Name My Character!


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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
Say what say what say what? What's wrong with Jalia Dragonfire? I love that name! Even if you could draw some argument as to why it's not good, is it any worse than Jaina Proudmoore? That one seems to be quite popular in a world of similarly styled names. Or, heck, is it any worse than Jada Fire?
Well it works like this. Jalia McMarrin was my barbarian shaman in EQ, one of my very first online characters. Jalia was a character in Dark Age of Camelot. Jalia Oz is one of my Second Life alts. Jalia Jamb was a character in Toontown (simultaneously referencing my shaman and the maid character Jellia Jamb from the Oz books).

Jalia was my tank on Pinnacle, my first level 50. When I moved her from Pinnacle a couple of years ago, I had to change her name. Since she was a fire tank, I added "Dragonfire" to the name... but I was never fond of it. I do this sort of thing far too often, I have a Shinobu Dragonfire, a Shinobu Dragonheart, Shinobu Valentine, Sailor Shinobu, etc. etc. They're not bad names per se, but they don't evoke any particular type of superhero to me, and it's not being very creative.

Actually I could have changed the name back to Jalia on Freedom, except that when I discovered the name was free a month ago I created a scrapper named Jalia who is now level 44. ^_^

(I've also recreated my barbarian shaman Jalia McMarrin as a tall blonde defender with green valkyrie armor, which looks fairly close to the EQ shaman epic armor).



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Originally Posted by Organica View Post
They're not bad names per se, but they don't evoke any particular type of superhero to me, and it's not being very creative.
I see. Well, for what it's worth, I like the name a lot, but they are your characters so it's obviously your call.

I should probably try to think of a few more names, and probably check up the one I suggested on Virtue a few more times just to see if someone is spying on me


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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.