How do you think of your character names?

Post » Fri May 04, 2012 8:34 am

:blink: I suppose i was referring to class names, since i couldnt come up with a name for this rogue character i wanted to start :biggrin:

Basher, Smasher, Trasher, Iron Rogue, Elf Apocalypse, etc.
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Chrissie Pillinger
 
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 1:09 pm

Basher, Smasher, Trasher, Iron Rogue, Elf Apocalypse, etc.
Oh, you mean the names of Santa's reindeer! :D
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Solène We
 
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 2:09 am

Oh, you mean the names of Santa's reindeer! :biggrin:

Ha! Yes, after the third name, that did come to mind, but what the heck, this is for fun isn't it?
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Tamara Dost
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 10:43 pm

Classes and Archtypes.... nah. I don't think of that when I'm naming a new character. I note the race and gender primarily. Because I enjoy my characters having lore-correct names. But if I spend to much time thinking of a name and don't get something decent, I'll just recycle a name I've used previously. Argonians are probably my favorite race to name, the hyphens and such are fun. Altmer/Bosmer are my least favorite, they tend to have long intricate names that hard to think of.
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 10:31 am

Altmer/Bosmer are my least favorite, they tend to have long intricate names that hard to think of.

What I do if I'm stuck is look at the NPC names in the CS (or just from memory) for those races, pick one that sounds good and alter it slightly - change a consonant and a vowel or two. Like I might see "Nordinor" and get to -> "Mindanor".
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Tracey Duncan
 
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 1:12 pm

What I do if I'm stuck is look at the NPC names in the CS (or just from memory) for those races, pick one that sounds good and alter it slightly - change a consonant and a vowel or two. Like I might see "Nordinor" and get to -> "Mindanor".

Yeah, slightly corrupting npc names is always a viable option. Npc names are usually quite sleek, Bethesda does a good job making them, most of the time at least >.>
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 10:14 pm

What I do if I'm stuck is look at the NPC names in the CS (or just from memory) for those races, pick one that sounds good and alter it slightly - change a consonant and a vowel or two. Like I might see "Nordinor" and get to -> "Mindanor".
Save yourself the time of opening the CS, and just look http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Names. They have them arranged by race, game, and gender. I find it very helpful in creating names for my fan fic.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 11:29 pm

My main Imperial in every game is named Markus, with the Roman numeral after corresponding to the game. So my Daggerfall one was Markus II, my Oblivion was Markus IV, etc.
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Louise Dennis
 
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 3:17 am

The character I've now is called Kitty. It's not the best name - but I was kind of tired of thinking about super cool names, so I decided to make it simple, ''Kitty''. She's a Bosmer and the name suits her bubbly but competitive character a little, so that's close enough I guess.
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Ymani Hood
 
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 2:05 am

Sometimes the class names I use are descriptive, like a character whose main characteristic is to start with a low intelligence and keep it that way might be a "dunce". I also discovered that "None" is a valid class name, as well as describing my Orc axe-maniac, who had no class at all.
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 2:26 am

"None" is a classname I could actually use. Kinda nice sometimes not making up some three-dimensional-deep clever name for something :P
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 11:46 am

I also discovered that "None" is a valid class name, as well as describing my Orc axe-maniac, who had no class at all.

...I would think a orc who's an axe-maniac certainly wouldn't have any class at all. :rofl: har harr get it? No class?.....

....never mind. :mellow:
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 4:01 am

Renee is on fire today! :flamed:

:D
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 3:24 am

Fire, fire, speaking of fire, anybody here ever cast the fire default spell on an ice atronach before? It's like trying to melt a walking igloo with a bunsen burner! :D

ba-dum-tissss

Thank you thank you, I'll be here all night!!!

:yawn:

Yep...allll night....

