I'll continue my name ramble this time with Flight Rising characters! If you missed the first part, it can be found here. I've also talked about general in-game naming conventions of FR a long time ago here, so it would be maybe good idea to read that one before getting into this one. The characters will once again be roughly in order from oldest to newest.

Flight Rising

Carran - Carran was my "custom progen", a dragon whose general color scheme and breed you can choose yourself when you start playing. I didn't yet know how seriously I would end up getting involved with the game, so I didn't put too much effort into naming her. In fact I used a Fantasy name generator and just picked one of the first suggestions it offered! But now in hindsight I think the sound of the name fits for the stern female rather nicely.

Marus - The "random progen", a randomly generated dragon the game also gives for you at the start of your journey. With him I used the same naming method as with Carran, and just like with her, his name ended up fitting him pretty well. He is after all much more approachable and "softer" of the two of them.

Tuuli & Tuiske - Two sisters I got from a friend of mine pretty soon after joining the site. They were both also named by her instead of me. Haha amusingly I've many times thought how the names should've been given exactly the other way around, as Tuuli ended up being the chilly and serious one and Tuiske is the warm and caring one. But that's just how it is in real life, too: a mother can't really know what sort of persons their newborn children end up growing into! =D

Auer - The third dragon I also got along Tuuli and Tuiske from my friend, but this fellow wasn't named yet. As the sister duo had clearly Finnish names but I intended to give dragons of my clan mainly fantasy names, I went for something in between: "auer" is a rarely used Finnish word for certain sort of misty weather, and it has a rather poetical and fancy feel in it. It also did fit in with Tuuli and Tuiske because they were all references to weather - and the clan they originated from was in Wind Flight, which I have always associated with different sorts of weather phenomenas.

Eidiel - Eidiel was one of the dragons I got from newbie raffles/giveaways. She was named with the same name generator as my progens. For some reason this dragon has always been a sort of mystery to me: I don't have all that clear idea of her nature and I don't have really any sort of strong opinion about her looks or name. But still, at this point she's been part of the clan for so long I'm not even considering letting go of her.

Faelten - The second raffle prize dragon, but she's full of sassy personality twice as much as Eidiel. Named with the generator, but I really do like the soft, almost LotR elf -like name she has and I think it fits her perfectly. At this point I also had already two dragons whose name ended with N, but it didn't really bother me - yet.

Okothar - Okothar was the last one of the newbie giveaway dragons I got. I think I did use the name generator also when coming up with a name for her, but I likely modified the suggestion it gave me a bit. That's because the end of the name has a pretty strong Finnish feel in it, as -tar is commonly used as a feminine indicator in certain sort of words (ompelija -> ompelijatar). Okothar doesn't mean anything specific though, but I think it emanates a certain sort of danger.

Lienn - Oh Lienn, the prettiest dragon I had for years! I think the short, soft name fits for her character, but sadly I'm not sure if I actually came up with it myself or if it was subconsciously drawn from my memory, as there's a dragon named Lien in a book series called Temeraire. I didn't naturally remember that at the time of naming her, but like I said it might've affected my choice on subconcious level.

Nightblade - Ahhaha, this dragon's name sticks out like a sore thumb from the rest of the group! But it actually was given to him by his previous owner, so I'm not the one to blame for that. The info box of him also said that he was an agent of Stormcatcher, which was really amusing to me. He's likely the only dragon who has had any sort of background info attached when I've bought them.

Rumble - The first son of my progens whose name is also a bit peculiar. That's because I accidentally put him up for auction and as a newbie didn't know how to remove the auction, so I just hoped no one would buy him. But of course they did, and I had to swallow my shame and ask if I could buy the dragon back. The new owner agreed, but they had already named the dragon Rumble, so I just let it be like that and thought that in-game the dragon took the name for himself.

Arrede - Arrede was a dragon I didn't even plan on keeping, as she was a not all that noteworthy offspring of Auer & Eidiel. But I'm glad that I did, because she turned eventually into one of my most beloved dragons! And the one whose looks the color wheel expansion is STILL messing up, like, two years or so after the update (her mane color is completely wrong and it just hasn't been fixed for reasons unknown). Buuut then again it does give her a unique look not many other dragons have. For her name... I really don't remember. ='D Probably I just pulled something from the name generator once again, as I had no any sort of sentimentality towards her at that point.

