What was the reasoning behind your characters name?

[seskie1]

Just wondering because I have seen some pretty creative names and I guess being sick and holed up in your is just entertaining enough that eventually you have to get a thread going.
For me I chose my native language of Punjabi
Singh : lion
Sohni: beauty
Sohna:gold/handsome
Sherni: lioness
Thrannypoo klemmlover: because sometimes you just have to pay homage

I chose Surma as the surname for my toons because it means one who is brave.

So where dis you get the inspiration for the names of your characters?

[Buggss]

Um... where to start...

My son's rabbit died the same day and we'd just finished burying him (the rabbit, not my son ) and I decided to roll up a new toon.

Guess what my son wanted me to call him....

[Uska]

Well my fave character I named due to the fact I had a large amount of the original candy canes so I named her Khandikane to be a little diff. My first character I just used a character name I had used for the last 36 years off and on in pnp dont remember where I came up with Uska though.

[Nysrock]

I have gotten some from books, some from name generators and some from a thesaurus.

[DoctorWhofan]

Trissa--made it up
Kleo Everlasting-- Orphen
Sousake--FMP!
THe Tenth--doctor
Oncoming Storm--guess
Roselyn Tylor--guess
Keatheran--made it up
Allura--Voltron
Kaname--FMP!
FatherAbel--Trinity Blood
Toushiirou--bleach
Mulder--well
Healbotatron--made it up
Scully--heh
Tnannet Davyyd--I'll let you figureit out
Orindell--made it up
Courwin--made it up
Caboose-- RvsB
Argashia--made up
Heeroyuy--Gundam W
Jennysmith--guess yet again
Johnsmith--same as above
Doctorwhofan--

[Buggss]

...Tnannet Davyyd--I'll let you figureit out...

You liked that particular incarnation then?

[DoctorWhofan]

You liked that particular incarnation then?

My husband looks like him! And he did an AWESOME job as the DOctor.

[mudfud]

Trissa--made it up
Kleo Everlasting-- Orphen
Sousake--FMP!
THe Tenth--doctor
Oncoming Storm--guess
Roselyn Tylor--guess
Keatheran--made it up
Allura--Voltron
Kaname--FMP!
FatherAbel--Trinity Blood
Toushiirou--bleach
Mulder--well
Healbotatron--made it up
Scully--heh
Tnannet Davyyd--I'll let you figureit out
Orindell--made it up
Courwin--made it up
Caboose-- RvsB
Argashia--made up
Heeroyuy--Gundam W
Jennysmith--guess yet again
Johnsmith--same as above
Doctorwhofan--

After the last season looks like you need to be adding River Song to that alt list.

[DoctorWhofan]

After the last season looks like you need to be adding River Song to that alt list.

uhmm I have her, too. I just forgot! that's just a partial list of my characters...

[Munesai]

My character, Munesai, is modeled after Miyamoto Musashi and is a blend of the names Yagyu Munenori and Shinmen Munisai.
Here is the story:
Shinmen Munisai (新免 無二斎?), also called Hirata Munisai, was a martial artist, expert in using the sword and the jutte. He was also the father of the samurai named Miyamoto Musashi. He was the son of Hirata Shōgen 平田将監, a vassal of Shinmen Iga no Kami, the lord of Takayama Castle in the Yoshino district of Mimasaka Province. Munisai was relied upon by Lord Shinmen Sokan,the head of the Shinmen clan and so was allowed to use the Shinmen name. He was one of the few to have obtained the title of "Unrivaled Under The Sun", title offered to him by the Shogun Ashikaga.

Yagyū Munenori (柳生 宗矩?, 1571 - May 11, 1646) was a Japanese swordsman, founder of the Edo branch of Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, which he learned from his father Yagyū "Sekishusai" Muneyoshi. This was one of two official sword styles patronized by the Tokugawa Shogunate (the other one being Ittō-ryū). Munenori began his career in the Tokugawa administration as a hatamoto, a direct retainer of the Tokugawa house, and later had his income raised to 10,000 koku, making him a minor fudai daimyo (vassal lord serving the Tokugawa), with landholdings around his ancestral village of Yagyū-zato. He also received the title of Tajima no Kami (但馬守).
Munenori entered the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu at a young age, and later was an instructor of swordsmanship to Ieyasu's son Hidetada. Still later, he became one of the primary advisors of the third shogun Iemitsu.
Shortly before his death in 1606, Sekishusai passed the leadership of Yagyū Shinkage-ryū to his grandson Toshiyoshi.[1] Following a period of musha shugyō, Toshiyoshi entered the service of a cadet branch of the Tokugawa clan that controlled the Owari province. Toshiyoshi's school was based in Nagoya and came to be called Owari Yagyū-ryū (尾張柳生流), while Munenori's, in Edo, the Tokugawa capital, came to be known as Edo Yagyū-ryū (江戸柳生流). Takenaga Hayato, the founder of the Yagyū Shingan-ryū, was a disciple of Yagyū Munenori and received gokui (secret teachings) of the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū from him.
Munenori's sons, Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi and Yagyū Munefuyu, were also famous swordsmen.

