Guild Wars 2

My Necro is named for her twisted ancestor of 250yrs ago….Babies On Spikes. I said she was twisted.

Of my eight characters, I have three human characters. I know, I’m an alt-oholic.

My very first human was my Mesmer, a pretty girl named Saravati. This is a Sanskrit-derived name related to the goddess Saraswati, which means “she who flows/who has flow”. I was going for an Elonian feel to my character’s background, and hopefully I’ve achieved it.

My second is my Warrior, Cyra Saoirse. Cyra is Persian, and can mean either ‘bright/light’ or ‘throne’. Saoirse, on the other hand, is Gaelic and means ‘freedom/liberty’. She is named after the main female character in a series of short stories I am writing.

Last, but not least, I have my Thief, Levi Halleck. Originally, he was going to be Sylvari but I just couldn’t think of a good name. Levi is one I’ve always loved, and the surname Halleck is borrowed from Frank Herbert’s Dune series.

Priestess of Lyssa, it just made sense for a female mesmer.

On the internet I usually go by Chilly Chinaman
So, I rolled as Chilly Canthan….

Brianthas Innoculi – I character name I made up when I used to play in MUD’s.

Melissandre Du Ri, female Mesmer. She is the great-granddaughter of two of my GW1 characters (a male Ascalonian Warrior and a female Canthan Assassin) who settled down in Lion’s Arch after their adventures were over. She still belongs to her great-grandfather’s ancestral Ascalon family (House Ri) who founded a new noble house in Kryta as a reward for their part in helping place Queen Salma on the throne. Despite her heritage, she regards Kryta as her home and feels little kinship to her ancestral homelands.

My thief’s name is Szeth Shadowdancer. Szeth comes from the assassin in Way of the Kings (pretty good fantasy novel) and Shadowdancer is something I came up on my own and sounds really good IMO.

Male Ascalonian elementalist noble who inherited his name from his predecessor Ascalonian hero elementalist, Trinil Seraph Frail. I came up with the name Trinil Frail for my D&D paladin. I added Seraph as a middle name, to emphasize on him being an elementalist (seraph means “burning ones” – that’s cool for fire ele, also magic is the gift of gods, so a “heavenly” being must be adept at it – at least in my mind).

Female Canthan thief street-rat who inherited her name from her predecessor Canthan heroine assassin, Shimada Ichiro. I was looking for assassin names in Japanese history and found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimada_Ichiro.

My humans name is Luana Alatus. Translated into English it means- Winged Female Warrior. Just seemed epic.

i named my ranger kennie Mccormick in reference to the character from the Southpark comedy series.

For those that dont watch it kenny is a character that dies in almost every episode but comes back in the next episode with everyone else in the movie forgetting that he has died. I thought it would be funny naming my character this as it reflects his ability to “respawn” every time after dying :P

The spelling was made like that on purpose because Kenny Mccormick was already taken

My male human noble warrior is Morenin, and will be Morenin Entalle if the ability to alter names ever becomes available (I didn’t realize when I made him you chose last names at creation). IC his parents are from Ebonhawke, so Ascalon, with some Elonan refugee thrown in a couple generations back (hence his dark skin), so I figure his names started out recognizable and got altered as generations passed. OOC I’ve been carrying around some version of the name into four games now, usually with him as a half elf. The surname means absolutely nothing, but Morenin is mor + onnen from Tolkein’s Sindarin, meaning approximately born of darkness. It may mean something in Spanish, I’ve gotten a number of tells over the years asking if I’m a native Spanish speaker!

Judith O Hara (my lastname is Nohara) Female Guardian

The only original last name that i could come out with.

My thief is Luis Forthwind, I felt Luis was rather fitting to his appearance. His last name however is just one of those typical generic fantasy rp character names. Just making a joke on generic rp character naming conventions because I was too lazy to come up with a legitimate last name.

