Tiefling Names and Last names

[Oni Shogun]

What are some decent names and last names for tieflings? I suppose the last name would really depend on the culture or other half of the Tiefling? Mine is half human and came from Cheliax originally. So what's a decent last name?

[Deadmanwalking]

Standard Chelaxian names all the way.

Tieflings don't really have their own culture or naming conventions as such. They're all born into other cultures after all.

[Snorter]

Many would be foundlings, whose parentage is in doubt.

So they may take on a name of whichever person takes them in, whether that be an official adoptive parent, orphanage owner, a military commander, a gang boss.

Curse of the Crimson Throne begins with an assumption that all the PCs have a former connection to Gaedren Lamm.
No doubt there's been a disproportinate number of tiefling children among his 'little lambs'. And if the PCs keep coming up against tieflings (or others) with the Lamm name, throughout this campaign, or other campaigns (official or homebrew) it could only add to their players' paranoia.

[Oni Shogun]

So what are the Chelaxian names?
And I take some of the 4th ed naming conventions for Tiefling, where they sometimes have names of a concept like "Carrion" "Morose" "Scoundrel". I made a Tiefling Paladin in 4th ed called "Penitent". I thought that was a damn cool name for such a race class combo.

[bulbaquil]

Note that occasionally (per Blood of Fiends) a tiefling's heritage isn't manifested at birth but in adolescence. If this is the case for your tiefling, he/she almost certainly has an ordinary Chelaxian human name. Even if he/she's a foundling whose heritage manifested at birth, if they're from Cheliax odds are it was a Chelaxian who took them in.

Several Chelaxians appear to have vaguely Greco-Roman- and/or Italian-sounding names (Titus Scarnetti from Runelords, for example), though perhaps with a greater likelihood of an "x" somewhere in there, and this is certainly not restrictive (there are several counterexamples).

[Snorter]

Scott Henry wrote:

So what are the Chelaxian names?

And I take some of the 4th ed naming conventions for Tiefling, where they sometimes have names of a concept like "Carrion" "Morose" "Scoundrel". I made a Tiefling Paladin in 4th ed called "Penitent". I thought that was a damn cool name for such a race class combo.

Yes, some of them will make up a name for themself, either a nickname referencing their appearance (for those who want to be loud and proud and in people's face), a philosophical quality (many real world names follow this, such as Grace, Chastity, Purity, etc), or whatever sounds cool.

Wayfinder 11 includes a tiefling of the latter camp, taking an astronomical body for his stage name.

[WitchyTangles]

Latin makes for interesting character names to me. Though the campaign (CoT) that I played in a few years ago used the kind of Italio-English name style. I played a swashbuckling bard named Indigo Armati. But Cheliax has an almost fantasy Latin sound to it. Lexilogos has some good Latin dictionaries.

Concept words are good too. I want to play a Tiefling sorcerer/ess, with some fire based bloodline named Crucible. Concept or quality words can really define a character.

[Federico Castrovel]

Snorter wrote:

Wayfinder 11 includes a tiefling of the latter camp, taking an astronomical body for his stage name.

"Well, Hellooo there, my darlings. My ears were burning, and that takes some doing, for one such as myself."

[grimdog73]

I named a teifling rogue I am playing in a pbp Rallos, it just sounded like a rogue-ish name. As for last names, i think that is open to interpretation. Maybe some influence from the human parent's/guardian's society/culture would be the best bet.

[Scoundrel the Tiefling]

I went with Voren Sarazan for his real name. "Scoundrel" is his nick name as he is a Rogue with a neer do well bent to him. Plus a nod to Han Solo with Leia calling him a "Scoundrel".