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Silver Crusade

So for my character names, I usually put some relevant words into google translate. Well, my latest creation is a dwarven storm druid. I was trying to do my usual translating magic, but dwarves scream Scottish to me, and google translate doesn't have any options for things like Gaelic or anything else that sounds Scottish.

So I come to you. Help me come up with a name for a dwarven storm druid.

draoidh dealanach
Silver Crusade

Does that mean something? It sounds cool.
Silver Crusade

Any more suggestions?

Aeiden malstrom
Silver Crusade

Unfortunately, I already have a character named Aiden (named after my son).

Conery

Try one of these

Why are dwarves Scottish?

I never understood this.

They should be Norse.
Silver Crusade

I always equated their accents with a Scotsman. And in Pathfinder, Ulfen humans are Norsemen.
Silver Crusade

Ok, so I used an online dwarf name generator. I think I like the first name Craigh, now I just need a last name. He is a storm druid, and has Profession (herbalist), so I'd like something to go along with one of those two character details.

Last names for dwarves usually are easy. If I learned anything from NWN2, it's that you can just hammer together two words that sound vaguely combat related, and it works for a clan name. (Same goes for orc tribes, goblins, etc.)

Kinda hard with a storm druid, methinks, on account of most dwarven tropes are related to stuff of stone or metal.

Aegis

Names I like:
Baliel beliard / pilgrim
Greco
Pious
Migel
Miel
Gardinel
Solaris
Dante
Arakis
Caratis
Aegis £ fang
Maligor
Melkor
Maligos
Argo / Argos
Womak
Rayden
Turk
Tiriel
Torin
Yunkai
Yellin
Urden
Pious
Portos
Hakar
Leckter
Xill
Brimar
Briar
Nok
Nur
Na-arel
Marios
Majar

Try this

http://www.namenerds.com/scottish/generator.html

Just a few random names from that link.

Cailean Mac a’ Ghobhainn = Colin MacGowan
Ràghnall Mac Fhearghuis = Ronald Ferguson
Fionnghal Mac Eòghainn = Fingal McEwan
Màrtainn Mac Aonghais = Martin MacInnes

Etc.

Aimsir Gearr
Draoi Tuile
Díle Beacht

Also, am I the only one whose dwarves speak with a Mexican accent and wear sombreros?
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Big McLargehuge
Grand Lodge

Big McHammer

Advection
Aerovane
Altocumulus
Altostratus
Anabatic
Bluster
Cirrus
Derechoe
Gust
Gustinado
Harmattan
Squall
Stratus
Wiresonde

ok, i want some advice on a name as well...
a dark knight cavalier shadow dancer who is a fallen angel (aasimar).
character is ready - no name...
Silver Crusade

666, human heritage aasimar? If so, where in Golarion are his parents from?
Bigdaddyjug wrote:
666, human heritage aasimar? If so, where in Golarion are his parents from?

not really, he WAS an angel that fell from the heavently court and now fell from grace.

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Supergirl
666bender wrote:
Bigdaddyjug wrote:
666, human heritage aasimar? If so, where in Golarion are his parents from?

not really, he WAS an angel that fell from the heavently court and now fell from grace.

Why did he fall? That would help with the thematic naming.

Silver Crusade
666bender wrote:
Bigdaddyjug wrote:
666, human heritage aasimar? If so, where in Golarion are his parents from?

not really, he WAS an angel that fell from the heavently court and now fell from grace.

I would go with something vaguely elvish sounding. A lot of the archangels have names that sound like that: Uriel, Gabriel, Raphael, Sealtiel, Jegudiel, Barachiel.

What was your guy an angel of?

Here is a website with a list of fallen angel names.
Dark Archive
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L. Johannes Milton

The L stands for Lucy. He never liked his first name.
BigNorseWolf wrote:
666bender wrote:
Bigdaddyjug wrote:
666, human heritage aasimar? If so, where in Golarion are his parents from?

not really, he WAS an angel that fell from the heavently court and now fell from grace.

Why did he fall? That would help with the thematic naming.

he thought that evil needed to be faught with actions, and the greater good is more important than a single soul - destroying a village to stop a gate to hell that was about to bring a arch demon to golorian.

he was found unjust - and than he cursed the god almighty - and was trown from heaven.

Eric Withakay

Birthnames: Korgard, Durgard, Bogro, or Gridwall

Surnames: Frostweaver, Stormhammer, Blasthammer, Stormhand, or Thundershield

As for the fallen angel:

Izura'el (i-ZUR-a-el)
Azurayl (A-zu-RAIL)
Aerundil (AIR-oon-dil)
Gazgoden (GAZ-go-den)
Ae'udin (a-U-din)
Ba'althemon (ba-AL-theh-mon)
666bender wrote:


he thought that evil needed to be faught with actions, and the greater good is more important than a single soul - destroying a village to stop a gate to hell that was about to bring a arch demon to golorian.
he was found unjust - and than he cursed the god almighty - and was trown from heaven.

Ragathiel :)

Baothghalach (irish for foolish pride)
Mythic Evil Lincoln wrote:

Why are dwarves Scottish?

I never understood this.

They should be Norse.

In Pathfinder, they're more or less Norse. In older systems, they're equated to Scotsmen.

Although, only the dwarves of the north would have Nordic accents. I would suspect the Ouat dwarves of Osirion to have much different accents.
Bigdaddyjug wrote:
Does that mean something? It sounds cool.

it means druid lightning is some gaelic converter I found online

Silver Crusade
666bender wrote:
BigNorseWolf wrote:
666bender wrote:
Bigdaddyjug wrote:
666, human heritage aasimar? If so, where in Golarion are his parents from?

not really, he WAS an angel that fell from the heavently court and now fell from grace.

Why did he fall? That would help with the thematic naming.

he thought that evil needed to be faught with actions, and the greater good is more important than a single soul - destroying a village to stop a gate to hell that was about to bring a arch demon to golorian.

he was found unjust - and than he cursed the god almighty - and was trown from heaven.

If I may make a suggestion, he wasn't an angel because there are no angels in Golarion. Instead he was a minor empyreal lord and the village he wiped out contained every single person on Golarion who worshipped him and the only known temple dedicated to him.

Since there is no longer anybody to believe in him, he is no longer a god and is now just a former denizen of one of the good-aligned outer planes.

Now he is on a mission to redeem himself for his poor judgement. If this is for a home game it plants an awesome plot hook for the GM to reveal that there is some far-flung former resident of that village who moved away but kept his beliefs and ended up spreading them to his new home.

The character's name is Breithiunas Bocht, which is Gaelic for poor judgement.
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