Name Stories

Ekental · Post by **Ekental** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:44 pm

I've noticed that many people have chosen their names based of anecdotes or other esoterica. So... anyone wanna talk about where their name came from? Some of them are downright weird.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:06 pm

I was sitting down in front of my computer staring absently at the Game Banshee registration form and "Dragon Wench," was the first thing that came to mind I liked

Demortis · Post by **Demortis** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:40 pm

my brothers and i were sitting around bored out of our minds when we say something about the four horsemen. i thought how cool death looked and my brothers started to call me Death, i then started to look up other names then Death becuase every one uses that name. we started to call my older bro War and my youngest plague. becuase thats wut we are to humanity.

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 3:09 am

[QUOTE=Demortis] i thought how cool death looked and my brothers started to call me Death, i then started to look up other names then Death becuase every one uses that name. we started to call my older bro War and my youngest plague. becuase thats wut we are to humanity.[/QUOTE]

You must be one happy bunch of fellows then.

When I first came to Banshee, my name was ARcheR_S_, but at a certain point I couldn't access my account anymore. Not that it mattered much to me anyway, because I thought the name was both large (capital letters) as childisch. So I changed my name to Sytze. A name that will be known in a few years to humanity.

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:58 am

I've forgotten the history of my name

I guess that means history will now repeat itself, but I'm not quite sure how that'll work.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 5:33 am

I think this thread has been up before, but anyways.....

My name was because I needed a name to use the first time I played Diablo in network with a friend (well - the only time I played Diablo at all).
So I sat messing around with letters and started to use Xerxes as a name because I liked the sound of it (not because of the historical reference). But I didn't want to use a well-known historical name so I messed around some more with the letters and suddenly came up with Xandax which I thought was rather unic.
And since then I've used Xandax for pretty much any RPGish game I've played, andmost all my online handles.

Except for my playing CounterStrike in a periode where I went by the handle CannonFodder where I played, and when I played UT in LANs with some friends where I took the name Slazher (leet right? But I did also kick butt once in UT

)

Only later have I found out that Xandax indeed is also bound in the real world which I didn't know when I thought it up ... or rather took the name.
Howver - I've also found that somebody playing EverQuest use(d) the name Xandax (dang it) But mostly anywhere else (outside EQ) where you encounter the name Xandax in some sort of comunity/forum - it is me.

. (google it and find out

)

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 6:35 am

Stilgar comes from the Dune novels.
I'm not very name creative, so i used to use alot of names from books for character names in RPG's.
And i stuck with Stilgar for another forum (my favorite character in the first book), when that forum closed and i went to Gamebanshee i took the name with me.

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 6:47 am

garazdawi is actually a combination of two words. Garaz and Dawi, Garaz meaning fearless and Dawi meaning dwarf. That's the name of my first Warhammer army and because it's so unique I've started to use it whenever I play games or make my oppionion heard online. The language it is written in is Dwarvish in Warhammer. It's really too bad that I cannot use the runes that are used to write it in dwarvish. They look really cool

If you google it than you can follow all the major webpages that I've ever visted, and I'm pretty sure that no one has used that name as well... the first one to copy me would get a smack on his buttom.

ik911 · Post by **ik911** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 7:05 am

My name consists of ik, which is I in dutch, and 9-11, an important date in history, never to be forgotten. This combination proved to be very unique.

Fiberfar · Post by **Fiberfar** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 7:10 am

Well, Fiberfar comes from a friend of mine (the same one that painted my avatar). He was making a disturbing family picture which included my avatar and a boy. They were both holding a fiberwire ( the weapon from Hitman)
so they became Fiberfar (far means father) and fiberbror (bror means brother).

Opalescence · Post by **Opalescence** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:12 am

Well anyone who plays Magic: the Gathering knows what Opalescence is: it's a powerful enchantment card that's been so abused in its time it was banned for all eternity. That's right, yours truly was one of the most judicious Opalescence-deck abuser of his time. I was feared! Then my deck got banned

. I still kept the name, however, despite the boos and the rotten (digital) tomatoes thrown at me in MtG forums

. At least here, (most) people don't know what Opalescence is, so I get away with it

. I sometimes go under the name Retaliation, although that's an entirely different story.

