I don't watch TV. Rather, it's more like "I have 200 hours of Pathfinder: and 200 hours of Steam. Yet, even I, with such a cultured diet, am aware of a Netflix show called Love is Blind. Maybe love is blind because I am affected by the scarlet disease.

As reported by HuffPost (opens in new tab), in a recent episode, contestant Zach Goitowski decided to run some curious baby names by his shotgun bride, Irina Solomonova. She was not surprised by the name of the First Lord Elden, but Goitowski might have preferred "Hoarah" as in "Hoarah Loux, Warrior, Chieftain of the Badlands and Alter Ego to Godfrey."

Despite this, Goitovsky hits her with "Godric." The "Godric" is the first Great Rune holder that most players are likely to encounter, a mythical coward who rides around in a mech suit made of the still-living flesh of the immortal Tarnish. Without this important context, Solomonova again argues.

Now, to be fair to Goytovsky, Solomonova wants to name her hypothetical son "Zion" or "Gideon" and doom the child to a life as a righteous, gun-toting frontier preacher (of sorts). I'm still undecided about a more traditionally feminine name, but I'm thinking "Great Wyrm Theodorix."

Frankly, I'm tickled that there are really only small changes when it comes to pop culture baby names. We always know right away that it's a bad idea, but we push through it, from Sephiroth and Britney in the 2000s to the Great Khaleesi Wave of the 2010s, and now here we are: an Elden ring boss to go with the "gh" and "x"-heavy names we see on TikTok. I'm thinking. To put it bluntly, we need Michaela, Mariquez, and Ekzikes to go along with Braylin and Zirin. Pregnant parents, don't worry, there are more than 107 options to choose from (opens in new tab).