How did you decide to name your first character?

Tasear · November 2018

Just a fun thread to hear how some tamerial citizens for their name.

Nova Sky · November 2018

Nova Sky's mother considered her to be a gift from the heavens, her firstborn daughter, her little starborn child.

phaneub17_ESO · November 2018

Most of my characters are named from my own written fantasy stories. It's also how I determine their playstyle and role.

red_emu · November 2018

My first character's name was easy. Talagan Falathren. I have been using this same name since having it 'made' by an expert in Sindarin (a fictional language in LoTR universe). It means Harper of the Shores and I've always loved how melodic the name itself is

Abigail · November 2018

I know a majority of players give their characters improbably names, probably in some futile effort to convey their own rough tough demeanor. Occasionally I'll encounter a character whose name conforms to a lesser or greater extent to Elder Scrolls lore. I've generally tried to follow naming convention that should assimilate well into the community.

Kingslayer513 · November 2018

My first character is a magsorc named The Great Old One, a reference to H. P. Lovecraft's Great Old Ones.

On a less serious note, my buddy's first character was supposed to be a test of the character creation for ESO, so he really put no effort into building it. Four years later, that ugly Orc named "Footface" is his main

THE_BIG_BOSS · November 2018

My magsorc is called Tasear named after the sexiest class Rep on earth

D0PAMINE · November 2018

Uh well, my characters name is Scissorz. Cant really say why without getting a forum ban lol

Gythral · November 2018

Because some *** nicked my long term char name, probably after liking it in the closed beta

Knootewoot · November 2018

I could not come up with a name, so i named him Knoote. I use this nam a lot as a temp name in the game. Later i wanted a more lore friendly name, and with the name change voucher after a few years i did it. Mikhel Polcrops is based on my real life name, but Breton friendly.
I wanted to use Orit Kelteel (Orit was a random generated name from StarWars Galaxies, and Kelteel was a random elven name in Neverwinter Nights. I used this name in SWG, but it didn't fit in ESO)

Deep_01 · November 2018

Thanos Uren seems to rhyme with Savos Aren from Skyrim.

idk · November 2018

I don't know

I have used it for awhile. Think it was from a random name generator long ago.

D0PAMINE · November 2018

THE_BIG_BOSS wrote: »

My magsorc is called Tasear named after the sexiest class Rep on earth

I like to imagine that this is a pretty sexy community.

I hope you all have a sexy night.

ArchMikem · November 2018

Dehyesha was the main character of the SciFi novel series "Schism" i read in highschool. I thought it fit a Khajiit.

Jurand80 · November 2018

Dustykid after one of my fav dj's.

TheKingofSass · November 2018

I mostly use names that I already made from my own stories, or based on my other TES related characters. But I own like two characters who are an exception. My magblade healer; Lizardeth Báthory, and my memestamdk: The Seventh Element.

phileunderx2 · November 2018

My very first ESO character was created and named to be a tribute to my cat that had passed away in early 2015.

mocap · November 2018

kinda hard to find unused name this days. In some games nearly impossible - some dude in PoE make a thread where he told, that he literally can't start the game due to all names he enter already used. Even names like "asdfasdfasdf". Hell, he told that he print "i can't find a name", and this name already in use )

Anyway, some name from skills and items from diablo-style games are usually available. My char name is a gun from Borderlands 2...

hydrocynus · November 2018

I think I must have watched Con Air shortly before naming Garland Greene.

Nilarynpaw · November 2018

She was called Luranelle, and the name comes from two places:
1. My cat's name, Luna
2. L'ura from World of Warcraft (boss in Seat of the Triumvirate dungeon)
And I tried to mix the two, and also make it sound like a female name, that's why "elle" (also, I was listening to some French music...)

She was a Dunmer sorcerer, but I left her at around level 30 and leveled up my Khajiit warden, then deleted that my very first character (I thought I didn't like sorcerer so much) just to realize months later, I could use a strong, magicka based character for solo content. So then I created a new sorcerer, but with different name.

