What are your characters names and why?

phairdon · November 2017

Deathbyfur
Deathbyfleas
Cedric the insane
Rubeus black
Darkshroud the cremator
Ghastly Warlock
Prince Black Tail

No particular reason for the names.

AngelFires333 · April 2019

Falcon - Bosmer Stmblade

Lucifer - Dunmer MageDK dps

Dunno.
Seemed like a good Idea at the time.

My Bosmer crafters name is Bigus Dicus.
He was original Falcon and It's the only name I could think of.

Michae · April 2019

- Elbereth Elf-Born, female Nord, nightblade - Back in TESIII time I was starting the game right after reading LotR books. Elbereth is a name I took from there as it "sounded fantasy". I got further validated with feeling that this name is 'in lore" when I found an elf named Elberoth on Solstheim. It became my tradition to use that character in TES games, I'm just weird like that. When I started ESO the name was already taken so I extended it to Elbereth from Whiterun. With recent free name changes I changed it to Elf-Born to match the backstory I invented for my rp guild on why does a Nord have elven name. It's simple, her daddy is a Dunmer.

- Dranos Athrys, male Dunmer, warden - This is the daddy.

I want to remake him as necromancer when Elsweyr comes out. Dranos is just a Dunmer name that sounded nice and Athrys is the surname of one of my favourite NPC's from TES III - Ranis Athrys from the Mages Guild in Balmora.

- Detritus Fortesque, male Breton, one-eyed templar - Detritus is a Breton name I found on uesp.net and immediately I knew I had to pick that one. It's the name of a troll from the watch of Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett's books and as the character was made originally to be a guard in rp session it did fit perfectly. Fortesque is a tribute to Medievil games where the protagonist is an undead one-eyed knight named Daniel Fortesque. It also just sounds a little bit French to me, so I guess it works as a Breton surname.

- Wears-Women's-Clothing, male Argonian - Self explanatory I think.

- Dralas Andrethi, male Dunmer, Temple Ordinator for rp purposes - named after two sleepers (people influenced by Dagoth Ur) from TES III, Dralas Gilu and Dravasa Andrethi. And also after this:

I really enjoy inventing characters and hiding meaning behind their names, as you can see. Is it weird?

Ye_Olde_Crowe · April 2019

I try to be lore-friendly with my names, and those names usually aren't nything special. In some cases I also continue naming traditions (reusing names of my chars in other ES games), however.
Thus my ESO Bosmer's name Sasenthil is a variation on Jazinthi, the name of my Redguard in Daggerfall. My Redguard Warden is Darius al-Ghassani - Darius as a nod to Redguard's Cyrus (both are Persian names). My ESO Imperial templer Galen Atrox had a namesake in Oblivion (who was also a staff-wielding blond Imperial). And finally, Octavia Civello, my latest Imperial - when I found out that the ancestors of some of the Imperial Guard Captains from Oblivion lived in Kvatch (there's a Truand family and a guard with the last name Hayn, for example), I decided that Octavia would also be the predecessor of one of the Oblivian Guard Captains, hence Civello. Her descendants will inherit her icy blue eyes

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Ilithyania · April 2019

Michae wrote: »

- Elbereth Elf-Born, female Nord, nightblade - Back in TESIII time I was starting the game right after reading LotR books. Elbereth is a name I took from there as it "sounded fantasy". I got further validated with feeling that this name is 'in lore" when I found an elf named Elberoth on Solstheim. It became my tradition to use that character in TES games, I'm just weird like that. When I started ESO the name was already taken so I extended it to Elbereth from Whiterun. With recent free name changes I changed it to Elf-Born to match the backstory I invented for my rp guild on why does a Nord have elven name. It's simple, her daddy is a Dunmer.

- Dranos Athrys, male Dunmer, warden - This is the daddy. I want to remake him as necromancer when Elsweyr comes out. Dranos is just a Dunmer name that sounded nice and Athrys is the surname of one of my favourite NPC's from TES III - Ranis Athrys from the Mages Guild in Balmora.

- Detritus Fortesque, male Breton, one-eyed templar - Detritus is a Breton name I found on uesp.net and immediately I knew I had to pick that one. It's the name of a troll from the watch of Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett's books and as the character was made originally to be a guard in rp session it did fit perfectly. Fortesque is a tribute to Medievil games where the protagonist is an undead one-eyed knight named Daniel Fortesque. It also just sounds a little bit French to me, so I guess it works as a Breton surname.

