MehrunesFlagon wrote: »

ListerJMC wrote: »

I like making names that are relatively lore-friendly. My first/main character is an Altmer called 'Ceremo Highfort'.

'Ceremo' just popped into my head when I was trying to think of an Altmeri sounding name, and then I decided he needed a grandiose sounding surname even though it's rare for Altmer to have one. I was inspired by the Daggerfall naming section on UESP and ended up with 'Highfort'. I consider that to be the Tamrielic translation, unfortunately I can't find an in-game source of what the Altmer word for 'fort' is so I don't know what it is in his native language.

My solution would have been to find another source of Elven. Even though it would not be technically Aldmeri.It would at least appear more so than Highfort. Take what you can get.

I don't mind that it's not Elven looking. I used a Daggerfall type surname on purpose because it sounded pretentious to say, and there are a couple of Altmer NPCs in ESO who have similar non-Elven surnames so I don't feel totally out of place. I would like to know what would be in his language though out of curiosity, as I figure in stuffy old Summerset he'd say it differently and it would be cool to find out .

My first one was a female mag sorc called Sh'eenaz. It's a character from the novel "the witcher".

My first and main character is a stamina sorcerer. He's a khajiit, like the other ones.
I wasn't yet aware of the Khajiit name suffixes and the ta'agra. So I made this: "Jah'Kar".
I always tend to be lore-friendly when naming my characters.

A more interesting story is how I found my account name.
I found an elven dictionnary in a Tolkien's book (french edition), and just picked sonorities I liked. Elwendryll is actually the final iteration of the combination of the words 'wendë' (~maiden) and 'ril' (~brilliance, as in mithril). I'm a guy, but I wanted a name that could be used on both gender without being too out of place. "Elwen" finally became my nickname, and even replaced my first name for my gaming partners. A shame I don't like the ESO High-Elves, it would have been this xD

Random characters from older elder scrolls games.

xxthir13enxx wrote: »

Heh fun fact:
my Mains name Cy Blackthorne was Named after a D&D character but I received whispers from another player whose RL name was Cyndi Blackthorne

Haha - Oddly, my main's name (which I took from a fantasy book) is also, I'm told, an eastern European(Romanian, iirc) slang word for Hello - which I've had some whispers about in-game.

My main RP character is called Shawn (shocker that). But he exists in mostly modern settings so I had to come with a more archaic variant, so I picked Johan. Unfortunately the name was taken, as expected. Seeing as he's the quiet, shy type, he became known in Tamriel as Johan the Quiet.

I'm not sure that fits with the tall, Nordic stamblade look but it stuck and I wouldn't rename or delete him.

Buffy was named in April 2007 late in the Third Era (Oblivion). She has kept the name as she has traveled through time among Eras. There were several influences and forces at work in selecting her name:

1. Alliteration. Buffy the blond Bravilian Bosmeri bowgirl. We much preferred the sound of Buffy to, say, Bambi or Barbie.

2. As a child, her parents had difficulty keeping clothes on her. She was always running around 'in the buff', as it were. Water seemed to make matters worse. In fact she was nearly thirteen before the red-face protests of her archery master, finally convinced her to be more discrete and not drop her clothes to go swimming in every stream they encountered while hunting. To this day, she pleads guilty to the refrain, 'Water makes her clothes fall off' - particularly near any waterfall. :twirl:

3. At the precise moment of sunrise that marked her birth, Buffy was touched by Azura's hand of fate as a Child of Dawn. Although she does not embrace the role, she is indeed one of few women with special abilities to help kill vampires. She is a Slayer. The influence of another Buffy with a vampire problem is inescapable.

4. In naming Buffy, I felt the name would be rather tongue-in-cheek and prevent me from taking her too seriously. In that regard. . . I fear I have failed miserably.

I honestly forgot the name of my first character, but I remember me just thinking about the most generic fantasy name. That was hwen playing a Dunmer in TES3 Morrowind...Unarmed build.

#ZenimaxAddUnarmedSkillTree


Now? I just think of generic NPC names for that race I'm playing.

Tasear wrote: »

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

Just my own names, then I was translating words into Dovaahzuul (using thuum.org), now I use actual lore-appropriate names (most of the time.)

Ilsabet is a name I came up with for a character in another MMO I played for several years. Each of my many alts in that game had a name starting with a different letter of the alphabet, and this is what I came up with for I. I assumed it was a variant of Elizabeth, but it doesn't seem to be common in any particular culture. When I started playing ESO, I liked the sound of it and it seemed distinctive, so I decided to use it for my Breton. Her last name, Menard, is reminiscent of the French Canadian roots on one side of my family. I think it's a good name, aside from the unaccounted-for fact that the game font makes capital I and lowercase l look identical, which tends to confuse people.

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

My pre-Nerfmire dungeon main is Percy Blakely, which is the real name of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

I'm a big fan of the reference, but I must point out that his surname is Blakeney.

valusthecateater wrote: »

The Name Generator for Dunmer was kind of boring, so Valus the Cat-Eater was born.

I hate cats.

*heart-broken screech* Protect the kits!!

My first character ( Nord) has a lore based name and only because I couldn't think of a name.

I went to uesp and looked at the nord names listed from past elder scrolls games. I found a name I liked and added "the elder" to it.