Does anyone know if the toon names used in the Beta will continue to be reserved once the release comes? I'm assuming that they won't be and all names will be up for grabs on the release date, but I've seen a few people who seem to be under a different impression.

I for one am hoping that they aren't reserved, I played in the beta but I feel like it's pretty unfair to those who didn't to miss out on even having a chance of getting the name they want

i am pretty sure none of the names will be reserved

Since all characters (ugh why do people refer to their characters as toons?) from the beta will be wiped before the release, all names will be up for grabs.

Shub-Niggurath shall be my first character

You almost got me there.

I guess it's from playing WoW, but it was also just because when talking IRL about characters, saying that over and over gets pretty annoying, I guess I would be happy to have an TES shorthand if you can come up with one

I've heard and seen a few other terms for it, though toon is the one that gets me most of the time because I associate toon with cartoon and not with a character

Examples of shorthands I've seen and heard:

Char

Puppet (near literal translation of the dutch poppetje)