My warrior is Ascalonian Fighter, because why would I name my warrior Ascalonian Mage? Actually, why didn’t I do that?

Dallas Kayden here. I chose it because the Elvish versions of both names (Saeldur and Idhrenohtar, respectively) were already taken, and they didn’t sound very good together. It literally means “Wise, wise fighter”. Not very creative, but hey, it sounds good.

Slashing nightmare, slashing cause he slashes, nightmare cause hes a nightmare among zergs. Fits nicely with my human thief

My Ranger walks the earth again in gw2 ^.^
Saga Sorel, that name has stuck to me since 2005 in gw1
All my others also end on Sorel, don’t ask why, I don’t know why i came up with the surname Sorel
If you play on Far shiverpeaks.. look for a ranger that use Humiliation dye near the dragons xD

My Ranger’s name is Kyle Hanlon.

Hanlon after Chief Hanlon, the veteran leader of the NCR Rangers in Fallout: New Vegas, who was one of my favorite characters in that game (voiced by Kris Kristofferson), and Kyle because it is the name of some awesome chrs in movies and games — Kyle Reese (Terminator), Kyle Vlaros (Blackthorne), Kyle Katarn (Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Jedi Knight II).

Sir Alex Von Lican— a Guardian who embraced darkness to protect the light.

Lorcan Kelevra

Lorcan – I think means “Fierce” in another language (Just so happens to be the name of one of the Human NPC’s in the Mad King’s Clock Tower aswell)

Kelevra – From “Lucky Number Slevin” which is one of my favorite movies.

update: my human necro was Babies On Spikes. However, after having that name throughout all of GW and for over 30 levels in GW2, I was forced to change it by the moderators.

Henceforth, she is known as Seras Soulreaper.

Ægidius de Hammo is my human warrior’s name, which is short for Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo. There are those who know where the name came from…

My two human characters are named Gareth Barbdagger, I believe Gareth means gentle which is very ironic as he is a thief.

My other one is Anminmar, who I’ve used many times on previous MMO’s
there isn’t a meaning, but people seem to think saying it is a bit like swallowing a jar of peanut butter, especially if you add the joke last name of Marni… say it five times quick-smart

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Can’t be worse than a “Samuel Ele Jackson” I saw the other day.

And yes, he had the afro. Of COURSE he did. XD

Single Mom

Teen mom abandoned by bf at 15. Mother of twins. Cooking in Lion´s Arch for a living.

My Thief is named Sovay; based on a traditional English folk song about a young woman who dresses and arms herself as a highwayman in order to test her suitor. In disguise she robs her suitor of nearly all his possessions, but even under threat of death he refuses to give up the gold ring given by Sovay, thus proving his devotion. Sovay subsequently confesses the ruse to her lover and returns his various possessions, admonishing him only that had he indeed given up the ring, she would have killed him.

Treakin Mephaestus, Gaurdian

Dante Auditore

Inspiration came from two of the coolest characters in games. Dante is from the Devil May Cry series, and Auditore is from Ezio Auditore from Assassin’s Creed. My character’s appearance is modeled after Dante’s, and the popped collar on his coat while dual wielding pistols makes him look incredibly alike to Dante. And yes, my character is a thief.

Well, there’s Basil Wilding and Haruna Splint. It’s more or less mainly my headcanon for them that I do. Basil’s orphan backstory in his PS is actually for my brother’s character (Jackson Wilding). But the story is basically this:

In GW1 I had three mains: Ein Ridley (Elementalist), Celia Ridley (Mesmer), and Boutan Splint (Ranger).

Obviously Haruna’s the descendant of Boutan, but she’s a thief as opposed to ranger. As for Basil, he’s a direct descendent of my Mesmer (making my first ever character his great-great uncle, pretty much).

Jackson, my younger brother’s character is the orphaned descendant of his old warrior from GW1. It’d make sense the surname (Adiea Ahai was my brother’s character) did not survive for both our characters in one way or another. Now, as for what I really think their personal story is… I like to think that the families of my old characters somehow wound up intetwined again—especially my brother’s character and my thief’s family.

