When almost everyone at some point talks to, gives things to, or emotes at your sylph, you do. Maybe it's just a wiccan problem.

Ironic that you chose a wiccan class to play, of all the guilds =p




Yes, I think you're right. So maybe using established character names isn't so helpful in this case. Looking at newer characters, their names don't ring any bells in my head though. So that's interesting. I wonder what kind of images Wuy brings up then

Don't ask me why, but "Wuy" by itself, evokes an image of the view ("camera") panning forward, as if running towards a cliff, where there rests a lone sparkleberry plant. I'm rushing towards it, and suddenly, WOOSH! My body is thrown from the cliff, huge fluffy clouds abound as I fall. And then, I hug onto a cloud a thousand times my size.

Like I said, that was the visual as I read your post.

Most names I make I just type in a few random letters starting off and add something to the end of it that kind of flows with the previous letters.

Yeah, I definitely called her out as a raider back when she was a Serenwilder helping us. Whoops



Funny, Faethan liked that about his name. Look at all the handy meatshields!

Funnily enough, Asmodea has completely shed any Christian associations and now comes up with Winter-related themes in my mind. Faethan reminds me of that old Deranged Hermit MTG card with all the squirrels (only here they're fae). Heh.

I like useless double-consonants.

Nejii is the best name ever.

Not as good as the kepheran version

shut uuup

Ditto.

What was the kepheran version?

Hah, glad I am not the only one who was really confused about Malicia and Celest

My own name comes from a list of "dark" names, while I have some generic names I use in games I decided to pick something new. Calixa is based on chalice, which I thought would suit a Nihilist when I started out, as it is a ritual object. The first months I had to live with a lot of people trying to whisper Calina and ending up with me though.

Good names, there are so many, and I am not the biggest fan of calling favorites. I like a name that fits with the character and where he or she is from. Like if you started out in Seren you have a bit of a woodsy name, even if you move somewhere completely different after. It adds a touch of believability to a character. Not that I will shun anyone for having a bad name, mind you. Most names sound perfectly fine if you don't go digging into their background

I am glad that naming rules are enforced here, if only for people's own sake. While WoW has seen the solution with paid name change, in EVE Online (yes, I am an MMO addict) I know quite a few people who got into roleplay with a bad name and have to use their biography to let others know the name you see ingame is nothing but a callsign. And with first appearances being important even when roleplaying, despite all the effort they still meet some prejudice.

I like the name I chose: Havastus. Three syllable names sound a bit more regal, in my opinion. I was trying to spin off Hephaestus when I created this name, and that's what I came up with. Though Hephaestus would fit better with a dracnari, and my character's a loboshigaru. Go figure!

My favorite name in Lusternia is definitely Nydekion. I have the utmost respect for him simply because his name is awesome. Even though I'm pretty sure he doesn't like Havastus, simply because he's an Ama'nar'isil!

(Hava's family has cause way too much unnecessary drama in Celest. Amirite?)

Speaking of which, the Ama'nar'isil surname stands out, and not exactly in a good way.

It sounds like a bunch of elves got really high one day, made a crazy name, then forgot how to spell it and just threw in apostrophes instead.

I think each name fits each person and their idea of that name. Overtime our own perceptions change and we associate that name with BLAH. You can say pitcher and catcher has to do with baseball all you want, but in my brain its something entirely different.....

Yeah, I never understood the point of apostrophes at syllable boundaries. Seems redundant. The name itself doesn't seem immediately out of place in Lusternia, but I think just Amanarisil would fit better.

As for Daraius, I stole it from a story I wrote a long time ago when I was capable of writing longer-form pieces. It was the surname of a royal family, which I'd arrived at by sticking an 'a' into the name Darius (which was the name of several Persian kings, hur hur hur) and putting the stress on the second syllable. I think it has a regal, no-nonsense sound to it--moreso than Darius. That wasn't necessarily what I was going for, but it fits now.

(P.S. I totally thought Malicia was a bad guy too. I always thought Faragan sounded like a name a wise, benevolent kind of person would have. Don't know him well enough, though--I just sell him a monthly IV drip of dingbats.)

Hmmm three syllables eh, interestingly Wuylinfe started out being a 3-syllable name (in my head, like wuy-lin-fé) but I got lazy and people kept mispronouncing so it's 2 syllables now. Before Wuy I made a few other test characters, the first was called Sesshou (hence my forum name, which sadly I cannot change now either. Damn anime-watching teen self). I'm glad I didn't stick to that one.

I was reading something on Wiki just yesterday and the name Darius suddenly popped up. I had to do a double-take, but there was missing the 'a' =p I like the names in this thread, they all sound like authentic fantasy-era names.

I thought I was being original with my adaptation, but apparently there is a pretty good optometrist in northern Virginia who got it first.