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Re: The Player's Name

Postby Asterocrat » August 10th, 2013, 9:06 am

Yup.

If you want something that sounds newer, you might want to start over instead of starting from Altonis. The only cool names I've seen in the last pages are Deltonis, Deltos, Alternis, and they look pretty much alike.

You might for example start with the character itself: Link, for example is called that way because he was supposed to be the link between present and past or something like this. Something I like to do when I need a cool name for a character is to take some of his characteristics and translate them in other languages and try to come up with something. Since he uses Delta powers, Delta being a Greek letter, let's try to see what some things give to us in Greek:
    blue -> ble
    hood -> koukoula
    knight -> ippotis
    god (i like to think he is a sort of god) -> theos
    hero -> iroas
I like the two last ones. Just Theos might be nice. Or might be something like Trios to mix Theos and Triangle/Delta. Iroas is nice as well but I can't think of anything. So I have:
    Theos
    Trios

You might have more ideas than me. Here were mine.
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Re: The Player's Name

Postby Zunar » August 10th, 2013, 9:36 am

Iroas sounds kinda cool, but I see two problems. One, it's really weird, since it's a Greek word. Two, the pronunciation isn't clear. It could be pronounced "ee-row-ee-as" or "ear-row-ee-us". I think you were going for the latter (or maybe some other kind of weird pronunciation), the former is probably my bit of Japanese knowledge kicking in.
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Re: The Player's Name

Postby ~MP3 Amplifier~ » August 10th, 2013, 10:09 am

You could mix in Delta with Iroas, so you could make it "Deltiros" or something.
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Re: The Player's Name

Postby -BY » August 10th, 2013, 10:35 am

It may be a better solution to search for short memorable names rather than longer ones. Or simply let him be the nameless hero for everyone.

tl;dr let's call him Bob.
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Re: The Player's Name

Postby Raz » August 10th, 2013, 10:35 am

"Raz"
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Re: The Player's Name

Postby ~MP3 Amplifier~ » August 10th, 2013, 10:42 am

Bob + Raz = Rob

That could work.
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Re: The Player's Name

Postby -BY » August 10th, 2013, 11:17 am

Stero. I'm not combining runouw's names. Nope.

Other than that. That's rocket science level stuff ampli. : P
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Re: The Player's Name

Postby ChaosYoshi » August 10th, 2013, 1:08 pm

Star king wrote:You might for example start with the character itself: Link, for example is called that way because he was supposed to be the link between present and past or something like this.

Miyamoto named Link the way he did to represent a "link" between him and the player.

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Re: The Player's Name

Postby Kimonio » August 11th, 2013, 8:58 pm

Since Delta is Greek and the gane is in a medieval setting, we should try and blend Latin, Celtic, Germanic, and Greek together.
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Re: The Player's Name

Postby *Emelia K. Fletcher » August 12th, 2013, 1:47 am

Perios sounds suitably faux-ancient

or we could name him John Smith


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