Their names are typical of their culture but also signify something about their bearers. :p And they remain among my favorites of Simon R. Green's characters--better-developed than most of them. I love Green dearly, but he has this tendency to start phoning it in (I can't blame him, to be honest; he sells like hotcakes and produces at a rapid rate, so it's clearly a profitable strategy).

I would honestly recommend to you his Blue Moon Rising, his first published novel, which takes high fantasy and turns some of its tropes upside-down and sideways with a liberal dose of snark, and also without the phoning-it-in tendency of his later works. It features a virgin prince who rides a unicorn being sent to kill a dragon because his father the king is trying to get him killed to get rid of the excess heir. Except the dragon wants to be rescued from the swordswoman princess who was dumped at his lair. And that's just the beginning of their problems, including an infestation of demons, the politics of feudalism, a castle with unusual architectural problems, practical goblins, and some incredibly cool but fickle magic weapons. If any of this sounds interesting to you, I will send you a copy.