What's In A Name?

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Lore-Friendly Names

Always lore-friendly names, although I acknowledge Away-From-Keyboard might be pushing it.

(He is an ex-slave who used to be property of House Hlaalu, and minded the keys to one of their brothels before being freed as part of Pact treaties and promptly bailing for the Daggerfall Covenant.)

vsrs_au wrote: »

Doesn't that make some dialogues a bit awkward, when NPCs address you by the full multi-part name?

The closest NPCs will come to calling you by name is putting it in a lore book, sadly.

Browiseth

Lore-Friendly Names

generally i give my characters lore-appropriate names, (see: Strikes-with-Arcane, Garrus Loridius, Ashes-of-Arcane, etc.) but very often i will try and sneak a reference to another game i like or maybe even an anime or something.

example, my "Moonlight Maiden" character sorta functions as an Elden Ring reference, as the character i played in that game ended up being a dedicated sorcery character, with the sorcery branch of magic being associated with the moon in that game's lore

my Garrus Loridius's character's first name acts as a reference to Garrus Vakarian, my (second) favourite character in the Mass Effect series

my Bolgrog the Sinh character acts as a reference to Sinh from Dark Souls 2, a poison affinity dragon, and he himself is a stam DK so it works out

for a while i had a khajiit character named Avaricious Akashi, a somewhat subtle reference to an Azur Lane character though that char has since been deleted

my Sinnia Lavellan character acts as a reference to my character from Dragon Age: Inquisition

basically yea. i like squeezing in references to other games or anime that i like though i do like to try and make it as appropriate for the elder scrolls setting as i can

Dojohoda

Some are lore, some are joke, some are named after my deceased pet.

DreamyLu

Can't vote. This poll needs an "Other" option.

I use names related to my centers of interest in real life. That can go from using the name of a family member, or a combo of words related to a rl event, or a song, or based on something related to my work, a movie I saw, and so on... It can really be anything.

ESO_Nightingale

DreamyLu wrote: »

Can't vote. This poll needs an "Other" option.

I use names related to my centers of interest in real life. That can go from using the name of a family member, or a combo of words related to a rl event, or a song, or based on something related to my work, a movie I saw, and so on... It can really be anything.

anything? what about three am mac and cheese?

rpa

Other Media Names

I use a naming scheme which is completely unrelated to games or popular culture which results names not offending murricans. I did try using lore friendly name for my argonian maid but was forced to rename because someone took offense.

kieso

Lore-Friendly Names

Lore friendly ftw

Seminolegirl1992

Other Media Names

DnD characters usually

Drammanoth

Lore-Friendly Names

[rant]

When I see players' names, it may reveal a few things about the player him/herself:

(below, some are real, some invented so bear with me - ROAR!)

--***-giver --> a teenager who thinks of HIMself (I'd indicate a male here) too high, has never had a gf (not a crime in itself) BUT does have hangups which he cherishes more than growing up

--Garrósh, Liichking, Jayena Proudmoar, etc. --> muh lazy, muh wants play

--This-one-is-sexy, This-one-fakes-*** --> not offensive, hillarious and creative in its simplicity

[/rant]

Mythgard1967

Lore-Friendly Names

Mmmmm I tend to go with fitting names...though not truly lore friendly. More trope friendly' probably.

I have been gaming with the names Ariachne (every game gets a character with this name since 1999), Nyad, Aria'Dawn and Nyobe for over 20 years in mmorpg gaming...so...while not lore friendly...they can fit in just fine. For christmas one year, my mother (who I introduced to MMORPGs and she came to love them) once addressed my christmas gifts to Ariachne.....like mom????? Thats my game name....my dad was SO CONFUSED as he handed out gifts. Not to mention, my mother pronounced it wrong.....just saying......

My favorite names (on others) are the clever lore friendly joke names....usually on Khajit and Argonian. Love them. I do admire some folks ability and cleverness in naming.

Danikat

Lore-Friendly Names

vsrs_au wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

captainwolfos wrote: »

I tend to heavily research names so they're lore friendly.

I have a single character who doesn't have their actual name, if only because they're one of the House of Reveries, and trying to think of a single word name that hasn't already been taken is really hard lmao. They have a placeholder name for now, and probably forever.

Your character's name can have more than one part - like "xxxx of Tel Mora" for example. This way you can have pretty much any first name you like, just add a location to it and you will most likely be fine.

Doesn't that make some dialogues a bit awkward, when NPCs address you by the full multi-part name?

You get used to it. In some ways it's not really any different to all the places your character has to ask questions which they really should know the answers to, because of a lack of race/class/other background info specific dialogue.

KalevaLaine

Depends on the race, I always choose names and last names from Skyrim.

I only have female characters, so my breton templer heal is Fianna Rolaine for example, and her sister, a necromancer, is named Madena Rolaine.

Sarannah

Would have voted for: Self-made names!

I just spamtype something in the namefield, and then make it sound good and to my liking. The letter "a" is one of my favorite letters. The only characters I do not do this on are my argonians. Which I give funny names.

Offensive/criminal names, promotional names, and mistyped names are a big NO to me. And I do not like seeing players with those kinds of names in game. As it draws the real world into the game, which shouldn't happen. When players pick names from other IP's, I'm fine with that, but I always think they could have been much more creative.

Narvuntien

Lore-Friendly Names

Por quanos los dos?

