TES names trivia

Post » Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:19 pm

Lots of the names in TES games are taken from real life words,notably Greek and Roman/Latin.

I thought it would be interesting to write a list with these names,and their meaning. :smile:

As a Greek myself I often happen to see some names being Greek words latinized,using the Latin alphabet,and this also sometimes makes me biased to some entities/places.

Here is a list of few Latin / Greek words/names that come to my mind right now,but if you know more,please feel free to write them in this thread,so we can make a list out of it!

Boethia

Name of Daedric Prince

Original: Βο?θεια

Origin: Greek

meaning of Βο?θεια (Boethia): Help

Hermaeus Mora

Name of Daedric Prince

Original #1: ?ρμαιο? /α

Original #2: Μ?ρα

Origin: Greek

meaning of ?ρμαιο? /α (Hermaeus): something / someone that its fortune is not determined by something / someone else,stray,ownerless,independent.

meaning of Μ?ρα (Mora): Mora is a shadowy being of folk legend that is said to be evil and visit people at night when they sleep,often sitting on them or not allowing them to move. Sometimes people would feel like they are awaken at night time,but unable to move their bodies while having clear conscience of what is happening around them.Yet they feel paralyzed or like there is an invisible weight on them that doesn't let them move. Sometimes they also say that they notice dark shadow figure/s around them.This in the past was attributed to Mora,an evil shadowy figure that would visit people at night.

Sanguine

Name of Daedric Prince

Original: Sanguine

Origin: Latin

meaning of Sanguine: Bloody,made out of blood,the one of blood. Probably the name is used to describe his physical appereance,as in most games he have red skin.

Dibella

Name of Divine Aedra

Original: Di Bella

Origin: Latin

meaning of Di Bella: The Beautiful. Di is used as "a" or "the" and Bella means beautiful. Obviously since Dibella is the Goddess of Beauty,it isn't a surprize that her name means "The Beautiful".

Julianos

Name of Divine Aedra

Original: Julianus

Origin: Latin

about Julianus: Claudius Julianus was an Emperor and Caesar of the Eastern Roman Empire. He was known for being pro-Pagan and anti-Christian,and forming anti-Christian regulations after Constantine.

Talos

Name of Divine Aedra

Original: Τ?λο?

Origin: Greek

about Talos: Different sources provide different information about Talos. Some say it was a large automaton / robot made by Daedalus to protect Europa,others say it was a living man with Bronze body created by the Gods to protect Europa. In any case,Talos's reason of existence was to protect natives from invading forces.

Umbra

Name of Unique Enchanted Sword

Original: Umbra

Origin: Latin

meaning of Umbra: Shadow

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