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This thread cought my eye, and got me curious. I continued to read on, and realized how totally unaware I wasabout thenaming convention used in Star Wars. I am a sci-fi fan andeverythingabout this genre simply fascinates me.I wish I did knew about this sooner though, but that's water under the bridge now. My character is already well on its way of becoming a ranger. And the name chosen will follow me wherever I go. For good or for worse.

I tried the name-generator, and discarded all the suggestions. Somehow they all sounded too alien for my taste. Then I started thinking about what all the human characters in Star Wars was named, and I threw some suggestions up in the airto see what would fly or not.

The end result was: Khendeth L'indarra, human scout.

I would appreciate anopinion from you, Riis. Seeing as you'rethenaming expert around these parts. So go ahead. Break itdown and analyze it. I don't mind. Just give me an honest opinion when you're done

Cheers!

Dexo Cosreia - Human - Armorsmith/Smuggler - Former Imperial Supporter who found to much money to be made with the Rebels. Not fond of Wookies.

By the way, I think its great that you take the time to do this. Its fun to read all the comments on the names, and I feel their bang on. I hope my name dosen't flunk out.

Ok I will throw in:

Liz'Ard Trandoshan TKA/Smuggler. Orphaned as a baby, picked up and adopted by space pirates. Theynicknamed him"lizard" but he started pronouncing it as Liss arrd. They were also rather cruel by bringing him up to believe he was the divine avenger for the great deity Rallyph. Rallyph manifests himself on our plane of existance as a head of lettuce.

And for those wondering, Liz Ardd was a skater on Roller games. She played for the Maniacs. And if anyone is old enough to remember "Whats Happening?" Rerun once joined a cult where he worshipped Ralph, who was a head of lettuce.

Also I have a bothan named Rajraj K'cuf

Thank you for doing my name - I didn't expect it! I will put your suggestion in my bio as my full name if you don't mind!

Question - Can you suggest a way to make Tash Kosigan into a proper Twi'lekk name?

I was wondering about the wookiee names... are they explained in any star wars literature? I know wookiees cannot speak basic, but can they write basic? If so, they can choose a basic name to use when they leave Kashykk (sp?) and write it down for people. Kind of like choosing a "public name" and a having a "true name." They may tell their wookiee true names to close friends (like Han), and those people would never mention the name to others (probably couldn't pronounce it anyway). Problems with my theory - I don't read star wars books so there might be an much better explanation out there thatI am unaware of, and it would make wookiees able to name themselves anything they wanted -we'd loose all the flavor!

Thank you for all the time and amazing work you've put into this thread. We love it!

- Paks

OK i have 2 for ya i like them so i hope you all will too.

Medibacca= wookie medic/rifleman/BE/CH/scout

Cloudstrider=Human artisan/armorsmith/tailor/scout/merchant/polearms....companyname is Cloudware.com...youll probably see my stuff around if you play on Shadowfire

Kerzor Eversin

Male Zabrak Rifleman/Creature Handler

Dunno if you picket it up from pages and pages back...but Duo Maxwell is a Gundam Wing (anime) character and that "Luckdragon" namescreamed of The NeverEnding Story.

I've got a couple if you don't mind the work...

Veritanil Ovak - Mon Cal Architect/Master Artisan/Pikeman, my husband's. I told him about the one-name thing but he had the name from beta and felt attached to it.

Nerire E'Nel - My Bothan Smuggler/Pistoleer/CH/every single starting profession jack-of-all-trades (for now). The name was mostly random generated, as I remember. I actually saw another bothan character running around on my server, on two different planets on multiple occasions, with the E'Nel last name. He also had Novice Smuggler above his head and was dark-furred, just like me. I thought "long-lost brother!"

Ecco Rhe'yka - was Nerire's original name, but the character got deleted. I liked it. Anyone know the first name reference?

Abarri - Wookie medic/entertainer on Shadowfire that gets depressingly little playtime.

Cybel - TestServer rodian entertainer. Probobly a stage name, and yes I was going for Sybil.

Ok, just for grins; Zadig Aldebaran.

I took Zadig which both the name of a story and the hero in the story by Voltaire. And Aldebaran isa double star in the constellation Taurus, 68 light-years from Earth, and one of the brightest stars in the sky.

Seems good to me but I wonder what you think?biwan:

Greetings namenistas. Time for the rest of Page 15. Since it is 13 names, I have a good feeling about doing some page 16 names tonight, as well.

