Now, I'm playing as a warrior on Legendary. His name is Kratos which means strength.

So I title him "Kratos the Destroyer" because he is big and strong.

He uses heavy armor, warhammer, mace and shield.

all of my characters are just named Belgarion regardless of individuality because that's my favorite fantasy book character.


He's the protagonist of David Eddings' "Belgariad" series which takes place in a Skyrim type atmosphere.

Contessa = Countess (Italian aristocracy no less)

Adella = proper name, but means also 'Noble' in mind or deed

Di = "from the" or "of the"

Nascosta = hidden or concealed

Mente = Mind


Contessa Adella Di Nascosta-mente


At your service........but just Adella to her friends

I don't know that I have actually mantled any of my characters with a title outside of them becoming Archmage or something, in-game.

As for the names themselves, it can vary. For the most part, I like to remain as lore friendly as possible, with an allowed window of freedom per RP aspect. I, more often than not, will try to come up with a small phrase that best describes their personality and use Google Translate to find something that sounds lore friendly and tweak the spellings until it looks and sounds right.

I may look to the name history of previous installments for lineage inspiration, should the given character's backstory support it.

Sometimes a name may come to me and I will build the character around that.

Depends on the situation. For an RP, I like to chose my race first, then create a lore friendly name for her/him. For DiD (which I admittedly just started doing) I'll probably just keep going with random names, since they probably won't make it very long in Skyrim.

Occasionally I try to come up with one similar to the OP's...but only if I intend it to be a dry run or jack-of-all-trades type.

My girls never have titles because they're just normal people. None of them are ever Imperials or Bretons; most of them are half-elves, a couple have been Nords. I don't play Orcs, High Elves, or Bosmer. I've got a couple of Redguards and Dunmer around somewhere. But no matter the race, they're all just normal people. No titles, no "hidden fancy backstory". Just women caught up in things that happen without their intention or input. Some of them are Dragonborn (because I like to play that DLC) but I always use Skyrim Unbound so it goes "my way". None are ever werewolves or vampires.

Common garden-variety women, just trying to stay alive....

^^This^^ Except mine are always Nord women, from the Hawk Clan.

My character names come from a work of fiction I've been working on for quite a while. Playing games like Skyrim gives me ideas for their stories.

Buffy the Bowgirl. The last bit is so she doesn't get confused with other vampire slayers who might share the same first name.

Most of my characters just have names. Sometimes the names are descriptive, like my Argonian "Yellow-Boy," who is both bright yellow in color and an abject coward. Or my evil character Penelope, who is nicknamed "Penny Dreadful."

I've had a few with "titles."

My current DiD competition character is "Vixi, Ornithog-Rider #13," because she's ranked thirteenth among the Akaviri gene-modified-cliff-racer riders. (She's also the 17th daughter of the Nerevarine.) 17+13=30, which has no bearing on anything at all.

My "Barb-Ann the Contrarian," a Nord who started life as a college basketball player, was hit by a beer truck in Boston, and knocked into Tamriel. She doesn't believe in the reality of Tamriel, thinking it all a dream, so she doesn't take anything seriously, and drinks her way from one failed quest to another.

"Fausto the Orc Wizzard" (his misspelling of "wizard"), is an orc brawler who took too many blows on the head, and came to believe that he's a mage. He always casts a weak and useless flame spell before bashing his opponents with a big hammer.

Glargg.....show us Penny.....need a pic......likeses bad girls....

I don't think she's on my PC any more, I'd have to search the archives for her save.

Just picture a black-haired Breton in the Savior's Hide, with Dark Brotherhood boots, gloves, and hood, and the Rueful Axe strapped to her back.

Jerric Kjellingsson of Kvatch is proud to identify himself both by his hometown and as his father’s son. He’d just as soon forget the other titles he’s been given.

When Jensa left her mountain clan she gave herself the most hopeful, joyful name she could think of: Summer-Song. (She did not have an extensive vocabulary. She still doesn’t.)

Mikke of Green River wanted to make sure people knew which Mikke she was, so she called herself by the town she left behind. I thought that Skyrim needed a Green River so I made one up for her.

Captain Zanimal was the captain of his ship (mod).

One-Eyed Willem was named for his most distinctive feature.

Njal the Unliving got his name after a botched resurrection left him undead.

Marco the Thief thought that sounded better than Marco the Liar or Marco the Murderer. He was all of those things.

Everyone else that I can remember at the moment just has (or had) a surname if culturally appropriate.

