character names

[Murphie]

Re: character names

I once saw a mithra named Briatharen. The geek that I am, I instantly recognized her to be Bria Tharen, Han Solo's former lover.

I would poke fun at you, but I have my own set of subtle references to literature and other art forms that I recognize, so my house is quite securely made of glass.

Still, I'll find an opportunity to poke fun at you yet!

[Mhurron]

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My character's name is Lenee. I used to get spammed with tells claiming that X2 sucked

I don't know why people hated it so much.

I just had the girlfriend create a translation based on what job I had decided to play, then when I found that it had to be one word (no spaces) I dropped one of the words.

The one word suits jobs I like to play better anyway.

[Matera]

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I would poke fun at you, but I have my own set of subtle references to literature and other art forms that I recognize, so my house is quite securely made of glass.

Still, I'll find an opportunity to poke fun at you yet!

And you're still the shortbus Elvaan.

[Murphie]

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And you're still the shortbus Elvaan.

You guys spent the gil to change my name. I think you should at least get some use out of it. I'll change it to something else later this week maybe.

[Mog]

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You guys spent the gil to change my name. I think you should at least get some use out of it. I'll change it to something else later this week maybe.

Noooo!!!

[Murphie]

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Maybe next week. But definitely eventually. I mean, no offense, because that's a fair chunk of gil to spend on little old me, but seriously - I need to get off the bus at some point.

[Kirsteena]

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I tend to choose names that have a personal meaning to me - one of mules is Gershwin simply because he is my favourite composer - but Vivacious (my cooking mule) and Kirsteena have a lot of personal meaning.

Just don't be surprised if some of the more common names are already gone - especially anything related to FF of days gone by...

[Murphie]

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I tend to choose names that have a personal meaning to me - one of mules is Gershwin simply because he is my favourite composer - but Vivacious (my cooking mule) and Kirsteena have a lot of personal meaning.

Just don't be surprised if some of the more common names are already gone - especially anything related to FF of days gone by...

My mules are either named after my old characters, or named with derivations of those names. My main character (and my username here) was not my first choice. But Ael was apparently already taken across all servers, or at least across all of the servers available for random placement. It was very sad times for me.

I would have really enjoyed being named Ael. For personal reasons. Not that there is anything wrong with Aelathir. Just - the heart wants what it wants, or something.

[Ellipses]

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I have a few more names on my short typography-themed list before I have to start naming mules something else. Well, unless I dip into silliness like "interpunct" and "interrobang," or the completely non-obscure ("Ampersand" and "Ellipses" are barely obscure enough). "Solidus" I want to avoid because of the Metal Gear tie-in. I would have been named "Reinforcements" but that was already taken, as was "Lazarus," my other usual online moniker.

A few days ago, someone asked me if I had the same character on WoW, which I assume means he knows someone on there named Ampersand, which made me a little sad, though I suppose it's unavoidable.

[Irisjir Callard]

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Irisjir Callard (only Irisjir in the game though)

From the draconic:

Irisv (Meaning "Healing")
Iejir (Meaning "Blood")

An obscure refrence to the fact that even before I had the game, I wanted to play a whitemage/blackmage. I also plan to level paladin someday, which also fits the 'healing but bloody' padagrim to an extent.


If you like, I have the entire draconic translation matrix sitting beside my computer, not to mention House Maerdyn (Which I don't like as much because LOTS of people use it).


For the truly dedicated FF fan, there is the Al Bhed translator, which I don't truly like either, simply because I've never seen anything 'poetic' come out of it. Anything thta goes in comes out like garbage.




But from draconic, which to my knowledge is only available in hardcover,

Mage = Arcaniss
Warrior = Aryteus
Wizard = Levethix
Sorcerer = Vorastix
Theif = Virylm
Ranger = Sevaex
Human = Munthrek
Elf = Vaecaesin
Halfling = Rauhiss
(I don't know what a galka or mithra would equate to so no 'translation' for them)
Red = Charir
White = Aussir
Black = Vutha
Blue = Ulhar
Demon = Kothar
Undead = Kaegro


....I present a small selection, to perhaps give you a few ideas.





EDIT!

Oh yeah I forgot. Callard is the name of the guy who holds the patent on Duracell batteries. I was casting about for a last name (because someone else had Irisjir on a forum O_o (wonder how they came by that name) and the battery was the nearest thing at hand to grab and read.

[Murphie]

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With a game as large and far-reaching as WoW, chances are high that any real words are already taken. Alas!

[Ellipses]

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I just would not expect the WoW player base to have the mental fortitude to spell real words correctly. Bah dum psssh.

[Murphie]

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Your expectations aren't without some justification. Barrens General Chat nearly broke my spirit several times.

[Aeolus]

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Theres always asodishoai, kjgheejd, lsajhgj, dlghsdgsl. You might be called a gilseller then and random ppl will /tell you with abuse.

[Kirsteena]

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Ah the "omg my cat walked over my keyboard" names...

Actually we have a few players with names like that one our server that are legit...