origin of DM-characters

FLaZ · Post by **FLaZ** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 9:08 pm

Anyone knows the books/film "Dune"?

"Chani, Sayyadina Sihara" is a character in dune and also in DM.
Even her picture shows the characteristic blue eyes the fremen have in dune.

Are there other DM-characters appearing in other films/books etc.?

It would be nice adding this at the characters page... (hi christophe ;-) )

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 9:15 pm

sonya she devil is definitely the heroine of the conan-like movie red sonya.
gothmog is the lord of the nazgûl at lord of the rings.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 12:14 am

cowsmanaut found that 'the bika' of wuuf the bika had egyptian connotations and based his back-story on it

apparently the vorpal blade is from jabberwocky

funnily i never tied in chani from dune, even though i've read the books and seen the film

and i've always thought that halk is just such a conan look alike

i don't recall if there was a gando thurfoot in the birthday party section of lord of the rings, but it's such a hobbit-like name there may as well have been! : )

Daniel (Sweden) · Post by **Daniel (Sweden)** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 12:17 am

Well.....

To follow in Ambers foottrails I´m pretty sure that "Halk" is Arnold in his Conan the Barbarian costume! That has always seemed obvious to me!

/D

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 12:20 am

lol, that's two votes for halk = conan (played by arnie, of course)

Radagast · Post by **Radagast** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 6:06 pm

Sorry Amber, but Gothmog isn't the name of the Lord of the Nazguls; it was the name of his Lieutenant; it was also the name of the Lord of the Balrogs, who slain Feanor

Radagast · Post by **Radagast** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 6:09 pm

BWT, Nabi the Prophet is also a character of Dune

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 6:55 pm

Really, which book?

Post by **Gambit37** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 8:41 pm

Here's a tid-bit for you, there's plenty more where this came from:

Wu Tse: The Empress of China from 624 to 705. Referred to as “Son of Heaven” because women were not officially recognised for the position of emperor at the time. For those of you wondering about a "son" having breasts, wonder no more!

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 9:59 pm

lol, you need to get your site up and running!

Talgor · Post by **Talgor** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:37 pm

Hoo, nice forums. Wonderful discovery for an old DM-fan. ;) But, to business at hand...

The name Iaido Ruyito Chiburi is rather amusing. "Iaido" is the name of a kind of a "martial art" (short info: http://personal.inet.fi/surf/iaido/Iaid ... intro.html ). Each iaido technique is divided into a number of parts, of which "chiburi" is one (the purpose of "chiburi" in each technique is to remove the blood on the blade). Ruyito is probably either intentionally or accidentally mispelled (it does not conform to japanese syllables), but might be the name of a technique (for example, Muso Shinden-ryu has a technique called "ryuto", which might be mis-spelled ruyito by somebody who doesn't know japanese ;).

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:03 am

azizi johari - playmate june 1975 (google her, if you like, she's the same!)
thanks for digging out, nice thread

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:11 am

Interesting, this was how Andy Jaros described Iaido's name:

Iaido – The Japanese way of the sword, having katas similar to Tai Chi. Ryuto – the sixth form of Iaido. Chiburi – the shaking of blood from the sword

Here's a few others that he could remember the origin of:

Elija – Dennis’ [Walker's] tribute to Rastafarianism – the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selasi

Gothmog – You know already, but also my college Game Master’s character for Dungeons & Dragons

Alex – My gaming name – Alexander

Boris – Mike’s [Newton's] character – I don’t know the origin

Azizi – June 1975 Playboy playmate

Chani – Frank Herbert’s Dune heroine

Gando – Frodo’s cousin [I think he was kidding with this one, there's no gando in the works of Tolkien that I could find]

Halk – Conan’s cousin [Again, he's just messing around here....]

Hawk – I don’t remember, I think we all kind of named him

Hissssa – Just a lizardman, coincidentally the sound he makes when he speaks

Lief – The celebrated viking

Leyla – Nothing in particular

Linflas – One of the Elves in the fun board wargame Swords & Sorcery by Simulations Publications Inc.

Mophus – Derived from morphine, evocative of sleep and pain relief.

Nabi – Dennis’s rastaman

Sonja – From Red Sonja, of course

Stamm – A Dwarvish name

Syra – Almost the name of girl I had a crush on when I was 19, changed to Seri (her real name) for DM2.

