The history of the name that is you.

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Some amount of new threads I'm making here. Well what's the harm, as long as there's at least some sort of imaginative point to them.

If you want to share the history of your nick, place it here. This idea was brought up by Harkle when he asked of my nickchange here.

The history of my own nick is also there, partially. But I'll repost it here anyway. Feel free to discuss of each other's nicks aside from just giving out stories of your own, of course.

Around the year 1993/-4 I got my first comp. For the reason that I had to have a cool nick (I like my real name, but not only do I dislike the idea of not being anonymous, I don't think my name really fits a hero either). I don't really remember what the first few versions were, but right when the X-Files came, I took the Fox from Mulder's forename and added a "z" to the end. That's when I became known as Foxz for until around year 2000.

Then, just after I had graduated from the high-school and started preparing for the army, I re-designed my nick for the old one was too old, and too n00bish. Above all, it had already been used by others on different online and other multiplaying games and services. After thinkig about several different names, I came to the conclusion of Forashi. Fora is taken from the Japanese word of "tora" which means tiger, whereas "shi/shine" means death or dying, in the very same language. F was to replace the t in "tora" to keep it at least somewhat personalized for me, not just a stupid cloneword. This new nick was close enough to the old one so most ppl still guessed it was me, and was long and compicated enough to not be copied (or re-invented by another) just like that.

During the first 2 quarters of the year 2002, inspired by Ed Greenwood's Elminster and need for more uniqueness, I came up with yet another nick. But this time, it's purpose was not so much to replace my old one, as to simply complement for it for fantasy game purposes. So far I've met less than 5 individuals of my considerable repertoire of net-familiar folks who have not immediately realised that Forashi is the same as Foradasthar. Forashi is still the one I will use for most purposes, but Foradasthar, being a much more powerful, unique and somehow "catching" name IMO, is now considered as the primary nick for all things that matter, so to speak.

And that was it, for that story.

 

Well, it goes like this, I got realy sick of the unoriginality of the name zaknafein and looked through my elvish dictionary dor this one

 

It just popped up

 

My name is simple... The first letter of my last name (also the name of the main character of my books once he finds himself and changes himself)

Lucian Loki Xenos btw if anyone was interested hehe

 

It is the name of my Paladin I take through pretty much any roleplaying game and now pretty much any game. When I can't be a Paladin, its a fighter. Heck, I even have a Sim named Elios.
I don't know if it really sounds heroic or anything.

 

basically my nick started out as a typo from my real name (gerard) the first time I started playing BG. Well to make it a bit more personal, I added on and that's about it!

 

My nick was my first BG name and it also means "of the storms" in the Forgotten Realms calander.

 

Aikanaro: I always thought your nick was Finnish -related. Aika = time, while naro is almost the same as nero (=genious). So that would make a "timegenious" or "timemaster" or some such, with but one vocal changed. Well, now I'm wiser by a bit.

 

Well, I needed a name for my Diablo 1 Fighter, and Faragon popped up. (The name comes from Niel Hancock's books. I rather disliked the books, but I liked the name a lot.) When I got more active on the Internet, I automatically used this name. Ever since, I've gone by the name of Faragon on the web, in games and now also in my first pnp roleplaying campaign.

 

it's a book by william gibson.. sci-fi.

 

There's a legend behind it that I posted about here:www.sorcerers.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=004853#000006 in this forum, whatnots and then 'Got Heraldry?' thread. My friends made up an English nick from that and I translated it into French some year or two ago.'Chevalier' has also additional rpg class-related meaning I have noticed only recently

[ January 18, 2003, 03:45: Message edited by: chevalier des Trois-Tours ]

 

I was trying to come up with an appropriate sounding dragon-y name (for something else) one day, and Sapphire Dragon was taken. So I tweaked what I wanted a little bit, and I came out with dragonjewel13 (13 is my lucky number) and then I recently tweaked it more, since I think that Dragon's Jewel makes a little bit more sense.

 

Mine is a bastardization of a Kirosawa film with Toshiro Mifune, Yojimbo, combined with my fondness for monkeys and chimps

(most people have seen it as A Fistful of Dollars (Clint Eastwood) or Last Man Standing (Bruce Willis)

 

No books, no movies, no tricks.

I know a bit of quite some things, but I'm a master of nothing.
Jack of all Trades was allready in use, so Master of None would be left. None was changed into something else, something more weird/mystical/fantastic, and so Master of Nuhn came up in mind.
I could also have chosen the name Djakov o'Traeds

 

Ezellohar was nicked from Tolken's wonderful book Silmarillion. Shark was stuck in the end, to make it cool. It has shortened and lengthened into Ezellohar to Ezellohar Peridan Kenneth Shark Lionheart from time to time. Shark I liked, Peridan is from BG2, where it is a dragon sword, Kenneth from Walter Scott's 'Talisman' and Lionheart nicked from the great king Richard. Then it turned into Eze&Sharkie, when I had a divided personality. Ezellohar came back soon. When I started writing, I chose Raymond Seychelles as my pseudonym and I use it on FF.net. Corinn, The Slashwriter, is also on FF.net and the most recent one, Eze, The Slasher, was inspired by the fall of my friends.
Once it turned into Ezellohar, The RDMM, what was Renegade Dungeon Master Monk, but I changed it back to Ezellohar.

Scary, ne?

 

Quite simple. I like ice, and I like mages. Frostmage just sounded cooler than Icemage.

 

Also a book, this one by James P Hogan (sci-fi). My nick is the name of a computer in one of his series.

 

Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun,most charismatic and one of the most powerful mages in Faerun,one of the rulers of Waterdeep.

 

Mine comes from a character in the Star Wars novels, Kam Solusar, a once dark Jedi whom Luke turned to the Light Side. The name sounded really cool, and I was stuck for a PnP name, at the time. It was a natural step to using it here at SP.

 

Creutzfeldt-Jakob is the scientific name for Mad Cow disease.

Don't ask.