Naming Conventions

[Larrath]

While on the topic of silly names, I once saw a Krathi called Ashann.
In Hebrew, Ashann means 'smoke'.  In Hebrew, we also say 'Ein ashann bli esh' - there's no smoke without a fire.

About the Ness PC, by the way, I was informed by the staff later that day that her name was changed to Nessa because she kept getting mis-sends aimed at the real Ness.

[flurry]

Heh.  Yeah, I was just thinking about that.  I have no idea if it was a common Czech name.   Hopefully not.

Tell us so we can laugh!  :twisted:

Okay.  I'm curious about it now, too.  The name was Vaclava.

[Maybe42or54]

It is actually a feminine version of another name though. Wencenslas?

"Means "more glory" from the Slavic elements ventie "more" and slav "glory". Saint Wenceslas was a 10th-century duke of Bohemia murdered by his brother. He is the patron saint of the Czech Republic. This was also the name of several Bohemian kings."

[Morfeus]

Vaclava? Ha ha ha.

Erm...

Sorry...

I could not help that, you know.

But anyway, Maybe42or54 is right. Vaclav and Vaclava is musculine/feminine version of the same name (same as Miroslav and Miroslava, Jan and Jana...) and Sv. Vaclav (St. Wenceslas or Wenceslaw) is one of patrons of Czech. And also, the main square in Prague is named after him.

Hmm, maybe my next char should be called Bohumir?  :twisted:

EDITEed to add:
This makes me curious. Are more people here choosing names for characters from foreign languages?

[flurry]

Oops!  Well, no offense intended.

After giving a quick look at Wikipedia, I see this St. Wencelas is the guy in that Christmas carol "Good King Wencelas".

Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even;
Brightly shone the moon that night, tho' the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight gath'ring winter fuel.
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And here I just thought I had just picked an obscure cool-sounding name.

[moab]

Sometimes I'll take a staff name and mix it up a little:

Savak = Vaskas

[Tuannon]

I had an idea about using mesoamerican names for Tuluk and Arabic/Egyptian names for Allanak. But I really need to practice what I preach and actually do that.

I agree that commoners would have less complicated names than nobles.. a dung seller with the name Barnabus Farnsworthy the Third is a little unlikely in my opinion. While a noble may not always have

Street names in the rinth are usually a form of protection as well. I mean who would mess with a who they had never seen (without caution) if said guy or girl had a tough sounding street name?

[LauraMars]

I'm so picky about names.  The worst part of making a new character is finding a name that I like.

I have a general rule that I don't go over one or two syllables.  I like names that end in "e".  Simple names that often have a deeper or more obscure meaning than you might expect.  However if there are specific naming conventions with distinctive Zalanthan flavor, I haven't found any.  I've seen characters named everything from nouns to something with a lot of vowels and Ys that you might expect to find in Tolkien.

[Hymwen]

I found this.

http://www.geocities.com/lastard/n_official.htm#general

[Wykydtronn]

http://www.babynamesworld.com/

You can do an advance search and find names by a certian meaning/Origin.

Its been an amazingly helpful site when it comes to naming characters.

[Anonymous]

And on the other hand, if you ever see a PC with a 26 letter long name, and no keyword shorter than 13 characters, it's me.  

I like to fuck with people like that.

[Wykydtronn]

And on the other hand, if you ever see a PC with a 26 letter long name, and no keyword shorter than 13 characters, it's me.  

I like to fuck with people like that.

Code Select Expand

The atramentous-featured half-elf is stand here.

Kill Atrameotus
That person is not here.
Kill Artametous
That person is not here.
The Atramentous-featured half-elf walks west.
Kill Atramentous
That person is not here.


FUCK!

[John]

And on the other hand, if you ever see a PC with a 26 letter long name, and no keyword shorter than 13 characters, it's me.  

I like to fuck with people like that.

Actually you'll have "man", "woman", "male", "female", "dwarf" or something like that as a keyword. So yeah, you'll just be the most missed person. "Oh shit. Didn't mean that man, meant the other one.  Oh no, not that one. Shit, hang on, I'll type keyword. Oh fuck, someone just walked out stuffing up the number, I'll re-type keyword. Aaah shit someone just walked in. Fuck this, no more emoting while davien's in the room."

[Anonymous]

This started when I joined the Tan Muark.  At the time, the gypsies weren't very well looked upon by most of the people in my circle.  They were spoiled, too magical, and soap opery.

So I made a char named Izharazhaina who was something like the dusky-blue-eyed woman

Brazen (who was the clan imm at the time) forced me to take a keyword so she could deal with me. heh.

Since then, I've had Djalladjarani and Boopsiefiel, too.

I LOVE it.

[spawnloser]

And on the other hand, if you ever see a PC with a 26 letter long name, and no keyword shorter than 13 characters, it's me.  

I like to fuck with people like that.

Code Select Expand

The atramentous-featured half-elf is stand here.

Kill Atrameotus
That person is not here.
Kill Artametous
That person is not here.
The Atramentous-featured half-elf walks west.
Kill Atramentous
That person is not here.
FUCK!

> kill half

[jstorrie]

dickens-whelp

[Wykydtronn]

And on the other hand, if you ever see a PC with a 26 letter long name, and no keyword shorter than 13 characters, it's me.  

I like to fuck with people like that.

Code Select Expand

The atramentous-featured half-elf is stand here.

Kill Atrameotus
That person is not here.
Kill Artametous
That person is not here.
The Atramentous-featured half-elf walks west.
Kill Atramentous
That person is not here.
FUCK!

> kill half

You and your logic can GTFO

[Angela Christine]

And on the other hand, if you ever see a PC with a 26 letter long name, and no keyword shorter than 13 characters, it's me.  

I like to fuck with people like that.

Code Select Expand

The atramentous-featured half-elf is stand here.

Kill Atrameotus
That person is not here.
Kill Artametous
That person is not here.
The Atramentous-featured half-elf walks west.
Kill Atramentous
That person is not here.
FUCK!

> kill half

And hope a half-giant doesn't walk in just as you hit enter.

[Xygax]

I would have chosen "kill featured" in that situation, personally.

-- X

[amoeba]

Cut and paste is your friend.

[Treestone Capricorn]

Thanks to a certain un-named celeberity, I'm considering naming my next character - Ocitillo wine.

I know I mis-spelled that, I just know it. bleh

[Anonymous]

Ocotillo.

[Morgenes]

So would you choose the Physician subguild and go around as 'Doc Oc'?

[Maybe42or54]

I think he'd by a sorc.

[Anonymous]

So would you choose the Physician subguild and go around as 'Doc Oc'?

Does that follow with The Green Gith?
Or the Man-Gortok?