North_Ranger
Staff member
In the spirit of asking naming advice from the forum populace, here's my current conundrum: I am currently in the middle of a World of Darkness campaign; we're playing Changeling: The Lost. To those unfamiliar with it, it's basically a game where the characters are changelings, people who have been captured by the capricious Fae (more Lovecraftian abominations with inhuman goals than cutesy-boop little butterfly-winged people), and have then managed to make it back to the real world. But their time among the Fae has left them changed, both physically and mentally, leaving them something not quite human.
A major part of the game is simply trying to survive in the real world once more, while at the same time using other people's emotions (anger, joy, lust, fear, shame etc.) as nourishment to keep the Fae side both sated and hidden, as well as to fuel each character's Fae powers. Because of this need to stay hidden, coupled with the fact that a person's own life is often overtaken by a Fae simulacrum called a fetch, many changelings adopt false personas, new identities that they show to the mortal world.
My character, Jonah Boon, is currently at a situation where he has the chance to get false identity papers (i.e. buy a New Identity merit). The thing is, I need to come up with a name for this false face as well. So I'm open to suggestions.
Some background on Jonah and the game:
- male, Caucasian, appears to be in his late 20s
- Darkling (a changeling with an affinity for darkness and shadows), Mirrorskin (a face-changer)
- Survived as a servant among his Fae Master, who enjoyed his servants vying for his favour. In other words, being in the master's good graces was literally a matter of life and death. Jonah managed to get far that way, becoming something of a trusted servant - but not without getting his hands bloodied in the process.
- The motley (the 'adventuring party') consists of Jonah, his brother and their two cousins who were kidnapped as children but also managed to escape together.
- Has no intentions of going back to his 'old life'; partly because as a face-changer his personality is somewhat fluid and malleable, and partly because of fear that the master might find him that much easier if he tried going back.
- Hedonist with a loyal streak towards his only remaining kin.
- The game's based in Chicago, January 2009.
- Names to be avoided: Gary (old first name), Anton (the name his Fae master gave him) or any variant thereof; Waters (old surname), religious or mythological names (considered taboo among the Changelings, as such names tend to draw the attention of the Fae).
Some names I've considered (mostly anagrams with slight twists):
Derek Shafton ('safe in the dark')
Matt Dyer ('maitre d'').
Warren Beck, Aron V. Beck, Aron Wybeck ('never back')
Morris Rink ('mirrorskin')
A major part of the game is simply trying to survive in the real world once more, while at the same time using other people's emotions (anger, joy, lust, fear, shame etc.) as nourishment to keep the Fae side both sated and hidden, as well as to fuel each character's Fae powers. Because of this need to stay hidden, coupled with the fact that a person's own life is often overtaken by a Fae simulacrum called a fetch, many changelings adopt false personas, new identities that they show to the mortal world.
My character, Jonah Boon, is currently at a situation where he has the chance to get false identity papers (i.e. buy a New Identity merit). The thing is, I need to come up with a name for this false face as well. So I'm open to suggestions.
Some background on Jonah and the game:
- male, Caucasian, appears to be in his late 20s
- Darkling (a changeling with an affinity for darkness and shadows), Mirrorskin (a face-changer)
- Survived as a servant among his Fae Master, who enjoyed his servants vying for his favour. In other words, being in the master's good graces was literally a matter of life and death. Jonah managed to get far that way, becoming something of a trusted servant - but not without getting his hands bloodied in the process.
- The motley (the 'adventuring party') consists of Jonah, his brother and their two cousins who were kidnapped as children but also managed to escape together.
- Has no intentions of going back to his 'old life'; partly because as a face-changer his personality is somewhat fluid and malleable, and partly because of fear that the master might find him that much easier if he tried going back.
- Hedonist with a loyal streak towards his only remaining kin.
- The game's based in Chicago, January 2009.
- Names to be avoided: Gary (old first name), Anton (the name his Fae master gave him) or any variant thereof; Waters (old surname), religious or mythological names (considered taboo among the Changelings, as such names tend to draw the attention of the Fae).
Some names I've considered (mostly anagrams with slight twists):
Derek Shafton ('safe in the dark')
Matt Dyer ('maitre d'').
Warren Beck, Aron V. Beck, Aron Wybeck ('never back')
Morris Rink ('mirrorskin')
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