Where do all of the names in this game come from?

[PowerOfKaishin]

Maud is obviously from nethack (though that raises another question).
Mara is a demon in Buddhist mythology.
Dowan and Duvessa appear to be named after two influential devs here (but where did they get their names from!?).

For gods, Trog seems to be a very straightforward, in-your-face, not-very-intellectual name. Fitting.
Zin and Xom really feel like they embody the true spirits of the gods they represent, with Zin wanting to keep the player pure and Xom just sounding like a court jester.
Dithmenos kinda sounds like Darkness, so it has that association in the player's mind.
Sif Muna has an air of mystery to it.
Vehumet just screams god of destruction.
Kikubaaqudgha with his near-unpronounceable ominous name fits perfectly as the magical demon-god.

The mage names (Ozocubu, Iskenderun, etc.) seem to be completely random.

[Sprucery]

Dowan and Duvessa appear to be named after two influential devs here

Guess again.

Dithmenos is 'Dsomething minus g'.

[PowerOfKaishin]

lol Dithmengos. Glad they changed that. It doesn't fit at all.

[Leszczynek]

Iskenderun was a cat named after a Turkish city or something.

[Kate]

  Code:

// The following name was found in the hack.exe file of an early version
// of PCHACK - credit goes to its creator (whoever that may be):
{
    SPELL_ISKENDERUNS_MYSTIC_BLAST, "Iskenderun's Mystic Blast",


[Piginabag]

I always thought Harold and Maud were references to Harold and Maude http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/

[TeshiAlair]

Ozocubu the ice mage...say it out loud.

[adozu]

zin is the opposite of xom, now check out where in a standard qwerty keyboard are those letters located

sixhfurryies are the creation of an anonymous cat

[ZipZipskins]

Dowan and Duvessa appear to be named after two influential devs here (but where did they get their names from!?).

sometimes a thought is several delicious layers of incorrect

the more I read this the more I enjoy it

[Piginabag]

Dowan and Duvessa appear to be named after two influential devs here (but where did they get their names from!?).

sometimes a thought is several delicious layers of incorrect

the more I read this the more I enjoy it

If you talk and act like you own the place and nobody says otherwise, it's easy to convince people that you do.

[Sar]

there's really nothing like a feeling of superiority over knowing some obscure fact about an internet video game community

and I'm not even being ironic here

[pubby]

Trog was named after his axe

[Arrhythmia]

Maud is obviously from nethack (though that raises another question).

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174634

Dowan and Duvessa appear to be named after two influential devs here (but where did they get their names from!?)

wowee zowee

[Cheibrodos]

Cheibriados was named after an influential member of the crawl community

[ZipZipskins]

Cheibriados was named after an influential member of the crawl community

wait you aren't a dev?

Maud is obviously from nethack (though that raises another question).

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174634

the more I think about this the more I forget everything else

[PowerOfKaishin]

I'm confused then, please enlighten me.

[Arrhythmia]

I'm confused then, please enlighten me.

you have causation mixed up. cheibrodos and duvessa and dowan named themselves after the game things; not vice versa.

[gammafunk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tReTlabrCPI

[dynast]

The people named after things in the game are like the "nenels" of the crawl community. I know im gonna get a lot of hate once they figure what it means.

[Cheibrodos]

The people named after things in the game are like the "nenels" of the crawl community. I know im gonna get a lot of hate once they figure what it means.

Well you're in luck then friendo, because not only do I not know what that is, I probably never will

[dowan]

I'm confused then, please enlighten me.

you have causation mixed up. cheibrodos and duvessa and dowan named themselves after the game things; not vice versa.

No, my friend, it is you who has mixed up causation.

Here's what happened:
Long, long ago, I won control of the realm of squishy elven mages, sweet sausages, and spoiled wine from a disgraced demi-god in an incomprehensible contest that mortal minds cannot grasp (it was a lot like a game of connect four)
I used this control to create the concept of Dowan in the thought-verse, that is to say, I created the concept, but it wasn't attached to any physical thing, it was just an idea floating in the universe. Also I created sweet italian sausage in much the same way, for what I assume are obvious reasons.

Much later, while, I assume, eating a sweet italian sausage, someone came up with the idea of Dowan the character in Dungeon Crawl. Probably Linley himself.

So, greatly amused, I took the name on for myself in the online forum for dungeon crawl.

I also accidentally created Duvessa, but that's a story for another day. Suffice it to say that was more related to spoiled wine than sweet sausages.

[dynast]

Thats "Nenel" behavior right there.

[dowan]

Nenel: a word you use when you can’t find any words to describe something.

That's all I could come up with from a brief google search. I have to assume you have a different meaning in mind.

[dynast]

Nenel is that crazy hobo who appears to live in a different universe and always passes by the street of either where you work or where you live at talking to himself and screaming at others some nonsense that you cannot help but laugh about.

[Tiktacy]

Nenel is that crazy hobo who appears to live in a different universe and always passes by the street of either where you work or where you live at talking to himself and screaming at others some nonsense that you cannot help but laugh about.

Is Crazy Yiuf a Nenel?

[dynast]

Is Crazy Yiuf a Nenel?

You nailed it.