and vaguely "elfish," that could be subjected to a variety of spellings and accents and still sound about the same.  I also wanted a name that would shorten down into something pleasant sounding, after having been called "Kag" for ten or fifteen years.
 
Cletus came from a pretend game I played with my daughter.  So did Pansie (Pansie was one of hers).  Commander Gallowes was clapped together owing to the need for the ship to have a C.O. who wasn't Cletus ('cause nobody would hand responsibility for something that big and expensive and chock full of livin' people to Cletus, and he wouldn't accept it anyhow).  I wanted something stern and a little fussy, but fussy as a function of being common and not wanting to be common.
 
Honey Badger is honey badger because they're the most horrible little bastards in the animal kingdom: abrasive, unlikeable, indestructible beasts who aim for the repros on the first shot and can't be reasoned with.	
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Ultima Online 
 
Maybe the first mmorpg?  (probably debatable)
 
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It's considered by most to be the first of the new generation of MMO's.  Before that it was mostly MUD's, but there were some graphical ones.  According to Wikipedia the term MMORPG was coined for Ultima Online by Richard Garriot.
 
As for my name, Pyaray was one of the Lords of Chaos from the book Elric of Melniboné.  He was also the lord of the abyss, and I'm totally in to SCUBA diving, so...
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Is it PYAH-ray or Pie-array?
 
... mmm, pie array.  *Homer Simpson gurgle noises*
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			You better like apple pie....or I will disown you :P	
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You better like apple pie....or I will disown you :P
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     On the topic of banned names.  If someone finds some name that's offensive and they complain, someone at carbine gets the report and bans the name if it offensive.  I was just wondering how often do they decide not to ban a name?  If I didn't like someone in the game for some reason could I just make up some story of how the name is offensive to me and get it banned? 'Olivar was the name of my favorite hamster and he died today.  Can you ban the name so I wont cry everytime I log on to the forums?'  Does it take more than one person complaining to trigger a ban?
 
 
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     On the topic of banned names.  If someone finds some name that's offensive and they complain, someone at carbine gets the report and bans the name if it offensive.  I was just wondering how often do they decide not to ban a name?  If I didn't like someone in the game for some reason could I just make up some story of how the name is offensive to me and get it banned? 'Olivar was the name of my favorite hamster and he died today.  Can you ban the name so I wont cry everytime I log on to the forums?'  Does it take more than one person complaining to trigger a ban?
 
PS  No I don't want Olivar banned.  Maybe a nice flea dip but not banned.  His was simply the first well known name I could think of.
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So I usually go by the online alias "Ryytikki" which was a char I created back in around '07 or '08 when i played on the WoWWTF private server (I was too poor to afford a sub and I loved faffing with the LUA scripts as a dev). It was originally meant to be "Nyyrikki" which is the finnish god of the hunt (wanted something for my hunter and it sounded cool) but I forgot what it was within the 10s it took me to tab over to WoW and type it. It kinda stuck since as its a very unique name
 
As for my ingame char name, This explains all. I wanted to use "Saunterblugget hampterfuppinshire" but it was too long
			
				
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I now have a Elfarran in Blade and Soul but she feels different there though, missing my revolvers and she is more elegant and has green hair... they didn't had a good red hair colour ><
Do other's also have this problem when using names across games, they can never be as good as the original ^^
 	
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No, each name is reviewed against the naming policy.  Just because one individual has an issue with a name, does not mean it's against our rules.  Sometimes names are just on that edge where some GM's would rename, and some wouldn't, and those are the tough ones.  I've heard that sometimes the GM's take a vote on those names that are just barely questionable.  Honestly though, most of the names that are reported to us are fairly obviously bad, and must be renamed.
 
But just because Olivar has fleas, he won't be getting his named changed. ;)  Unless it means something I'm unaware of in Swahili... names are sometimes banned because of their translation, even though they're meaningless in English.
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CHUA NOT HAVE FLEAS!
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I chew on "chua'ing" gum....
 
Hey it made me chuckle.	
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CHUA NOT HAVE AURINS EITHER.
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No, each name is reviewed against the naming policy.  Just because one individual has an issue with a name, does not mean it's against our rules.  Sometimes names are just on that edge where some GM's would rename, and some wouldn't, and those are the tough ones.  I've heard that sometimes the GM's take a vote on those names that are just barely questionable.  Honestly though, most of the names that are reported to us are fairly obviously bad, and must be renamed.
 
But just because Olivar has fleas, he won't be getting his named changed. ;)  Unless it means something I'm unaware of in Swahili... names are sometimes banned because of their translation, even though they're meaningless in English.
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     When reporting a name are the players reporting given some way to explain why the name is bad?  there are some terms I think might get past most people unless there is some explanation that follows.
 
     I work in a drug/alcohol detox.  The patients are allowed to wear their clothing while staying with us.  The only restriction we have is that it not be drug or alcohol related, or inappropriate in some other way ( sexually or racially...). 
 
     I came back from a short time off and I when I walk into the lounge there is this patient who is sitting there with a shirt that says 'RAHOWA'.  It was black with white lettering and he seemed like a nice enough guy when I talked to him.  He was allowed to wear the shirt since his arrival and no one had any idea what it really meant.  No patients complained or staff.  During our little report session I told them what it means.  They were rather taken aback.  'But he seems like such a nice kid.' was uttered a few times.
 
RAHOWA stands for racial holy war.  Turns out the guy was a white supremacist.
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     When reporting a name are the players reporting given some way to explain why the name is bad?  there are some terms I think might get past most people unless there is some explanation that follows.
 
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No, each name is reviewed against the naming policy.  Just because one individual has an issue with a name, does not mean it's against our rules.  Sometimes names are just on that edge where some GM's would rename, and some wouldn't, and those are the tough ones.  I've heard that sometimes the GM's take a vote on those names that are just barely questionable.  Honestly though, most of the names that are reported to us are fairly obviously bad, and must be renamed.
 
But just because Olivar has fleas, he won't be getting his named changed. ;)  Unless it means something I'm unaware of in Swahili... names are sometimes banned because of their translation, even though they're meaningless in English.
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I was forced to rename a character that had the name of a female actor in the adult industry (who has since quit and moved into non adult entertainment). Can you elaborate on why the actual name of a person can be considered against ToS? Seems a little strange to me, and I'd like the name back.
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Was it offensive?
There are some pretty offensive stage names out there.
Or was it something tame like Sasha Grey?
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Tame like Sasha Grey. That's why I was confused when I got a warning and forced name change.
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Yeah. That is Aurins.
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Aurin no have fleas!
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I had fleas once. :I
They were hiding in my bed sheets and bit my ankles at night.
 
Plateful of soapy water killed them right up tho!
(That and putting a flea collar on my kitty.)
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Aralon was my first online name that I made roughly 10 years ago. I have been using it since. I also go for Ferwyn, if Aralon is not free (tends to be used a lot =/). Because of this, I use a mixture of Aralon/Ferwyn for online gaming. My twitch is Ferwyn, my IGN is Aralon, its that simple.
 
I came across Ferwyn because I was playing a belf with BC was released and Aralon didn't sound like an Elf name. Ferwyn does ^_^ 	
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Arachnaas is actually the semi Dutch version of a pair of greek words. It should be Arachn Naos: Temple of the spider, cuz I'm a drow. 	
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Lolth is smiling, Beware! :o
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