Actually, if anyone remembers an old Black Isle game called Icewind Dale (very similar to Baldur's Gate), there was an elf adventurer who you find dead in a cave early on named Erevain Blacksheaf. You steal his sword and a letter off of his body, rather rudely.
I felt that, since he wasn't going to be using it anymore, he wouldn't mind if I stole his name as well.