XD True as that is, the civilized Bretons seem more appealing their Reachmen brethren. But to each their own, no?

Absolutely!

Truth be told, I felt a bit inspired to make a Breton, but as I previously mentioned with the confusion I had regarding their naming conventions for the 2nd to 4th Era it made me wary of the idea. I might consider a Breton character now - seeing as it seems French is the right way to go for a proper, High Rock born and raised Breton...perhaps from Daggerfall.

I'm glad some of your uncertainty is gone.

I'd say if you're wanting to play a Breton from the cosmopolitan city-states or Iliac capitals - a knight's squire taking up their own quest or the roguish child of a noble family seduced by a life of crime and Robin Hood-ly mischief - a French-type name is definitely the way to go!

Hopefully Bethesda settle on Celtic/Brythonic names and stay away from Anglo-Saxon or Frankish influences. I can imagine Nordic families that settled areas such as Daggerfall to have Germanic names like the Nords in Skyrim. Talos was apparently raised in High Rock as Hjalti Early-Beard which is a pure Nordic name. That is an example of Nord families of High Rock keeping their names. But we do not know if they were there for many generations of recent (Talos possibly being from Atmora according to legend).

Those sound like good ideas. However, if I make a Breton I would probably go with a Mage of sorts - perhaps the son of a noble mage family in Daggerfall who joins a coven of Necromancers in secret. French names would still be fitting for such a Breton, right?

I know, probably unoriginal but I have my preference/bias towards magic-users, and Bretons seem very capable of using the alleged "Black Art" of Tamriel.

That sounds very plausible, I think! I'm pretty sure I saw http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=wyress&go=&fulltext=Search (woodland witches of High Rock) with French sounding names. No doubt there are lots of young noble ladies bored by the restrictions and expectations of courtly life and instead choose to abandon a life of privilege and run off into the wilds!

Plus, you can't walk 3 feet in High Rock outside the cities (or underneath them!) without encountering some sort of coven or another. So, I think your character will get on just fine!

Marvelous! I think I'll get to work searching for non-used French names then - now if only I had a good PC and the PC version of Skyrim as well, I could make such a Breton from Daggerfall strive to become a Lich as well. XD

Thank you Rob-Bob.

No problema! \o/

Good luck to you and your mage!

I like to see the Breton names in the Reach as more Celtic and Jehanna and Farrun was more Scandinavian because of their promixity to Skyrim and in the Iliac Bay, a jumble of Western European and Arabic, because of the Forebear's ties to High Rock, though Forebears might have more 'Breton' names than the other way around. High Rock itself is an amalgamation of human races so go figure.

The Greek/Roman naming conventions (even the city name "Archon" is derived from an ancient Greek word for "ruler," leading me to speculate that it was the Imperial capital of Argonian Black Marsh at one point) were explained by Cyrodiilic influences through the Argonian Archein tribe that styles itself after the Imperial race, with some notable Argonian politicians literally adopting Cyrodiilic first and last names. The exception to this is a so-called Argonian NPC (which probably had the appearance of a regular human because it was Arena) named Idolan Lancaster, which isn't even close to Roman or Greek.

As for region-based Breton naming conventions, that's something that would be a reasonable explanation for drastic differences in Breton names throughout the series. They probably do think about that at least a little bit when they do content regarding Bretons, like with the Reachmen for instance.

I never knew that about the Argonians...Then again, I never payed much attention to them truth be told. Learn something new about the lore every day I suppose.

Also, I'm gonna go ahead and say this - I LOVE your pic. Sinestro Corps forever!

What's the Source of this?

Jehanna is not even vaguely Nordic. Jehan is an archaic spelling of Jean; "Jehanna" would appear to be an ad hoc feminine (should be Jehanne, but...). Farrun is Arabic, not even vaguely Nordic.

I've always seen Farrun as English - portmanteau of Far Run...

The Daggerfall version of A Brief History of the Empire mentions an Argonian called Thoricles Romus and while those books have been in the series ever since, they were retconned so that the Argonian's name was an adopted Cyrodiilic name. Most naming convention inconsistencies don't have explanations because they just don't feature much in later games e.g. Dark Elven royalty including Symmachus, but the Argonian one is one of the most egregious because it steps on the Cyrodiilic convention.

*Compound. But I don't think most English speakers would be likely to make that connection as the spelling looks quite foreign.