I have lore appropriate puns.
Valoran Moore.
Wilcutuwenudoil.

emilyhyoyeon

Lore-Friendly Names

I've always done lore appropriate names since I've been interested in TES. I also like adding titles to their names because it makes my characters feel more personal, reveal a bit about their personality, etc. Ex. my altmer called Naicirye Iceblood instead of just Naicirye. My characters all have last names as well but I like title descriptors a bit more.

chattygeekHD

Lore-Friendly Names

A bit of both.
My current Khajiit character: J'hattee the Geek - I did to be both lore friendly (it doesn't look out of place for a Khajiit, other than is there such thing as a Geek in ESO?...)

But at the same time - it works with my name and the other stuff I do.

Ye_Olde_Crowe

Lore-Friendly Names

I prefer lore-friendly and somehow appropriate names. My Argonian, for example, is Xil-Pactli. Several NPC Argonians have names starting with „Xil-“, and „Cipactli“ is said to be a word for „crocodile“ in Nahuatl, so I found that name appropriate.

Muizer

Other Media Names

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

The closest NPCs will come to calling you by name is putting it in a lore book, sadly.

I've named a couple of mine after characters from Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" stories. One of them is called "Liane the Wayfarer". NPC in Alik'r call him by name all the time. I suppose the same is true for the character "Five Claw".

Lysette

Lore-Friendly Names

Muizer wrote: »

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

The closest NPCs will come to calling you by name is putting it in a lore book, sadly.

I've named a couple of mine after characters from Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" stories. One of them is called "Liane the Wayfarer". NPC in Alik'r call him by name all the time. I suppose the same is true for the character "Five Claw".

Razum-Dar is using the term "five claw" for your avatar - at the end of "queen's decree" where he talks to the kinlady.

WuffyCerulei

Lore-Friendly Names

Lore-friendly names for the most part, or even just names with all a shared theme, like the person’s username. I see A LOT of goofy joke names in end-game PVE and PVP that it easily burns out funny names for me. It stops being funny after the 50th joke dps name or dumb pvp name that’s either a trollish name or a build-related name. Though I do admit seeing the occasional meme name in a random place in Tamriel does give me a giggle. Literally saw a character named Wocky Slush randomly, and I couldn’t help but laugh.

ectoplasmicninja

Lore-Friendly Names

Most of mine are lore-friendly. Occasionally I draw inspiration from other media. I've had and deleted many, many characters, but the current survivors include Ashaka the All-Maker, Valaerion Brightflame, Nelacar the Untamed, Shaman Thog, Hides-Behind-His-Friends, Swims-Beneath, Ilyria of the Deep, and Stares-Into-The-Abyss. He should have been Gazes, but I had a blonde moment when I was naming him.

Kiralyn2000

X Other

I use generally-fantasy-ish names mostly. But I wouldn't call them "lore-friendly" since I don't pay attention to the actual lore-based racial/language/etc styles in doing so. (i.e, they're not 'joke' or 'media' names, but they have no bearing on lore).

Tisiphonae (bosmer), Aestanya (dunmer), Khaelani (redguard), Rensedre (dunmer), Therasena (breton), Aelarian (bosmer)... things like that. They might end up being close to something from history or media, but it's not deliberate. Some of them are names I've re-used over the decades across multiple games. /shrug



And one joke name - my mule, Cargo Mistress. (who wears civilian wear appropriate for a dock worker or laborer; Nord)

RaddlemanNumber7

Lore-Friendly Names

I try to use the in-game languages to make the names descriptive as well, e.g. Bellelatta "thunderous light" for my Altmer lightning-only Sorc.

Ingenon

Lore-Friendly Names

Most of my character names are NPC names from all the Elder Scrolls games.

Blinx

I gave up on lore friendly names on my last 2, was spending too much time trying to get a name, only for it to be in use, or worse the game times out, and have to start the creation process all over,.
Seemed all the names I liked from UESP lore friendly pages were taken, my last alt is named after a character in a bugs bunny cartoon...

EinionYrth

I try not to make my character names too jarring to the lore freaks; though I must own up to "frees-space-in-bank" my Argonian mule (who I subsequently levelled and now has idiosyncrasies and a back-story and stuff).

Lysette

Lore-Friendly Names

Blinx wrote: »

I gave up on lore friendly names on my last 2, was spending too much time trying to get a name, only for it to be in use, or worse the game times out, and have to start the creation process all over,.
Seemed all the names I liked from UESP lore friendly pages were taken, my last alt is named after a character in a bugs bunny cartoon...

Consider what I suggested - to add a location to the name like "xxxx of Riften" or "yyyy of Tel Mora" - you can have pretty much any first name in this case.

Lysette

Lore-Friendly Names

EinionYrth wrote: »

I try not to make my character names too jarring to the lore freaks; though I must own up to "frees-space-in-bank" my Argonian mule (who I subsequently levelled and now has idiosyncrasies and a back-story and stuff).

Lol. that happened to me in so many games, that one of those characters, who weren't intended to be played, turned out to become my main.

deadpool3431

i prefer names with TTV and YT at the end

Faulgor

Lore-Friendly Names

I only have one char whose name isn't directly poached from the uesp.net name list.
Heck, even my forum name I've had for close to 2 decades is. Ironically, none of my 18 chars is a Bosmer.

Still think Conlaoch Cripple-King is moderately lore-friendly for a Reachman.