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Post by twyrch on Feb 15, 2005 10:51:33 GMT -5
If you're anything like me, coming up with creative names for your characters can be quite a challenge. I found this website very helpful in choosing character names... Linky There is an area where you can look for names from different nations as well... |
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Post by Daae on Feb 15, 2005 13:12:39 GMT -5
Tell me about it. Coming up with a creative name that doesn't sound stupid, and hasn't been used ten thousand times before is a challenge sometimes. Other times, my characters name themselves. Like the hero and main villain of the story I'm currently working on. I'll have to check out that website.
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Post by twyrch on Feb 15, 2005 14:20:49 GMT -5
Tell me about it. Coming up with a creative name that doesn't sound stupid, and hasn't been used ten thousand times before is a challenge sometimes. Other times, my characters name themselves. Like the hero and main villain of the story I'm currently working on. I'll have to check out that website. Cool. I hope it helps. My character names were drawn from aspects of their personality. Like in the meaning of the name.... stuff like that... Other times, I had the Female Dwarf names end in "a" and come from Norse.... the Male Dwarf names ended in "r" and came from Norse as well.... Just a hodpodge of stuff really. |
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Post by Lady Bookwyrm on Feb 15, 2005 23:40:29 GMT -5
All of my characters have old Celtic names...and the ones that are more modern still have good Irish names, lol. The meaning of the name is of course, very important...
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Post by twyrch on Feb 16, 2005 9:00:02 GMT -5
All of my characters have old Celtic names...and the ones that are more modern still have good Irish names, lol. The meaning of the name is of course, very important... What kind of names have you come up with? Here is a list of mine from my story.... Aine – Pronounced [ANNE], meaning Radiance. Aithne – Pronounced [An-ya], meaning Little Fire Alainn – Pronounced [AH-leen], meaning Lovely Angharad – Pronounced [ann-HA-rad], meaning More Love Anmoch – Pronounced [AN-mok], meaning Night. Aoife – Pronounced [EE-fa], meaning Beauty Ardghal – Pronounced [ARD-al], meaning High Valor. Baile-Falach – Pronounced [Ball-E-fal-ache], meaning Hidden City. Beibhinn – Pronounced [BAY-vin], meaning Fair Lady. Bi Ann – Pronounced [BEE-an], meaning to Lead. Cair – Pronounce [Care], meaning Castle. Ceridwen – Pronounced [ke-RID-wen], meaning Blessed Poetry. Ciaran – Pronounced [Keer-an], meaning Glimmer. Cosan Nan Marbh – Pronounced [Kah-sahn Nan Mar-uv], meaning The Caves of the Dead. Gearran – Pronounced [Garron], meaning Guardian. Jae – Pronounced [JAY], meaning Swift Kai – Pronounced [KIGH], meaning Combat Mabinog – Pronounced [MA-bin-og] meaning the lowest order of druid. An acolyte Penderwydd – Pronounced [PEN-der-with] meaning the highest order of druid. A chief druid. Sidhe – Pronounced [SH-ee], meaning Realm of the Dead Tigern – Pronounced [TEG-ern], meaning Lord Tuathal – Pronounced [TOO-al], meaning Ruler of the People |
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Post by Daae on Feb 16, 2005 13:39:09 GMT -5
Most of the name's in my story are real. I usually try to pick names that reflect the personality of the character, either by how it sounds or what it means.
Names of characters in my story:
Gabriel- "God is my strength" (Hebrew)
Nicolae- I'm gussing it's meaning has something to do with victory, since that's what Nicol, Nicolas, & Nicodemus mean
Jospeh- "God shall add" (Hebrew)
Nathan- "the gift of God" (Hebrew)
Geoffry- "divinely peaceful" (Teutonic)
Jessica- "Wealthy" (Hebrew)
And my other two main characters, Mya and Llyvia, are going through name changes.
