List of character names

The following character names are used in the English versions of present and past Pin Eight releases. As in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, it is assumed that these are translations of names in the original languages of the game world that have similar meanings, possibly fudged to keep puns working (as Tolkien described in detail with regard to Merry Brandybuck in the appendix). Rereleases after the game world is further fleshed out may have superior woolseyisms.

We prefer to render final ה (he) in Hebrew feminine names as -a rather than -ah to emphasize the false cognate between Indo-European and Semitic feminine endings.

Name	Role in Pin Eight works	Notable namesakes	Meaning or origin
Acha	Thwaite villager	Toy Pop	(obscure)
Briar	Thwaite villager	Sleeping Beauty	From a word meaning "thorny plant"
Colin	Block game mascot		Irish coileán meaning "puppy", Latin columba meaning "pigeon", and a short form of Greek nikolaos meaning "victory of the people".
Daffle	Zap Ruder 2P		Diminutive of a Biblical Hebrew name (2 Samuel) meaning "beloved"
Ethan	Concentration Room opponent		From a Biblical Hebrew name (1 Chronicles 2, 6, 15) meaning "strong or firm".
Gnivad	Thwaite villager		Obscure. Let's take a look.
Gus	Test suite mascot; block game mascot	Recess; A Troll in Central Park; Psych	Shortened from a conflation of Slavic Gostislav meaning "guest + glory", and the Old Norse Gautstafr meaning "staff of the Goths"
Hepsie	Fairy godmom in platformer		Diminutive of a Biblical Hebrew name (2 Kings 21:1) meaning "my delight is in her"
Isca	Thwaite villager		Biblical Hebrew name (Genesis 11:29) meaning "foresight" (whence English "Jessica"). Also resembles the Irish word uisce meaning "water" (whence English "whiskey").
Justin	Thwaite villager	Bailey, Timberlake, Bieber	Latin meaning "fair, righteous".
Libbet	Magic Floor 1P		Diminutive for a Hebrew name meaning "God is her oath"
Lillie	Concentration Room opponent		Latin word for lily
L.T.D.	(spoiler)
Meg	Thwaite villager	Hairy Meg, a brownie	Diminutive of Sanskrit for pearl
Milca	Idle game protagonist		Biblical Hebrew name (Genesis 11:29) meaning "queen"
Milo	Thwaite 1P	& Otis, Kamalani, Thatch, Murphy	Latin miles meaning "soldier"; Old Slavonic meaning "merciful" whose Slovene reflex is mil; Germanic meaning peaceful (cognate to "mild"? the baby name sites are unclear); Greek name borne by six-time ancient Olympic champion Milo (Milwn) of Croton
Oliver	Thwaite villager	Twist, North	Conflation of an Old Norse name meaning "elf warrior", an Old Norse name meaning "ancestor's descendant", and the Latin for "olive tree"
Pino	Thwaite unseen voice		Shortened from a Florentine name meaning "pinenut"
Podge	Zap Ruder 1P	Bracciolini	Shortened from Latin name meaning "nobleman"; Italian name meaning "dweller on a hillock"; a word meaning "chubby person"
Staisy	Thwaite 2P		Shortened from Greek name meaning "resurrection"
Susan	Concentration Room opponent		Hebrew and Persian name meaning "lily"
Thad	Thwaite villager		Aramaic for either "heart" or "gift of God", possibly an adaptation of the Greek name that became Theodore
Tilda	Thwaite villager	Swinton	Shortened from Germanic compound meaning "might in battle"
Torben	Thwaite villager		Old Norse meaning "Thor's bear"

"Torben... Thor? I thought this universe was Abrahamic. So what's with the crossover cosmology?"

Samson was a man. Hercules was a man. Thor was a man. They may have been given supernatural superpowers, or even just given themselves superpowers through training, but they were still men.