I usually create a name for a character after I decide, what sort of character said character will become. I never created Queen Zen. My son made my first ever character and he felt it somehow fit whom I wanted to roleplay an orphan queen, daughter of chaos and order, he named that first chr. Queen Zen.
My second character I made by myself, I was thinking alchemist/druggist and about that time stevie knicks song came on the radio..thus belladonna was born ! /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif
My third character was a spy, she became very close girlfriend/confidant of a guy that pkd me and he didnt know it was also me ie *also QZ*! He let her into his uo life and his uo home only knowing she was this fascinating tank mage ! I made her on purpose, to be a BIG SURPRISE for someone, kinda like opening a pandora's box, if he would become curious enough and like her she would stab him in the heart and pk his hinder. Payback would be hell for betraying my trust and pkin the queen. Anyhow that char was named Pandora Desere'. *yes she succeeded to kill him* in case ye wondered back in the day ages ago.
My 4th char is named after assorted goddesses, kali and morrigan, thus her name is KaliMorrigan. She began life evil and those names fit the persona I was creating back then.
5th chr. Whyte Tigress.. no brainer, she was going to be made to become a tamer. /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif
My other acct. once belonged to my son. He named his chrs way back in the era of UO beta but they were named after tribes of mankind, and his tours of duty in the navy.
Thus Shalom Aleichem reflects his tour of Israel, Dnepropetrovk is Russian, Stockbridge is a tribe, of mankind on N. Am.the stockbridge nation native americans,no clue where he got Josef but he still exists on Seige. /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif
When I took over his acct. I created a character in last slot on that acct. that was open. I wanted her to be unique from all my chrs, including the inherited ones of my son's acct. I kept thinking of RARES..rl ones, thus pearls rarer than white pearls are black ones..thus Black Pearl was born. Most think I named her after a UO regent. /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif nope she is named after pearls in the seas black ones.
I have 4 accts of 7 remaining active,so I will spare ye the rest of the chrs names, although some are named specifically serve the QUEEN..ie names like Queen's Handmaiden, Zen's Realator, Zen's Gardener etc. but when I made my bard on acct #3, he became Eric Clapton /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif And my GM carpenter(also gm tailor) on that acct is Wynd Ryder..I wanted something breezy and youthful to also compete with the QZ line of tailoring. /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif A regal queen would never do neons to match neon hair dyes, back then, but Wynd could do so & get away with it ! I, as Wynd Ryder became stiff competiton for the Queen Zen line of clothings ! /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif Most players didnt know both were ME back then ! /php-bin/shared/images/icons/smile.gif giggles !
At any rate I never make a character name till I am sure I can stand said name for forever if I do like that chr. and the name somehow must FIT the character's identity or personna..or role, per character.