Basil was never good with magic, but has a thing for gardening. The Splint family is a noble house of Divinity’s Reach, which employed him to tend to their garden. He knows of stories about his ancestors. After the Searing occurred, Celia was separated from Ein (her older brother) until the events of Nightfall, when Ein and Boutan were enlisted into the Sunspears.

The Splints are Canthan by origin, but at the same time Emperor Usoku was beginning to be more isolationist in foreign policy—I am assuming there was a brief window native Canthans could return— Boutan was on his deathbed at the ripe age of 103. His legacy is carried on by the family by mounting his old flatbow on the wall of their home to remind them of their lineage. Of all my characters, Boutan was the most complete (I got hacked, so I wound up not getting any HoF titles). He completed Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall and EotN, but in my head I had different stories for him as opposed to the main one.

The White Mantle for one reason or another decided to attack the Splint estate by burning it to the ground. Haruna and the Wilding brothers fight off the Mantle and report it to the Seraph, who then turn it over to the Shining Blade. Haruna’s only theory is that Boutan may or may not have been a Chosen from her family stories(the descendents don’t know their families have a long history together too).

Without a home, Haruna sets out on a quest of vengence—her twin sister having been killed in the attack. Basil goes with her as a companion, but then ends up joining the Vigil to help in the campaign against Zhaitan. Later, Haruna joines the Order of Whispers based off the fact her ancestor had a few run ins with them during his time in Elona. When the Pact is formed, she personally requests to join any squad with Basil and his brother in it and the trio is reunited.

If the White Mantle and Mursaat are expanded on, the story will continue. XD For now, they are on “vacation” traveling around, when a newly awakened Sylvari approaches Basil and tells him that she saw him in her dream and that he’d help her find out what her Wyld Hunt is—she has one, but the interpretation said Basil had the answers.

…also, heavy shipping of Basil and Haruna, because they look adorable together.

Mixed heritage Mesmer by the name of Amaryllis Lucent. Or at least that’s what she tells people her name is…

5 / 10. I like the concept, but I’m not a fan of frilly names, to be honest.

My thief’s name is Saict Grey, in relation to a shade of grey, meaning he exists not as a lamb, nor a lion. Also, I thought it fit well in the whole mix of things.

My ranger is called Jyhmes Attrap. I wanted to base him slightly off an older character I had named Jim, but decided to fancy it up a bit. The last name comes from a different character I played in a Star Wars tabletop game, named Pylon A’traps.

Lavaerna. Nothing special, just tried to enter random names and hoping something clicked.

My next options were going to be:
Lavyrna
Laverna Hymn

Elementalist named Einsteintenius.

Albert Einstein + instantaneous. Whaaalaaa

Ivien is my char’s name. It’s name I generally use online and it’s created from my real name Ivana. For name to be properly read in English it would be spelled Evien.

In game I’m a noble with dead parents. If I could choose I would make my char be from old noble family like some from Northern Europe. She is an elementalist destined for greatness.

My human ranger is called Azraeel Seraph. My first character and first time playing GW, I had no idea that the human military personnel were called Seraph (pretty cool though), I was very surprised.
Oh and Azraeel is the Angel of Death(ranger hasn’t reached that level yet alas)
and Seraphim are the highest order of angels (Angel>Archangel>Rulers>Powers>Virtues>Dominions>Oraphanim (thrones)>Cherubin>Seraphim)…

My guardian’s name is Alurazlle.
Reason: I really like the name Alura (and its like my default name in mmos.) She is also born a noble so its a worthy name.

Guild Wars 1 – started career with Ranger – Penelope Mayflower

250 years later…

Guild Wars 2 – started career with Ele – Elosina Mayflower

nice way to continue my Ranger’s “legacy”. my first characters always get the best treatment

Nicky Silverstar.

