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[Cee]

Same here. For mine it's...

 

Shanoa Surana

Tatiana Amell

Belladonna Hawke (canon Hawke)

Reina Hawke (one of my alts)

Tala Lavellan

 

The only ones whose names didn't end with an "A" is my canon Warden (Arnwen Mahariel) and my Shepard (Denisse Shepard) who uses my IRL name.

 

I've used my real name for a character most notably once. And it was both weird and also comfortable. Not something I think I'll do again unless it's some old JRPG which are good at using names like that.

[Cee]

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This was kind of before I had my whole Solas in blue = damn  epiphany as well.

[Heidirs]

All of my first playthroughs were with characters whose names started with A.

 

Amelie Cousland, Amata Hawke, Aoife Lavellan

 

My canon characters are Sorcha Tabris, Rowan Hawke, and Danan Lavellan though so… I seem to have tossed that trend to the winds in recent times.

 

It's headcannon for me that Hawke's parents decided to name their children going through the letters of the alphabet in order, which means:

 

(1) Hawke's name must always start with an A.

 

(2) Bethany's the oldest twin.

[Heidirs]

This was kind of before I had my whole Solas in blue = damn  epiphany as well.

 

Sera does rock blue armor too.

 

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[Sable Rhapsody]

This was kind of before I had my whole Solas in blue = damn  epiphany as well.

 

I always feel a bit bad putting him in the Warden armor considering his whole beef with them, but he's just so gorgeous in it.  Though so is Dorian.  And Dorian doesn't throw around b*tchy little sighs at my decisions left and right 

[Catfishers]

It's headcannon for me that Hawke's parents decided to name their children going through the letters of the alphabet in order, which means:

 

(1) Hawke's name must always start with an A.

 

(2) Bethany's the oldest twin.

 

This is hilarious and excellent.

[CapricornSun]

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Not gonna lie, my Tala would've probably made a special request for him to make love to her in that armor, much to his dismay.

....What? I can't help it if he looks so damn sexy in it. xD

 

*throws self in the trash*

[Heidirs]

This is hilarious and excellent.

 

Hence why it is my personal indisputable headcannon. 

[lynroy]

 

A lot of lady names end in an A. Mine does. 

 

My habit is I tend to start my character names with A. My Cousland is a good example of both though. Her name is Amaya.

 

 

 

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Source (Side note, I gave that to Dorian since I had Solas in something better/crafted).

  Love it!

 

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I know he wouldn't like it, but I craft him Grey Warden armor because he looks fiiiiiine in it as pictured^.

[Illyria]

It's headcannon for me that Hawke's parents decided to name their children going through the letters of the alphabet in order, which means:

 

(1) Hawke's name must always start with an A.

 

(2) Bethany's the oldest twin.

 

I think it's confirmed that Carver is the older twin.

[Heidirs]

I think it's confirmed that Carver is the older twin.

 

Nope. Nope. Doesn't exist. 

 

[Mims]

I have a weird thing with names too. But instead of ending with A, almost all of my characters only have names with four letters or under. I guess I am always hyper conscious of pronunciations, so I go with easier names. 

[Maria13]

A lot of lady names end in an A. Mine does.

 

My habit is I tend to start my character names with A. My Cousland is a good example of both though. Her name is Amaya.

 

 

 

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Source (Side note, I gave that to Dorian since I had Solas in something better/crafted).

 

Could it possibly be because the final a denotes the feminine in most Romance languages???

 

Therefore not a coincidence...

[BoscoBread]

I agree completely about the art. They are beautiful. I would cry. 

 

I just know my Lavellan is crazy, and probably thinks she is as capable as Solas is. She'd paint that last panel, so it would be 90% beautiful artwork, and then one panel where it looks like a five year old did it. Centuries later, people will attribute the paintings to the herald of andraste, and say some 'unknown elven servant' painted the last one. 

 

Just as the maker intended. 

You're a good artist Mims, so I would imbue your Lavellan with your talent. I think mine would end up looking like Moondrummer did it - hidden Oghren included.  Or I would just commission Moondrummer and my Lavellan would cry at its beauty over the completed dragon foot with sword(I mean, WTF is the last panel).