- Wears-Women's-Clothing, male Argonian - Self explanatory I think.

- Dralas Andrethi, male Dunmer, Temple Ordinator for rp purposes - named after two sleepers (people influenced by Dagoth Ur) from TES III, Dralas Gilu and Dravasa Andrethi. And also after this:

I really enjoy inventing characters and hiding meaning behind their names, as you can see. Is it weird?

- Wears-Women's-Clothing, male Argonian - Self explanatory I think.

LOL made my day

Runefang · April 2019

Marathon - Magblade
Marksman - Stamblade
Master - Magplar
Martyr - Stamplar
Marsh - Magden
Martial - Stamden
Marred - StamDK
Marshall - MagDK
Marine - Stamsorc
Marvellous - Magsorc

Imaginative huh

FrancisCrawford · April 2019

Most of my names in this game are lifted or adapted from elsewhere, whether my creations or other people's, including:

Francis Crawford (hero of the Lymond Chronicles, and my character name in several RPGs)
Percy Blakeney (the Scarlet Pimpernel)
Revan Bladesinger (from another MMO character of mine, but the Revan part of course originally comes from KOTOR)
F'nor Canth (conbining two Dragonflight names)
Merlin Wyllt (combining two versions of the name of the legendary Arthurian character)
Elvira the Dark
Fencer Bladesong
Marcus Vidorius
Quentin D'Orien (as the "D'Orien" part suggests, my first use of that name was in Eberron)
William Kane (my own character, but he's been renamed, since I realized he should be Hispanic)
Aiwyn (named after my LOTRO main)
Thorn Holloway (my character Heather Rose Holloway's preferred nickname)

and also

Loren Greenheart

a stamblade thief who has recently been renamed to

Grumpy Ex Wood Elf.

lokulin · April 2019

After deleting a bunch of alts and then getting the name change tokens I went with pseudo Latin names in the form "honorific descriptor". Makes it easy in chat and when making new characters to play around with.

Main account:

Domina Dolore - Redguard stamsorc/tank
Domine Ignis - Altmer magsorc
Domine Draco - Breton magDK
Domina Ferrum - Nord DK tank
Domine Solis - Imperial templar tank
Domina Lacerta - Argonian templar healer
Domina Umbra - Orsimer stamblade (may be changed tank)
Domina Laminae - Khajit nightblade healer (may be changed to sap tank)
Domina Nix - Dunmer warden healer
Domina Vites - Bosmer warden tank

...and for some reason a random named "Lakelover Wellarmed" a pacifist Breton templar healer.

Alt account:

Domina Fulmen - Altmer sorc tank
Domina Aurora - Orsimer templar
Domina Invicta - Bosmer templar

purpleshadez · April 2019

Arredes - My main, Bosmer Stamblade - Honestly can't recall where this came from. I think it was an attempt at a non lore-breaking name.
Crystal Fraggins - Breton MagSorc who likes frags
Geographically Challenged - My tank. I get lost a lot!
Hides-on-Rocks - Magblade who likes rocks

The rest are from random name generators as I got lazy

Huyen · April 2019

Mostly using Huyen. Became my online nickname years ago and been using it ever since. Plus it fits most online chars I have.

KhajiitFelix · April 2019

Isshin, the sword saint. Because he killed me 874 *** times

Joxer61 · April 2019

Joxer The Mighty...because....its Joxer! And I have my very own theme song...yea, google it!

Protossyder · April 2019

- Daedrós: Daedra + greek name for mag dk (Aedros would fit the magplar theme)
- Dragybor: male name i came up with, means nothing, but I liked the suffix -bor
- Yenari: female name i came up with, means nothing
- Zerg Overmind: play of words, mix of eso zerg and starcraft zergs + overmind (originally for a bombblade)
- Yondaime Raikage: character of Naruto, fits the stamsorc theme very well
- Valkyria Valhalla: imo a good name for a nordic shield maiden themed character
- Devoured-his-siblings: this argonian doesn't have much family left, I wonder why..
- Enjoys-the-slaughter: the only sibling who survived his brothers hatchling massacre, some say he was the mastermind behind this tragedy...
- Hyperion der Obere: greek titan, fits the magplar theme, but i don't like the title I had to add
-Affa al'Dschinni: character from a book series I like, I added the "alDschinni" (I also made him look like a Jinn)
- Khaba the Cruel: character from the same book series, really fits the petsorc theme, since he summoned his own army of enslaved jinn

Browiseth · April 2019

Strikes-with-Arcane, argonian stam sorc: my character I always play in every Elder Scrolls. He's a spellsword, so a stam sorc makes sense for him.

