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See, even my internet handle isn't positive. I came up with this in high school (graduated '91) and it's been with me ever since.
So, what does your name mean and why did you pick it?
Bronn Selgard is the name of the smithy in Shadowdale, in the Forgotten Realms Setting from 2nd Edition.
I started playing around 1992 or so and was enamored of that little village and so named a character after him. And played him for so long that many of my gaming buddies from that time just.. kept right on calling me Selgard. In 1996 when I started getting on line, the name just seemed to follow right along with me and .. here I am.
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My wraithstrike handle was something I made up because I wanted the name of something stealty and dangerous. I did not just want to be called wraith after the D&D monster. I figured a wraith's strike was pretty dangerous.
Mine's just my first name and last initial. Had I added my last name too, people would think it's just a handle and not a real name anyway.
Ice Titan was the first huge miniature I ever bought. I wish I could flip my alias and my actual name now, but alas.
I later found out that it was a Frost Titan.
Oops.
O.o
Amber foamy alcoholic liquid that comes in bottles and cans. Usually served cold in the United States.
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I've put this in another thread, but:
Me: ** DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!
Friend: You're being awfully violent. Isn't that against your religion?
Me: Look, I kill things here ** so I don't try to kill things in real life.
Friend: Ah, so you're some kind of Death Quaker.
Alitan is just the name of a favorite old character... a mage/thief who usually ran under the nom du guerre of 'Alton Whoresget.'
As a single mother of 2, its my principal domestic job description.
As for the avatar, this is how many hands I want (and felt I needed when they were both under about 6).
I signed up for a message board shortly after seeing an exhibition of prints by William Hogarth and I just stuck with it.
It is a reference to a Robert Frost poem. I chose it because I love Robert Frost's poetry, in particular this one. The poem has a lot of significant commentary on unwritten societal norms, and how we, as a species, tend towards connecting through disconnections (kind of like the interwebz :P). The poem also mentions casting spells, and elves, which I thought appropriate. The numbers, so often confused as the whole unit 12, are actually meant to be taken separately, 1, and 2. Steps in a dance, steps in a journey, steps in an argument. Everything in life is a series of steps, be they literal or metaphoric. Any wall can be mended (read: any broken connection can be fixed) if people just take the necessary first steps.
:)
The 8th Dwarf through the door of a certain Hobbits house, It was the Street name of my favorite Shadowrun Character.
Protagonist of Jack Vance's "Demon Princes" series.
Laurefindel was the name of a LARP character of mine in the late '90s.
Nobody ever used the full name; it would either be Laure (la-OH-ray) or findel (finn-del). While I like both shortened versions, Laure (pronounced "lore" however) is my grandmother's name and didn't look right when spelled out. So 'findel became by de facto signature.
'findel
The connection to William Blake is a given. But specifically?
Lo, a shadow of horror is risen
In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific,
Self-clos'd, all-repelling: what demon
Hath form'd this abominable void,
This soul-shudd'ring vacuum? Some said
"It is Urizen." But unknown, abstracted,
Brooding, secret, the dark power hid.
Nice one, Urizen! Good taste on the poet and the singer (and not just because Bruce is one of my wife's clients).
*Gasp* Urizen has returned!
The connection to William Blake is a given. But specifically?
Lo, a shadow of horror is risen
In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific,
Self-clos'd, all-repelling: what demon
Hath form'd this abominable void,
This soul-shudd'ring vacuum? Some said
"It is Urizen." But unknown, abstracted,
Brooding, secret, the dark power hid.
Tangential to the topic... have you read Phillip Jose Famer's 'World of Tiers' series?
Morain is my highest level D&D character ever (lvl 27), and my main for many years playing Everquest 2.
Kip is short for a nickname (Kippa) and 1984 is the year I was born... Super boring hey.
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Mine is from my Mage Knight days; when looking into the game, the Black Powder Revolution was my favorite faction. Also back then, my email addresses had always referenced chocobos (starting from my younger days when Final Fantasies were at their peak), so my Mage Knight forum name was Black Powder Chocobo and I've used it periodically since.
Tangential to the topic... have you read Phillip Jose Famer's 'World of Tiers' series?The connection to William Blake is a given. But specifically?
Lo, a shadow of horror is risen
In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific,
Self-clos'd, all-repelling: what demon
Hath form'd this abominable void,
This soul-shudd'ring vacuum? Some said
"It is Urizen." But unknown, abstracted,
Brooding, secret, the dark power hid.