Taltuu

A little bit of a joke, eh? Well, I think it is a good one, considering the species, and would classify this as a changed name from the original as a nickname. That doesn't make sense, so I'll give an example. An American may nickname his friend Lee Wang to "Left Wing" since the sounds are similar, and Lee may take his nickname and spell it back phonetically: Lefwing, or some such. As for you, someone may have said "Tall too" to him, and the nickname stuck, and he transcribed it to "Taltuu." Or perhaps I am rambling. Time will tell.

Leilani Neseici

Leilani is a nice name, and I am behind it...the Neseici actually goes very very well with the first name, so you lucked out there. Here is another name that is a pleasure to speak out loud.

Wrizzle Topine

Another name that feels vaguely naughty. As a nickname class of name, it works on a couple levels, but I would want to see a great backstory on this one to fully support it. The fact that he is Rodian helps. Indeed it does.

Caydyn Corentyn

Same ending sounds can make or break two names. In this case, looks like we made it through just fine. I always chuckle a little at the gratuitous "y" replacing "i" schtick, but there is no harm in it, in my eyes.

Kaicolo

Maybe a little too vowelly, and the addition of a couple more consonants will help. The sound and feel of the name are right on the money.

S-Mule

Well, my EQ playing friend, I don't do the full sheet outlined for you, but I still go through the full sheet in my head for each and every name with which I assist. I have to be the one to break to you that you win the coveted red name award, in this case for egregious use of a name idea from another genre. Your penalty is to chant 100 times: "Single character per server has revolutionized MMORPGS for the better."

Evad Llahsram

Dave Marshall, did you hope to hide so easily from my prying eyes? Shall I suggest you mix the name up a little bit to make it less Welsh, and less, well, Dave Marshall backwards? Allow me to assist: Eved Lahsrim works wonderfully in this case, but maybe we should go a step further: Leved Ahsrim...which spells Mirsha Devel backwards and will get everyone wondering what the heck it is.

Reedel Fendu

I have to say I really like the Rodian names I have been getting. It seems, for me, that Star Wars fans all seem to be "getting" the Rodian persona much easier than the other aliens. I applaud you.

Odogon Magira

I really like this name, but I feel like I have heard it somewhere before. If you stole some name from somewhere, shame, shame, but if you cam up with this one, I have to say more than anything else it really fits your species and profession.

Keen Muncher

The sad thing is I think I met a character (Wookiee)on Ahazi with a namequite similar to this. My tears, they are as bitter as my heart at the sight of this.

Hazeon Darkcloud

The first and last names seem to be working to communicate something, but I feel they aren't quite there yet. I am thinking it is probably the "-eon" particle attached to "Haze" which makes me think compounds and minerals and less about horned humanoids. The last name is those ok Anglo-Saxon fusions, but the first name needs some work.

Wonch Fleabouncer

Talk about a name thatcries out for a very good backstory,This name will live or diedepending solely on the backstory for such a nickname, and I would like it turned in by Sunday on my desk, please.

Da'mage

Whew. I see where you are coming from, I feel the direction you are moving, and ask you to trust the Doctor here when he says it's not going to work. It's too obvious, and when I tried to pronounce it with the apostrophe, it sounded so French I thought Maurice Chavalier was in the room. If you want to play this name, take away the egregious apostrophe, and proudly be the nickname "Damage." And come up with a truly original backstory, or else, like our friend the flea-flicker above, your name will not work.

Fun name quiz: Which of these names is not a real Star Wars character?

1) Elan Sleazebaggano

2) Cleg Holdfast

3) Ploovoo Two-for-one

4) Ephant Mon

5) Walker Thik

RbT

Thanks for your thoughts Riis! The first time I usedthe name "Durfaroth" was with a character named Durfaroth Branshaw in a story I wrote (Dur to his friends). To tell the truth, I kind of used a Elven naming dictionary from Tolkien. Was so long ago that I can't even remember what book I found it from. But I rearranged the dictionary to make it easier for me to make names for stories until I take up the huge task of creating a language/dictionary of my own to use in my stories. If curious, this is what "Durfaroth" came from:

dur- "darkness, shadows"; -faroth "hunter"

I do like the idea of "Vram" as a first name though. Thanks again.

I had a 23 page list of names that I considered before settling on an appellation for my female Wookie.