Surely none of our characters can hold a candle to the awesomesauce name held by Erik the Hoe-Pusher!

Hoe-Pusher always makes me grin.

I usually give lore friendly names to characters based on their race. I did have one Argonian named Reptard. I loved Reptard.

I've never thought to give my people titles... in fact, Marcellus is the only one of the 5 that even has a last name. I called him Gaius Marcellus Cato just because it sounded super Roman and almost all the Imperial NPCs have full names so I figured he should, too.

Like most here, my characters do not have "titles." However, the game enjoys giving them nicknames, especially if one joins the Stormcloaks

I may also pick up a few titles along my journeys, like:

Archmage

Guild Master

Harbinger

Captain

None of my characters have titles. But i have been given the title "the Inept." I'm still trying to live down the day Oblivion came out and I repeatedly tried to walk through the Oblivion Gate at Kvatch. "It's not working," I said. "I think my game is bugged." "You have to click on the gate, Pseron," sighed my patient, long-suffering Significant Other. I think she was already half finished with the main quest by that time.

Depends on the character? Although really only Gilliam has a title out of all of my characters. "General Gilliam".

Most of my guys tend to be simple folk trying to make a living. Unless they are part of that storyline, then they are simple folks who keep getting shoved into Deadric and Aedric adventures.

Well, I have only mentioned my latest, permanent and most probably final Skyrim Char ( for want of better words, but she's no more Nord than you or me in reality).


However, since we are recalling earlier beings.......here's mine......


Xara.....no other title. A very wicked witch.....Ulda's sister by appearance but with black hair to match her personality. She took all the worst dialogue options, kicked beggars, killed and tortured almost indiscriminately....especially bandits and travellers. Playing her dredged up so much pain for me and made me ratty IRL. So although she is still current.....I can't play her.


Raven....created for the Nekkid Nord Challenge game amongst our DiD crew. Raven was simple, not bad to look at, but no where near in the same league as Xara or Ulda. Black long hair, rough clothes and minimum weaponry . A wilderness survivor.


Ulda.....well of course.....Ulda. A scout or ranger class when in the game world. A Proud beautiful Nord by appearance but above all sentient and temperamental. Her tastes were cultured. Her knowledge was mine, role play was impossible without her express consent. I grew to love her deeply despite her high brow acerbic insults ( she loved to tease). She vanished almost overnight one day last December, but was infact " upgrading" (for want of a better term) into Adella. I miss her persona dreadfully, but she is reborn within Adella.....time will tell how much of her personality remains when Adella switches on ( I can't wait).


Sir Rick ( or just Rick) not a character at all. An exo suit. This ostensibly Breton Knight simply allows me to manifest in the game world as myself. Breton is like my real height. His appearance matched mine as best I can and as stated.....He IS me. No RP whatsoever. It became necessary for competition work.........because although Ulda was game world aware.....she was also a real Diva.....no helmets, no heavy armour, no two handed. She got so difficult and demanding that I had to build a suit to get me in there and compete directly. This worked well and allowed me to enjoy the Christmas holiday games ' Fun Run' a Skyrim cross country race with my forum buddies


I think....as far as the chips are falling......it is very likely that Adella will be a 'Super Character" when performing in the game world environment. She is going to fulfill ALL roles or positions with equal aplomb. I have had zero indications so far of any issues with her objecting to wearing helmets or heavy armour or going two handed or anything. I do not yet know her attitude to the arcane, but As soon as she gets to Winterhold I'm gonna find out. Of course at the moment I CAN if I choose FORCE her to do my bidding by just controlling her to perform.......but that's a great way to destroy a growing friendship and counter productive. I need her on my side......so the old adage of make love not war is probably the best approach with her. As always....time will tell

You are not alone, of course.

And.... that would make three of us! Happy to be in such delightful company.... and my husband, who knows nothing about this sort of games, or about computers, the internet and so on, was no help at all as I was making myself bald....

Me did it too.

The only character of mine that had a title was Tzirra the Timid. She was a sneak thief, who eschewed all forms of combat. It was a very fun and challenging character. I lost her save when my game got corrupted by mod scripts run amok.

Most of my characters don't even have last names, let alone titles. I should think about that for the future, though. Usually, a character will get a last name if they are nobility or otherwise "important" in the world of Skyrim. I don't play too many of those characters though.

The exception was Solveig Fox-Tail. I had high hopes for this farmgirl-turned-Dragonborn. Alas, she was smashed by a frost troll, high on Hrothgar, before she could finish shouting it off the mountainside. I was very sad about that.