Naming conventions of the five racesFollow

I saw this on the official forums, and thought that somebody here might be interested (e.g. RPers or people looking for an accurate name for their XIV character).

Hyur Naming Conventions

Elezen Naming Conventions

Miqo'te Naming Conventions

Lalafell Naming Conventions

Roegadyn Naming Conventions (Roegadyn Dictionary; for those hard-to-spell names)

Each thread has descriptions for names of each sub-race, as the names are sometimes different. For example, Seawolf Roegadyn tend towards traditional names made up of word combinations in their old language, where Hellsguard use more common words. Furthermore, male Hellsguard surnames are frequently animals (such as my character being named Ghost Bear), where female Hellsguard surnames tend to be plants or flowers.

Hope some of you find this useful and/or inspiring.

http://fandango.exp.jp/name-generator.php#result

also works too :) its fun to make roe names with this lol there so silly.

The Sea Wolves' are especially fun:



Tongue twisters, all round!

Hellguard are funny as well.



I might go with Meg Mightblade for my female highlander.

Edited, Jul 1st 2013 2:06pm by silverhope

Not lava if it's unseen...

Not interested in conventional naming. I saw so many different names, including movie stars. I like being surprised by the various names.

Hyllthota Zwelfwyrstwyn (Zell Fu virus Twin) - Daughter of the daughter of hell, daughter of "sausage Twelve"
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2mpfned&s=5 (picture of my character)

I think my favorite of the weekend was "More Cowbell".

I've kept the silly names to my retainer and chocobo thus far.

I kinda like how some people are willing to go into that much detail to keep their characters "accurate". Sadly, I go onto a baby name list, and find names that mean what my character is/does.

Though, I'll be glad when the game is finally released, and I won't have to see a hundred "Test" names around...no, seriously: http://na.beta.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/?q=test&worldname=&classjob=&order=

You say that like it's a bad thing.

My favorite I saw so far in beta was "Doctor Worm". I'm a big TMBG fan, and every time I saw him (little taru dude) it started me singing...