Half-Orc Name?

[Cade]

Hey, everyone. I'm playing in a new campaign tomorrow, and the character I'm making, who will be a Half-Orc Barbarian (Who I'm trying to not make a cliche), needs a name. My first choice would be the Orcish translation of 'Trash', or something that might be used by Orcs to denote inferiority. Usually, I'm not a big fan of names being gibberish syllables put together, but as long as the name means something, I'll be happy.

Thanks in advance...

[Wooter]

Oooh! Charles! Name him Charles!

[MeklorIlavator]

I can't really give any advice on the actual orcish translation, as wizards hasn't published an official language, so I would go with a language you think is similar to the orcish language in-game, and fing and online dictionary. For instance, according to the Englich-German dictionary, Kitsch, Schund, and Abfall all mean trash. You can, of course, use any language you like.

[Stormcrow]

Generally I find they work best in the style of goblin names, your name is given to you by the shaman of your tribe to denote their view of you or your seer-seen place in the tribe. In your case... Crawls-With-Rats or similar.

He might introduce himself as Crawls though.

[Stormcrow]

I can't really give any advice on the actual orcish translation, as wizards hasn't published an official language, so I would go with a language you think is similar to the orcish language in-game, and fing and online dictionary. For instance, according to the Englich-German dictionary, Kitsch, Schund, and Abfall all mean trash. You can, of course, use any language you like.

J.R.R. Tolkien published an Orcish language though, if one wanted to go tre-authentic on it. It's called Black Speech I believe. Google it.

[Anxe]

I thought Black Speech was more like Abyssal than Orcish. Anyways, Meklor is right. Orcs are supposed to be Nazis by modern interpretation, so German would be the best language to steal a name from.

[Solo]

Name him Thog.

[Skyserpent]

I figured elves were the Nazis...

You know... blonde hair, blue eyes, superiority complex...

anyhoo, Half-Orcs are usually raised by humans and thus, might have more human names... at least where I play they do... Sometimes they even go biblical...

[Dhavaer]

I figured elves were the Nazis...

You know... blonde hair, blue eyes, superiority complex...

Elves typically have black hair and green eyes, not blond and blue.

[Anxe]

Americans = Elves
Russians = Dwarves
Swiss = Halflings
Nazis = Orcs
Western Europeans = Humans

Got it!?!

[Quietus]

Taking a page from WoW (apparently, as I just randomly searched for a translator), the way they run pseudo-translations is just to pick from a list of pregenerated words. So, Trash..

Five-letter words Regas, Nogah, Kazum, Magan, No'bu, Golar, Throm, Zugas, Re'ka, No'ku, Ro'th

There's also the WotC random generator, at :
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article5.asp?x=dnd/dx20010202b,0',500,630)

Which gave me Thogretor.

[Capt'n Ironbrow]

Americans = Elves
Russians = Dwarves
Swiss = Halflings
Nazis = Orcs
Western Europeans = Humans

Got it!?!

ey, I though Dwarven names are more like Scandinavian, but then in D&D they're sometimes a bit like communists isn't?

you could use games workshop's early orc naming conventions: misspellings of wellknown items and persons, like in you're example maybe Trazh, Trezz, Traz, Kraptrazz Rubbizzheep, Skrapheep Cha-lunge etc.

[Anxe]

That's the country you could match with each race during WW2. Not really sure which one matches each language.

[Cade]

Thanks, that's a lot better than anything I might've come up with. I think Abfall sounds the best, but you never know...

[The_Werebear]

According to a black speech translator, Garbage is Dalgum.

http://www.lugburz.com/eng_g.html

[goat]

Jennifer. They disliked him so much they gave him a Human woman's name.

[Roderick_BR]

Give him a unpronounceable name, as if you were cleaning your throat.
That'll throw people off a lot.
"my name is garaarch"
"When you are done, finish telling me your name"
"That my name"
"What name?"
"garaarch"

[Aximili]

I thought Black Speech was more like Abyssal than Orcish. Anyways, Meklor is right. Orcs are supposed to be Nazis by modern interpretation, so German would be the best language to steal a name from.

Nazis?
You're comparing the chaotic individually-centered orcs, with the strict, disciplined and community-enhancing nazism?
(by all means, I am not defending it)

[ClericofPhwarrr]

Give him a unpronounceable name, as if you were cleaning your throat.
That'll throw people off a lot.
"my name is garaarch"
"When you are done, finish telling me your name"
"That my name"
"What name?"
"garaarch"

That would be such a mean thing to do to your group, especially if you didn't respond to anything BUT your name.

I love it.

[TheThan]

names of orc barbarians I've DMed
-Okk Smash'emstuff
-Gorshak the grim
- Bob the half-orc paladin (wielded a waterclock...seriously I'm not making this up)

[MeklorIlavator]

Nazis?
You're comparing the chaotic individually-centered orcs, with the strict, disciplined and community-enhancing nazism?
(by all means, I am not defending it)

Actually, I used German because it is guttural, similar to what orcish is supposed to sound like. Also, any one who speaks it seams angry, which would fit the Orcs. I think that the best interpretation of the Nazis in DnD are the Hobgoblins. All you have to do is imagine them goose-stepping and in Wehrmacht uniforms, and it just clicks.

And, if you really look at it, Middle earth represents something like the Middle East. Stick_Ninja(I believe) originally told me this, and I have forgotten most of his argument, though I do remember that the elves were Western Europeans, man was the natives, but I forgot who the orcs were.

[the_tick_rules]

Human McOrcton.

[TheLogman]

Cronk
Thrusk
Krunk

Have long vowel sounds, and lotsa k's.

[Aximili]

Actually, I used German because it is guttural, similar to what orcish is supposed to sound like. Also, any one who speaks it seams angry, which would fit the Orcs. I think that the best interpretation of the Nazis in DnD are the Hobgoblins. All you have to do is imagine them goose-stepping and in Wehrmacht uniforms, and it just clicks.

Well, in that case, I do see your point.

[TheLogman]

Whoa, I can totally see Hobgobbo Nazis, but I don't see the Goblins, Orcs, ect. as Germans, but they definitely have the same language. At least in my imagination.

[Diggorian]

Orcish in D&D uses the Dwarven alphabet. You could take Dwarven names, from online generators or in Races of Stone, and rearrange them: Gimli into Ghemil.

[Inyssius Tor]

That's actually how Tolkien's orcs (and Sauron) got most of their vocabulary (from Elvish, though, because Tolkien's Dwarven was as secret as D&D's Druidic). Entirely plausible.

EDIT: again from Tolkien, there's pushdug, or "dung-filth."

[Diggorian]

Could also try this.

[Xuincherguixe]

I saw a thing that said the various races were never intended as portraying specific nationalities. The Orcs for instance were supposed to draw from elements of both the Axis and Allies.

Also, the Orcs in Lord of the rings spoke different languages. When the various groups got together, they didn't know how to communicate and so had to resort to speaking (filthy) common.


But I'm not an expert on this stuff.

[MeklorIlavator]

Was he really representing WW2 in all this? To Tolkien, WW1 would have proved a much greater impact( he fought in the trenches, had most of his friends die).