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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5548455" data-attributes="member: 15538">Linguistics are a hobby of mine, so I am less likely to be at a loss for good, memorable names, but more likely to be annoyed by annoying inconsistencies. Really, there is no reason you couldn't name a fantasy character Bob Jenkins; it's no more peculier than Gwynneth Albion. Every name properly has a place in history. To use a good name, you need some pretext to steal it. I get pretty annoyed by fantasy settings that use names like Mary, Joseph, Ruth, and so forth without any apparent understanding they are Biblical; yet I can totally enjoy a setting that purposefully steals Biblical, or Greek mythological, or whatever, names precisely because of their associations. In my last Pathfinder game, I was deliberately going for a gonzo feel, so name choices were wide-ranging, everything from consonant-shifted real or mythological names to early English monarchs to an Aasimar paladin who was in the campaign for months before anyone recognized the name "Zauriel" (it's a character from Justice League who is literally an angel).</blockquote>