Talk:Riven/SkinsTrivia/@comment-70.176.105.169-20110913033657

"Her name and title are possibly a reference to the Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, as a main character of the former is named Revan, stemming from the same root word as Riven. The main character of the latter is known as the Exile, the same as Riven's title. Similarly, her story sounds very familiar to the Exile's story before KotOR II. "

Riven and her name have absolutely nothing to do with Revan or KoTOR. The base word for Revan's name is revanchist or revanche. Revanche is "the policy of a state intent on regaining areas of its original territory that have been lost to other states as a result of war, a treaty signed under duress, etc." while a revanchist is a supporter of this policy. Revan's name was a shortening of "The Revanchist" because that's exactly what he was in the events prior to KoTOR. He was the poster boy for the Republic's efforts to retake their territories/planets/colonies that were taken from them by the Mandalorians.

Riven's name is the word riven, which means rent or split apart. She is called this because she uses a rent sword....that's it.