galaxyprincx

[oneiroy]

Roevember #1: Name

Ryssrael Waenwyn - [Giant][Doe] [Wind][Daughter]

To the ears of other Roegadyns, "Waenwyn" would sound slightly wrong. It is missing something. After all, "Waen" is too short to be a father's name. Is it a shortened name, a fake name, an orphan's name perhaps? It is not the only name she used to hand out if asked, but it is the one that stuck. She quite likes it - fitting for an adventurer, if you asked her.

[verysmallcyborg]

Roevember Day 1 - Name

Fornax Val'ethtue - or Fyrstyrn (Fire Star) Dotharl, if following the naming conventions of Roegadyn and Au Ra. “Fornax” is Latin for “furnace,” and is also a constellation. One might believe that they are a Hellsguard, but they’re a Sea Wolf! Curious. (I definitely did not originally look at Roe names when I first made her. shhh) The embodiment of an immovable object that harnesses and is driven by their strong emotions, their rage, their need to love and survive. One of two of Hydaelyn's fiercest champions, Fornax lives up to their title through and through. Despite intimidating appearances and all, she bears a deeply caring and loving, adventurous heart. One may find them being happily smothered by the stray cats of Limsa...

a little written intro to accompany the name prompt! say hi to my beloved butch au roe, fornax :)

roevember prompt list

[elizabethrobertajones]

Roevember the most beautiful time of the year...

1: Name

....

But also

The world is full of so many wonderful frogs and Frog loves them all.

[punchelf]

"The name's Coiled Cedar, but you can call me Cici."

Roevember, Day 1 - Name

[viiioca]

[ roevember day 1 - name ]

From the journal of Estelle de Laussienne, 12th of the 5th Astral Moon, 6 7A.E.

Of late, I have been thinking of names.

I am lucky to be one of the few with direct knowledge of a past life. Astarte, they said, was named for the brightest star in the sky, and by all accounts, she embodied this name with precision. ("Demanding" and "vain" were the descriptors Emet-Selch preferred, predictably, though Hythlodaeus had far kinder words.) When she took the seat of Azem, it is no great leap of imagination that she would have brought this certain intensity and clarity of self with her in her wanderings. She -- and those who came before her -- can be tracked as if by game trail, wending the length of the world. Azem, Azeyma, Azim. A sun-stamped coin; a painting on a cave wall; a fixture in the night sky.

I, too, am named after the stars. My parents did not have any ambition of doing so directly, of course; Ishgard has always found it most fashionable to name its children after saints and martyrs, and any meaning beyond that is incidental. Saint Estelle was a woman of high birth who ran afoul of her heretical family, and her devotion to Halone was such that they rushed to condemn her before she could do the same to them. She invoked her right to trial by combat rather than the simple exoneration of the Witchdrop and -- by witness accounts -- channeled the miraculous strength of the Fury Herself, laying a full outfit of Inquisitors low before succumbing to her wounds. That this is considered something auspicious to name a child is a particular quirk of our culture; more interesting to me is how it seems to have come to us from Duskwights fleeing persecution in the Shroud, its relation to Ishgardian's own word for star revealed by squinting. Étoile, estela, Estelle.

One must wonder if a name does not have its own tendency for wandering; if a name, separated from its soul, filters through new lands and peoples, and when it is ready to return to its owner, it is scrubbed of its old shape as neatly as if the Aetherial Sea itself has done it. Azem, Azeyma, Azim. Astarte to Estelle. Is it not appealing?

(G'raha has theorized instead that it's a corruption of a -- of course -- Late Allagan name that means "well-groomed," absorbed into a branch of the Elezen language at some point before the Hyuran exodus following the Fourth Umbral Calamity. It's good to know even his romanticism has its limits when matters of academic correctness are at hand. Could he not simply let me have this one?)

[elliewiltarwyn]

Roevember Day 1: Names

"So you chose it for yourself?" "Well - sort of. It was the one my parents had in mind if I had been born female in the first place." "It's lovely. It's the Sea Wolf language, right?"

"Yeah. Elil for foreign, or exiled; geim for jewel." "...Exiled jewel...a little on the nose for our current predicament." "Gods, I didn't even think of that..."

"I'm curious - your old friends called you 'Geim. I suppose that makes sense, since it's the noun... It's a cute nickname." "Heh - I don't know. I was never really a fan of it. Suppose it's hard to feel like a jewel right now." "Is that so... Mayhap the other half, then. Have you ever considered 'Ellie'?"

"...Ellie Wiltarwyn...huh." "I'll take that as a no, then. Do you... Sorry, was that too forward? You don't have to--" "No, I... I actually kinda like it." "Truly? ...May I call you that, then?"

"Heh. Call me whatever you want. Just... don't bandy it about in public. Wouldn't want people to think aught's changed between us." "Pfft - of course not. There'd be no coming back from such a revelation."

