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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 1989241" data-attributes="member: 3887">My question to you is: are lighthearted names any more grating in the long run than more traditional faux-grandiose fantasy ones?Personally, I like a mix of the two. For instance. I love what Steve Erickson does with names, he has characters like Anomander Rake, Lord of Moon's Spawn and Wielder of Dragnipurake share the stage with Trotts, a soldier named for his umm, excratory habits. He teams Icarium, the Maker of Time with a loyal companion named Mappo Runt...Sure, the characters I mentioned were comic relief... But its a question of context: how many campaigns have you seen that approach the dramatic heights of Hamlet/Macbeth? The ones I've been in a far closer to Marx Brothers films, albeit ones that feature generous amounts of sword-and-sorcery carnage...</blockquote>