Where Do PC Names Come From?

[Roderick]

I typed Rod's name into google images and this came up:



I don't even know, man, I don't even know. Let's just blame Archy for this since it was his idea.

[Nal'reim Qyan]

Nal'reim Qyan... Where did I come up with it. To be honest, I am not sure. I first used the name when I role played in the Star Wars universe. He was a jedi master specializing in healing arts. Then I brought him here and used the name.

[Kamilla]

Kamilla Circe Gordon

Kamilla - Simple, I like the sound of the name, I find it both feminine and exotic, and if you google search it, one of the first results is...
-A wild creation of God with a unique sense of
style and humor, outstanding physical
features and a bright inside world to choose
from.
-Extraordinary mind
-Wide Imagination
(accurate or not, I still like it)

Circe - Also simple, in Greek mythology Circe was a powerful enchantress(*cough cough* character aspiration) with hair that (some say resembled, some say was) fire...another sort of hint as to what I have planned for her... And on top of all that, it's just a great and powerful sounding name.

Gordon - In all honesty, I just thought it rounded off her name quite nicely, made it sound nice, real and fitting for Miz' them(At least I think so)

So there you have it, Kamilla Circe Gordon...Powerful, stylish and beautiful sorceress to be.

[Yra]

Yra is a Swedish verb. It means "to rave", "to be delirious" and "to whirl". I had the word in my head from a previous roleplay elsewhere and thought it fit the idea of a sun-mad Ethaefal.

Like Hirem, Ehati's name comes from a racial lore page, in this case Inarta. I guess I just wanted to take one of those names for once, and even then Ehati wasn't my first choice.

Terror is a Zith. She likes to terrify people. It's part of her story.

Ssafiracitlali, being a Dhani, got a different method to her name. First I took the name of a previously existing Dhani's mum (Ssafirarhysati) and then I gave her the Nahuatl word meaning "Star". Not for any actual reason, I had simply spent a lot of time on another character looking at known Nahuatl words and Citlali stuck.

[Mayra]

I think I can finally post here. Most of the time I simply pick the most unique name of someone I know (surprisingly, I have quite a selection, not a lot of Johns and Janes in my life...), but for Mayra I actually tried.

Originally I wanted to name her 'Sneak' for her Zith heritage, but that wasn't allowed, so I tried to think up something else. Her mother's name is Saya (which I got from this fabulous site) and her Chaktawe family name is Midra (also from FNG) so I sort of mixed them together in a way that I though a single mother Chaktawe would and Mayra appeared. So now she is Mayra, daughter of Saya, of the Midra bloodline of the Suli tribe.

I've never put so much effort into a name before...

[Zephari]

I came up with Zephari purely on accident. I've always loved the word Zephyr used in context of wind or a wind elemental, and I had planned on having a somewhat nomadic styled character for this site. So my brain accidentally typed a hybrid of the word Zephyr, and Safari. It just ended up working out perfectly.

[Shakune]

I always find it SO hard to think of names, so it's really interesting to see what inspired people to name their PCs But in my case:

Shakune I read the Chaktawe page, saw what sounds were common in their language and just kind of... Made some sounds with my face until I liked one. For a while I couldn't decide whether her name would be prononced 'Sha-koon' or 'Sha-koon-ay'. I decided on the former, FYI

Ayatah I lived with someone of that name and thought it was pretty cool. And I thought it suited a Myrian PC more than any other race.

Anouk I read the book The Slap by an Australian author and I believe a character in that book was called Anouk. Shameless copying.

Jeremy Casing For Jer, I wanted as normal a name as I could muster. I was watching Top Gear at the time (Jeremy Clarkson...) and I think I just wanted a slightly different surname so I wouldn't be totally copying a TV presenter

Jeremy's (almost) namesake :

[Aiyana Ottano]

Aiyana- I was actually researching names for a fantasy novel I'm writing when I came across this. It's a name used by the Native Americans and means 'eternal blossom'.

I didn't end up using it for my story, but I like it a lot so ended up deciding on it for here.

[Aider Silander]

Aider Silander, I love snakes and I wanted him to be sly and cunning. But I was also interested in having him be of aid to people. So its kind of just weird combos of words thrown together and now I have this mess.

[Duende]

　　
Such an interesting question!

Rufio was the name of the lead Lost Boy in the Peter Pan movie Hook. It always fills me with nostalgia when I hear it.
It fit the PC perfectly and is my source of writing inspiration~