Naming Your Character
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It usually depends on the content of the game. The majority of my fantasy characters go by Kimarous, unless they are female, where my "stock" name is Raisin (don't ask). More "ordinary" characters (especially post-Renaissance) tend to use more ordinary names. For males: Adrian, Nathaniel, or Silas. For females: Janine, Sarah, or Katie.
I use my own made up names that I used during my rping binge like the Reene bros, Nushan, Rogna, Shrunan, and Shano, Lairan Noor, Secrinue, the Leine twins, Lenara and Manara, Bejak Firefist, or Demtrian Bloodwolf. Of course that's when I have a bit more freedom with my name choices, because if the name can only contain less than 5 letters, I'll just go for Roy.
Male: either my name (Alex) if it's something modern/realistic, or a badass deity if it's a fantasy or sci-fi game (Thor, Ares, Kronos, Enki, etc.).
Female: Never rolled a chick before. Maybe I should start with Titty Shepard next time I pop in Mass Effect.
Female: Never rolled a chick before. Maybe I should start with Titty Shepard next time I pop in Mass Effect.
This is a very hard one for me, as I use a lot so I'll go through them:
Online FPS: The Undoer
Casual Online (to friends): Issy
Dwarf Male: Elrok Ironrend
Elf Female: Isune/Ashunor (Windblossom)
Human Male: Elus
Human Female: Rideia Estelma
Dwarf Female: Grena Ironrend
I've never really touched futuristic games, but I'd probably just use Elus.
The truth of the matter is, I always go Dwarf Male, I love dwarves and when I played World of Warcraft I roleplayed a character named "Elrok Ironrend" and to this day, I still regret joining a raiding guild and leaving my Roleplaying buddies. Elrok is sort of, the embodiment of what I wish to be. Grena was his mother, she had a nice beard, nice and thick... *nostalgia*.
So if you ever see Elrok Ironrend, it's almost certainly me, and definately if he's trying to shake some poor bloke down for his coin.
The Undoer on the otherhand? Also always me. You have been, undone!
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All my characters are really named after my WoW characters, before that I could myself a rubbish name which I sharn't say for fear of letting people know. (It was sirfragsalot, joke). Even Izoon, my name here, is based on Isune (evolved from Elune/Azhune and then devolved backwards into Ashunor for when Isune was taken). The only recent name I've been by was on Morrowind as "Erildite" playing a Dark Elf male, which as you can see above I don't have a name for, upon realising how much that sounded like Arildite (A form of glue) I wanted to eat my own hand, and stopped playing male elves.
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Final note: This post made me cry a bit about Elrok and Isune
Online FPS: The Undoer
Casual Online (to friends): Issy
Dwarf Male: Elrok Ironrend
Elf Female: Isune/Ashunor (Windblossom)
Human Male: Elus
Human Female: Rideia Estelma
Dwarf Female: Grena Ironrend
I've never really touched futuristic games, but I'd probably just use Elus.
The truth of the matter is, I always go Dwarf Male, I love dwarves and when I played World of Warcraft I roleplayed a character named "Elrok Ironrend" and to this day, I still regret joining a raiding guild and leaving my Roleplaying buddies. Elrok is sort of, the embodiment of what I wish to be. Grena was his mother, she had a nice beard, nice and thick... *nostalgia*.
So if you ever see Elrok Ironrend, it's almost certainly me, and definately if he's trying to shake some poor bloke down for his coin.
The Undoer on the otherhand? Also always me. You have been, undone!
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All my characters are really named after my WoW characters, before that I could myself a rubbish name which I sharn't say for fear of letting people know. (It was sirfragsalot, joke). Even Izoon, my name here, is based on Isune (evolved from Elune/Azhune and then devolved backwards into Ashunor for when Isune was taken). The only recent name I've been by was on Morrowind as "Erildite" playing a Dark Elf male, which as you can see above I don't have a name for, upon realising how much that sounded like Arildite (A form of glue) I wanted to eat my own hand, and stopped playing male elves.
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Final note: This post made me cry a bit about Elrok and Isune
I usually use Zaren as a male name and Xorena as a female name, but other than that I just make whatever name up off the top of my head.
I notice I tend to favor a's and r's for female names, though.
I notice I tend to favor a's and r's for female names, though.
Male characters I'll usually nam Trivun, after my own real name. Female characters, I have a stock selection of names that are basicaly girls' names that I really like, that I regularly use in my short stories. These are generally:
- Niamh
- Violet
- Scarlett
- Abby
- Emma
Also, I really like names that are also flowers, especially regarding girls' names, so I may just choose a flowery name for my game character...
- Niamh
- Violet
- Scarlett
- Abby
- Emma
Also, I really like names that are also flowers, especially regarding girls' names, so I may just choose a flowery name for my game character...
Males are always named Cody (my name) or Altheron, depending on the game.
Females are named Aneira, a name that I'm fond of.
Females are named Aneira, a name that I'm fond of.
I have a few names I used, depending on game genre, character type and gender.
I generally go with Janus for a male hero, Gaspar for a shadier-type, Lent (or sometimes Lezard) for mage-types and sometimes a name I made up a long time ago, Vilaft for large meat-head warrior types.
For females I generally use Maria for healers or mages and Mei for warrior-types.
And when my girlfriend is watching, sometimes I user her name
I generally go with Janus for a male hero, Gaspar for a shadier-type, Lent (or sometimes Lezard) for mage-types and sometimes a name I made up a long time ago, Vilaft for large meat-head warrior types.
For females I generally use Maria for healers or mages and Mei for warrior-types.
And when my girlfriend is watching, sometimes I user her name
Which leads me to the question why you're a kitten in your games but a chicken in these forums. Huh...ultrachicken said:
@topic: The hardest part in any game for me is coming up with a name. I can defeat any boss, solve any riddle or make any jump. But coming up with a name is a real *****, so I usually go for curses or this name I have here.
In Zelda I'm going for fagballs. It's this homepage's fault.
Whenever I play Harvest Moon games and I can only play a male, I name him Robert Paulson.Aerodynamic said:
im plaing dragon age at the moment and my character was called Doraleus (does that make me lame?) and i called the dog titty. Also on Oblivion i made my class 'transvestite' just so it would ask me 'are you sure you want to be a transvestite?'
also very aware that the 2 games i mentioned were really very geeky so you my point and laugh if you wish. i deserve it.
also very aware that the 2 games i mentioned were really very geeky so you my point and laugh if you wish. i deserve it.
It depends on what type of character I'm using.
Good Male: Phil (most used)
Evil Male: Keldor
Neutral Female: Nancy
Good Male: Phil (most used)
Evil Male: Keldor
Neutral Female: Nancy