Thank you!

[Ngha]

Little known ancient heroes,

OR

Widely known ancient heroes with an Ebberon twist to them.

Why?

Cause modern times suck, all we do is play MMOs.

[Gelb]

Everyone knows, I always name my characters with "Gelb" at start. I love German language, so I decided I'd name my characters in german. And I decided to start with a color name so I could make a lot of names with it at start.

Gelb means "yellow".

Gelbseele : Yellowsoul

Then, people had issues pronouncing the whole German name, so I went with "gelb" at start and English second word.

Gelbfrenzy, Gelbmusic, Gelbsexy, Gelbwise, Gelbilicious, Gelbmystery

Oh, thanks for the creative and interesting topic by the way!

[rodallec]

Name all my toons far cos of all the good last names that go with the first name

[nordlav]

My first toon I rolled I used a character name from a GK Chesterton book I really liked. I then rolled up a bunch of toons on all the servers to take advantage of the initial TP bonus and to try different races/classes and playstyles. As a result the names are a mish mash of various sources of inspiration from: 1) trying to clever/funny, 2) books I've read, 3) obscure names of places, 4) stuff around the house.
Some of my goofy character names were intended to be short lived (100 favour), but as I started playing them I like the playstyle and have kept them going. Later on I decided to put some effort in the names to be more creative, but subtle as well, to try not to offend the roll playing crowd too much, lol. I think one of my favorites is my dwarf wizard named Baaga Hammers.
As mentioned earlier, sometimes the creative juices just aren't flowing and I take the easy out and glance around the house for a name, it may be the author of a book or a name on a map, whatever, lol. For some reason, I've never come up with Rolex, Diamonds, Ferrari or 30 million as names yet.

[Cobra13e]

All my names are ancient Egyptian in origin as I am fascinated by the history of that culture:
Kheprekare
Setepenre
Weret Hekau
Mesenty
Wepwawet
I also play a cleric/rogue to unlock Drow on each sever and name them all Zoloist.

[Maxelcat]

All my character names come from Either PCs i have played or NPCs i have run from table top.

[Dragonhyde]

My first three names are nicknames of myself and friends.

[karnokvolrath]

Karnok Volrath - Now taken by someone who ninjad me in a reroll - PnP Name of my dwarven fighter of talos. I swear ill give someone coin/loot/wahteve...pls gimmie my name back
Solong Master - Old Cleric now deleted, just thought it was...cute...ya.

Deadwall - Originally was a sorc, a bad pun on someone being dead in a firewall.

Gasoline - Originally a Sorc (actually a bard but i remade him right away when landing the name), was suprised it wasnt taken and instantly thought "I hope you die in a gas fire".

Gasolinex - Palemaster, Slight spin of my main with the imfamus X, cheese i know, but in my mind hes Gas10 or GasX, WF.

Gasomatic Systematic - My Rogue - Tribute to the jackson five and more importantly e-40..i love those breakdancing little halfling buggers.

[whitehawk74]

I mainly name my characters from anything I can see from my desk. I'm pretty picky about what I name my characters because they all have their own personalities. Originality is also important. Do you hear me 'Drizzzzzzzzt' ?

Manadoll - She was going to be a cleric called Panadol but I had never rolled up a wizard. I love her to bits.
Jemeneye - Old character name that I used to run
Ramshaft - A stick of RAM that I have on my keychain.
Rhinnia - My heater brand is Rinnai, so I mixed the letters up till I liked what I saw.
Tahlulla - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1506908/ She was on "Doctor Who" at the time.
Virginrose - I was looking for something 'Rose'. DoctorWhoFan knows what I mean.
Stainpants - guess
BearHammer - for some reason there is a claw hammer in one of my desk draws.
KnockDead - No idea. It just came to me and wasnt taken.

Looseleaf Binder: He is a Half-Elven Rogue AA. I dont play him at the moment, but I just love the name.

[whitehawk74]

After the last season looks like you need to be adding River Song to that alt list.

.. and Melody Pond (I guess she will need to be a bard)

Excellent thread topic. So much REP to you I have often wondered where people got their names.