What is the meaning of your names?

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Mierin? Hmm...Mierin.

I guess I'm not a real fantasy reader. And I've read over 450 fantasy novels. (Some better than others. Maybe I just don't remember.)

So, please! Enlighten me!

Oh, and Taluntain...one of the cheat codes for BG2 allows you to get a dagger called the Dagger of Taluntain. I'm not kidding. And don't yell at me for using cheats! I only used them once I beat the game, and only with the character that I exported from my last save game. Believe me, after using them, cheat codes make the game suck.

 

Capt. Tripps is also the name of an engineered superflu that wipes out most of the country's population in Stephen King's The Stand. A really nasty thing too!

Myself- I've always preferred androgynous names for my PCs and most times they start with D. Noella is a family name.

YEAH!! Love that Spider!

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Well, "Vile" just happened to be the first name I ever used for a VERY LONG campaign. It just kind of stuck. I played a bounty-hunter with an attitude. I only use that name online nowadays to hide my secret identity. MWAHAHA!

 

well, i'm sorta fat, and my body used to be shaped like an egg, i'm getting in shape though, so its kinda losing its meaning, sad really...

 

Mierin is Lanfear's real name from Robert Jordan's wheel of time series.

 

My name was chosen in allegiance to another, it translates to "fell among the blades". It was given to me in honor of my father, whom I would willingly give my life for without a second thought or regret.

In such, my character lives a much darker story along with a romantic twist. The girl who is most important to him, who he would do anything for, all of a sudden left his life .. for no aparent reason. Leaving him to an eternity of sadness, living only to accept that which he has lost. A few years later, his father passed away.. the only other person in his life who was important to him. He lived the rest of his life in a drunken drug-induced stupor to fill what he had lost, dwelling on that which he could not change. Five years later, he passed away. Shortly after, a small funeral was held in his defeat. At the funeral, only one showed up to mend his open wound .. five years too late. It was the girl that he loved so dear. Regardless of the poor attendence, she stayed to morn what little she had lost. After the ceremony, she found a note entitled to her. It was song he left expressing his feelings built up over all these years, he never had another chance to tell her how much he cared before she left. Only then she realized what had happened the day she disappeared. Now he lay a shell-less soul grown cold over the years. He had died the day she left.

My life lived for another, suffering the same fate as he once did.. trying to accept what I can not change. Now I must steer through life without my copilot I came to love so well. To die happy, only to find that at one point in my life I once knew the coolest person that one could ever meet.

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I already felt ashamed when I heard this was spoken about a while ago, but you guys are nice enough to reply again, the people on these boards must be really nice and patient. Never thought there were such nice stories behind all those names.

And, Fat Egg, don't worry about you're name when you're in shape, maybe taluntain will be nice enough to move you're number of posts to a new name, like 'the slim shady' or something (but you must stop posting to keep your avatar like this )

 

Gandalf, Mithrandir, Olorin, of the Council of the Wise.

Smoke rings, anyone?

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Head up, vandalore. Come walk the fiery path of Meifumado(Buddhist Hell) with me. All sorrow will be burnt in the flames of slaughter and carnage and damnation will be the reward received with a maniacal grin for those who walk this path.

 

I am Hooligan_inc

Hooligan Incorparated. You want an old lady coshed, there is no low to which we will not stoop.

 

*ahem* no, I did not play with Taluntain's name, I played with mine: Sapiryl.

I figured that Taluntain must have been an ancient figure in the Forgotten Realms history, so I have not questioned it until now. I have never had a dagger made specifically for me, so I wouldn't know how. I found that specific cheat code on this site, so who knows?

->Mieren, now I remember. It's been about three years since I read a Jordon book, so it would figure that I'd forget.

 

I like the colour Silver and Dragons are cool.

 

There was a mage named Taluntain in BG1 selling archmage robes.

 

that wasn't taluntain shura, that was thalantyr mighty mage of beregost, and my new favorite d&d character

 

I haven't seen Sir Bellesaius post in a while, but I'd swear he took his name from the production company of JAG (on CBS).

I guess it is fitting for a mighty paladin to get his name from a family friendly TV show! I wonder if his next character will be PAX the slayer?

 

Yes - I named myself after a powerful production corporation for American TV! After all, we brought you Quantum Leap!

But Seriously - I am a huge fan of ancient military history, and Belisarius happens to be my favorite name from the Byzantine Empire. IMHO, General Belisarius is the epitome of duty, loyalty, and honor. He re-took (liberated?) North Africa from the Vandals, and successfully drove the Goths from Rome and most of Italy with an expeditionary force sent by Emperor Justinian.

His victories brought the former glory of the Roman Empire back to life...If only for a brief time - Re-uniting East and West. Having gained such fame, power, and wealth, Belisarius could have challenged Justinian for control of the entire Empire. Instead, he remained loyal to his emperor.

I've always thought that was pretty impressive. I often wonder what I would have done in a similar situation...What would you have done?

As it is, I thought it was a fitting name for a paladin. This was the name I first used when I played D&D - many moons ago!

~Belisarius

 

Cannot be frozen, but can be melted. Trying to restore a soul that has been lost for what seems like an eternity.
This is what this name means to its bearer...

 

Bel;

Don't think I was ripping on you. I had read the "legit" meaning of your name on an old post right before watching a JAG rerun. When "BELESARIUS" came up, I almost fell off the couch laughing (giving my wife more reason to think that I'm a lunatic).

My name is from Koine Greek (used from approx. 3 BC - 20 AD) and means student or disciple. It has a personal/religious meaning for me, and it also fits my paladin character.

Besides, Galahad was taken.