Sunday, October 17, 2010

Entry 9: Names and Voice Actors

Currently, I'm trying to decide on names for my main character, his wife, and the rest of the NPCs.  I'm also trying to find voice actors.  NWN has sort of an old English culture, or more broad... old European? Either way, I'm trying to find appropriate names for the world setting; I'm using this site and this site. The girl that I'm hoping to have voice act the wife is African American, so I'm going to have to account for the fact that her voice is a bit lower and has a raspier quality than the typical white female.  I will probably end up making the wife's character be of a darker ethnicity so the voice matches.  Here are the name choices so far:

Main Character:
Aidan (little fire in Gaelic)
Braedan (broad/wide in English, salmon/son of salmon in Gaelic...wtf?)
Caelan (slender in Gaelic)
Declan (full of goodness in Gaelic)
Hadyn (heathen in German, not sure this meaning is appropriate for his character)
Eben  (stone of help/foundation stone in Hebrew)

Wife:
Nulani (can't find the meaning, was the name of my friend in 5th grade)
Maya (means illusion in Sanskrit)
Amala (means pure in Sanskrit, which I particularly like because of her infidelity)

Medic Mage:
Achan (to besmirch/change in a negative manner in Aramaic, could be a last name)
Shamir (a sharp thorn in Aramaic)
Yanai ( he will answer in Aramaic)
Besian (loyal, faithful in Albanian, this and the next would just be ironic)
Besnik (loyal, faithful in Albanian)
Liridon (longing for freedom in Albanian)
Valon (seething in Albanian, I really like this one)

Friend (of wife):
Richard (I know it's so normal but I keep coming back to it)
Kireg (benevolence in Breton)
Maden (good in Breton)
Winoc (meaning unknown, Breton)

Those are the most important characters.  There are also 3 other NPCs, 2 males and 1 female.  One of them I know for sure is a butcher, so he will probably be named "Insert Name" the Butcher.  Creative, yeah?  As far as voice actors, my brother, who has a Masters in Performing Arts, will be voice acting the main character, and I've been trying to scrounge up other voice actors from the Performing Arts major at SCAD.  We'll see how it turns out...

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