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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piedmon Sama" data-source="post: 4651890" data-attributes="member: 76973">My Characterscompleted/in-progress campaigns:-Laup Steelhart (a fighter.  As my first-ever D&D character, he had my own name backwards.)-Vanick (no family name; he was an orphan who became a Paladin, a general and eventually a death knight.  His name is one of a very few I completely made up).  -Sir Beofaith (An Aasimar Paladin.  His horse was named Leonidas.)-Regin Rugsman (A Gold-Dwarf Paladin from a Forgotten Realms campaign.  His clan was, as you might suppose, rug merchants).-Beogar Orkisson (Half-Orc, naturally; a young druid who wants to prove both to his Druidic Circle and the small human communities of the frozen north that orcs are not all slavering, man-eating monsters.  Just some of them.)Unused Characters-Finn Connors (a rogue assassin--meaning he abandoned the guild that trained him--he works better in worlds that adopt a later Renaissance/early modern setting, ideally with a fantasy equivalent of Ireland). -Hector Black (a Hexblade who joined a mercenary company after being chased out of his home village.  Again, the character was meant for a low-magic world much like our own). -Sinead (a Hexblade/Ranger/Deepwood Sniper, became a traveling monster hunter after her powers emerged.  Like Finn, she works best in a late Medieval/Renaissance Irish culture).  -Naph'tali (an impeccably cheerful but absurdly strong Barbarian girl from the frozen north.  I have no idea why the Hebrew name, but it seemed fitting).-Sir Castor de Coronnet (another Aasimar Paladin, meant to reflect an early medieval Frankish culture).-Jalfarid (A Jaebrin Bard, see MMV for the race.  Had an Arabian/1,001 Nights culture in mind for him).-Timurtash Shah-Khan (a rogue/barbarian, meant to become a warlord.  Was thinking of Turko-Mongol/Timurid culture in the anarchic 14th Century for him).Evil CampaignThese aren't my characters, but I helped every player think of names after designing the setting.-Sir Guyseric of Ghant (Human Knight.  Guyseric is a famous Goth king, Ghant the English name for the Dutch city of Ghent.)  -Aelfwine (Half-Elf Hexblade, his name is Anglo-Saxon meaning "Elf-friend"). -Shao-Long (a Sorcerer/Swordsage with a Shao-Lin feel.  I'm embarrassed to say I just came up with something "Chinese-sounding.")-Amarasca (A Tiefling Warlock.  Her name is actually a pun on the Italian word for "bitter").  -Shulhug (Orc Rogue.  Her name was chosen off a list of 'Tolkienesque' Orc names from the internet).  NPCs- -Aelfgifa (Half-Elf Sorceress, Aelfwine's sister.  Her name means "Elf-Gift.")-Tostig (Human Necromancer.  Earl Tostig was the brother of the last Anglo-Saxon King Harald Godwinson, exiled and killed after returning with a Norman army in 1066).  Saga of the Empire The only one of my campaigns I bothered to actually name, this one has been running (with about a years' hiatus) since 2005.  The setting is a serious mismash of stuff--aesthetically based on the Roman Empire (with the Imperial Nine Divines lifted from the Elder Scrolls), but with steampunk tech (thanks to the gnomes) and a definitely Renaissance-ish look to most places.-Alphonse Arcanus (Cleric of Zenithaar; he needed a Roman family name, but I think my friend just got the name 'Alphonse' from the anime Full Metal Alchemist).-Alleria Canan (Draconic Elf Monk; my friend says he got the name "Alleria" from an elven ranger in Warcraft II.  'Canan' is a pun on the character Kwai Chang Cain from the series Kung Fu).  -F.F Fizzlebottom (Gnome Bard; all Gnomes in this setting use double initials of matching letters in place of a given name, and tend to keep their real personal names secret). -Stephen Wolf-Ram (Alphonse's cohort, he comes from a Germanian culture). -Valda Ever-Heart (Human Fighter, also a Germanian)Since this campaign started in 2005, I can't remember many of the NPCs I've come up with.  Depending on the local culture I use (for humans) either Hispanized Gothic ("Godwino," "Rodrigo"), Latin ("Naobatus" "Gaius"), Franco-Gallic ("Sigibert," "Childeric"), or Germanic (uh.... "Stephen").  For Elves, Orcs and Dwarves I just use generic Tolkienesque names, and all Gnomes use the double-initial plus a whimsical name like "Fizzlebottom" or "Longshanks."</blockquote>

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