Last Names for a Dragonborn

[LooksLikeDaniel]

I’m thinking about re-starting my headcanon Dragonborn Freyja. She is a Nord Mage.

I kind of want to give Freyja a last name this time. The multiple adoptions mod names the children, “Dovahkiir,” but that seems kind of obvious. I was thinking maybe something like Keen-Mind or Steel-Tongue, but those don’t seem all that great, either. (And Freyja Craggy-Beard is just wrong.)

Any ideas?

[DPMR]

Iron-Hand but I got to say I like Freyja Daovahkiir.

[Altbert]

How about Freya Sky-Born?

[Turtleswatter]

Freya Fell-Voice

[LooksLikeDaniel]

Originally posted by Altbert:

How about Freya Sky-Born?

That’s not bad. Keep ‘em coming!

[FauxFurry]

Long-Winter.

[ElanaAhova]

Freya Septum // Freya Starlight // Freya Witchborn // Freya WindRider (last name I actually use) // Freya FuzRa

[Perplex]

Freya the Crone

[alexander_dougherty]

Nord surnames either rely on Occupation (say Battleborn for a clan of warriors) or a physical attribute (Say Greymane for a clan who go grey early). So does your Freyja have a striking feature that you are RPGing as a family feature (say Ice-Eyes for piercing pale Blue eyes) or come from a family that does a specific career alot (like Fire-Hammer for a family of smiths say)?

[LooksLikeDaniel]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Nord surnames either rely on Occupation (say Battleborn for a clan of warriors) or a physical attribute (Say Greymane for a clan who go grey early). So does your Freyja have a striking feature that you are RPGing as a family feature (say Ice-Eyes for piercing pale Blue eyes) or come from a family that does a specific career alot (like Fire-Hammer for a family of smiths say)?

I hadn't really thought about her family's physical traits, but she certainly has icy blue eyes. She also has blonde hair, but sometimes she changes the color for a little while. Then she goes back to blonde. I have not determined exactly where in Skyrim she is from. One of her parents, I've been picturing her father but it's not necessarily him, is/was a smith or carpenter or both. Freyja is highly intelligent, so it follows that her parents are as well.

Freyja became fascinated with magic somewhere in her tweens after witnessing and meeting a wizard. (Either one who was just passing through or the court wizard in the city. Some of her backstory is still rather fluid, as you may have noticed.) Her parents, being Nords, were not thrilled with this and didn't encourage it, but she began to teach herself with whatever books she could get her hands on. That is, whenever she wasn't learning basic smithing and combat as every true Nord does.

Freyja, like her family, is an Empire loyalist, but believes the Emperor is weak and ineffective. She detests the Thalmor just as much as any other Nord, however, and may or may not still worship Talos under her breath. She is also very much a patriot and has ideas about how to make Skyrim better.

At the start of the game, Freyja is returning from a few years of studying (to the extent that it's possible) at one or both of the magical institutions in Cyrodil. By now, she is a Imperial Legion reservist, though of course the idiot captain can't be bothered with things like that when Freyja tries to tell her.


This is probably more than you ever wanted or needed to know, but that's mostly what I have so far in terms of backstory.

[Messsucher]

Susanna the Wicked? Would be a great tribute :))

[Slamminslug]

Frost-Gaze, Star-Seeker (as the magna ge are casters who left the stars behind when they exited mundus.) Oath-born, etc etc

[LooksLikeDaniel]

Originally posted by Messsucher:

Susanna the Wicked? Would be a great tribute :))

There's already one of those.

Also, I'm not real big on last names with "the."

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by LooksLikeDaniel:

This is probably more than you ever wanted or needed to know, but that's mostly what I have so far in terms of backstory.

Idea was to give you ideas on how to frame her surname

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Messsucher:

Susanna the Wicked? Would be a great tribute :))

That's not a surname, that's a moniker or nickname, we have no idea what her surname is.
Same for Grelod the Kind, not her actual surname.

[siletuathade]

Stormdottir.