Lady_Scorp72 · November 2018

My first/main is named Ce'Nedra, a character from The Belgariad by David Eddings. I was around thirteen when a friend gave me the whole set, and it was the first fantasy I ever read. I finished all five books in two days, and it hooked me on the genre for life. Pretty much exactly how years later, Morrowind hooked me on everything Elder Scrolls from the first few hours of gameplay.

MaxJrFTW · November 2018

1st one i named after Urag-gro-Shub, the College of Winterhold's librarian in Skyrim. Same name but Nubcake instead of Shub.

2nd one is a quote from the Skyrim trailer. The name is "Dawns-in-Fire".

RaddlemanNumber7 · November 2018

I arrived in ESO straight out of Skyrim. My very first character was a Nord DK. He was a throw away character, made just to help me understand the game mechanics. I used the first name that popped into my head - Yoffi. Very simple, very Nord.

As expected, I made mistakes. He got deleted pretty quickly.

Strychnos · November 2018

I always try to make lore friendly names for all my characters. For Argonians I like to come up with both the Cyrodilic and Jel (Argonian language) version of their name.

I wanted to name my first ESO character (an Argonian) Speaks-Softly, but that name was already taken so I came up with a Jel name for her instead. That's how she got to be named Toxlexel, which I still like to think translates to Cyrodilic as Speaks-Softly.

One of my other Argonians, Grove-of-Trees-Swaying (Tsoxa-Dekwo in Jel) I've had since Oblivion. He's the first fleshed out TES character I made, and I tried to give him a gentle sounding name. I pretty much make this character in every TES game I play, since he's a vampire and could conceivably live through the whole timeline.

The only name I've taken from an outside source is my Maormer character Iroas Candaalil. "Iroas, God of Victory" is a card in Magic: The Gathering that I like, and I thought it sounded like a good elf name. Their last name I came up with by looking through canon Maormer names and coming up with one that fit.

zaria · November 2018

Easy Zaria, is an old character name dating back to TES III, named main Zariba as its more Khajiit sounding, made an alt named Zaria also at launch.

JamieAubrey · November 2018

I suck at naming things but I wanted to create a younger Vexx from the thieves guild but that name was taking so I added Valentino after The Masked Magician, Val Valentino

and I guess the rest is history

Aurayna · November 2018

Someone already had the name I wanted so then I just played around with the name - adding bits, shortening it until I finally found one that was free !

Most of the names I like are usually taken so that is how I arrive at most of my character's names

Finnisterre · November 2018

First character was a Nord tank, so I looked up some Norwegian/Finnish folklore, then picked a random surname from UESP's lore names page. For (most of) the rest of them, I looked up their race's names on UESP, and picked a random combination.

Biro123 · November 2018

I normally try to get some variation of Lemmy, ever since making a knight of the blazing sun in Warhammer Online that looked (by chance) just like him.
But it's usually already taken and I end up with some dirivitive.. Lemsha in this case.

Rexlerbrath · November 2018

All characters named after pilots from star wars. Taken from FFG's x wing.

FrancisCrawford · November 2018

My character names are almost all based on characters from other stories, such as:

Other RPGs I've played.
Stories I've read.
Stories I might someday write.

That's the case for 13 of my 15 main-account ESO characters as well, and a 14th is named after Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. (The 15th is an Argonian named Has-No-Feathers.) My original main's first name comes from a character I made way back on Prodigy; his last name is an adaption of one I used in Lotro. My current overland main is named and designed after a D&D character Loren Greenheart I made back on Prodigy. My pre-Nerfmire dungeon main is Percy Blakely, which is the real name of the Scarlet Pimpernel. My main dungeon healer is named Quentin D'Orien after a character I played in an online D&D Eberron game, but doesn't much resemble him otherwise except for blond hair. Francis "Lymond" Crawford was Dorothy Dunnett's greatest character; my mains in both Guild Wars games were named after him, and so is an alt I have in this game.

The resemblances other than in name or perhaps looks to the characters they're named after may or may not be close. E.g., the original Quentin d'Orien did actually resemble Dunnett's Lymond pretty closely, but none of my ESO characters do.