Where did your char name come from?

[qom_riyadh]

As I've heard, there was such topic some time ago, but since there are lots of new people around, maybe it'd be nice to know each person's name "behind the scene", huh?

Here goes I:

All of my character names (as I've mentioned somewhere) came from the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons:

Qom Riyadh - actually it's a name of a Muslim planet, placed among vast universe described in the book. Visited by the main characters in the Endymion part.

Lenar Hoyt (not guilded) - the pope of Pax - the reinvigorated Roman Catholic church. He shares his body with the Cruciform of Paul Dure (the Anti-pope). [read the story to understand. Definitely worth it.]

Jaev Helvig (not guilded) - name of one of Pax marines. My try-everything char.

Oh, something more:

According to recent suggestions, please keep this thread "information only".
Please don't discuss.

[Moraine DiGoraz]

My main character :
Gandalf - I saw Lord of the Rings and he is a mage too!

[Celuvian]

Atreyu Illvastar - main char (unguilded)

Atreyu comes from The Neverending story...hes the hero...cool film and book.
Illvastar comes from Baldurs Gate 1...hes a paladin:)

[Nicholi Ravnthorn]

Nicholi Ravnthorn... Nicholi I took from Nicholai... which is slavic meaning "Victory of the people" or "Victorious people" And Ravnthorn I created from a base "Ravi" whish means sun. This is a reference to Nicholi nickname from AD&D where I first created him "The Phoenix" becuase his character type involved him cycling through nature.. rising and falling as different creatures.

[Khaelieth]

Khaelieth - Sounds Elven!

Charles Innes - My first char, he had my name and my clan's surname

Declan Innes - Always loved the name Declan

Lil'alure - Means Dance in Drow

Valandil - Just a name

Caledia Vaniel - Just a name

Tyron - Dunno, just invented it

Kihara - My old drow. Existed VERY briefly

Kushguul - ORC

[Faden]

Faden Wildheart... I went through various names and this one sounded the best. Its from my imagination.

[Maldraedior]

Maldraedior - is a spellcasting blue Dragon for a Card game called Spellfire.

Alpha-Four - is my own creation, made as the 4th clone in the old Judgement city Judges guild.

Rauglothgor - Draco lich from pen & paper RP.

Zu'Guul - My own creation, name for my Goblin character that was in Sharp Tooth Goblins and the Severed Heads Orcs.

Gruzom - My own creation, made on my Orc character that was in the Severed Heads Orcs.

Got some other characters as well that some of you might know me as, but do not wish to reveal all of them.

[Jack Sinist (•̪●)]

John Dell was wittely created by me and Nec Mera when we were asked to think up a common name for my character. John was a regular name and Dell seemed like a good last name once we glanced on my mates computer.
Jack is the sinister one on the Jeckel album and so I made Jack Sinist.

[Raiden Morana]

Raiden Morana - Raiden is the Japanese thunder god and Morana means death in Slavic.

Amon Jarl - Amon is an Egyptian god known as the hidden one and Jarl means nobleman - Scandanavian i think?

Sallust - A character from Dennis Wheatley novels.

Perun - Slavic again i think - means thunder.

I've got a couple of unguilded chars that you may have seen floating around...

John Trent - I just wanted a char who's nickname could be "JT" after Chelsea's John Terry - a bit sad i know and i don't even like Chelsea John of course is about as common a name as you can get and he's an archer and although highly improbable the Robin Hood legend seems to be rooted in Nottingham and the river Trent runs through Nottingham.

Ragnar Vaniir - I wanted a Viking sounding dood! I hope i get this right... Vaniir i think were the red haired norsemen from Robert E Howards Conan and Ragnar is/was a common norse/dane name - dunno what it means but it'll probably be something cool

[Marcus Kobra]

Dyril Morvain- My commoner who you may have seen breifly, I invinted the name while playing The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion.

Marcus Illinius Kobra-Dain, Marcus- Sounded Romanesque, Illinius- Same thing, Kobra- wanted a name that was animal like but not exact... the mis-spelling is intentional (family related type thing) and the "Dain" A suffix wich I do not use in game but was part of the origional character design, the Dain is used to denote an evil or taint of the fmaily name in the society he was from. His Father Mathias Kobra-Dain was an evil Socceror, thus he was refered to as Dain (Dis-Dain).

I have other characters that I have used and made but they havn't eisted in the UO universe so they are irrelevant to this topic I beleive. If you think they arnt irreleant then PM me. Thanks

[Darath Mithar]

Darath Mithar - Originally this character started off as a Minotaur char. I thought that this name sounded pretty minotaury.

Mongo - Dont ask! When i joined UD i was pretty new to RP so joined Mongo because i didnt want to delete an old char. Its a decision i regret to this day! Some one told me a year or so later that it means freak in swedish!

Qu'ellis Hawk - My first UO chracter. The name just sounded right to me.

Jorus Freespire - Ive always loved the name Jorus before and though Freespire sounded pretty cool.

[Khaelieth]

Amon Jarl - Amon is an Egyptian god known as the hidden one and Jarl means nobleman - Scandanavian i think?

Means earl=)

[Mela Arkay]

Teagan Trix - Catskills shard (my own char of course), the last name is cos I wanted something to rhyme with The Trickster.

Mela - Its elven for love & she was a love child.. it fitted.

Flina Trix - I just made it up=P

Rose Amara - Rose is my little sisters name.

[Dalamar]

Dalamar: I am bad figuring out names so I take always a book from shelf and choose one from there.

[Vince Valentine]

Vince Valentine -

I'm sure any final fantasy fan knows that Vincent Valentine was one of the characters in final fantasy 7. Originally he wasn't an RP character, but spent most of his time in Tokuno killing dread spiders. I had to shorten the Vincent to Vince because of the maximum letters in a name rule when creating a character. So basically, his name is a kind of tribute to my favourite game of all time.

Sir Brent (Unguilded) -

My first UO character, he was named after David Brent, the boss from 'The office'.
FACT.