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Diomedes33Diomedes33 Member Posts: 144
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Writing a drama about an Alexander the Great kind of story. Need a strong first and last name. (Not Alexander) Help!!

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  • NonnahswriterNonnahswriter Member Posts: 2,520
    Here's some of my favorite name generators to get you started. ;)

    http://www.seventhsanctum.com/index-name.php

    http://www.behindthename.com/

    http://fantasynamegenerators.com/
  • killerrabbitkillerrabbit Member Posts: 402
    http://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/ancient-greek
  • dracostrikedracostrike Member Posts: 151
    It's not much you gave us to go on but here's a few of my favourites:
    Grimgar,
    Rhodus,
    Draco,
    Bask.
  • Diomedes33Diomedes33 Member Posts: 144
    @dracostrike

    These the notes I have on him.

    Alexander Guy - – POV Character

    Physical

    - Dark, long hair
    - Dark eyes
    - Muscular but not huge
    - Dark (olive) skinned
    - Clean Shaven
    - Young (17-19)
    - Warrior
    - Ambidextrous


    Sociological

    - Humble
    - Lowborn
    - Uneducated
    - Teaches himself to read and do math
    - Lonely/Loner
    - Dead Father – killed in the war is the driving force for him to rise up
    - Teaches himself all forms of weaponry and combat simply from watching others and mimicking.
    - David & Goliath thing- catalyst that turns him into a protagonist
    - Compassionate
    - Bold
    - Has a token of his father (sword, some sort of weapon)
    - No mother?***

    Psychological

    - Smart, highly intelligent
    - Jaded at the onset of the story “pole to pole”
    - Recently killed father causes his anger and hatred of Pretoria – maybe he finds out later that his anger is unwarranted and that he was either mislead or lied to?***
    - Finds out early on that his father is dead, this sets off his change from jaded to compassionate
    - Intimidated by women (shy)- direct contrast to his other traits


  • deltagodeltago Member Posts: 7,811
    Time and region of the story helps with naming a character as well.
  • Diomedes33Diomedes33 Member Posts: 144
    @deltago

    It's fantasy medieval.
  • KamigoroshiKamigoroshi Member Posts: 5,870
    Rednaxela

    Alexredna

    Rednaalex

    Naxelared

    Axe the Red
  • deltagodeltago Member Posts: 7,811
    Strong names are consider to be 2-3 syllables for the first name and one syllable for the last.
    You want the last syllable to finish abruptly.You want F, T, K, L, D, W, H, hard vowels, Z(ed).
    Think Tony Stark.

    Since there is no time line, you can be creative as you want.

    Karim Lewd
    Tyfus Kade
    Sarol Jern

    You just have to play with sounds until you find something that is unique and you like.
  • GozetaGozeta Member Posts: 105
    What about this? It's a very strong protagonist name: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
  • Diomedes33Diomedes33 Member Posts: 144
    @Gozeta Altair sounds cool, in fact, one of the names I thought of was Alistair. But the rest of the name is Arabic sounding and the place hes from is a poor farming village and has more English and Scandinavian sounding names. The Arabic sounding names in this world are on the other continent. I feel like he should have a short first name like @deltago said, but maybe a 2 word last name. Dont know but this is driving me crazy the last 2 weeks. I'm ready to start writing his POV and cant without a damn name!
  • SkatanSkatan Member, Moderator Posts: 5,352
    Names that are "animal" in nature can also help to signal strenght, power or other traits. Think: "John Wolfe" if english and more 'civilian' or you can use actual animal names like "Bjorn", "Ulf", "Varg" if more scandinavian.

    Another option is names like old soldier names; Jaeger, Strong, Shield, etc.. very common names in scandinavia, but alot later than medieval times though (~16-17:th century). Can be doublenames as well, like Stronghand, Ironshield etc etc. Very common in RPG's, so might not be what you're looking for at all.

    A third option is to look at old kings and leaders, like Alexander, and be inspired. Both roman, germanic, gaulic and scandi leaders could be a source for inspiration.
  • OlvynChuruOlvynChuru Member Posts: 3,079
    edited May 2016
    How about Hgdsjgllsgueti Ahdfkbdks? Sounds like a good name to me.
  • Diogenes42Diogenes42 Member Posts: 597
    Æthelstan
  • abacusabacus Member Posts: 1,307
    Carthius is my go-to male hero name
  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511
    Bob.
  • MoradinMoradin Member Posts: 372
    Becky.
  • BillyYankBillyYank Member Posts: 2,768
    Charname, son of Fathername, of clan Clanname from the Plains of Steppes.
  • ArtonaArtona Member Posts: 1,077
    C'mon, you really want *your* character to be named by some people on the Internet? If you don't want to go symbolic (and I assume you don't since you're asking us name your character) you can use webiste like http://www.20000-names.com/.
    Good luck.
  • mf2112mf2112 Member, Moderator Posts: 1,919
    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
  • AchterkladAchterklad Member Posts: 114
    Meat Popsicle? :p

    This website might help you with finding a good name for your character: http://www.20000-names.com/
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