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[Korvmannen]

My first DA:O character I played with was my rogue Sigrun, a dwarf female. But now I play with this other rogue named Sigrun, who also happends to be a dwarf female in Awakening.

Let me explain why I chose it.
Sigrun is a Valkyria in norse mythology, whether her name translate to "victory rune" or something similar. Sig=Victory, Run=Rune (or secret, secrecy). So in all, I thought of it as a suiting name to name my dwarf as I already have one dwarf female in World of Warcraft named Sigrun.

But the question remains, should I be point out flattered or act like it's name theft?
Proof: Last updated 2009-12-10 21:05:55 (although I only turned off send stuff to game server at that point)


And oh, is there any way to rename any of your party members or your own character? It got a bit distracting with two Sigrun when I loaded my rogue into Awakening.

[Lord Thing]

Hehe, I've had a similar incident. In my mod Dalish Pride one of the npc's names is Velena, and in awakening there's a character named Velanna.

I musn't be as crap at naming characters as I thought I was

[Twitchmonkey]

Devs have my permission to add a Twitchmonkey to the next expansion, preferably as a handsome prince or a dragon. Or a handsome prince dragon or even a drunken gnome that sings obscenities.

[Darth-Mandalore]

Somehow I think it is more coincidence that Bioware decided to create a female rouge dwarf that has the same name as your female rouge dwarf.

Sure it could be considered name but theft but then they wouldnt have stolen the name from you and diddnt you and half the people on these forums steal a name from another source? It is quite logical that Bioware (and many other players for that matter) would name a female dwarf Sigrun regardless of what you called yours, as you said you yourself took the name Sigrun from Norse mythology which is likely what Bioware did as well, I know that I myself when naming a dwarf look to Norse mythology for a suitable name as well.

If you look at dwarven culture you will see that a lot of it is borrowed from Norse mythology, even the dwarves themself are borrowed from Norse mythology so it is quite reasonable that many dwarves will have Nordic names.

Modifié par Darth-Mandalore, 20 mars 2010 - 06:38 .

[Dark Lilith]

Korvmannen wrote...

My first DA:O character I played with was my rogue Sigrun, a dwarf female. But now I play with this other rogue named Sigrun, who also happends to be a dwarf female in Awakening.

Let me explain why I chose it.
Sigrun is a Valkyria in norse mythology, whether her name translate to "victory rune" or something similar. Sig=Victory, Run=Rune (or secret, secrecy). So in all, I thought of it as a suiting name to name my dwarf as I already have one dwarf female in World of Warcraft named Sigrun.

But the question remains, should I be point out flattered or act like it's name theft?
Proof: Last updated 2009-12-10 21:05:55 (although I only turned off send stuff to game server at that point)


And oh, is there any way to rename any of your party members or your own character? It got a bit distracting with two Sigrun when I loaded my rogue into Awakening.

there is no protection for names, sorry!

[Captain Crash]

ouch, I can imagine your frustration with that actually. But at least you know you chose a name which fitted the world I guess. My character I named Aurelia and there have been a couple of npc names close too it but its still unique. So I know it fits but is still individual to my character!

[rayvioletta]

my very first Dragon Age: Origins character was a female mage named Lilly... poor Jowan must've been so confused

[Seagloom]

That's the problem with names taken from mythology or translated from items such as runes. There is always a chance someone else had the same idea and used it first. This happened to me as a child once or twice too, much to my chagrin. All I can say is, think of it this way: your Sigrun is much stronger and cooler than the BioWare NPC acting as her sidekick.

[Korvmannen]

Lord Thing wrote...



Hehe, I've had a similar incident. In
my mod Dalish Pride
one of the npc's names is Velena, and in awakening there's a character
named Velanna.

I musn't be as crap at naming characters as I thought I
was [smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/tongue.png[/smilie]

That's
cool. I felt it too accually, that it wasn't only me who recognized
Sigrun as a good name to a female dwarf.

Darth-Mandalore wrote...

Somehow I think it is more
coincidence that Bioware decided to create a female rouge dwarf that has
the same name as your female rouge dwarf.

Sure it could be
considered name but theft but then they wouldnt have stolen the name
from you and diddnt you and half the people on these forums steal a name
from another source? It is quite logical that Bioware (and many other
players for that matter) would name a female dwarf Sigrun regardless of
what you called yours, as you said you yourself took the name Sigrun
from Norse mythology which is likely what Bioware did as well, I know
that I myself when naming a dwarf look to Norse mythology for a suitable
name as well.

If you look at dwarven culture you will see that a
lot of it is borrowed from Norse mythology, even the dwarves themself
are borrowed from Norse mythology so it is quite reasonable that many
dwarves will have Nordic names.

Yes, but it seems as I
was the first to create a Sigrun for Dragon Age! (On
a more frank note you seem to take me a bit too seriously.)

Seagloom wrote...

That's the problem with names taken from mythology or translated from items such as runes. There is always a chance someone else had the same idea and used it first. This happened to me as a child once or twice too, much to my chagrin. All I can say is, think of it this way: your Sigrun is much stronger and cooler than the BioWare NPC acting as her sidekick.

I like the way you think. And yes, she is much stronger. And I'll have Oghren and Sigrun executed for beeing an annoyance to the real Sigrun.