 

@Illyria - Samson

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I like Cal. but she is awesome for different reasons.  Mostly bad-ass freedom fighter. So you're more...heartened by her cause where Samson is just tragic.  I also think people write him off because A. he's set up as a bad guy so people are automatically booing him b. he's ugly and old(40's...so not that old) and I've unfortunately seen where - because of this - he's not really worthy of your concern/consideration.  which is quite sad.  I think it's interesting that cullen tries so hard to reject the similarities between the two of them. i think he knows deep down that it was luck that landed him in the Inquisition.  he know has friends and a support system outside of the chantry/order which samson never had and still doesn't.  i hope they don't just write him off in some codex.  the lovely thing about him, jo berry(samons' writer), seems to love his character. she's one of the few writers that actually talks on the forum. she'll pop up and show her fan-art of him and like other people's discussions of his character and their fanwork.  i think that says a lot and i think is kind of the nicest thing ever when writers show their love of their characters.  hopefully she's able to write a nice ending for him.

[Elira]

I'm not sure if there's really a pattern to my name choices. Basically, I roll with what I like and what fits the character's personality best to me. But I'm also exceedingly picky. My Wardens consist of Korinna Cousland (my current canon, although that may change. I'm torn between making my Alistair romance or a Morrigan romance canon. Hard life choices are hard), Daerwyn Mahariel, Castor Tabris, Drenim Surana, Thorian Aeducan, and one other possible undetermined Warden. I have only three Hawkes - Marian "Mary" Hawke (my canon), Theresa "Resa" Hawke, and Garrett Hawke. My Inquisitors are Elira Lavellan (canon, romancing Solas, making this on topic), Darcryn Lavellan, Clysette Lavellan, Elodie Trevelyan, a planned but unnamed Adaar and Cadash, and Gilgamesh Trevelyan. 

 

Er... I may have a lot of characters. I refuse to apologize for it, however. I love them too much. 

[Uirebhiril]

 

@Illyria - Samson

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I like Cal. but she is awesome for different reasons.  Mostly bad-ass freedom fighter. So you're more...heartened by her cause where Samson is just tragic.  I also think people write him off because A. he's set up as a bad guy so people are automatically booing him b. he's ugly and old(40's...so not that old) and I've unfortunately seen where - because of this - he's not really worthy of your concern/consideration.  which is quite sad.  I think it's interesting that cullen tries so hard to reject the similarities between the two of them. i think he knows deep down that it was luck that landed him in the Inquisition.  he know has friends and a support system outside of the chantry/order which samson never had and still doesn't. 

 

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That's something that sort of put me off Cullen. For all he's been through he did have the luckier hand in things and ended up in a situation where he can count his blessings and say a prayer of thanks for it. Samson didn't have that, and as much as there are similarities Cullen just seems to refuse considering it. Maybe it makes it easier for him, I don't know... but to me it suggests less personal growth and understanding than Cullen would like to believe he has had. It's an interesting thing to ponder.

 

Which is to say that yep, I felt for Samson too. If only one thing or another had been different for him in the past, you know?

[CapricornSun]

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All this talk of Samson is making me want to add him to my (long) to-do list of things I want to draw. I just wish I could draw faster. I'm a really slow artist.   

[BoscoBread]

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That's something that sort of put me off Cullen. For all he's been through he did have the luckier hand in things and ended up in a situation where he can count his blessings and say a prayer of thanks for it. Samson didn't have that, and as much as there are similarities Cullen just seems to refuse considering it. Maybe it makes it easier for him, I don't know... but to me it suggests less personal growth and understanding than Cullen would like to believe he has had. It's an interesting thing to ponder.

 

Which is to say that yep, I felt for Samson too. If only one thing or another had been different for him in the past, you know?

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You've pretty much touched on the reasons I really dislike Cullen's character(among other things about him).  I was quite put off by the way he reacted in that quest.  I don't think that's Cullen's "fault", Gaider came out really hard against putting him back in and then it seems they were sort of strong-armed into doing so, so there could be this 'golden boy' character.  In the end, his writing suffered because of it though.   But yeah.  I'm not trying to pit Cullen vs. Samson - mostly because Samson seems to really like and respect Cullen - but Cullen needs to realize he's not there for skill.  He's there because Cassandra's own weakness of being swept up by romantic/heroic tales made him out to be more than he is.  He was very lucky.   