Tiggy – I think Nancy Holder came up with this one, I’m not sure

Wu Tse – The Empress of China from 624 to 705. Referred to as “Son of Heaven” because women were not officially recognised for the position of emperor at the time

Wuuf – Coincidentally the sound he makes when he speaks

Zed – You know

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:23 am

wow, google rocks:

Le palais des images de passage

Tiggy Tamal et Gothmog condamnés à dévorer des Curlies derrière leurs miroirs, un tournoi de course en sacs improvisé dans un 60 m² en province, Linepo plantée à la fontaine Saint-Michel en débardeur Opposing Force, Clara Morgane s'évertuant à graver l'ISO de Splinter Cell patiemment téléchargée sur eMule, un cours de rattrapage de Voix sur IP donné sur les marches d'un escalator de métro par Diane Tell, un poème de Leonard Cohen récité en pyjama à la Sainte-Vierge au fond du 378 direction La Défense, un Tim Burton et une Nacara miniatures suspendus aux extrêmités de la moustache de Vincent Price, un dance floor de quatorze moines tibétains se déhanchant sur Fade to Grey ...
... Ici tout s'assemble et rien n'y ressemble.

J'ouvre les yeux, pousse un léger grognement de mécontentement, puis ravale le filet de bave qui s'était lentement pris d'affection pour l'oreiller.

Captain telex, le vendredi, mars 14, 2003

http://blogarythme.free.fr/2003_03_01_archives.html

zed, duke of banville is a npc in sundog: http://www.lukin.com/sundog/original/manual.html

ok, that's all i got.
someone more experiencend with google may find something about hissssa or maybe leif, but that were too many hits for me.

lol, i'm still shocked about azizi

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:29 am

Heh, cross-over posting?

The 'Zed - You Know' quote from Andy Jaros was because when I asked him the question about origins, I said "Zed we already know is named after a character/city in Sun Dog, and Gothmog [etc...] what about the others?"

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:47 am

quite cool and very typical for DM that the 24 characters are not only a bunch of adventurer-dudes, but (mostly) charakters with a history

that's both interesting and impressing.
btw - is the french text of any interest? i understand some "je veux acheter de pain" (or similar) etc, but that's too complex

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:44 pm

wonder if there is a word for steaming blood off a sword with magic...

can anyone translate the french for us lazy mono-linguists so we don't have to endure the horror of babelfish? : )

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:24 pm

the french one is a sting of non related half sentances. only the first uhm.. 8-10 words is relavant to the Tiggy Tamal and Gothmog. It also seems to me as though they are screen names and have no relation to the origins of the name.

Though I could be wrong.. but it made little sense to me..

moo

Post by **linflas** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 9:12 pm

the guy wrote all the things he dreamt just after waking up : these are his rememberings... weird funny idea or maybe some kind of poetry

purple1 · Post by **purple1** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 7:52 am

*Sigh* You can never figure out those French. What? I didn't say anything!

Cool. I recognized some of those names, but I had no idea.
What about the rest of the DM2 cast?

FallenSeraphin · Post by **FallenSeraphin** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:26 pm

And the CSB cast, now that were searching for it ?

Allanius · Post by **Allanius** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:43 pm

Hawk looks like the character Hawk from "Spencer for Hire" played by Avery Brooks.

Post by **ChristopheF** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:00 am

Someone sent me this about the possible origin of Daroou:

Daroow may be a reference to Clarence Darrow, the man who defended the case for evolution in the public schools in the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial". "Daroow" certainly looks like something that may have evolved. Although, since the debate over Evolution vs. Intelligent Design has been much in the news lately, you may have already heard this...

What do you think about this?
Maybe it's also related to David Darrow, the artist who created the covers of DM and CSB ?

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:29 am

either sund plausable, although most likely the second one to do with the artist!

Post by **ChristopheF** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:25 am

Someone else suggested it was inspired by Chewbacca from Starwars.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:42 pm

If david's nickname is chewwie and is big and hairy, we'd have a winner ; )

Post by **Gambit37** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:45 pm

The only 'canon' origin I know of was from Andy jaros: "Daroou is Chewie's cousin." Hardly revealing is it? Is your source from FTL Christophe?

Post by **ChristopheF** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:07 am

No my source is not from FTL.

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:44 pm

OK. I quite like the assumption that it's based on David Darrow -- if you've seen any pictures of him from around that time, he *was* quite hairy!

(No offence David if you're reading this).

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