Lachancet - Simple things are simple, and Lachancet is derived from Lancelot. I wanted him to have sort of noble or knight-y vibe, and to achieve that I decided to mess around with an already existing name that fit for my purposes.

Davraseen - Just like Lachancet is a scrambled form of Lancelot, Davraseen is a scrambled form of Darjeth - though this time I at least used a name of my own character as a base, hahah. I also wanted to add a bit of fanciness to the original name, so I made it longer and turned it into something more extravagant. This is also the point when I noticed that I have way too many dragons whose name ends with N, so I started to come up for an in-game reasoning behind that.

Uppo - Uppo comes from a friend who loaned a nest from me to get blue eyes for their hatchlings. As a thank you they let me keep one of the dragons I've hatched, though they did come up for a name for him. And it's a really nice name, considering the water-y aesthetics of my lair!

Theala - Theala comes from yet another friend of mine, but I honestly am not sure which one of us named her. I'd like to say I maybe did it, but yeah, I'm not sure anymore. I like the contradiction between her name and character, as she looks more like a cool biker lady than anything as mellow as the name might suggest! Sometimes things like that can be just distracting, but for this dragon I think it fits.

Innas - Even moar dragons from friends! This one is actually from the same clan as Tuuli, Tuiske and Auer. And now that I'm in doubting mood after Theala, I'm actually not 100 % certain who named him either... Once again I think I did, but it could've been my friend, too. It's also possible that I went with name that deliberately felt like it could've been made up by his previous owner. Who knows anymore! =')

Chrii - Chrii's name is pretty unique in my clan, as it has this sort of animalistic vibe in it; like it was more of a single sound instead of name put together from letters. I didn't have any particular thought process behind it, though. I just felt like mixing the soup with something new like that!

Quillan - Quillan's name I picked because I was amused by how I thought it would be pronounced, particularly how it's nearly impossible to differentiate Quillan, Qwillan and even Qillan from each other (at least with my Finnish brain). I thought Quillan looked best out of the three when written, so I decided to go with that one.

Prina - Prina is so far the last dragon I've gotten from my friends. She was definitely named by me though, as I remember basing the name on word priima which means good quality. I don't know why, but the name Prina also sounds somewhat Russian to me!

Emini - Once again, Emini is a name I twisted from already existing name, a rare Finnish name Emine. I could've certainly used the name as it is, but as I actually know a person with that name and it indeed is a rarely used one, I felt more comfortable modifying it a bit first.

Aelian - This is the first name where I deliberately used the N at the end because of the in-game reason I had previously given for the custom of doing so. I also wanted to make this name sound airy and maybe even somewhat fragile.

Mirach - Mirach is a weird one, both the name and the dragon itself. The dragon was originally just a placeholder of sorts, but I grew attached to him and decided to keep him after all. I had already named him with the name generator, but only when I decided to let him stay it started to bother me how the name sounded really familiar. I was sure I had again unintentionally copied it from somewhere! But to this day I haven't figured out where.

Jade - Jade was an exalt fodder dragon I had received for training and exalting. But she was too cute for that and I ended up keeping her myself! She was already named when I got her, but Jade is one of my favorite names ever anyway, so it was all good. Amusingly none of her colors is jade, even though there is a color named like that in the game.

Galarith - Galarith is a son of Lachancet, and I wanted his name to sound as fancy and noble as his father's. If I remember correctly, I pretty much glued it together from a couple of different names the name generator suggested.

Horan - Horan is again a simple rearrangement of letters, this time from the ancient Egyptian god Horus. I wanted it to have the same sort of simple yet striking and respectable vibe in it as the original name.

Zedass - Zedass on the other hand is a combination of the letter Z that I think has a sort of mysterious feeling around it and the word abyss. Though I did scramble the letters around more than usually, even to the extent to the origin not being quite visible anymore, but I still think the feeling stayed the way I intended.

Naemi - Naemi is very simply derived from the name Naomi, one of Naemi's ancestors. Naomi is a very special dragon who once in a time was involved in some amusing glitches of the site, so I wanted to make it very clear what sort of impressive roots Naemi has in her family tree.

Dream - Dream is a weird name to come from me, but he is one of those characters that just named themselves without asking my opinion. ='D He is also a dreamily beautiful dragon, so I guess it's not a bad name for him to be stuck with.