Your characters name and the reason behind it? [If any]

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Dewclaw
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Gabbey (blood elf hunter)-I named him after my cat. :o
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Mhu = my tauren hunter. Obvious really and not very imaginitive, I know ;) I thought it was funny that someone above me uses the name Khau. They match so well :)

Wain = my shammy main. This one is REALLY not imaginitive (since my real name is Wayne), but it has a looong history behind it. My first online "game" was way back in 92, well before MMOs. It was a text-based social MOO called "JaysHouse". Most people who logged in just did so to chat and they usually used their real names. Wayne was taken, so I tried Wain. From there I proceeded to LambdaMOO, and then on to MUDs and then on to coding for MUDs, and I just kept the name with me. By the time I stopped mudding, in the 2000s and started WoW, I had used it so long I never considered anything else.
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Unread post by GormanGhaste »

Dewclaw wrote:Gabbey (blood elf hunter)-I named him after my cat. :o
My nelf hunter, Mingyao, is named after one of our cats as well. She started out as an 'away' character I created when I was having health problems, and ended up becoming my main.
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My main, Moey, has a name that is inspired by a Japanese name: Moe (Mo-Eh), meaning flower bud or new shoot. I just westernized it a bit.

My other high leveled character, Aeroiel, was originally a paladin In game but I re-rolled as a Death Knight after...well, it's a long story. His name originally comes from the Latin word Aero, meaning wind, and, -iel, a Tolkien elf feminine suffix.
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Unread post by Samskeyti »

Samskeyti is a song title from my favorite band, Sigur Ros.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTDzh9hi6h0

And my huntress' name Kassiopeia is named after the tortoise in the book 'Momo' by Michael Ende, who wrote the 'Neverending Story'.

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The other huntress Riyusei is named after a legendary dragon in the card game Magic-The Gathering, Ryusei the falling star. It reminds me of my best friend and when we played together in the evenings at uni.

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And so is Ajani, my tauren druid.

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