 

Samson's tale is just pain all the way around - you have him. Then you have Maddox and despite being told for years that Tranquil have no sense of self,  Maddox destroys the base and kills himself out of loyalty. He disobeyed a direct order from Samson who told Maddox to run.  He protected Samson.  Which I think is supposed to paint a pretty harsh light on how the chantry, the order at large, mage circle at large treated the tranquil as objects and not people. They(tranquil) clearly - in some ways - still feel as they used to.  Kind of tearing up a bit.   Good talk all.  I'll steer this back on topic.

 

Also Solas is cool - Anyone see this from deedee - SOURCE

[Cee]

Could it possibly be because the final a denotes the feminine in most Romance languages???

 

Therefore not a coincidence...

 

Of course, that's sort of what I was getting at. My family is full of Spanish and Italian names that end in As, including mine.

 

Naming, to me, is often a careful process that involves my concept for a character as well as background and name meanings. I can sometimes really take a while to come up with something.

 

My canon Lavellan was kind of not done like that though. I borrowed and added to a name I used for another game. But I think it fits her better than the original incarnation.

[Catfishers]

Naming, to me, is often a careful process that involves my concept for a character as well as background and name meanings. I can sometimes really take a while to come up with something.

 

Sometimes it takes me longer to pick a name than it does to create my character. I have a huge spreadsheet of names with columns for meaning, region of origin, alternate spellings, and so on and so forth. And I'm never happy until I get one that's just right.

 

The spreadsheet isn't really for games (just for regular writing), but it does come in handy when I need to name RPG characters too.

[Giton]

My characters are named after:

 

My cats

80's rock stars

Anglo Saxons

[Cee]

Sometimes it takes me longer to pick a name than it does to create my character. I have a huge spreadsheet of names with columns for meaning, region of origin, alternate spellings, and so on and so forth. And I'm never happy until I get one that's just right.

 

The spreadsheet isn't really for games (just for regular writing), but it does come in handy when I need to name RPG characters too.

 

I have something like this too, but I begun with concept and then have all the rest. There are names I'd like to use, still.

 

But it also explains why I spent much of the past two days trying to figure out an appropriate name just for  my Lavellan's first love from many years ago for a little Solavellan fic I've been working on. I got one, but that is the story I'm scrapping most of and reworking (and it's a 'setback' that's really a breakthrough).

 

Though I have decided if I do make a Trevelyan she will be a mage named Claire. No real reason why, just a feeling and it seems appropriate.

 

Now I am hellspiraling with ancient sad love songs.

[Kestrel]

Surprisingly, none of my character names end with the feminine 'a'. Maybe it's because my own name doesn't, so I've never been particularly drawn to them? 

 

I have a lot of animal based names. And by a lot I mean a vast majority of them are. If it's not a direct name, then it's a variant of the Latin/scientific name, or a variant of the animal's name in whatever place they're native to. 

[Heidirs]

I ended up with:

 

Liara Tabris
Abigail Hawke
Inan Lavellan

 

"Liara" follows my usual "end in a" troupe, "Abigail" was the best A name I could think of, and "Inan" was something I specifically looked through the elven language and decided on. So... yeah, the last two were after careful consideration. The first one, I just kind of went with.

[Cee]

Surprisingly, none of my character names end with the feminine 'a'. Maybe it's because my own name doesn't, so I've never been particularly drawn to them? 

 

I have a lot of animal based names. And by a lot I mean a vast majority of them are. If it's not a direct name, then it's a variant of the Latin/scientific name, or a variant of the animal's name in whatever place they're native to. 

 

 

I think that's pretty cool. I've done something similar at times where a character is animal-like, like a Khajiit or has some strong natural connection to wildlife or animal customs or traditions.

 

Even though my name ends in an A, I've always been more of a starts with A type. Most of the women in my family had/have names that end in A except my grandmothers and one aunt (Luz, Elizabeth, Fran) so they don't really have a huge appeaI. I almost always delve into lore and languages and all sorts of resources before naming. Sometimes I use object names in Spanish.

 

I was bored and named a character Camellia Sinensis once (Solas certainly disapproves!). I love wordplay but only if it's not a serious character.

 

I also seem to like L a lot.