Melina Elinia, dunmer magicka dk: "Mel" is a character I carry from game to game, headcanon to headcanon. In this game, that's just what her name and race ended up being.

Garrus Loridius, imperial templar: the name Garrus comes from my favourite character in Mass Effect

Maxine Cauline, breton magicka nightblade: reference to the main character of a game I'm very fond of, Life is Strange

Sinnia Lavellan, bosmer stam warden: my attempt to recreate the character I played in Dragon Age: Inquisition, who was an elven spellsword (or a "knight enchanter", as they're called in that game.) I'm quite fond of the character herself, it's just a shame I don't like warden very much. if they ever add a class change token, i'd likely make her into my stamdk.

Follows-the-Arcane, argonian petsorc: his name comes from how he is a devout follower/worshipper of Strikes-with-Arcane, and something of an apprentice to him.

Bolgrog the Sinh, orc stam dk: a reference to Sinh the dragon, a boss from dark souls 2 who has a whole poison theme going on, just like stamdk.

when necro comes out, I'll be making 2 of those, but I haven't decided on their names yet. One of them will be Garrus' sister, and the other will be another argonian with some relation to Strikes-with-Arcane.

kathandira · April 2019

zawizard wrote: »

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Breton Templar (Healer) - Kathandira. She was my healer in WoW.
Orc StamDK - Reydralis. He was my Fury warrior in WoW.
Dunmer MagNB - Diatrasia. She was my other warrior in WoW, but didn't want to duplicate in ESO.
Dunmer MagDK - Natsu. Main character from Fairy Tail.
Argonian Warden (Tank) - Stands-Like-Mountain. Just figured it was a lore friendly name that matched his role.
Altmer MagSorc - Santasha. She was my Elemental Shaman in WoW.
Bosmer StamPlar - Sorenel. Don't know where I got this name, just made it up on the spot.
Khajiit StamNB - Nasien Moon-Seeker. Lore friendly name that seemed cool.

HappyLittleTree · April 2019

Argonians
Main Nightblade: Jeetum-Shei: Stitched together from other names from UESPWiki long time ago when i was playing TES3Morrowind many years ago. (using it ever since for my main in the series)

Templar: Xaman-Ek: Mayan god of travelers and merchants

Sorc: Lavender-Scales: She's purple sooo...

Warden: Happy-Little-Tree: Made a backstory that he was raised by a Breton Artist based on this guy He's a very colorful Bright-Throat

Dragonknight: Uxith-Xul: Again stitched together from other names here

Michae · April 2019

Ilithyania wrote: »

Michae wrote: »

- Elbereth Elf-Born, female Nord, nightblade - Back in TESIII time I was starting the game right after reading LotR books. Elbereth is a name I took from there as it "sounded fantasy". I got further validated with feeling that this name is 'in lore" when I found an elf named Elberoth on Solstheim. It became my tradition to use that character in TES games, I'm just weird like that. When I started ESO the name was already taken so I extended it to Elbereth from Whiterun. With recent free name changes I changed it to Elf-Born to match the backstory I invented for my rp guild on why does a Nord have elven name. It's simple, her daddy is a Dunmer.

- Dranos Athrys, male Dunmer, warden - This is the daddy. I want to remake him as necromancer when Elsweyr comes out. Dranos is just a Dunmer name that sounded nice and Athrys is the surname of one of my favourite NPC's from TES III - Ranis Athrys from the Mages Guild in Balmora.

- Detritus Fortesque, male Breton, one-eyed templar - Detritus is a Breton name I found on uesp.net and immediately I knew I had to pick that one. It's the name of a troll from the watch of Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett's books and as the character was made originally to be a guard in rp session it did fit perfectly. Fortesque is a tribute to Medievil games where the protagonist is an undead one-eyed knight named Daniel Fortesque. It also just sounds a little bit French to me, so I guess it works as a Breton surname.

- Wears-Women's-Clothing, male Argonian - Self explanatory I think.

- Dralas Andrethi, male Dunmer, Temple Ordinator for rp purposes - named after two sleepers (people influenced by Dagoth Ur) from TES III, Dralas Gilu and Dravasa Andrethi. And also after this:

I really enjoy inventing characters and hiding meaning behind their names, as you can see. Is it weird?

