Help with character name

[bishop083]

Hello folks,

I'm creating character for a kingmaker campaign. The character is a male human paladin from northern Brevoy. He has the traits Issian (ie: from northern brevoy) and Bully (which makes sense for the a character from northern brevoy, and creates a paladin that can defuse a situation quickly without resorting to violence). I've chosen the first name of Alexander because that name apparently sounds the same in pretty much all of the European languages, and I kind of like it. What I'm trying to figure out is the rest of his name, and possibly the names/occupations of his parents. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

My opinion is in the spoiler tag, as well as why I'm so open to suggestions.

Spoiler:

For my money, I'm considering using Russian "middle" name and family name. The thing is, I have no particular attachment to deriving the names of the Brevoy people from Russia. I will accept any reasonable suggestions. And possibly an unreasonable one if I like the alternative middle and/or last name suggestion.

So bring on the suggestions, folks!

[Steelfiredragon]

have you tried using the everchanging book of names if its still out.

it had a thing iirc for international names.

since unless one if from that side of the world, one might not know a russian name

yokay didnt see one for russian

but it had one for eastern europe

http://www.kolumbus.fi/sami.pyorre/download.html

[DoomCrow]

Alexander Vladislav (or Vasily) Medvyed.

[Set]

I usually use the Onamastikon for foreign names, and for Brevoy, I was partial to Slavic/Polish sounding names.

My criteria for a name;
1) I can pronounce it
2) It sounds at least somewhat 'cool' to my ear
3) It means something cool in the native language

Not every name I pick meets that last criteria.

Note that accuracy isn't on the list. If two Norse word-elements that sound awesome or thematic to me, like 'blood-eagle' or 'lightning-spear' sound acceptable to my ear, I don't care if no actual Viking would have ever strung those name-elements together, or would have put them together differently, or whatever, 'cause I'm not making a historically accurate Viking, I'm just making a name that sounds cool, and trying to avoid ever again stringing together name elements and ending up with a name that the first time I say it aloud at the game table, sounds very much like 'Syphilis, the Elf...'

For my Brevic Summoner, who believes himself to be a lost scion of vanished House Rorgavia, and has an Eidolon in the form of an immature red dragon, I picked Servayn Krolczyn (and then shortened it to Krolz), which, not even a little bit accurately, came out to 'burning serpent' and 'son of kings.'

When I'm in a hurry and don't want to come up with a name that also has a cool meaning, I go to the CIA World Factbook and pick the coolest sounding name from the various members of a relevant nation's current government.

This does have it's drawbacks. Now that people know who he is, I probably gonna have to rename my gnome illusionist, Hosni Mubarak. :)