How did you choose your name?

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Saw a similar thread on General Discussion and wanted to hear how wyrmrest chose their names.

Miko came from Mikolaas, which was stolen from this NPC:

Mikolaas is a Draenei I had on my old server and I re-used the name and shortened it… I thought it was sort of funny to have a short vaguely cutesy sounding name for a big ol warrior.

When I was a dwarf I was named Humphrey which was just a real-world name which sounded dwarfy and wasn’t taken. Landed on it after trying several real-world names and it was the first one that wasn’t taken. I’ll probably make a dark iron Humphrey if I can find the time to level one…

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“Ursula” was taken.

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Most of my characters, I just sit there for as long as I need and randomize until something interesting pops up. I’m not very creative, so having a randomizer that doesn’t pop up names already being used (swtor take a hint) is nice.

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I saw an independent short film in highschool with a main character named Zen. I liked the character a lot, and it fit the concept I had for Zenrao. So I went with Zen, and then something that sounded at least vaguely pandaren.

Usually with names I try to find an NPC or word of that race’s language and build on it, but pandaren don’t have any translated words (aside from that idiotic nom nom nom crap that Blizzard thought was real cute).

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I actually first made Azhaar on a private server, many years ago. I don’t remember how I compiled the name, but it seemed consistent with the draenei language that’s hinted at in game, and had a sharp, aggressive sound to it, which suited the character concept I was building.

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And then of course I just had fun with it.

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Hit Random, changed a few letters around, bada-bing, bada-boom.

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Back on Kael’thas my paladin was named Elliotus. My name in real life is Elliot.

Then when I transferred to Feathermoon I changed his name to Liotuse. It’s just the E being moved to the end and pulling an L.

i am not a clever man

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This fellow, it’s a derivative of “Rakshasa/Rakshasi” which were mythological beings in Hindu lore. Depending on the branch, they were either flesh-eating monsters, or warriors that could fight for either good or evil as they chose. Rakshasi is the female form, mainly because I am a female player.

For some of my other characters: Creyne is named after a minor character in Julian May’s Pliocene Exile series. Dreamfall was intended to be a druid-sounding name sort of in relation to the Emerald Dream/Nightmare. I also have several characters named after angels in various Middle Eastern folklores and several named after characters from the Thieves’ World series. Creyne, Rakshishi, and Dreamfall are my most-played characters currently.

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Funny story for me. Originally, Drak’har was named ‘Jrakar,’ for some odd reason. Then I got tired of him, deleted him, and one day eventually decided to remake him. Only when I did, I discovered that someone had actually taken the name Jrakar while he was deleted. So I renamed him Drak’har and thought it looked and sounded much much better for a Dragonmaw Orc. So that ended up well.

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Melody was taken.

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Originally, I just really liked the sound of it. But later, someone told me they read my name like “Any Key” and that’s a much better origin story.

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Veggies… good. Radishes… tasty? Also I began collecting tons of vegetable and fruit related names and this was the first one that I managed to grab on WRA.

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Some of my favorite books growing up were fantasy novels based on the author’s 80s Star Wars fanzine. The Ryka Legion was basically the swords & sorcery equivalent to Imperial Stormtroopers and I’m Imperial trash, so I took it and made it belfy.

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I’m still kind of annoyed by that. Just drive home how not-seriously you guys take the brand new race by not even trying to make a language for them, just go “HAH THEY FAT”

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I am honestly not 100% sure. I made this character a few years ago and I’ve named a lot of characters since then but there are three possibilities that all sound like me and I can’t remember which it was. :woman_shrugging:

  1. I wanted something witchy and Sabrina is a version of the Welsh name Habren/Hafren.
  2. She was originally supposed to be Gilnean so I wanted a name from the UK and Hafren is a princess from Welsh folklore who was tragically murdered.
  3. Habren is an obscure character from the Dragon Age series and, looping back to the first point, Hafren is an alternate version of the name.
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I posted in the thread on the General Discussion forum, however, it’s been a while since I’ve romped about on this forum.

Most of my character names are from Dragon Riders of Pern series written by Anne McCaffrey. I have been on Wrymrest for years and used to RP quite a bit, however, I haven’t been too sociable in the last few years I guess - I know a lot of the names I see here on the forums and have actually tossed a wave at a few of you in-game from time to time.

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I smashed random a whole bunch of times until I got Mahuea on ED. And then I found out it was taken here. But then I remembered that Myis called me Mahoodle since we got to know each other so I chose Mahoodle.

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Yet none of your hunter pets is named Canth.

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No, none of them are named Canth (yet) - I’m still looking for one that will feel that way for me because it is an important name to the character and for the character.

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