Help Me Name A Character

[Menoz]

Silk Rover is his alias.

[Amzin]

Originally Posted by HiroYagyu

my suggestion is Artemair the Hyena

I see what you did thar.

I wouldn't rush the naming thing. I've had a story/series idea in my head for years, got a lot of it + history flushed out, but I have no name for the world yet, although recently I've come up with a possibility. It may come to you as you write, as someone already suggested, and you don't need it finalized until the end really (although it does make it easier, I know).

[Faille]

Don't really have any suggestions, but my advice is not to get too held back on thinking of the name so that it stops you writing the story. I would even go so far as to substitute in a placeholder description like DarkMainGuy, just so you can keep writing, and hopefully in the process a name will spring up, and you'll just start thinking about the character by that name.

[Schatze]

Cole, if you go by your outlines.

My advice? Nix it. Names that bring up all sorts of associations are bad because they give away what you think about the character, and since the reader probably has those same associations, he's going to drag that bias with him the entire way; you've given away half the book with one word.

Either go for something that has personal associations that no one else would be privy to, or go for a name that isn't "strong" and filled with all sorts of meaning, but don't go with Jim John Mary either. Easiest way is to find a name from another culture most people who not be familiar with and use it because you like the sound of it. Something simple and unfamiliar but not overly exotic. Probably based upon the "culture" set of the world, if you want. There, you have a blank slate, and by your writing you make you make the dread assassin Kiki into the badass that he is.

Or go cliche and find somehing suitably nordic/slavik/german. Hrokmyr the boy whose destiny it was not to be a scribe.

[Hatorade]

Mars

[Simas]

Use a MMO's random name generator until you find one you like.

[DoctorSpooge]

Originally Posted by Darkko

I'm looking for a strong, semi dark name for him.

I'll allow you to use DoctorSpooge

[Wolfen]

Cassius Starbuckle.

[Dom Devore]

Spanky McKoy

[Believe]

Mustashfa

(Moo-Sta-Sh-fah)

Means hospital in Arabic :P

[Wolfen]

Devon Silk

[Kragg Goremaw]

Naif Na'il seems like a decent name for a Arabic thief, it means acquirer or earner.

[Tortfeasor]

Frankie Fizzlesticks

Because then you can have some villain yell: "The future is fucked for Frankie Fizzlesticks! I have finally found his friends, family, and his favorite fucking foxhound!"

[Turzem]

Whores McTitties?

[manslayer]

Pigfucker