- Wears-Women's-Clothing, male Argonian - Self explanatory I think.

LOL made my day

@Ilithyania
Then I think you should see this. Here he is with his buddies.

amith · April 2019

Amithraril - name taken from Tolken - also my first D&D High Elf.. always play the same name in all MMORPG

Tasear · April 2019

Tasear - obvious reasons

Sinful Moon - wanted fallen moon but was taken

Starlight Whisperer - means singing to the stars
Faithless Walker - means passing clouds

Heartless Darkness - it represents the unknown darkness that doesn't care for you like the light.

Wind Caller - means howl at moon

Taintless Shadow - means Dark side of Moon

Browiseth · April 2019

Tasear wrote: »

Tasear - obvious reasons

Sinful Moon - wanted fallen moon but was taken

Starlight Whisperer - means singing to the stars
Faithless Walker - means passing clouds

Heartless Darkness - it represents the unknown darkness that doesn't care for you like the light.

Wind Caller - means howl at moon

Taintless Shadow - means Dark side of Moon

edge messiah

i salute you

MinnesotaKid · April 2019

Main

Cpt. Obvious - Dark Elf Stamsorc - He was the first and is now my master crafter

PVP

Suzi Q - Khajiit Stamblade - Cyro bow ganker
Leggo Mi Aggro - Wood Elf Stamblade - Cyro melee ganker
Bombastic Betty Boo - High Elf Magblade - Cyro bomber
Pyroclastic Flo - Dark Elf Magsorc - Cyro zerg runner
Simon the Summoner - Breton Magplar - Cyro healer
Grimaldi Painbringer - Redguard StamDK - IC Telvar runner
The Murphy - Orc Stamden - Cyro zerg runner
Sadistic Sam - High Elf Magplar - BG's

PVE

H. R. Puff n Stuff - Breton Magblade - DD
Kowa Bungga - Dark Elf MagDK - DD
MinnesotaKid - Nord Stamsorc - DD
Ronin Dexx - Nord StamDK - Tank
Crunchy Toast Stix - Argonian Magden - Healer
Catatumbo Storm - High Elf Magsorc - VMA Pet Sorc

None of these are lore friendly but I do try and pick unique and interesting names for my toons.

Espionage- · April 2019

M’aiq the Deceitful
- he’s related to M’aiq the Lair

Ilithyania · April 2019

Michae wrote: »

Ilithyania wrote: »

Michae wrote: »

- Elbereth Elf-Born, female Nord, nightblade - Back in TESIII time I was starting the game right after reading LotR books. Elbereth is a name I took from there as it "sounded fantasy". I got further validated with feeling that this name is 'in lore" when I found an elf named Elberoth on Solstheim. It became my tradition to use that character in TES games, I'm just weird like that. When I started ESO the name was already taken so I extended it to Elbereth from Whiterun. With recent free name changes I changed it to Elf-Born to match the backstory I invented for my rp guild on why does a Nord have elven name. It's simple, her daddy is a Dunmer.

- Dranos Athrys, male Dunmer, warden - This is the daddy. I want to remake him as necromancer when Elsweyr comes out. Dranos is just a Dunmer name that sounded nice and Athrys is the surname of one of my favourite NPC's from TES III - Ranis Athrys from the Mages Guild in Balmora.

- Detritus Fortesque, male Breton, one-eyed templar - Detritus is a Breton name I found on uesp.net and immediately I knew I had to pick that one. It's the name of a troll from the watch of Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett's books and as the character was made originally to be a guard in rp session it did fit perfectly. Fortesque is a tribute to Medievil games where the protagonist is an undead one-eyed knight named Daniel Fortesque. It also just sounds a little bit French to me, so I guess it works as a Breton surname.

- Wears-Women's-Clothing, male Argonian - Self explanatory I think.

- Dralas Andrethi, male Dunmer, Temple Ordinator for rp purposes - named after two sleepers (people influenced by Dagoth Ur) from TES III, Dralas Gilu and Dravasa Andrethi. And also after this:

I really enjoy inventing characters and hiding meaning behind their names, as you can see. Is it weird?

- Wears-Women's-Clothing, male Argonian - Self explanatory I think.