Of course, her real name is Canthan but since her family now lives in Kryta, she choose to use a translation of her actual name.

Harlan Black.
He’s my swashbuckling ranger.

Shinki.8045:

Shinkittenraunia.

Shinki is just my constant handle and Keraunia is a word from folklore that means “An Axe that fell from the sky in a bolt of lightning”

Odd that the name gets censored like that.

Shinkittenraunia

Not that odd. Their censoring code is a little heavy-handed, or the folks writing it have never heard of doing a match on word break. In a case like this, it really makes the word stand out, since you have to notice what it is they’re censoring.

The game wouldn’t let me use my chosen name of “Nianalind” , since it “does not conform to the terms of service.” Thanks. I never would’ve noticed that in there if you hadn’t pointed it out, nor would anyone else I imagine.

Necro name is S L O T H
My necro in GW1 has the same name.

Seras.5702:

update: my human necro was Babies On Spikes. However, after having that name throughout all of GW and for over 30 levels in GW2, I was forced to change it by the moderators.

Henceforth, she is known as Seras Soulreaper.

Babies on spikes was an elegant name.

My characters name is suspicious fred. Cos he’s suspicious.

Khilly, after Killy from the manga Blame! and because “Killy” had been taken already. Plus it just sounds pretty mean, imho.

My first and only human character was a male Noble (this is important) Necromancer. His name was Kurtz (my great grandfather’s first name. ) Bathory. Yes that Bathroy.

What do I mean by “that Bathroy” See, I am a European History nerd (not slamming anyone but me). One of my favorite stories of 16-17th century Europe was the story of Elizabeth Bathroy. Who the heck is she ,you might ask? She was one of the first known serial killers in history. She was accused of killing 650 girls.
So I gave my necromancer the last name of a noblewoman who killed people.

Anna Tatiana

Human Noble; Mesmer

Her ancestor was Canthan back in GW1 era…I guess she married a Krytan and moved because Anna is blonde with blue eyes :P

Sigil Fane, male commoner Necromancer. No lore interpretation, just a name I’ve used in other games [video games/MUDs/etc] over the years. Usually some form of “Undead,” thus his GW2 class.

Out of my six characters, two are human, both females with very different backgrounds.
Ann Blair – Human Elementalist, grown in the streets, regretting never joining the circus. She’s named after a character in a story I wrote long, long ago. The name means “Grace Field”.
Moira Sheeny – ANOTHER Human Elementalist, a noble, regretting never finding her true parents. Just because I liked the name (I don’t know what “Sheeny” means, but I think Moira meant something like “faith”, “destiny” or “doom”? If anyone knows what they mean, I’d appreciate being told ! ^^)

I use Shonek Alcazia (last name is based off of Alcazia Tangle, zone in gw1) on my human
Olaf Sifhalla on my norn (gw1 players should be able to get both references)
Ikotag on my charr (couldn’t come up with a decent last name, and now that he’s in the 40’s, he’s not getting one lol)
Ralistu on my asura (no last name needed with that race)
iiri ventari on my sylvari (iiri being a play on eerie and ventari being gw1 again).

Ikotag, Ralistu and Shonek have been names used for years and years in gaming by me =)

My Human Necro is named after his great great grand-pappy Malaketh Dracul, who defeated an undead Lich, saved Canatha, defeated a fallen God, etc, etc, you know the shtick.

As for the name, well I thought of the first name a while back when making a my first character in Morrowind and carried the name on to GW1. As for his surname well that came from me relating the necromancer class with death, then undeath and finally Dracula (Dracul).

Funny fact though Dracul means Dragon, which is an awesome coincidence for this game :P

Theobold Ravenwind:

The Ravenwinds have been in Tyria for over 3 centuries, Theobold is the current youngest of the line at 29. Already a Lieutenant of the Seraph, he is not too sure if he will ever find time to settle down to continue the Ravenwind line.