I've not heard of him until reading your response. Did a quick Wikipedia check on the topic and then placed Volumes 1 and 2 on my Amazon Wishlist.
Heck, I've never even read anything by Zelazny (which may be blasphemy by some, I realize).
Asphere was a spherical entity in the book Flatland. He tried to teach his friend Asquare about the third spatial dimension.
That's what I would have deduced. Picked up a reprint I found used recently at Half Price Books a couple months back.
I've not heard of him until reading your response. Did a quick Wikipedia check on the topic and then placed Volumes 1 and 2 on my Amazon Wishlist.Heck, I've never even read anything by Zelazny (which may be blasphemy by some, I realize).
Heh. The semi-pantheon in Blake's work has the names lifted for a myriad of characters in the series, Urizen among them. "The Gates of Creation" is my favorite from the series, fyi.
Geez, no Zelazny? Not blasphemous, just 'wow you're missing out.'
I love the Chronicles of Amber (both sets), but I also highly recommend "Lord of Light."
John Carter trivia: In the novel A Princess of Mars, the walls of Zodanga are made of huge carborundum blocks.
because at the time I thought Marth from Super Smash Bros. Melee was cool. Then it just stuck because barely anyone uses it, not a lot of people question it, and it makes material for some pet names from my friends :S (Marty being the most common.)
because at the time I thought Marth from Fire Emblem was cool. Then it just stuck because barely anyone uses it, not a lot of people question it, and it makes material for some pet names from my friends :S (Marty being the most common.)
FIFY
Real life nickname for me.
Sissyl is a demon from the Atland comic.
Regarding Zelazny: Read the Amber chronicles and Lord of Light. Or, you are not just missing out, the Nidalese Attitude Readjustment Technicians (NARTs) will be paying you a visit before long.
My handle is from the Tarot card of the same name. The Hermit is the wise teacher. And that is who I would like to be.
Three things:
1. I love to read myself, always have, always will, dead tree, e-ink, doesn't matter.
2. Mostly because of this, I became a high school English teacher, where I never let my students forget that reading is a good thing.
3. I have three daughters, to each of whom I have (hopefully) conveyed a love of reading.
So, both figuratively and literally, in a way, I "breed" readers.
Sadly, I had an epiphany when I was in college (and was depressed for 2 days thereby) that there was literally never going to be enough time to read everything I wanted to; nevertheless, both Farmer and Zelazny are on my reading "bucket list."
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I had a plaque on my wall growing up explaining the origin of my name. Kevin is derrived from Kenneth, which came from the Gaelic Caineach.
Pippi because "Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump" didn't quite fit.
I was a big 'Zoids' fan when I was a teenager, and when I saw the 'Matrix Dragon' Zoid I thought it was awesome. I was already also a dragon fan, so I took the name and translated the Dragon to Ryu (Japanese for dragon).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoids
http://zoids.wikia.com/wiki/Matrix_Dragon
Working on thinking of a more original handle nowadays, but nothing has stuck yet. I'm in no hurry because Zoids has lost popularity, so I rarely have to worry about naming conflicts, lol.
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The villain in my first real homebrew 2nd edition campaign. In the world, I actually had my friends all create gods, and one of them came up with this one and their twin Xzaram. I retrofitted the gods for my purposes afterwards and this oen became the main villain.
I had him not actually be a god at first but had learned that the true nature of divinity was actually a veil that could be lifted. To this end he sought relics of two of the main gods of the pantheon to lift their divine veil and force them to the mortal plane so he could destroy them utterly. This same divine veil is what protected Xzaral as well from others. Eventually one of the characters managed to gain the ability to pierce the divine veil as well, and with the sacrifice of another character gained a weapon that could also hurt him in physical form and defeated him. An interesting fact is that a third PC had traveled back in time and actually sired him years ago. The fourth PC was just an aspect of the god of death. I thought it was pretty good since I was 15 at the time.
Its my real life nickname since 1997. With some changes to spelling lately (Drake is too often occupied when registering on various sites).
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'C' is for Conrad (Germanic derivation meaning 'wise councilor')
'B' is for Bertrand (old English derivation meaning 'bright raven')
'Dunkerson' (Germanic derivation meaning 'son of darkness') is the family name I inherited from my father... who was also the one that decided to name me after Joseph Conrad and Bertrand Russell.