Gallchobhair

[-JR-]

In Nashkel, there is a gravestone marked "Ioin Gallchobhair," a name that just happens to be a name held by a seemingly random bandit in the area to the northeast of the Carnival and northwest of Durlag's tower. Does anyone know the story on this?

[Luridel]

No, but there's another Gallchobhair in BG2 in the sewers under the temple district.

 

It might be a Bioware inside joke or reference to a person, but I don't know for sure.

[Western Paladin]

The name seems to be roughly equivalent to Gallagher. Maybe someone at BioWare had that last name / was from that clan, and it's a reference to that.

[CoM_Solaufein]

Also some of the developers were known to use their own NPCs from their PnP days I recall reading about many years ago. So this may be one of them. Could be one of Ray's or Greg's NPC.

[-JR-]

No, but there's another Gallchobhair in BG2 in the sewers under the temple district.

Aha, that's why it sounded so familiar!

 

Also some of the developers were known to use their own NPCs from their PnP days I recall reading about many years ago.

Aye, it was fun reading about the original Sarevok, originally a PC I believe.

 

It would make sense that it would be named after one of them, seeing as how many of the joke-graves in that cemetary have real-world sounding names.

 

I wonder if Sendai was also one of these sort of characters, since an agressive human(?) female warrior in Baldur's Gate I shares the name of the more notable holder.

[Yovaneth]

Just FYI: it's a real Irish name and is pronounced (almost like) 'gal-CO-var'. It's difficult to explain about the 'h' following the 'b' - it is sounded but only just.

 

-Y- (from the Emerald Isle).