[Corylea]

Color is really important to me, as anyone who played "Medical Problems 1" could probably tell. I especially like a really saturated blue and most shades of purple, so I tend to name my characters "Cobalt," "Sapphire," or "Amethyst."

Since there are women named "Ruby," I figure "Sapphire" and "Amethyst" aren't that strange for a woman's name, so I use them with my more girly characters. I usually use "Cobalt" when I'm creating a character who I expect to be especially tough. When I started my most recent play-through of Baldur's Gate, my husband came up, looked at my character, and said, "So, is this Sapphire?"

I may be over-using those names a tad.

[.Volsung.]

I used to be impatient about starting a game, especially considering how long it took to create a character in the good old Infinity Engine games. So I would come up with something teenagerish and menacing like "Bloodskull". Yep, that was the name of my very first Baldur's Gate character.

After that I actually gave it some thought and tried to think of a name appropriate for the game/setting and mood, relying on fantasy clichés and using name and surname. For example, something like Ragnar Thunderhammer would have been appropriate for a dwarven warrior. I never chose that one name in particular though, but nowadays I keep thinking Ragnar Lodbrok (like the hero) would be a good name for a dwarf. It just sounds so... dwarven.

Eventually I got into the whole scandinavian/norse mythology thing and decided to stick with that to name my characters. Especially like the Volsung clan as you can tell, so I'm usually "Volsung". I also deformed names from a few gothic kings, like Eormanric and Alareik, and germanic chieftains like Arminius.

Sometimes I choose simple names. My Fallout character throughout the series was simply "Karl".

Recently for Legend of Grimrock I gave my characters all sorts of names, like Snapper, Claws and Fricka. But I couldn't resist those gray walls and named my minotaur Asterion. Who would seriously venture down a dark labyrinth without a minotaur?

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▫ Dona ▫ said:

VtM:B character: Scarlett. I know, never heard such a name related to a vampire before! It's pretty cliched, but I thought it appropriate because I made her a Toreador, the type of vampire that's very vain and usually into arts/entertainment. I was thinking of Vivien Leigh as Scarlet O'Hara. ›››

This is probably what I'll do for Cyberpunk, naming the character after famous philosopher scientist,actor or character in films.

[Veleda]

I'll try to use an in-universe naming scheme if there is one. If not, I try to pick something simple and from another culture which lends it a bit of exotic air. I've used the Norse name Idun, the Greek Tekla, the Turkish Esra (or a variant like Esira). I've used Eren in a couple games. Veleda is actually my Skyrim Stormcloak character, named after the Germanic priestess who foretold the downfall of the legions in the Batavi rebellion. My Fallout 3 characters were all Irish female names, and my Fallout New Vegas characters were Rey and Rue.

[VonStreff]

Usually the guy is called Von Streff, the girl called Cereza.

[cyberarmy]

Mainly use short version of my name "Sam". If my character is a necromancer its Xzar the Mad />
And i use kind of nicknames instead normal names. Like "Firefist", "Rageclaw", "Riverwind", "Ironbeard" or such. Sounds like native American.

And when i'm drunk, i use funny (if you are 10 years olds) Turkish/Ottoman names, I often regret those ones...

[SlimeDynamiteD]

I often use elven inspired names like Aerwen or something like that.
Though after playing TW2 for the first time I started naming my characters Vernon because I really like the name Vernon