Naming Contest!

[Party_Penguin27]

My first roleplay character, Peter Stonetree was created about a year ago
Most of the lore incompliant things have been ironed out and changed.
However the big elephant in the room is the last name, which I have become more and more frustrated with.
So I am holding a contest to determine the new last name!
Each person can post as many names as they want, but please be serious.

Names should be mildly human, elvesh, or preferably a combination of the both.
They should also not be a super drastic change from the original name, just be actually lore compliant.


Winner gets 50 regals and a giant hug

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[MrHappyTinkles]

Mind mentioning the culture in which your character is from?

Culture aside, the website www.behindthename.com is wonderful for coming up with names. Here's my pitch:

-Peter is dimunitive of the word Petros (Which means stone in ancient Greek). However, the direct name Peter has connotations to the Christian bible, and takes its popularity from that text. This isn't exactly lore-friendly (For the same reasons why John, Thomas, and other biblical names are a 'meh' name for Aloria), so perhaps it is best to pick a name that sounds similar, but is diminutive enough to allude to an unfamiliar origin. Pedder, Piotr, Pytr, Pedr, Perig, Pierrick, and Piers are all good multi-cultural replacements taken from translations of the name into other languages.

-Many commoner names are taken from the occupation of their father or themselves. A good list of medieval occupations can be found here. Names such as Ackerman (meaning ox-herder), Woodward (someone who protects forests in the name of their liege), Fuller (someone who beats cloth to treat it), and many others find their origins in medieval occupations.
In addition, one could try translating Stonetree or other variations into other languages and sewing the words together to form something catchy. A German-sounding replacement would be Steinbaum while a French one would be Bois de Pierre. Welsh is Pren Cerrig which would go finely with the Welsh version of Peter which would be Pedr.

 

[Party_Penguin27]

Hmm...

I'm keeping Peter but some of these sound quite nice.

 

[Bounden]

*cough cough* May I suggest Stolee? Close enough to Stonetree, right?

 

[Party_Penguin27]

Boop

 

[Simcity_4]

Stanskey or maybe Stanley

 

[Togal]

Robert Johnson

 

[MiningToBedrock_]

Solieree? Sounds a bit French but, hey, it's an idea.