Overly Long Name / Tabletop Games

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• Magic: The Gathering's Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, author of The Underworld Cookbook. When she was printed as a card she couldn't be cast in the normal fashion, because usually the mana cost is on the same line as the card name, but there was no room.
  • Also, the Unhinged gag set has the card "Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental."
• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • Tinker gnomes from the Dragonlance setting, as well as almost everything they name, have extremely long names (mainly because they take into account every possible detail about the thing being named, like a person's family tree or a place's history and description). For everyone else's sake, the gnomes use shorter names as well. In fact, one primary tinker gnome stronghold was named by a human, who realized he made a mistake when he asked a gnome the original name (the stronghold is now named Mt. Nevermind).
  • In 3rd Edition, gnomes tend to love names, including nicknames, and give and receive them with equal grace. As a baseline, a gnome gets a name from each of their parents, one from their apprenticeship, and one upon adulthood, and could accumulate upwards of a dozen more.
  • Inverted with Eberron's changelings, whose real names tend to seem too short — seldom more than two letters long — to other races.

• Warhammer has Tradelord Greasus Tribestealer Drakecrush Hoardmaster Goldtooth the Shockingly Obese.
• In Warhammer 40,000,
  • The Tau have a strange naming system where the individual's name is, in order, their caste and rank, their sept-world of origin, and then their personal name. Some Tau gain honorific names and titles over the course of their lives, and needless to say, some particularly badass Tau can get quite a few of these. For example, Commander Farsight's full name is Shas'O Vior'la Shovah Kais Mont'yr. Fortunately, just O'Shovah works in shorthand.
  • Orks get nicknames (or give themselves nicknames) after some particularly spectacular feat. The one with the longest name in canon is Warboss Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. The non-canon ending of Dawn of War gives us Warboss Gorgutz Deffscreama Bloodspilla Deffkilla Ragescreama Ghostkilla Gunsmasha Daemonkilla 'Ead'unter.
  • The Adeptus Custodes, personal bodyguards of The Emperor, gain additions to their name for every notable deed they accomplish. These being biologically immortal warriors armed with the greatest weapons and armor, second only to the Primarchs and their charge in combat prowess, and veterans of innumerable battles with countless foes, this happens quit often. As a result trying to say the full name of a Custodes can take hours, if not days. Each new name is also carved into the Custodian's armor, so it says something that Constantin Valdor, chief of the Custodes, has a name long enough to cover the entire surface area of his armor inside AND out.
  • In the Bequin trilogy, the second book has the protagonists recover a book that contains the real name of the Big Bad the King in Yellow, as in the book's entire contents are the King's name. The fact that the first two words in the book are "Constantin Valdor" indicates why this is.
• As hinted by the Keychain of Creation example in Webcomics, the Deathlords of Exalted have a predilection for this — it's what happens when you feed your original name to Oblivion. The nine canonical Deathlords range in titles from "Mask of Winters" and "Eye and Seven Despairs" to "The Dowager of the Irreverent Vulgate in Unrent Veils" (try saying that one five times fast).
  • Honorary mention goes to "She Who Lives In Her Name". Far from the longest name, but long enough to cause problems when it had to be used over and over again in a book with a very tight word count limit.
• Parodied in Munchkin with the Thing With A Name So Long There's No Room For A Picture On The Card. This being Munchkin, it does in fact have a picture on the card.
• The Soulless in GURPS Fantasy II. Even their personal names are pretty long, but they're nothing compared to their word for themselves, which has over eight thousand syllables.
• Sentinels of the Multiverse villain La Capitan has accumulated one of these during her travels across time. Her full name is Maria Helena Teresa Fafila Servanda Jimena Mansuara Paterna Domenga Gelvira Placia Sendina Belita Eufemia Columba Gontina Aldonza Mafalda Cristina Tegrida de Falcon. Word of God is she just picks ones she thinks sound nice and adds them onto her name. By the time she is La Comodora, she's just going by Maria Helena.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!, being a Japanese card game, has a lot of long, oftentimes punny, names. For instance, "Number 81: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Super Dora" is known as "No.81 超弩級砲塔列車スペリオル・ドーラ" (Nanbāzu Hachijūichi Chōdokyū Hōtō Ressha Superioru Dōra literally "Number 81: Super-Dreadnought Gun Turret Train Superior Dora"). On the other hand, some cards actually have short names in the Japanese version, but very convoluted ones in the English version, such as "異界の棘紫竜" (Ikai no Kyokushiryū literally "Otherworldly Thorny Purple Dragon") is "Interplanetarypurplythorny Dragon", or "ジャイアントワーム" (Jaianto Wāmu literally "Giant Worm") is Aztekipede, the Worm Warrior".

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