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Re: Inspiration/meanings of your characters names ....

by Mehetabel » Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:23 pm

Vorst wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:06 pm Like a leaf on the ...
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Re: Inspiration/meanings of your characters names ....

by Vorst » Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:06 pm

Like a leaf on the ...

Re: Inspiration/meanings of your characters names ....

by Mehetabel » Fri Jan 24, 2020 12:15 pm

Fimble wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 4:18 pmUndercutter. . She a rogue.. and a banker. . it's a such a fitting pun for a short backstabbing bank rogue,
Even while cutting down a boss.. she's underneath everyone else's big swings, stabbing with daggers.
I really love that one! All the puns! :lol:


Well, I just realised that I have a whole heap of new chars, because of the allied races. None of them being actively leveled yet but some are parked and busy doing pet battle dailies for me everyday! :lol: I have one of each race and I'll get round to leveling them one day, for the armour sets.

Wash (Dark Iron hunter) - named for the character in the Firefly TV series.

Garibaldi (Kul Tiran rogue) - named for a character in the Babylon 5 TV series.

Daryl (Mechagnome hunter) - from the 80's movie D.A.R.Y.L., about a boy who discovers he's actually an android.

Barbarella (Void Elf monk) - because Barbarella is quite simply one of the best movies ever made!

Lennier (Lightforged Draenai paladin) - yet another Babylon 5 character.

Teela (Nightborne mage) - my favourite character in the Masters of the Universe cartoon.

Explodabull (Highmountain Tauren warrior) - I love me some Tauren puns!

Skelm (Zandalari Troll druid) - South African word generally describing someone full of mischief.

Quozl (Vulpera shammy) - The race of furry, long-eared aliens from my favourite sci-fi fantasy book by Alan Dean Foster.

Re: Inspiration/meanings of your characters names ....

by Fimble » Fri Jul 19, 2019 4:18 pm

I like to think up little back stories for why things have the name they have.

Fimble - story goes - was pretty small for a gnome infant even.. Her parent were worried she might be a thimble.. But thats a terrible name so they made it F-imble.. and added top.. so she could at least FEEL taller. ^-^

Noxlumina. Used to be scared of the dark.. until ironically the Lichking changed that.

Undercutter. . She a rogue.. and a banker. . it's a such a fitting pun for a short backstabbing bank rogue,
Even while cutting down a boss.. she's underneath everyone else's big swings, stabbing with daggers.

Re: Inspiration/meanings of your characters names ....

by Bipsie » Sun Jul 14, 2019 6:40 pm

Vaelar wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:45 pm oh well here goes...

LunaDawn - My Daughters first and middle names combined, she designed the kultiran toon and named it... talk about an ego
Awwh bet that she loved you letting her do that :D. Luna is one of my favourite names.

Re: Inspiration/meanings of your characters names ....

by Vaelar » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:45 pm

oh well here goes...

LunaDawn - My Daughters first and middle names combined, she designed the kultiran toon and named it... talk about an ego

Vaelar - random word I think - sounded draenei like

Solanai - random - sounded night elfy

Latosius (pre race change to kultiran) - Random magey name taken from a book.. turns out it was an elven mage actually in the game so when I killed myself in legion I was like... ok that was weird

all others are just random words I think

Re: Inspiration/meanings of your characters names ....

by Bipsie » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:30 pm

*insert apologies for awakening a 3 year dead thread*

Mehe just informed me about this thread which I never posted on, so I will rectify that now!!

Kalehela (Paladin) - Was intended to be Kaheleha which was the name of a minor character from Twilight (I made this toon when I was 15 :lol: :roll: ) but I spelt it wrong so it became Kalehela. I have been informed that this means Castle Toilet in Turkish as well. I would change it given it's dodgy history but it just wouldn't be the same. Started out as a Blood Elf until WoD when I joined the alliance.

Shiyori (Shaman) - A japanese name which means Serenity, Calm, and Peace. I have studied Japanese in the past and I just really liked the name. She's my first Panda toon as well.

Bipsie (Warlock) - Began life as an Undead warlock and when changed to a gnome I just thought it was a cute name for a small character.

Reylah (Hunter) - Wanted to use the name Ryssa but this was taken, so went for something similar. (Ryssa is a character from one of my favourite series (Dark Hunters by Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Tylune (Druid) - A mix between Tyrande and Elune. Night elf of course!

Niyomi (Rogue) - A play on Naomi, as she's a rogue I wanted a fairly standard name which didn't sound overly fantasy based and Naomi has long been one of my favourite names.

Mopzie (Mage) - Matching similar name to Bipsie for my gnome mage!

Okami (Priest) - Means wolf in Japanese.

Hilderid (Death Knight) - I tried to go for a Viking sort of name for this character as she's a dworf and northern and that, and this is a combination of Hilde and Astrid.

Cairistiona (Demon Hunter) - Another one named after a character in Sherrilyn Kenyon's books, this time the League series. She's a vicious warrior who is a little bit dark, so thought it suited Demon Hunter.

Taoshiki (Monk) - A combination of the chinese phrases "Tao" which means order of the universe and "Shiki" which google says means Warrior (but now I've just searched it again and can't find the page so who knows it could be nothing lol.

Ayuna (Warrior) - Was a Night elf but I recently changed to a Void Elf but thought the name still suited her. It was another attempt on a name like Elune.

I have loads more toons with random names but those are my main ones. :)

Re: Inspiration/meanings of your characters names ....

by ArrZarr » Thu Aug 25, 2016 11:02 pm

Originally, the name ArrZarr (Note the capitalisation - WoW has never gotten it right :( ) was the name of my assassin in Diablo 2, the first character I ever defeated Diablo on. The name just stuck from there. Before this, my naming creativity stretched to the dizzying heights of "mrben". If you would like to give me more credit that I deserve, you might think this was a reference to Mr Benn from the eponymous, quintessentialy British cartoon. No, that's just my name.

All my toons have some variant of this, generally containing the "Zarr" part which I've always expected to be my handle if I ever become a successful youtuber - "welcome, ladies and gentlemen, I'm the Zarr and this is..."

A Demon Hunter, however required something special, something that would combine something from my base name and have additional meaning to it, hence Arzathoth.

In the Cthulu mythos, Azathoth is one of the outer gods, referred to as the blind idiot god, with a sufficiently demonic sounding name. Considering that Demon Hunters are blind and anybody sensible's opinion of me, everything was sorted.

Re: Inspiration/meanings of your characters names ....

by Ramael » Tue Aug 23, 2016 10:56 pm

When choosing a name for my character, I wanted something ending with -el, but everything I tried was already taken. I don't know exactly how I came up with 'Ramael', and I was convinced nobody else had it. It was, indeed, available on Lightbringer, but there seems to be a dozen more across other realms. :lol:

Re: Inspiration/meanings of your characters names ....

by Mehetabel » Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:55 am

Just updated my name list and thought I'd bump this for all those new demon hunters (and new guildies!). :D

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