:swear:
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 1:21 pm

My character, Jessika. told me her name after she visited me in a dream one time. She also told me that her name was specifically spelt with a 'k' and not a 'c', and i could actually hear her yelling at me when i teased her by putting a 'c' in her name at the name selection :P
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 9:43 am

My character, Jessika. told me her name after she visited me in a dream one time. She also told me that her name was specifically spelt with a 'k' and not a 'c', and i could actually hear her yelling at me when i teased her by putting a 'c' in her name at the name selection :tongue:

Hey! Aren't you over at Chorrol, too? Seeing that this is your first post here at gamesas, let me proudly be the first to give you a http://www.uesp.net/wiki/General:Fishy_Stick <-that's a link there. I know..."fishy stick"...sounds kinda gross, but there's a story behind it.

If you don't like fish, here have some ice cream! :icecream: there...best of both worlds for ya.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 9:59 pm

A little insight into my character-building...

I've got another new character lined up in the queue.

I was out walking yesterday, and a couple of wild turkeys ran across the road in front of me. For no reason that I can fathom, the name "Hissee Fitz" popped into my head. As I continued my walk, I thought about how strange it would be to live in a place where nobody needed glasses (I've been nearsighted all my life), and I realized that it just didn't make sense.

So... Hissee Fitz, Breton "Mystic Blade." She's nearsighted, so she can't see clearly enough at a distance to use a bow or targeted spell. Her birthsign is the Atronach. Her only magical Major is Mysticism.

I used the console to remove her "flare" spell, and I also reduced her Illusion and Conjuration to 5. To balance, I've raised her Light Armor skill to 15, and gave her the basic Apprentice telekinesis spell (she'll need some way of knocking down those Welkynd Stones, and Telekinesis and Detect Life seem to me a reasonable way that a nearsighted person might compensate, by using "mind power" to see at a distance.)

Hissee won't be starting right away. I need to know a bit more about her story before she gets launched. I doubt that she'll be "ordinary," though, since she has purple hair! :)
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 6:39 am

Fire, fire, speaking of fire, anybody here ever cast the fire default spell on an ice atronach before? It's like trying to melt a walking igloo with a bunsen burner! :biggrin:

ba-dum-tissss

Thank you thank you, I'll be here all night!!!

:yawn:

Yep...allll night....

:swear:

How is the veal?
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Amanda Furtado
 
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 5:57 am

How is the veal?
Veal try it and see. (You may groan now if you wish.)

:)
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 2:17 am

Veal try it and see. (You may groan now if you wish.)

:smile:

:rofl:

How many blonde Bosmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb Welkynd stone? 100!!! One to hold the stone, 99 to turn the house!

:whisper: :yawn:

...get it? ....99 and one...oh man, Acadian is gonna kill me for that one! :bolt:
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 12:19 am

:rofl:

How many blonde Bosmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb Welkynd stone? 100!!! One to hold the stone, 99 to turn the house!

:whisper: :yawn:

...get it? ....99 and one...oh man, Acadian is gonna kill me for that one! :bolt:
.

Grrrr! :lmao: :icecream:
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 2:22 am

The blonde Bosmer just has to hold the bulb. After all, the world revolves around her. :P
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 4:58 am

Fire, fire, speaking of fire, anybody here ever cast the fire default spell on an ice atronach before? It's like trying to melt a walking igloo with a bunsen burner! :biggrin:

ba-dum-tissss

Thank you thank you, I'll be here all night!!!

:yawn:

Yep...allll night....

:swear:

From your "no class" joke and this, seems like you have the symptoms of studying too much :D
People go crazy when they study too much.
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Fluffer
 
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 11:46 am

The blonde Bosmer just has to hold the bulb. After all, the world revolves around her. :tongue:

Awww. You have her spinning like a top now! :hugs:
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 11:29 am

I'm horrible at thinking up good names. For a long time I'd just use my own, but I think it's easier to do things I wouldn't necessarily choose to do if I use a different name. I'm always ridiculously pleased when I manage to think up a name I really like and I tend to like names that are play-ons of something. Two of my recent names are a Bosmer named Gildiir Lox (a play on Goldie Locks) and a Breton named Fyonala Whysper (play on Final Whisper). As for naming a custom class, I'm all tapped out from picking a name, so Adventurer it is. Ha ha.
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