How did you choose your name?

Wyrmrest Accord
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His name was Gelert on ED, after the Welsh legend of Prince Llywelyn’s dog. When I came to WrA it was taken, and I no longer wanted to be a worgen, instead planning on being a Kul’Tiran when I could. I like the Drust and Drustvar and wanted a cool Germanic name, because they kind of give me that vibe.

Ohtion, my half-elf paladin, I got from a Quenya name generator. Oht means war, and ion means “son of.” It’s pretty fitting for his character, who was made homeless in the First War, fought in the Second War as a 15 year old boy, and hasn’t stopped fighting since.

Ethuil also has a Tolkien name. He’s my Blood Elf Mage. Ethuil is the Sindarin word for the season of Springtime.

My Lightforged Warrior is Arm. It came in the name generator and I lost it laughing when it actually worked. So I wrote a story around it. His full name is Armillithraxxious-Telemaachussaar. But ain’t no one got time for that. I kind of poached the idea from Animorphs and the character Ax.

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Juspions was actually a place holder name for a Worgen I had which is a reference to Space Wolf Juspion. However as I played my Draenei more Juspions seemed like a better name and now here we are.

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Eirdwen was the name of a white necromancer I played in a tabletop game years and years ago. It comes from the Welsh name Eirianwen, meaning “Bright and Blessed”. “Leah” was chosen for her last name by a friend.

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Versca I got from just hitting the randomized button when I transferred to WRA since the name I was using was taken and it was honestly an improvement :v:

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Chonga was created in Wotlk and was originally male. The random name generator gave me the name initially and I switched him to female after I googled the name and found this:

Apparently a “Chonga” is a south Florida term/subculture for overly aggressive and expressive Latina with a distinct fashion style.

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MARS BRINGER OF WAR

and then draenei sounds at the end of it

also because Mars is a planet and Draenei are from space

400 IQ naming conventions

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Rowtag was the name of a previous role play character of mine that I really enjoyed. I decided to basically recreate him for WoW. But the name Rowtag I just found on a baby names site, I think.

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Named after one of my favorite music artists, with a slight variation in the spelling.

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I typically slam my head on the keyboard and then go from there.

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I like to name smoosh. I have a lot of alts. Most of them have combination names. My first character was Ambreah (Amber and Andrea) this one is Flo + Lauren. I also have Leialie (Leia and Lauralie) and Frenore (Frank + Lenore) I’m a name smoosher I guess.

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I actually don’t remember. I think it’s one of those names you sort of think up randomly and like it enough to save for characters in role play/writing. Someone once said it was a Nightborne play on a bank alt name, “alt” and “elle”, but I’m not that clever.

And this is my main :open_mouth:

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Tanwen is/was my main raiding character on a PvE server. It’s supposedly an extremely anglicized version of the Welsh name Tanwystyl and in being so bastardized, somehow came to supposedly (extreme stress on “supposedly”) mean “white fire” as opposed to actual Welsh translation

She is a priest, she casts Holy Fire, Holy Fire is white, her hair is white, done. I’ve had it since the beginning of BC and would never give it up.

Fun fact: When I wanted to play on an RP server as a human priest (which this Tanwen originally was), I would only roll on one where I could have the name, which is how I wound up on WrA.

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Didn’t have a reply for this, til I found my Vanilla Dwarf Hunter name was available here!

Willypete, which is the old Army nickname for white phosphorous munitions. They’re unstable and burn when in contact with oxygen…much like my Dwarf.

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Tanwen checking in again, this time with my only true-Blue character (I mostly play neutrally-aligned characters, but AJ is aggressively For the Alliance).

I love the name Aubrey and wanted her to be Aubrey Justinia (AJ) Grey so badly. Alas… I had to go for an alternate spelling, and Auberee stuck. It felt very “human” and while not really in the fantasy vein, I really feel like the simplicity of the name fit her very black and white upbringing and character.

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Easy, it’s my name.

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I took one of the Dwarves from The Hobbit, Bofur, and changed one of the letters. “Bofum” was the result and was still definitely Dwarven-sounding to me, and I was very happy with it.

Then… I got all the “BOFUM DEEZ NUTS” whispers… Confused and a little terrified, I found that Urbandictionary defines Bofum as slang for “Both of Them”. I still get shudders of it.

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Eyes is a name I’ve had since Everquest Vallon Zek server when I played a rogue, Erya Shale. In every game, every rogue, I’ve been Erya Shale and always will be.

My Dwarf Paladin is Lachino, which is old scottish for girl from the Loch.

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Zhifang is ‘fat’ in Chinese.

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Mine’s a bit boring… Ha ha ha.

I had this character somewhat fleshed (hah) out and I knew the type of person she was going to be. So I sat in character creator hitting that Randomize button. I would pronounce the names, seeing how they felt on my tongue. Experiment what kind of nicknames could be made from them. Rudiania sounded like a pleasant, old-fashioned name, and I was fond of “Rudi” as a nickname.

As for her last name (Evermore) it was kind of a homage to how corny some of the Forsaken NPC names can be. Also I really love Poe’s poems and The Raven is a first read for many in school. I just took the N off of Nevermore so it wouldn’t be super obvious.

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I literally just Googled traditional Irish-Gaelic names. Ghaoithe (Gwee-heh) means wind and O’loinsigh means “from the sea” or something. Most people know it for its Americanized version “Lynch.”

It wasn’t that deep, but it worked for a character I had no intention of roleplaying with at first. Boy did that turn out differently!