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Post by twyrch on Feb 16, 2005 13:54:20 GMT -5
Most of the name's in my story are real. I usually try to pick names that reflect the personality of the character, either by how it sounds or what it means. Names of characters in my story: Gabriel- "God is my strength" (Hebrew) Nicolae- I'm gussing it's meaning has something to do with victory, since that's what Nicol, Nicolas, & Nicodemus mean Jospeh- "God shall add" (Hebrew) Nathan- "the gift of God" (Hebrew) Geoffry- "divinely peaceful" (Teutonic) Jessica- "Wealthy" (Hebrew) And my other two main characters, Mya and Llyvia, are going through name changes. Did you mean to use to many Hebrew names or did it just happen that way? Great names, BTW.  |
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Post by deusXmachina on Feb 18, 2005 22:04:53 GMT -5
Honestly, I just really come up with random names. Names that I like. Nothing more complicated than that. When I name a character its like they are a baby. It may seem weird at first, but once you have fleshed out their personality and oth such sundry, "grown" them up a bit, as it were, the name just seems right, because they have become a real person, in my mind.
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Post by dinadan on Feb 18, 2005 23:12:02 GMT -5
I've got a set of interrelated short stories that I've been working on for a while...the premise is this pseudo-Christianized "Order" who are working to eliminate certain kinds of evil from the world (I'm trying not to give too much away). Anyway, my characters (at least, the good ones) names are as follows--and each name has something reflective in it about the character:
Alan Fisher-King - "head" of the Order; his name is obv. a play on Alan, son of Joseph of Arimathea, and his title as the "rich fisher"
Michelle Snow - Alan's old flame, but who dabbled for a while in the dark arts (and tried to kill him a couple of times); now restored to grace, she struggles with her purity.
Sarah Wittakre - she's a Seer; she's also the one from whom great things are promised.
Paul Anderson - he's a police detetive and the group's skeptic; his wfe's life was saved once thanks to the Order's intervention, and now he works with them occasionally; incidentally "Anderson" means "son of man"
Jacen and Eilia Thamos - This husband and wife pair are two of the powerhouses of the group; Jacen's ancestry is (largely) Greek, which is important to the story.
James Oldcastle - come from an old New England family that has more pride and tradition than money these days
Marc Jackson - college student who gets mixed up in the world of the Order because he's being used as a pawn for a powerful necromancer
Malcom McCallum - he's a rogue priest and trained exorcist, and also, coincidentally, the claimant to the throne of Scotland
Erik Yrenstein - Galician Jew who is the group's expert on the Kabbalah and the western esoteric traditions
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Post by Daae on Feb 19, 2005 12:12:06 GMT -5
Did you mean to use to many Hebrew names or did it just happen that way? Great names, BTW. No, it wasn't intentional, I just seem to like a lot of Hebrew names. |
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Post by amodman on Feb 20, 2005 5:34:50 GMT -5
Bah, I'm a name machine. Just give me the general mood of the character and I'll play around with letters and sounds in my head until I come up with something I like. Just a couple of examples - Elgar Van Torrengar, Darityl Starwing Moonsong, Kaylos, Yashanin, Kalayna, Tolim, etc. Seriously, I could write nearly infinite names...it's just something I can do.
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Post by twyrch on Feb 20, 2005 11:28:25 GMT -5
Bah, I'm a name machine. Just give me the general mood of the character and I'll play around with letters and sounds in my head until I come up with something I like. Just a couple of examples - Elgar Van Torrengar, Darityl Starwing Moonsong, Kaylos, Yashanin, Kalayna, Tolim, etc. Seriously, I could write nearly infinite names...it's just something I can do. Wow... Those are some cool names. If the publishers like my story but want me to change the names, maybe you could give me a hand...  |
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Feb 20, 2005 16:37:51 GMT -5
Those Irish names are soooooooooooo pretty, Twrch! I just wish they were spelled the way they're supposed to be pronounced. It's like Chinese: the supposed "transliterators" give you something like Xao and expect you to say "shee".  I use www.behindthename.com |
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Post by twyrch on Feb 20, 2005 17:11:14 GMT -5
Those Irish names are soooooooooooo pretty, twrch! I just wish they were spelled the way they're supposed to be pronounced. It's like Chinese: the supposed "transliterators" give you something like Xao and expect you to say "shee". I use www.behindthename.comCool! I hope it helps. Unfortunately, Gaelic grammar does not allow for words to be spelled as they sound. But, if you know the grammar then it gets easier as you go along. I hope my readers (if I get any) won't find the words too difficult. |
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Post by amodman on Feb 22, 2005 0:05:41 GMT -5
I just found out Elgar was an English lord...and I thought that was completely original...
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