Names!

[Refugee]

I'm way too new to Arm to feel comfortable sharing what I did while naming my character, but over the years, on other games, I've often looked at baby name sites, picked various regions, and then written down the names I liked. Once, I sat down and wrote a list of made-up names, tweaked the letters, rearranged things.

Mostly, when I look at name websites, I pull from a specific linguistic background--Greek, Norse, Hebrew, Arabic, Gaelic, Egyptian, to list a few.

That's what I do too.  Usually some play on Celtic because I like it.

[Molten Heart]

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[Lizzie]

I think I've posted here before, but I don't feel like looking for it. Usually my names come from random stuff I have on my desk or in my office. Sometimes just from my imagination alone. Once in awhile it'll be an acronym of a word or someone else's name.

There's a lot you can do with word lists from your own desk, like:

air in a can
cheese nips
desk fan
beewax candle
skull candy headset

Just move the letters around til you get something that sounds like it'd make a cool name.

[Miradus]

All my names rhyme with "Conan". Because he's the ultimate desert badass.

[Riev]

Childish Gambino came from Wu Tang Clan's name generator.

I'm just saying, it CLEARLY works

[RogueGunslinger]

I think I've posted here before, but I don't feel like looking for it. Usually my names come from random stuff I have on my desk or in my office. Sometimes just from my imagination alone. Once in awhile it'll be an acronym of a word or someone else's name.

There's a lot you can do with word lists from your own desk, like:

air in a can
cheese nips
desk fan
beewax candle
skull candy headset

Just move the letters around til you get something that sounds like it'd make a cool name.

Arcan Chesnips, Deskfin Becandle, and Skandy Sethed.

Hrm, you might be on to something.

Lately I just mash letters together and say fuck it.

[Aesuna]

My foolproof name generation strategy when I'm really stuck is to find a random sentence and take the first syllable or few letters from the beginning (or end) of some of the words. Then I string them together and tweak it until it looks/sounds like I think it should and call it a day.

[Lizzie]

I think I've posted here before, but I don't feel like looking for it. Usually my names come from random stuff I have on my desk or in my office. Sometimes just from my imagination alone. Once in awhile it'll be an acronym of a word or someone else's name.

There's a lot you can do with word lists from your own desk, like:

air in a can
cheese nips
desk fan
beewax candle
skull candy headset

Just move the letters around til you get something that sounds like it'd make a cool name.

Arcan Chesnips, Deskfin Becandle, and Skandy Sethed.

Hrm, you might be on to something.

Lately I just mash letters together and say fuck it.

I go by brand names. The air in a can is made by "Perfectdata." So a name for my character might be Peferda. Cheese Nips are made by Nabisco. Lots you can do with that: Bisco. Nabi. Scona. Sibna..
Desk fan is an O2Cool. But if I don't wear my glasses it looks like it says OZCOOL. Coza, Lozca. Colza, etc. etc.
Beeswax Candle isn't branded, so I'd make up something with just the thing that it is. Candlee, Sebwel, Nedwalba.
SkullCandy headset - Dyska, Landy, Kul (woah - makes ya wonder right?)..

[Raptor_Dan]

My sprinkler system was from the brand 'Rainbird'


So I named my 40th something char 'Rainbird'.

I died to a half-giant named 'The pepsi challenge'.

[Riev]

One of my friends from my Ancient Anguish days had a character named "Morex" because at the time, he was looking around the room and found some Memorex pens.

Names certainly aren't hard. Being interesting and important enough for people to REMEMBER your name?



... I'll get back to you.

[Esadal]

I typically just roll my forehead across the keyboard, and then pick letters out of the series until a name appears.

That, or I look in the mirror to see which keys left a mark on my forehead..

[Miradus]

Your application for character named "Nyarlathothep" has been denied.

Your application for character named "Shub-Niggarath" has been denied.

Your application for character named "Cthulhu" has been denied.

Damn it. Why is this so hard?

[Bogre]

One of my friends from my Ancient Anguish days had a character named "Morex" because at the time, he was looking around the room and found some Memorex pens.

Names certainly aren't hard. Being interesting and important enough for people to REMEMBER your name?



... I'll get back to you.

Whoa, you played Ancient Anguish? Who were you ?

[Cind]

For the last 18 months I've been using names that sound like a good warrior's name in Claymore. I'm saying this because I'm running out of things to make up.

[Riev]

One of my friends from my Ancient Anguish days had a character named "Morex" because at the time, he was looking around the room and found some Memorex pens.

Names certainly aren't hard. Being interesting and important enough for people to REMEMBER your name?



... I'll get back to you.

Whoa, you played Ancient Anguish? Who were you ?

Legit NOBODY, but I had a rogue and a shapeshifter back in 'the day'. My next door neighbor, actually, was some three letter name that had like top 5 highest combat skills in the came, but I don't remember who he was. This was like... almost 20 years ago now.

I could still go to the Weapons Trainer, with a two handed sword, and go kill that thing in that quest just for the initial skill bump. Or grab that axe out of that dream world. But by far, the coolest was broiling someone's head with spellaimed magic missiles.

Unfortunately, most of their names don't fit here. "PowerTower" the rock shapeshifter calling himself the "Tower of Power" just doesn't work... unless.. Rukkian...

[ShaLeah]

This is what I've used for sheesh, since I started Arm. I've tried other sites but they don't work as well for unusual names. I tweak spanish names and americanise their phonetic spelling a lot of times too.

[Jihelu]

Not sure if this was posted before but...
http://www.twinmooncircus.net/n_official.htm

So many names!

[razorback]

I usually start with the last 5 letters in the alphabet, and make a name from there. I'd had both z and x characters, v as well. Something about the other 21 letters I'm not a fan of.

[Culinary Critic]

I almost always try to come up with a bastardized synonym for WHAT the character is.

The girl with the big boobs - Setta
The bookish (erudite) boy - Ehrude
The got-hit-in-the-head-with-a-tree woodsman - Hew
The half-giant with multi-coloured tattoos as cammo - Daub

Got a million of 'em.

[Cind]

I've been using words from the ethnic groups I come from. Yes, white is in there. I think I'm third generation American on my furthest back side so I actually know which ones I come from.

[perfecto]

I'm notorious for using short four letter names.. eg:

Flay
Thea
Rold
Hefe
Tigs
Soup <--- (yes I had a character named soup)
Kave
Mika

Just to name a few lol

[chrisdcoulombe]

I'm notorious for using short four letter names.. eg:

Flay
Thea
Rold
Hefe
Tigs
Soup <--- (yes I had a character named soup)
Kave
Mika

Just to name a few lol

Me too, but not listing my characters names.

[boog]

I almost always try to come up with a bastardized synonym for WHAT the character is.

The girl with the big boobs - Setta
The bookish (erudite) boy - Ehrude
The got-hit-in-the-head-with-a-tree woodsman - Hew
The half-giant with multi-coloured tattoos as cammo - Daub

Got a million of 'em.

Hew was bae. <3

Google Translate is my new best friend for names.

[Cind]

We should start naming ourselves after food, like that one series.

I will list the vegetables their names are based off of and you tell me which anime series it is.

vegetable, cabbage, radish, carrot, nappa, burdock, broccoli


Eh, since I think no one's going to figure it out, I'm going to post them.


Vegeta, Cabbe, Raditz, Kakarrot, Nappa, Bardock, Broly

[only_plays_tribals]

I would have figured it out but I'm a dork like that..

Krathis named Vegeta..