Names. Everyone has one who he or she is known by across the Piratecraft World.
But what do they mean? Where did they come from? Is there any lore associated with your name/charracter?
Piratecraft has such a diverse amount of names, each with their own history and meaning behind them. I find this sort of thing very interesting, and I would like to offer the opportunity for the rest of the community to share the meaning, origin and/or lore behind their Piratecraft name. Names can be old ones, or new ones. They don’t need to have originated in Piratecraft – mine didn’t. They don’t even need to have any kind of in-depth meaning or lore behind them; simply “my parents used to call me xXcreeperboy420proXx” would do just fine haha, although I highly doubt that was ever the case, with that name at least.
Most importantly, no mocking please – no matter how ‘unique’ the name, meaning, origin or lore behind it is.
I’ll start it off:
Origin of my Piratecraft name, Maximus_Terragon:
The name actually originated back in January 2013, when I was looking for a steampunk-themed name for the steampunk airship warfare game, Guns of Icarus. Maximus was my username for most games from about 2009 onward anyway, due to my IRL name being Max. The ‘Terragon’ bit came from the spice, tarragon (spelled with an ‘a’), I simply changed the first ‘a’ to an ‘e’, and so my name, Maximus Terragon was born.
Meaning of my name:
‘Maximus Terragon’ has a somewhat Latin background to it; with Maximus meaning, ‘the greatest’. Terragon needs to be split up into two parts; ‘Terra’, and ‘gon’. ‘Terra’ meaning ‘land’ or ‘earth’, and ‘gon’ meaning ‘angle’, or in some sense ‘shape’. Therefore, ‘Maximus Terragon’ in Latin (with a bit of word play) translates as ‘The Greatest Land-shape(er)’, in other words an architect, or a builder, as they are the ones who shape the land. To summarize, it can be assumed that my name translates to something like ‘The Greatest Architect/builder’. I only discovered this about a year after I first created my name. Ironically, I love to build and consider myself a good builder and designer.
Lore:
I haven’t really thought about much in-depth lore to do with my name to be honest.
All I could think of: I was born to wealthy family, the Tarragons, who shared close relations with the rulers of the original Ottoman Empire. I started building my port, and earned recognition across the Ottoman Empire until my Port was announced the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Port Terragon. Soon after the Ottoman Empire fell, I inherited large amounts of resources from the later leaders of the OE, and used them to forge my new ‘Empire’, the Xenon Empire (despite it being of small size, I still called it an empire). From then onward I was known as Emperor Maximus Terragon. The XE started to crumble, and suffer under it’s decades of inactivity. I was an Emperor with no Empire to lead. Along with the Leaders of the Iborian Empire, Luteus Republic and Templar, we discussed the possibility of merging the crews together, to form an even larger ‘Order’. After weeks of negotiating, we decided to merge into The Xanthian Order, and I received the rank of Grand Master (a temporary rank carried over from the Templars). I now go by the name of ‘Grand Master Maximus Terragon’, although that may still change.
Well enough from me, what about you lot?
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History: well, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, … I was trying to teach my daughter about the great saga of Star Wars and she pronounced ‘Kenobi’ as ‘Kanube’, and I thought it was funny and kinda a cool name. Then I did some research and found it’s a name of a river in Gambia that means ‘river of love’. So I liked the name, and found it’s really rare name and used it for my website and business, and twitter account, and when I fell into minecraft, well, it had to be used there too. Lore: ah, for that, me hearties, ye must read the screenplay when it comes out (or see the movie, if it ever happens 