LOL made my day

@Michae
Then I think you should see this. Here he is with his buddies.

haha looking fabulous

Blinkin8r · April 2019

The what:
High Elf Sorceror - Dr. Shrimp Puertorico
Wood Elf Nightblade - Lindsay Lohand
High Elf Nightblade - Lindsey Lohand
Imperial Dragonknight - No One Tanks Like Gaston
The why:
I wanted to choose names that were lore friendly. My wood elf is short, so her hands are low. Lindsay Lohand. The others... I don't even remember how they came to be. Too much skooma.

DenMoria · April 2019

Since I have 10 that's too many, but my major two are always:

Den Moria - always an elf, male or female, sorcerer - mainly because I play this character in all TES games and enjoy it. They usually end up pretty nasty, but heroic at the same time. Definite DPS.

Daelon Duluc - inevitably a Breton magicka user (in ESO he's a Templar) - that's my nom'du'plume on the web and he always looks like me

Urug'Hai - male Orc (in ESO a DK), basically a kick-a** dual-wielder/heavy armor - because he's a character in one of my books that I've always enjoyed writing.

dbgager · April 2019

Arcano Jones. Because it sounds adventurous ( Indiana Jones) and cool.

Kiralyn2000 · April 2019

I have a stable of names I tend to re-use between games, and then there are others where I just throw letters at the screen until I come up with something "fantasy-ish" (Khaelani, Aestanya, etc)

And then there's my mule character, Cargo Mistress

(who's wearing a set of civvies that wouldn't be out of place among the dockworkers.)

CMDR_Un1k0rn · April 2019

All four of my characters have names taken from UESP, with me combining gender-appropriate first names from the racial lists, and then a last name from the race-appropriate list.

DaveMoeDee · April 2019

I don't care for character creation. I tend to just do some random appearances until there is one I consider different enough from other characters (I often forget which one I am logged into) and then I just come up with a name to be done with it.

Sometimes I'll have fun with it, like my recently max-leveled Argonian Has-no-future who was created for crafting writs in the previous Jubilee. That was created the same day as another Argonian, Competes-Many-Writs, who is now level 31 and should be max level in a 2 weeks from daily random dungeons. I also have a no max level character from close to launch who was initially my main provisioner, Provisioning Mulez. She was never intended to be leveled, but then I leveled her a few months ago by running daily random dungeons with free xp scrolls as a templar tank.

I also have I Am A Vampire, who is a Werewolf. I figured maybe people will try to use fire against them and end up frustrated. There there is Haircicles, whose is a Warden with icy-looking hair, though the name is pronounced like Sophocles.

I also have Lua Error. I was hoping people would think that their addons were glitching.

Odovacar · April 2019

All my characters are mostly named after Roman Era officers or generals. I wont list all but my two current mains Odovacar (Dunmer DK; My OG first ever, never changed, ESO character; who's done almost everything Tamriel has to offer vTrials, HM's, etc.) and my newest alt Theoderic The Great (RG, Nightblade).

I shared the background on these two a while back in the "share your favorite characters" or w/e thread...

Theoderic the Great was a goth (second official king of Italy shortly after the fall of Rome) who was successful in executing a murder plot against the 1st official king of Italy, Germanic conqueror of Rome, Odovacer (aka. Flavius Odovacar). Odovacar ruled swiftly early on but as all ancient history has it a rival swooped in with intentions to dethrone. Odovacar rallied his men same as Theoderic and war soon rampaged through the Italian landscape once again. Both armies suffered great losses over a short period of bloody battles spanning from autumn to early spring, 493. After many attempts from both factions to reach an agreement, they finally struck a deal, Peace. Now I know what you’re thinking, peace rather than war is out of the ordinary for this time but both sides knew they had to stop the bloodshed so one or the other could rule and rebuild weakened Italy still reeling from the fall of the empire. This treaty stated that both Theoderic and Odovacar would rule as equals over Italia. Both signed and news traveled fast across the lands. Shortly there after a celebratory event was planned to glorify their diplomacy, however, during this state dinner Theoderic jumped up from his seat, drew his sword, and stabbed Odovacar in his shoulder fatally wounding him in front of all their guests. Men from Theoderics side rised up and started chanting "All hail the new King, Theoderic, slayer of Odovecer, conquer of conquerors, Theoderic the Great" striking fear in Odovacars men leaving them free to live slaves until the end of their days. Today, this story lives on through German folk tales and theatrics that actually depict Theoderic as a heroic Germanic figure rather than the blood thirsty sneak he was. Perfect name for my stamblade

Odovacar

Theoderic