[captain-styr]

Styr | ROEVEMBER DAY 1 | Names

The start of Roevember! Say hello to my darling pirate innocent merchant captain Styrdraga Rhetikympfsyn, or Styr for short, captain of the vessel the Enduring Deeds. He's a man who knows what he wants, and what he wants is to grow his merchant empire.

On a personal note, I'm excited for Roevember! I have been neglecting the poor captain long enough. Time to correct that.

[blueberryaesthetics]

Day One: Name Now the women are gathering

in smoke-filled rooms,

rough as politicians,

scrappy as club fighters.

And should anyone be surprised

if sometimes, when the white moon rises,

women want to lash out

with a cutting edge? - Strawberry Moon ; Mary Oliver

[sleepymoonlady]

Roevember Day 1: Name

Vermilion Rose Duimuste-Blackthorne (Rose, Rosie, or Millie to her friends) took quite some time to consider just what her name would be, once she realized that her birth name--among other things--did not quite fit her.

"Vermilion" came easily enough--red was her favorite color as well as her hair color, so she always stood out as a tall blot of bright red in any crowd. As for the second part of her name, that was the sticking point. She thought long and hard, considered quite a few options, and then thought about what kind of woman she wanted to be.

The answer, in hindsight, was obvious: she wanted to be brave, strong, kind, and gallant; every bit the knight from a faerie tale. She knew one woman who fit the description perfectly, someone she had looked up to since she was little: Rosette Duimuste, her late mother.

That roses would eventually become her favorite flower was something of a happy coincidence.

[mostlystarsandcandybars]

Thy golden Light came down into my brain     And the grey rooms of mind sun-touched became A bright reply to Wisdom's occult plane,     A calm illumination and a flame.

- Sri Aurobindo, The Golden Light

roevember day 1 - name + sun

roevember is back!! gonna work off of two prompt lists this year since the creative energy is low right now and i haven't done much posing since dawntrail. i'm very excited to be back after a pretty extended gposing break and i can't wait to see everyone's lovely roes <3

[caorann8]

Roevember Day 1 - Sun

[turpalauri]

Roevember 2024, Day 1: Name

To say that it came as a bit of a shock to Ena's friends that Ena isn't her actual given name would be an understatement. Perhaps the reaction was justified as they had been through quite a lot together.

But Thancred calling her even more secretive than Urianger was just straight up rude.

Ena's first name is actually Ernawyda, but she prefers to go by Ena. Only a few know her given name.

[saendra-m]

Roevember XIV day 1: Name

Sunset Tempest, eh?

Rather poetic name for a Hellsguard, I dare say, but rather apt as well.

A good woman she is, motherly, and with a big heart.

And yet, inside that heart of hers is a wrathful storm, and believe you me...

...when the Sun sets, and thunders start rolling....

You do not want to be in its path.

[fairygodpiggy]

Roevember Day 1: Name

Eyri Styrbraena [EYE-ree steer-BRAY-nah] Translation: Wandering Starbreaker

Her true name is unknown except to herself and those few survivors of Poor Maid's Mill in Upper La Noscea. In fact, the village rarely, if ever, documented the births of their peoples, so there were no documents to strike the name from.

Ever a superstitious populace, the villagers believed in a prophecy that signaled the next great calamity - one that would give rise to a powerful, undying being that would cleave the Star in two: The Starbreaker.

When one night, a young Seawolf girl fell from the remains of the great Thalaos to the rocks below, the villagers' grief over the fatal accident swiftly transformed to fear and fury. The young girl woke from death, as if from sleep. She was thrown to the wilds in hopes that the wildlife would finish her off in her weakened state - a desperate attempt by those too cowardly to shed the blood themselves.

After some years, as the red moon descended in the sky, the restless village of Poor Maid's Mill learned of the girl's continued survival in Limsa Lominsa. This sent them into a frenzy. The calamity they so feared was upon them, they believed, and they had brought about their own end by not taking care of the Wandering Starbreaker.

Eyri took on the moniker of ill omen - out of spite at first. Replacing her given name, she wears this as a badge of hope that she would save the Star, not break it.

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bonus isolated shots of young Eyri and current-day Eyri

[eidingate]

Excerpt from a letter to a little sister: Eden Foxglove is the name I called myself when I moved to Gridania. Something a bit earthy, a bit easier for the locals to pronounce. There are some in those woods who still call me that. Foxglove is certainly easier on them than Kupfohcwin. Daughter of copper fox. What do you suppose our Sharlayan grandparents were thinking when they imparted that name upon fatyr? Did they hope he would be clever as he is? Did they forget that foxes are known for their tricks? I remember the other time I changed my name, how you and Wilt teased me. "Why would you call yourself Eidin? What oath are you pledging?"  You misunderstood. I'm not swearing an oath. I am the oath.

[greenshi]

Roevember Day One: Sun/Name

Ernasald Sykurwyn: Earnestly Lucky, Daughter of the Sick.

"'Spose I could change my last name, like I did my first. However, you'll find me unwillin' to damage the last gift me mother ever gave me."