Character names definitely matter to me. I spend a lot of time designing a character in my head before I go to make them in-game and the name is one of the things I think about. It needs to suit the character, look right and ideally be lore appropriate but I'm not that strict on the last one. (Also I'm playing on PC so people actually get to see it.)

My current ones are:
Danika Aurorel - female Khajiit Templar
Danielle Aurorel - female Breton Templar
Dawn's Star - female Argonian Nightblade
Sagittam Ad Genu - male Imperial Dragonknight
Holds-All-Stuff - male Argonian Draonknight

The first 3 are my 'main' characters, and the names are intentionally similar (although come to think of it that's not obvious to everyone - Aurorel means 'dawn star' - from the latin 'aurora' and quenyan 'elen'). They're all variants on my typical RPG main character. I know the khajiit's name isn't lore appropriate and I've thought about changing it but I've never been able to find something I'm happy with. For now my story is she adopted a surname to fit in when she moved to the north (she's a DC character). Considering in Skyrim she joined the Companions, became a werewolf and joined a rebellion she didn't entirely believe in to show her commitment to her new homeland it's not that much of a concession really.

Sagittam Ad Genu is my crafter. The name amuses me because it is completely lore appropriate in the sense that he's an Imperial and it's Latin but it's also both a short biography and a tired old joke which suits a tired old character. It means 'arrow to the knee'. As the name implies he's an older, overweight, heavily scarred guy, who is supposed to be a retired adventurer who settled in Auridon to make equipment for other people to go and get themselves killed. But when someone kidnaps and murders you to supply souls for their messed up little cult that's not the kind of thing you just forget about. And he seems to have a hard time saying no to other people who want help too. (Occasionally it does bother me that I can't make him limp, I settle for having him walk any time he's not on his horse.)

Holds-All-Stuff is obviously my mule. And the only time I've not been able to get the name I wanted on the first try - I was going for Holds-All-Things but that was taken.

Mine are Elsir Bright-Fire, Elsir Dark-Fire and Elsir Light-Fire and yes, it mattered to me when I was creating a name. I referenced a few lore-abiding sources for first and last names and came up with one that I liked and made sense to the lore, then stuck with some variation of it between characters I made.

The main ones I play are:

Tabbycat: Khajiit Nightblade Thief. And no, her name isn't really Tabbycat but she is a thief so why would she tell you her real name?

Elberta Edwinn - Breton Mage (Sorc) - Named in honor of one of my favorite characters from Morrowind. I think you can guess who.

Marnie Merrille - Breton Templar

I also have a Dragon Knight but I can't think of her name because I haven't played her in a while.

It's on my signature too:

- Hayden Heartbreaker is my Skyrim's character name I pulled here. It's not very canonical to the race (Breton)
- Lilith Maryon, my Dunmer DK, is named by combining names and surnames from UESP list of Dunmeri names
- Alzzll, my Redguard stamblade, I named with a transliteration of arabic expression "The Shade" (as far as my research went). Phonetically it's pronounced "Al Vallum", being the "V" sounding more like a "B"
- Last but not least, Renée LeBlanc, my new Altmer Templar I've chosen a french name after some research about famous female Templars in actual history. Not that I've found any similar, but it sounds better than Joana D'Arc

I named my first character, my one and only sorcerer, Rainbow Starr, which I hate and wish I could change, but nvm She is just my crafter these days anyway. My others are;

Elara Norhtwind, Breton Templar and my I chose the name at random, so when I realised that there was a quest with a Breton princess named Elara, it kind of made my day
Elara Eastwind, Breton Templar and Elara Northwinds' evil twin sister.
Jon-Dar, Khajjit Dragonknight.
Elfina Highwatch, Altmer Nightblade.
Bites-Like-Skeever, scary old vampire witch lizard.
Anora Gildergreen, Bosmer Templar who dies allot
Kitty Soft Paws, Khajiit Nightblade, who is just too cute

Molag_Crow wrote: »

All the good names are taken so I've had to improvise with names, like adding "of Cyrodiil" at the end, or something.

Use the name generator here: eso.tamriel.org

-Strikes-with-Arcane, the Argonian stamina sorcerer
-Melina Elinia, the Dunmer dragonknight who has no idea what she wants to be
-Garrus Loridius, the Imperial stamina Templar
-Vivian Snow-Spirit, a Nord tankblade

and a whoooole buncha mules

Sorc imperial - A Wild Squirtle
Dk argonian - A wild sandshrew (looks spot on)
Nb - A wild ratatata
Temp- A wild machop

Yup follwed a bit of a theme.

My Khajiit
Silken Purr, Sugar-Bikkit, It's-Probably-Quantum

My Bretons
Serephine, Gisele, Madeleine

My one and only Nord
Alder Frostfall

I also have a second account with male toons including a mule Orc named Little Green Piggy Bank and a very dashing Imperial NB named Accursed Mountebank

All in my sig too ^_^

"Chante-avec-les-escargots" is French for "Sings-with-the-snails". Because I laughed for days at the stupid video with the snail weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeing on the plane. So not really lore-wise xD
But I figured House Hlaalu would certainly like to make money with snail breeding. I am pretty sure the Bretons living in Morrowind would kill for it. I know I would

"Eugene Fitzherbert" is errrr... from Disney's Tangled. Yep, I said it.
I figured it could work for an Imperial hiding under a false name in High-Rock ^^

MIne are in my signature
I'm not really good in coming up with character names, so they are not very RPGish.
Well, except for the lastname "Demnevanni"; I love Baladas Demnevanni (and even more his lastname for some reason) in Morrowind One of my two Demnevanni characters has the first name "Donna" because I thought it goes well together with this lastname, and Frances because I like that name^^

The other names are related to none-game things or persons, and the last in the list is related to a person and a story

"Raygee" is the name I was using from 2002-2015 for pretty much everything including my music project, so it's also the name of my first character from beta and again pre-launch. She's, well, a she (and so am I), not a guy what many people always think when they read this name, but the name I made up from someone elses name and initials a looong time ago and this someone is a guy^^

"Venus Ocean" is... was.. the music and art project of a dear and close friend, I was also working for this project. He passed away from a heavy lung fibrosis in December 2014 and we didn't get the chance to talk once more which I needed so badly at that time.. Of course I'll keep this character, and she's also become my "main" after Raygee.

"Gixia" and "Lady Olivieri" are related to each other, but I rather don't want to say why. "Ray McCluck" is related to them in a way, also to "Raygee" (the latter just because of the name). But "McCluck" is the name which is related to a story which I mentioned earlier, it includes a fictive (comic) chicken, so much I can say

And "Elaine Benes".. well, I'm a huge Seinfeld fan, and since I didn't want to have more than one male character and therefore couldn't choose Cosmo Kramer as a name (which is my favorite Seinfeld character!), I've chosen Elaine Giddy up!^^

Forum name is Lenikus.
Game user name is @Lenikus
Character name is Lenikus.
Proffesional Nightblade, Generic Ganking adviser.

Nice to stab ya'll ~

In my sig but Ill play along
In order of when they were made.

Lunari (made day 1 of early release then rerolled to keep her awesome name)
Haan Zolo (he swung first)
I'Vana Byte (mother of the Byte family and all proceeding characters)
Vyle Byte (considered Main v16 character)
Vyible Byte (made bc I thought 1.6 was going to destroy sorcs lol)
Vyryl Byte (my BWB main atm)
Vylynyss Byte (my try at a nightblade for the first time ever)
And not appearing in the sig list yet because she cant even go to Cyro...
V'ykyd Byte (evil lil soon to be Vamp sorc)