Books, other games, my own personal RP characters....

I shortened Vespertine to Vesper and decided it would make a neat sounding name >_>

Carth is based on the character Carth Onasi from Knights of the Old Repuibic.

Lucien is based on the chararcter from Oblivion

I named Mine Saavik because I read somewhere it means Savior in Dragon Language

For my first "try the game out" character I used Buffy Summers, which is what I always use for such characters. For my second, also just for trying things out, I asked myself, what is the most twee name I could give a wood elf? I came up with Tiffany Tannenbaum. I pretend it's short for Tiffaniel and came up with a background for her surname (family once lived in Skyrim, adopted it as a clan name), but in reality I was just being silly. My third character is a Dunmer I named Brianna, because I like that name and it sounds like it could be a Dunmer name. I wish I had given her a proper surname but I hadn't found the name list on the UESPWiki yet. I kind of like Daren. My next one is going to be an Altmer and I'm going to pull out the ol' Tolkien for something suitably Quenya-ish.


You might be interested to know that those are actual names of Roman legions. Trajana for the Emperor Trajan, Fulminata means "armed with lightning" or Thunderbolt (good name for a storm mage) and Gemina is "twin," which was used when two legions were amalgamated.

My latest character is a female Imperial.

I named her after 2 of my ex-girlfriends:

Fidelma áine

She happens to be a Thief, with a very high Sneak skill.

Wonder where I came up with that?

When I named my dunmer I went to the wiki and looked at all the dunmer names from morrowind. I chose one and modified it a bit.

*Everything not underlined is just extra info*

After a month of AC: Revelations, I popped Skyrim back in (because my internet isn't working and I have really gotten into multiplayer on it recently) and made a new character.

First time I have made anything other than a Nord (aside from an Imperial and Altmer, both females, just to see if I could make them attractive). Up until today I could never quite get a Breton's face right, but I outdid myself.

Anyway, onto the name: I named my Breton Marcus Aquilas, after the last great Roman emperor (portrayed in Gladiator also) and Aquilas is a constellation that means "Eagle" in Latin. I RP my Breton as a descendant of the earliest Nords (a captain under Ysgrammor) and Mer (a Falmer princess) before the Falmer were goblin-like, but he was raised in Cyrodiil in the Imperial City, fleeing to Skyrim once the Dominion's rule prevented anything more than substandard life.

Wow, such fancy names, eesh! I tend to use somewhat simpler names, though they're almost never lore friendly

My first Character was a dark furred Khajiit, whom I named Ebony, and my heavy armored Nord, Dusk, I also had another character named Ivory I think, but I deleted her by mistake

Agreed on that tidbit about ASoIaF being some of best fiction ever written. Dig the accurate character concepts too. My first character was based off of Jaime Lannister pretty closely (traditional knight, no magic or stealth and Imperial for the gold bonus). Even used a longsword in his left hand for a while to represent a certain event in his character arc.

After that I named two of my characters after Targaryen great bastards from the "Dunk and Egg" stories. Had an archer/spellsword named "Brynden Rivers" and another straight up warrior called "Daemon Blackfyre". I've held off carrying on with those characters until the CK comes out, I intend to add quite a bit more of G.R.R.M's world to Skyrim once it is.

My Dark Elf, Dralora Vari, is a combination of well-liked characters from prior Elder Scrolls games.

My High Elf, Tandilwe, is another character from prior Elder Scrolls (Oblivion). One of her quotes is in my sig line.

My Wood Elf, Vilinalara, was generated from the Elven language dictionary at AngelFire.com (http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/vortexshadow/names.html). It is translated as "woman pointing in the distance".

My Breton, Belle, simply put is French for "beautiful".

If my character is a human, I usually make it a reference to ancient mythology. Nords would have Viking names (like Thor), Imperials would have Roman names (Nero), Redguards would have Arabian names (Alladin,) Bretons would have Celtic names (Aeron). High elves, Wood elves, and orcs I make references to Lord of the Rings, Altmer might be Elrond, Bosmer might be Legolas, orc might be Gothmog. Dark Elves I borrow from Warhammer (Khaine.) Khajit and Argonians I make pop culture references to famous cats (Aslan) and lizards (Godzilla)

And now I feel like the biggest nerd alive. I'm gonna go cry in a corner or something

My character Shiala got hers from an asari in ME1. Usually I make one up but I was not feeling very creative

Mine all originate from the Ancient Language of the Inheritance series, or just my own name, in the case of my main character. My Dunmer Thief/Healer (Totally non-combat. Not a kill on record.) is Wyrda abr Lif.

My characters names are Raif Cire and Erlich Fehr

When I was a kid, I had a friend who told me this (What was debunked) theory about how the names in Star Wars were generated. I used this to come up with Raif Cire, which became one of my IG aliases I have used for years. Urlich Fehr is much similar to that, except uses archaic spellings.

Prisoner. Since that's what you normally start the TES games with.

My high elf wizard is named Mithrandir, obviously after Gandalf.

Agnarr is my blonde haired "Nord" character in Skyrim, that name comes from old Norse basicly!

Grimfang a character from the card game Rage based on Werewolf The Apocalypse a game like D&D. I've always used that name and I figured it was fitting since they added werewolves back into Skyrim.

For many of my races, I pick names with meanings from real life races that it seems Bethesda based them off of. For example, for Nords I look up old Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, etc. names. For Dunmer, I look up old Assyrian or Sumerian names. For Bretons I look up French/English Names, Imperials are Romans, Khajiits are usually random creations involving lots of j's and h's sometimes old African names (Swahili), Argonian birth-names are usually random with lots of s's and z's, given names are usually descriptive of appearance or personality. Bosmer and Altmer I have to borrow from elvish generators. Orcs are mono-syllable harsh sounding words, sometimes with the surnames from Morrowind attached. I tend to borrow Redguard names from a bit of everywhere, mostly northern africa and middle east but some from Turkey and old Spain.

When choosing names from these lists, I look up there meaning and match the playstyle I have in mind for the character. I never try to pick names that already exist in TES universe or lore as it feels cheap to be a "reincarnation" so to speak.

As an example, my current character who is a Nordic warrior is named Einarr Wurm-Slayer. Einarr is old norse for "lone warrior" and Wurm is the old germanic form of Wyrm/Dragon.

My first Character is name jason prime, he is Imperial and I thought Jason was suiting name for roman like culture. And the prime part came from optimus prime.

My second character name is Mar Dragonblade, I figured naming him Mar for two reasons one it the roman version of Ares the god of war and because in jak and daxter the name Mar is praise upon since the builder of Haven city is named Mar. His last name is something I made up but in role playing it was powerful almost extinct clan of nords!

I get my names from pretty much everywhere i can think of. Some places are-

For my current Ork character i use the name Lob Shephli which is just my online name Hellbishop scrambled up which was done by the fantastic ultra magnificent dungeon creator Modder known as blockhead when he named a Morrowind dungeon after me way back in 2006.

The Morrowind Strategy Guide by Peter Olafson which i usually compare names of the races then make something up that sounds nice to me.

Dictionary Of Saints by John J Delaney. Lots of interesting name with inspiring backgrounds to draw from here.

http://residentevil.wikia.com/Excella_Gionne + http://ninjagaiden.wikia.com/wiki/Eliz%C3%A9bet = Excellébet

Powerful.

Cool names, but i like the girls too in body & soul... if they have one

Ps What about Kamal? is she possessed by one? A evil (Kamal sorcerer) spirit who didn't give her his real name... controlling her with his ancient power over the mind.

That spirit is me with my controller