My druid Edaia was created on my own, and is a cross between Eden and Gaia. I thought of those two because both are associated with a natural paradise, mother earth, foresty planty goodness, etc., and I knew I wanted to be a resto druid in the future. So, Edaia is actually pronounced "ee-die-uh", but people tend to say it either "ed-eye-uh" or "ee-day-uh". Blirgh.
For the rest of my characters' names, I take a basic theme of some sort and work with it for the most part. My brother has a mage named Celeste and I really liked how it sounded, so I named my mage Luneste and will make her a night elf (night elves worship Elune, "luna" means moon, and the -este just sounds pretty to me). Or I take an adjective that describes my character and translate it to a different language using an online translator. I have a priest named Lysende which if memory serves, is the Norwegian translation for "luminous". Priest = light = luminous (mine anyway, she's not a shadow priest). Very rarely is a name I come up with completely random. The one I can think of off the top of my head is my draenei paladin, Trystaan. I do know they seem to like using multiple vowels, so I threw in an extra "a" into "Trystan".
But the name itself has no real source or theme, I just like the name Trystan.