Names are important to me. I am a huge SW fan, but frankly, many names in the SW universe just make me cringe-- so I was very sure I didn’t want a “Sleazebaggano” kinda name, although I always sorta felt the “Greedo” type names actually did fit with the fairy-tale nature of the SW experience, so above all else, I wanted a name that really meant something.

I settled on the name “Karka.”

The ultimate reason I picked it was to pay homage to the masterpiece works of Tolkein. I know Riis is not fond of taking Tolkein out of context, but in SW nomenclature, a tip-of-the-hat is as common a character “having a bad feeling” about something—so for me, this was acceptable. I only wanted to allude, not copy—so I modified “carca” [(SA:carak) (Quenya: carac) (SIL: carch),] pl. “karkar" in Markirya, there translated "rocks," referring to very sharp rocks. Carca (carak) means “fang.” The idea of naming a wookie, “fang,” just kinda fit with the flavor of SW, and “Karka” was far enough away from appropriating standard English to work for me, and obscure enough Elvish to pass as only a tip-of-hat, in my book.

I thought that if a Wookie could have “acca” in a name, “Karka” could also work. There was also precedent in the EU for wookies with shorter names. I also felt that most other players wouldn’t really care why she left Kashyyyk or what her full name really sounded like in Shyriiwook. I thought folks would simply like the fact they can remember and easily send tells to a five-letter name. It seems this is now congruent with what has been ever-so-humbly dubbed “Riis’ Law.”

I also wanted a name that would mask a ferocious side. I figured that I would know the name meant “fang,” but most players would never guess this hidden meaning and would continue to underestimate my character simply because she was female. Still, because I knew I wanted my character to be complex, as most Wookies are, I was pleased to learn that there was a lunar rashi of Cancer that was often called karka, a sign under which “People born in this rashi are gentle, caring and protective.” I never got into that sort of stuff, but I loved the idea of having a name for a wookie that could mean “gentle fang.”

Because the name really had to jive with “me” on several levels if I was gonna play this character, I almost did not go with this name when I learned that the most infamous Assyrian massacre was recorded in 448 A.D. when the Persian King Yasdegard II executed 10 Assyrian bishops and 153,000 clergy and laity in "several consecutive days of slaughter on the mound of Karka d'Bait Sluk. I especially did not want to carry this bloody Karkuk name while I watched my own government slaughter Muslims daily. I am a Christian, but the last thing I wanted to do was take the name of a site where local tradition still asserts that the red gravel of the Karka d'Bait Sluk hillock was stained that color by the martyrs' blood. The martyrium built over the bodies remains to this day, but I did not wish to bear a name that could possibly be connected with Christians feeling persecuted, needlessly highlighting past violence and inciting biter vengeance. However, I finally did decide to go with the name, because killing in the name of religion is an unfortunate reality in my world, and perhaps even naming a character in a (rather violent) game might help remind me that all religions (even and especially my own) can be perverted in such a horrible and violent manner.

Before finally deciding on “Karka,” I also learned that early English transliterations of a place-name in Hebrew Scripture mentions a “Karkaa” in the South of Judah, between Addar and Wady el-`Arish. Eusebius Onomasticon speaks of a village in Judah lying toward the wilderness, named Akarka, but it cannot now be identified. I thought, “Okay, this kinda fits, I’ll just have the back-story remain kinda mysterious, like being an old, old wookie, from a place that can no longer be identified.” Ha-qarqa`ah means "the ground" and so I thought, “Aw, what the heck, I’m from Kentucky, and the native hunters here called this the ‘dark and bloody ground’ anyway.” (A stream-of-consciousness association that makes sense only in my own head, but it made the name “fit” for me, nonetheless.)

So “gentle fang” I am. Further study of the name (on earth, not in the SW universe) gives a hint at my penchant for paradox. It is ironic that Karka is not a medic because the young sprouts of Phragmites Karka (or the Chamorro name, kariso) are included in an all-purpose boiled medicinal tea used by the local curers of the Atantano River valley. Phragmites Karka also happens to be a very tall (five meters high), jointed grass that grows in thick pure stands on swampy lands; ironically, Karka is also one of the shortest Wookies around.

Last but not least, I also liked “Karka” because it reminded me of the word “carcass” which is exactly what I thought I would be more often than not in this game, since I have never really been a gamer and am very new to this massive online interactive experience!

The short wookie with the short name,