Very Fishy NPC names - Surely they MEANT to do that?

IzzyStardust

Like is this guy's name actually Rube in Denial?


I've seen others like that too, one was a street person in Balmora, called something Popeil (Ron Popeil was a big TV Infomercial or whatever advertising promoter guy with hiw own brand; I think he went bankrupt....)

Also saw a weirdly named Khajiit; but I forget now - will post it when i find it again.

Have you seen any?

KhajiitFelix

Ok

witchdoctor

Maybe he is from Egypt?

Rube in de Nile?

logarifmik

You should probably try to use gematria on those names next time. Some deeper meanings could reveal themselves.

IzzyStardust

logarifmik wrote: »

You should probably try to use gematria on those names next time. Some deeper meanings could reveal themselves.

Lol 😂Maybe later...

FrancisCrawford

It's likely. Certainly shoutouts to games and popular culture are common.

• LOTRO had an NPC named Rurik (major NPC in Guild Wars).
• Guild Wars had an NPC named Jayne, whose weapon -- quite against normal weapon naming conventions -- was named Vera.
• Guild Wars also had an NPC named Kilroy Stonekin, who ran madly into battle shouting his name at length: "Kilroooooooy Stonekin!!!!"

As for wordplay -- this is the game where the Mundus Stone named "The Lover" just randomly happens to be the one that optimizes penetration.

IzzyStardust

Cannot decide if agree or awesome!

Lol yeah the Lover; forgot that one!

Bam_Bam

"You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp?"

IzzyStardust

It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again...

‘I’d F Me’

Lol 😂

Nestor

Game developers tend to have a wicked sense of humor.

And that is a good thing.

Verbal_Earthworm

That took you a while to notice.

r34lian

Lifts her tail $$$$

siddique

I came across an npc yesterday by the name of "Lund", if the developers spoke my national language, they'd know it means, well how do I put it, the Molag on top of the Balls.

r34lian

siddique wrote: »

I came across an npc yesterday by the name of "Lund", if the developers spoke my national language, they'd know it means, well how do I put it, the Molag on top of the Balls.

Lul you from india mate!!!

Anrose

The Vicious Death set (referred to as VD) was implemented as a way to get people to not stick so closely together.

SirAndy

IzzyStardust wrote: »

Have you seen any?

Queen Ayrenn


When you first meet her, she even tells you how she ran away from home ...

Karmanorway

IzzyStardust wrote: »

Like is this guy's name actually Rube in Denial?


I've seen others like that too, one was a street person in Balmora, called something Popeil (Ron Popeil was a big TV Infomercial or whatever advertising promoter guy with hiw own brand; I think he went bankrupt....)

Also saw a weirdly named Khajiit; but I forget now - will post it when i find it again.

Have you seen any?

If it werent for that haircut i wouldnt get it xD

siddique

Soul19reaper wrote: »

siddique wrote: »

I came across an npc yesterday by the name of "Lund", if the developers spoke my national language, they'd know it means, well how do I put it, the Molag on top of the Balls.

Lul you from india mate!!!

Pakistan

kenneth.friisb16_ESO

There is a guy somewhere, can't remember where, and he's named "Lort the digger".
I'm from Denmark and in danish "Lort" means ***

Edit: Can't write that apparently, "Lort" is a harsher word for "poo" or "turd"

Elsonso

IzzyStardust wrote: »

Like is this guy's name actually Rube in Denial?

I don't discount the possibility of a joke being made, but it is a lore friendly one.

r34lian

siddique wrote: »

Soul19reaper wrote: »

siddique wrote: »

I came across an npc yesterday by the name of "Lund", if the developers spoke my national language, they'd know it means, well how do I put it, the Molag on top of the Balls.

Lul you from india mate!!!

Pakistan

You play on PC NA?

Red_Feather

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

It's likely. Certainly shoutouts to games and popular culture are common.

• LOTRO had an NPC named Rurik (major NPC in Guild Wars).
• Guild Wars had an NPC named Jayne, whose weapon -- quite against normal weapon naming conventions -- was named Vera.
• Guild Wars also had an NPC named Kilroy Stonekin, who ran madly into battle shouting his name at length: "Kilroooooooy Stonekin!!!!"

As for wordplay -- this is the game where the Mundus Stone named "The Lover" just randomly happens to be the one that optimizes penetration.

yeah GW had so many pop culture references the wiki started adding them to each page.

siddique

Soul19reaper wrote: »

siddique wrote: »

Soul19reaper wrote: »

siddique wrote: »

I came across an npc yesterday by the name of "Lund", if the developers spoke my national language, they'd know it means, well how do I put it, the Molag on top of the Balls.

Lul you from india mate!!!

Pakistan

You play on PC NA?

I used to till two years ago. But now I moved to ps4 na. I was in this guild called Majestic Twelve on PC na.

Raudgrani

Soul19reaper wrote: »

siddique wrote: »

I came across an npc yesterday by the name of "Lund", if the developers spoke my national language, they'd know it means, well how do I put it, the Molag on top of the Balls.

Lul you from india mate!!!

Lund means "grove" in Swedish, and is a very common Swedish surname, and it's also the name of a Swedish city, and part of a load of Swedish city names.