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What's a good way to come up with names for your characters?
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Nikanoru237
I also have a priest named Wooten (after Victor Wooten, the greatest bassist of all time).
Hey, you spelled Geddy Lee wrong.
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HiVolt
Naming:
Naming is actually more simple then you might think. When naming characters, though, you should try to avoid names of well known people in your topic of which you are writing,such as Grom, Thrall, Varian, Jaina or even Mankrik
A simple trick to use it take a word from on something in an area next to you (i.e. I'm looking at the title of this post, by adding the letters 'l,' 'o,' and 'g' and removing the letters 'd' and 'e' from the word 'Trade' I have created Tralog, which sounds somewhat orcish to me). If the name you have created, though, sounds to ridiculous to even you, you might want to consider scraping it and trying over.
As for last names WoW makes it simple. Take two characteristics of the character you are working with, such as class or race, and combine them together (i.e. using the first name Tralog and race-class combonation of orc shaman I can come up with the name Strongtotem, strong reffering to orcs' physical strength and totem reffering to the class of shaman). Again, if it sound too ridiculous start over.
Humans make naming easy, as you may know several human names already. However, I think that avoid too-simple human names like 'Bob,' 'Tim,' or 'Will' is best unless you are reffering to the character's nickname. Even so, I think you shouldn't introduce the character by their nickname. However, if you still want to use the said nickname, a scenario like this one might work: "Greetings, my name is Freddrick Blackhammer, most people just call me 'Fred,' thought." Modify that in any way you want, if you decide to use it.
Another trick is using words from another language. I personally use latin, but you are free to use whatever you wish. If you are interested in usuing Latin, though, follow
this
link to the english-to-latin translation site I use.
Naming:
Fantasy Name Generator
- This is the most useful tool I've ever used for naming characters.
Languages
- This page has a link to almost every known language in the WarCraft universe. Using a language as a base is a very good tool for naming characters.
Free Translator
- If you like to give a meaning in our world to your character's name, this site has translators for 16 languages, including Spanish, Latin, Swedish, Swahili, Japanese, Italian, and quite a few more.
Behind the Name
- This site has literally thousands, possibly millions of names from myriad different languages, mythologies, and fiction.
Taken from this post.
I know you're not writing a lore story, but this will help if you're trying to think of a good name.
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Gnoktish
hmm, if you dont want those Bogus names Ownsyoualways
try thinking roleplaying names. i named my warlock Gnoktish, thinking it was a good gnome name and i play on a PvP realm.
Try these out:
Mogrosh
Halmesh
think roleplaying names,
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Lecks
My characters' names come from different things, mostly other names.
-Lecks comes from Lex Luthor (but spelled differently because "Lex" was already taken)
-Elsiva comes from Elvis, but I changed it a bit to fit with a female character.
-Forg comes from frog, I actually misspelled Frog and clicked too quickly and just went with it.
-Veni comes from the famous latin saying "Veni, vidi, vici" (excuse any mistakes) and I planned on making 2 more characters with "Vidi" and "Vici" as their names but it never happend.
-Velcro because he's a druid and you can't get a druid off of you (easily).
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Orranis
My favorite is too take the more obscure names from religions.
My Dwarf Shaman shall be an Enhancement called Mjollnir, which is Thor's hammer, and being that enhancement is all about elements and smashing faces with hammers, I felt it fit.
My Troll Druid is going to be Jingzhe, after the Chinese tiger god, and he will be feral obviously.
My Worgen Warrior will be named Skoll after the Asgaurdian wolf god, I was going to pick Fenrir but I'm already seeing too many references to him.
My Goblin Rouge will be called Lavern, after Laverna Roman God of thieves.
Then there's also some humorous ones, like Untitled with the pet Unknown. It's good for laughs when people re-log because they think they're bugged.
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Kanturotar
when i started playing wow it actually took me 9 hours to create a name....
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Slaaf
I sometimes just mash my hands on my keyboard like this
ijd
gohij
dfiohjdfoihjdsrihasroetyuqwia8efj
then pick out random letters in there Like; Gohij =P
other than that i sometimes find a random wikipedia page and get inspired.
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