I'm talking about the character names
Just thought this might be interesting for a few people, so in this thread we will talk about the meanings of the Suikoden characters.
A few names to start with:
Pesmerga
From Peshmerga or Peshmerge (Kurdish) refers to armed Kurdish fighters. Literally meaning "those who face death" (Pesh front + marg death). More info on Wikipedia.
Fuma
Smoke (Portugese I think, correct me if I'm wrong)
Kage
Shadow (Japanese)
Genkaku
Sword Edge (Japanese)
Shiro
White (Japanese again)
Badeaux
I don't know if this has any meaning in the english version, but in the german version his name was Bordeaux (if I remember correctly, that is) which is a french port city.
Mondo
Has several meanings:
Earth, universe, world, society, "a world of..." (Italian)
Hanzo
Probably taken from Hattori Hanzō, also known as Hattori Masanari, who was a famous samurai and ninja of the Sengoku era.
Barbarossa
Red beard (Italian).
Also there were quite a few emperors who had this name, like Frederick I, the "holy roman emperor".
That's all I know
Of course you can also add meanings of "real" names like Boris (which has several meanings like "short", "wolf", "snow leopard" or something like "glorious figter"). Wikipedia will help you with this one, but I was too lazy to do that right now.
-NOTE:- I only used Suikoden 1+2 characters because I only played those 2 games so far.