Where Do PC Names Come From?

[Piraen Saneka]

I started thinking of the character concept in March, right around Pi day. I love making pies, and Pi just is the cutest, funniest looking word to me (plus it scores some serious points in Scrabble), so it stuck.

Originally, Pi's full name was going to be "Pidrahni", which was a name I picked up as I channel-surfed by a soap opera. However, when I got around to making the actual CS, someone messaged me and told me that "it" was taken. I quickly changed the name. Little did I know that the "it" in question was actually my first character model, Ben Barnes.

Either way, I thought Piraen sounded better than Pidrahni. Oh, and the 'raen' part came from a typo I had made in an essay I'd turned in earlier that week. I was aiming for rain, but somehow hit the E not the I. To this day, my teacher has not let me live that down. -__-

Saneka came from button mashing, basically. I think the original form was Sadeki, but the word looked too harsh to be paired with "Pi", so I changed it to Saneka.

[Jehryn Seyfara]

I actually had no idea to name my character. It was difficult to give a decent name to be honest. So I've actually linked my current character's name to my previous one (who was abandoned). Though in general, they have no similarities when it comes to rhymes or whatever but their names are a bit identical to those Wheel of Time characters. (To those who've read the books you'd be familiar ) Jehryn Seyfara actually sounds very similar to the name of Rand al'Thor's friend Perrin Aybara.

[Grace Lechar]

I can't give you a big long paragraph to explain Grace's name. I was just trying to pick a non-Christian name, but one that was very average and could fit her personality. Grace isn't exactly graceful so I don't know why I thought it would fit, but it does. As for her last name, I cheated a bit. Lechar (Please pronounce it Lay-Kar not Lay-char) is just Rachel backwards. Rachel is my best friend irl, we've got one heck of a back story together. Grace is modeled a bit from Rachel, so it's sort of a tribute I guess. Huh, Grace's name has really got a bigger meaning than I thought it did. None of my other PCs have this much effort put into their names ...

[Hajt]

I go to Bing Translate. I pick a language. I enter an adjective or a noun, usually discribing my character in some manner.

Hajt means "Wall" in Maltese. The more you know!

[Myrah]

I had a look at the typical Benshiran names in the lore and altered one from there! It comes from 'Mirian' sort of... kind of like how Mariam can become Mary can become Mariah. I wanted something simple, I think that might be a boring story though.

[Roderick]

I got mine from that TV series Kevin Bacon did, 'The Following'. One character kept being mentioned and - you guessed it - his name was Roderick. I didn't plan on using it for Mizahar; it just came into my head when I was creating Rod a while later. While trying to decide what to name him the Following popped into my head. So I wasn't really too hung up on what it meant or anything, it was just a name I liked.

Apparently it is proto-Germanic and literally means "[he who is] rich in glory", which is ironic since he's a hunter and so far hasn't really done anything interesting. Rod will hopefully be training as a squire soon though so its possible he will start living up to the name.

[Skylar Draykin]

So Skyler has been my go to name ever since I started roleplaying. It has always been spelled Skyler but a lot of people like to spell it the other way so when picking the name here, I changed it to be easier. Of corse that doesn't help when her nickname is Skye. I don't mind people spelling it Sky though. Its just a habit for me to put an e on the end. As for Draykin, I guess it all stems from Draco (as in draco malfoy) because of my HP obssession. I so I mulled it over and since I also like dragons (which I think the name draco has something to do with dragons as well) I recently got Draykin. And víola. Skylar Draykin was born!

[Calters]

I took the color of Cal's wings and, as Akvatari tend to do, played with the word. Scarlet was jumbled around and so his name was born.
Rejected names include-
Scatler (Scat for short)
Talcser (Talc)
Saltrec (Salt)
and Actsler (Acts)
You can see that Calters was clearly the best option. Although playing as Scat might have been fun.

[Yoona]

I tend to recycle roleplay characters, and if I can't make their actual characters fit into the setting, I recycle the name. Yoona is actually the name of a lion character I made for this online game ages ago, only she's supposed to be a robot...it also happens to be the first name of my Guild Wars 2 character. Heh.

As far as where it came from...not sure. I like sitting and thinking up random sounds when I make-up names.

[Edmund Morealis]

"Thou, nature, art my goddess. To thy law my services are bound."

Edmund was one of my favorite characters from King Lear, and though I know that Edmund was a bastard and this Edmund is - most decidedly - not, he was still one of the classiest and intelligent characters in the entire thing. He manipulated his way from an illegitimate son with no inheritance to an Earl without breaking a sweat.

But this Ed's not evil. Really. >.>