Volk · Post by **Volk** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:38 am

Volk meens either Wolf in Russian or Nation in German, so i found it confusing and took it.

Shai Hulud · Post by **Shai Hulud** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:58 am

I have used shai hulud, from dune, for a long time now both on forums and game handles. It started mainly because I wanted something with meaning and now it works best for fps games because of the 1 sillable begining that is very easy when under fire.

I've enjoyed the name and doubt anything will come up that would have me change it. I used it now...wow close to 10 years.

Actually I think I'm gonna change my Avatar to my sandworm from a previous forum. I miss it.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:31 pm

In the Life sciences we use and kill many different other species, from bacteria to primates. It is not our obvious right to do so, but we think it is worth doing it in order to achive knowledge that will help decrease suffering among our own species.

Caenorhabitis Elegans is a roundworm that is used as a model organism in the Life Sciences. I cannot even start to describe the massive amount of knowledge the studies of this little worm has given mankind. The scientist who first got the idea to start using C Elegans as a model organism, Sydney Brenner, calls it "Nature's gift to science". So, I took my username as a little tribute to this truly wonderful little nematode.

I had also used the same name for my protagonist in BG and BG2, and on Bnet for Diablo II. At Bnet it's a great name, because any other scientist will immediately recognise the name, so I've come in contact with other Life Scientists who play Diablo

Tower_Master · Post by **Tower_Master** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:53 pm

My name is an ancient and proud one, passed down as a legend for generations as far back as man can remember...

Ok, not really. It's actually the punishment for my stupidity. Never force your little brother to register you in a forum while you're working (ESPECIALLY if he's a Dragon Lance fan).

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 3:20 pm

[QUOTE=C Elegans]In the Life sciences we use and kill many different other species, from bacteria to primates. It is not our obvious right to do so, but we think it is worth doing it in order to achive knowledge that will help decrease suffering among our own species.

Caenorhabitis Elegans is a roundworm that is used as a model organism in the Life Sciences. I cannot even start to describe the massive amount of knowledge the studies of this little worm has given mankind. The scientist who first got the idea to start using C Elegans as a model organism, Sydney Brenner, calls it "Nature's gift to science". So, I took my username as a little tribute to this truly wonderful little nematode.

I had also used the same name for my protagonist in BG and BG2, and on Bnet for Diablo II. At Bnet it's a great name, because any other scientist will immediately recognise the name, so I've come in contact with other Life Scientists who play Diablo

[/QUOTE]

Doesn't it have the highest number of braincells to mass ratio of any living organism as well? Or is that some misplaced trivia

My handle comes from my name.... which is giles

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 3:36 pm

I've been using Aegis for sometime now. I think I'm getting onto 6 years. Unless I'm wrong, it is latin for 'shield', which fits perfectly with my nature as being someone who is defensive, and protective of my friends and family.

IT started off as the name of a character in one of my stories, and then I transferred it online, into games and onto forums. Quite often, these days, it exists in the forum of ÆGIS.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:49 pm

[QUOTE=giles337]Doesn't it have the highest number of braincells to mass ratio of any living organism as well? Or is that some misplaced trivia
[/QUOTE]

It is correct that is has the highest ratio of neurons - neurons are often called brain cells, but in the case of our little worm, "brain" is somewhat exagregated

blake · Post by **blake** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 6:08 pm

my name came from my name irl...

great story i know

werebeargoddess · Post by **werebeargoddess** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:17 pm

I got mine when I first joined AIM. I was trying to think of a name, but all of the names that I thought of were already taken. I had just been denied werewolfgoddess, or something along that line, I can't remember what it had been exactly, except that it had goddess in it. But anyway, my dad suggested that I use werebeargoddess, and lo! I was able to use that. I've been using the same name ever since, mostly because I'm too lazy to think of something else.