How do you name your character?

[Rayliav'enci]

I was working at a bridal shop and there were two popular dress makers named Raylia and DaVinci.

I smash words together until I like the way it sounds.

Verinoma is a mashup of virus and melanoma.

Sinistra is my different one. Sinistra is Italian for left and is root of the English words sin and sinister.

 

[Noire]

[member="Subject 37"] picked his number -- I decided 39 rolled off the tongue nicely and wasn't too far from 37.

And for some reason I thought of Seven of Nine.

 

[Isamu Baelor]

I take mine from anime/video games/tv shows

Isamu Baelor:

• Isamu = Isamu Dyson from Macross Plus
• Baelor = Baelor Targaryen from Got

Raoh Logarius:

• Raoh = Raoh The Conqueror from Fist of the North Star
• Logarius = Martyr Logarius from Bloodborne

Vengarl Vereen:

• Vengarl = Vengarl from Dark Souls 2
• Vereen = Clan Vereen.

 

[Netherworld]

80% of the time it's some sort of mythological influence.

• Vrag means devil in many Slavic languages. Archaic word, though.
• Nergal is the god of pestilence and underworld in Akkadian/Babylonian mythos
• Laguz Vald is a combination of two Old Norse runes/words. Water/Deceiving control is the rough translation.
• Orkamaat is a merger of two gods' names; Orcus and Maat. Personality-wise, he's also a merger between the two.
• Adder is a nickname/shorthand for Ad Yrá Kjormenkaur Traficit, which doesn't really roll off the tongue. That name is constructed entirely of "it sounded cool" words.
• Ari is also a nickname/shorthand for Arathul Moriir Shamalain. Blame half on [member="Lorelei Darke"]. The rest is again just what sounded cool.

 

[GhostOfProtocol]

Literally top of my head, like I just hit letters and see what I can form.

 

[Darth Kentarch]

Kentarch. With a Darth in front of it. I think you all know what it means.

His real name is a mix of names of ace fighters from the Ace Combat series. However unless your clever with a search engine, I'll never tell it.

 

[Julius Sedaire]

Ijaat? I named him a while back, a long while back, from simple Mando'a words. I thought it sounded cool. I don't follow a particular bend, but Ostanes and Alcuin are names drawn from history that relate to their 'archetypes' so to speak.

 

[Krux Mullarus]

Mullarus was the name I gave my first Sith Warrior in SWTOR. I thought it sounded super badass. SWTOR Mullarus was actually a bald cyborg who was 100% evil. Chaos Mullarus' appearance is based off another of my SWTOR characters I made named Odylec. I pretty much just combined the two to make a young aspiring Sith. In the beginning, I even planned for Mullarus to suffer a traumatic battle or experience that destroys most of his body and he is rebuilt like Darth Vader to be as much machine as man, but I decided if I ever do that, it will be a while.

 

[The Traveler]

I first come up with a concept, then i create the characters personality and history and tweak his back ground to suit. Then i come up with a name that fits it. For this character, he is a nomad of death and destruction, he doesn't stay and he is mysterious in most regards. So he became a title.

 

[Kratos Bandua]

80% of the time it's some sort of mythological influence.

My man! It helps develop a personality/goals further if you name them after a god or other mythological character as well. You kind of adjust your character's personality/goal slightly to echo their namesake too

 

[Allyson Locke]

Spencer is actually the name I would have picked for myself if I got to name myself . I've always loved it. Jacobs was just the name of the author on a book that was on the book shelf - had a nice ring to it never looked back.