Terach, Nachor, Niniwa, Bersheba - these after the names known from the holy Bible .

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. .

Lol...awesome! I bet not many even know who she is!!

I always call my main character in western RPGs Danielle Aurorel. Danielle goes back to Ultima Online and is literally just a name I liked which stuck. Aurorel goes back to Neverwinter Nights and means dawn star in Latin/Quenya.

But in TES games I always play a khajiit so I made it Danika instead, to sound a bit more like a khajiiti name. (I did play with adding a hyphen or apostrophe to make it look like there's a prefix/suffix but I didn't like how it looked.) I included the surname because just Danika was taken. The story is she adopted the surname from my other main character to try and fit in better when she moved to Highrock.

I used Danielle Aurroel for my 'second main' who is a breton warden. It's even sort-of lore friendly because a lot of breton names are influenced by French.

I'm not strict about choosing lore appropriate names, but I do try to pick something which won't stand out as obviously not a Tamrilic name, unless I'm deliberately making a joke character or a cosplay one.

Well, it was ESO's launch.. I was gonna play with a friend, and we played together all the time.. So I picked Latios and he picked Latias. Gotta keep the Eon Duo together, right? Sadly, he stopped playing a long time ago, and Latios lost his sister.

Brammer = Bring the Hammer

red_emu wrote: »

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

I need to find somebody to do that with Old Valyrian from ASOIAF.I suppose I could learn it.

A long time ago, in a teenage fantasy far, far away, I imagined myself a Celtic warrior much like Sláine from 2000AD (the brit cult comic in the 1980s for those unfamiliar with it). A legendary warrior needs the love of a good woman, a heroic, skilled, assertive and completely mental woman.... his wife, Níamh.

Wikipedia has this to say about her, woefully short though it is to describe a woman of such legendary anger:

"Slaine's strong-willed wife. She is very assertive even for a woman of her times and prone to anger and jealousy, often beating up Slaine's other wives and concubines."

It also neglects to describe her fighting abilities, being as she was also a skilled warrior.

The idea of such a woman certainly left an impression on the putty of a young and imaginitive D&D player's mind and she has lived on ever since in many gaming fantasies.

(With a foot-note to the effect that although my now wife is not called Níamh, she is certainly prone to anger and jealousy, although I am not stupid enough to entertain other wives and concubines for her to beat up.)

Onigar wrote: »

Brammer = Bring the Hammer

Ever since moving to Indianapolis, I have been consistently associating the vaguest mention of the word hammer with a goofy lawyer, who calls himself the hammer.

I'm coming from a role play background, also in ESO mostly interested in RP / PvE / questing, so I tried to name my (2) characters in a way that the name reflects the story behind somehow.

My main character - Eryn Oakthorn - is a Bosmer Jaqspur Archer with a "prickly" and quick temper. I wanted the name to be lore-friendly somehow, so a reference to trees (the oak for possessing a steadfast heart) and the thorny part of her personality seemed fitting. As for "Eryn", it's a gaelic name which originally means "Ireland". I just like the sound of it and it also somehow refers to the Wood Elves' Green Pact (Ireland > Emerald or Green Isle).

Unfortunately I chose Nightblade as class, I would have loved to make her a Warden archer with all the nature references this class has, but I created her much earlier and deleting was out of question. The NB skills just don't match her personal sense of ethics (with all the thieving, murdering and stabby-stabby), so I really hope we will get the possibility for a class change some day. Trying to do bosses and dungeons mainly with archery skills is really challenging, at least for me. Here the Warden pet bear would help a lot.

My second character - Hild Hognisdottir - is a Nord Warden Side-Tank I just created a few weeks ago. I'm not sure yet in which direction she might develop, but to date, she focuses on the Frost Magic part and some healing and uses sword+Shield which is a lot of fun.

As for her name, Hildr or Hild is one of the Valkyries in Norse mythology, a personification of battle. Hildr is attested in the Prose Edda as Högni's daughter and Hedin's wife in the Hjaðningavíg. She had the power to revive the dead in battlefields and used it to maintain the everlasting battle between Hedin and Högni. (source: Wikipedia)

So she is a true Nord, with an icy aura and glacial presence...

Unfortunately I don't have time for more characters, even the second one is a challenge to level. A healer would be interesting I think, maybe some day.

I actually rolled a female toon (yea go figure! since most of you have them!) and using Xena just seemed to cliche' (and taken) so I went with one of my other loves, Anime, and called my NB tank after Major from Ghost in a Shell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4VmJcZR0Yg

The names of my characters are names I used from other games. My main name Wizhunter is probably older than a lot of the players that play ESO.

Wiz

I actually had two "first characters"

Rah'Jiin - Wanted to fit in with something that sounded lore friendly. Made this up since it sounded Khajiit enough.

Generic Argonian - A name that I made that surprisingly wasn't taken during the early access week before Launch of the game. Upon the games' launch, I quickly registered this name for my character.

Zinkotsu(Elf Rune Keeper) and Einvarg(Dwarf Guardian) were names taken from characters that I used to have in LOTRO.

I just took the family name from my second (or third? IDR anymore) Oblivion character and I invented a male name for it (Ethim seemed like a cool name at that time... and I created a male char first, since at that time I was uncomfortable playing female characters in an MMO :P )

The family name which in turn comes from one of the names for Dragon Age Origins human character origins (Amell) which I was really into at that time, and I just modified just a bit adding an 'n' to it, so it wasn't that recognizable (but I later realized that was also the family name from another fictional character that I didn't knew about at that time...)

My Oblivion character was called Liana Amnell (a Breton Spellsword which I started playing around 2010), and I created a version of her as Sorcerer a bit later too (so sad that I chose EP for her... I would totally change alliance now if I could )

My templar is called Lehnnan due to that being my favorite Baldur's Gate character I ever played... a female ranger called Lennan... I just added an 'h' at the time I created the ESO character... don't know why and I still regret that :S

All the rest come from the UESP lore friendly characters names and tes name generator... with some tweaks, like Artorias instead of Artorius (in part also because I like the knight Artorias from Dark Souls)

parpin wrote: »

i named my first toon after my favorite guild wars 2 character "lady kasmeer".

She is HOT!!! Just sayin………….for pixels...lol.