How did you pick/made up your username?

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:02 am

Let's do something just for fun, it's holidays after all, right?
The point of this thread is for the posters to "confess" how did they pick up/made up their usernames and what special meaning do these usernames have for their users.

And no, I'll not be the first to confess!

Inferno_str1ke · Post by **Inferno_str1ke** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:29 pm

I used to like the word Inferno when I was about 10 and just venturing online for the first time (after building my own PC when I was 9

) and wanted to play some games over the MSN Gaming Zone network with some friends. I tried to register the name Inferno but someone had nicked it already. So I decided that a cool thing to add afterwards would be strike, as in 'Inferno Strike.' But then I found spaces were disallowed, so I looked at other names and saw that people were using underscores. I also liked the idea of using numbers to represent letters, so it became Inferno_str1ke. And that's the story. Last year when I started college and people began calling me Mike instead of my surname (as I had been known at my previous high-school) I decided to start writing it as M1ke, linking it moreso with my online name. I have since decided to call my website 1keNet, and you can find it for the moment at [url=http://www.m1ke.tk]www.m1ke.tk[/url]

Silverwood · Post by **Silverwood** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:22 pm

My TES CS elven city I made. It's name was Silverwood, after the street I lived on; Silverwood Drive.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:24 pm

prety obvious isent it?

well, my 3rd morowing char (a nord assasin, as usual) was going to be named Nerevarine cause i thought it would be funy to have people say "nerevarine, you are the nerevarine" or something. but when i got to the character generation, i had forgoten how to spell "nerevarine". so i named her Nerevar instead. then, when she got far in the game, i started caling her Lady Indoril Nerevar because she was high in guilds nad stuff, and lady made it sound cooler

so it eventualy stuck... when i joined TR after moving to baltimore, i made my username be Lady Nerevar cause the indoril would have ben to long. now its my username on all forums, although people mostly call me Lady N.

Graff · Post by **Graff** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:45 pm

Graff -> Graffika -> Cos I do graphics and stuff. I used to be called Graff The Nord, a long time ago, but I strongarmed Majra into changing my username

Graff.

Sload · Post by **Sload** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 6:30 pm

Obvious.

Sniper4 · Post by **Sniper4** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:38 am

I needed a screenname to use when playing Delta Force 2 about 6-7 years ago. Sniper4 was all I could think of, and I have used it ever since for just about everything I've registered for.

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:57 am

Mine is rather obvious too, it doesn't actually represent me but 'scumbag' was the first thing that hit my mind the moment I was registering, and I altered it to a more mexican style just to be politically correct!

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:57 am

Macar just popped into my head. I derived it from the elvish (quenya) word for sword- macil. I made it up for TR, and it has become my online username for everything.

Inferno_str1ke · Post by **Inferno_str1ke** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:44 pm

TR... inspiring stupid usernames everywhere

:P:P

Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:49 pm

Eraser, picked it as an online name for playing deathmatches sometime around the construction of the Sphinx and pyramids at Giza (honestly, about 9 and a half years ago for playing quake) and have used it for usernames and playernames ever since.

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:16 pm

Heh, Silmarillion, as usual. When I was joining ESF. I loved the cunningness of Morgoth in the book, but I also wanted to add something Elder Scrollsey to the name, so I came up with Morgoth of Ebonheart, that being my favorite city. When I joined TR, I Shortened it to just Morgoth because I'm lazy. I don't use the name for everything unlike most people. I have numerous other names scattered across the web such as Bowhunter, Ironhelm, and Nirune.

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:18 pm

Macar wrote:Macar just popped into my head. I derived it from the elvish (quenya) word for sword- macil. I made it up for TR, and it has become my online username for everything.

Oh, and sorry for the double post, but where does the Quenya language originate from?

Stalker · Post by **Stalker** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:32 pm

I've got mine from unit in C&C:Tiberian sun. There was this mutant guy with railgun named Hunter Stalker. I was playing Q2 back than and was pretty cool with railgun so I've taken Stalker part. Now I'm thinking of changing it to Steam Trout which is pretty obvious for IRC gang

Graff · Post by **Graff** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:07 pm

Morgoth wrote:
Macar wrote:Macar just popped into my head. I derived it from the elvish (quenya) word for sword- macil. I made it up for TR, and it has become my online username for everything.
Oh, and sorry for the double post, but where does the Quenya language originate from?

I believe it's based on the scandanavian languages...

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:10 pm

Morgoth wrote:
Oh, and sorry for the double post, but where does the Quenya language originate from?

hm, my copy of silmarilion was borowed and never returned.

Council Of Elrond.com wrote: Quenya

Pronunciation: kwen'yaa

Quenya was the language of the Eldar of Valinor, presumably the closest language to that spoken in CuiviÃƒÂ©nen by the first Quendi or Elves.

In the West, the Quenya of the Teleri on Tol EressÃƒÂ«a developed into a different dialect from that of the Noldor and Vanyar on the mainland of Aman.

In mortal lands, Quenya was spoken by the Noldorin exiles and underwent several minor changes. But its change was slowed when, as the language of Kinslayers, it was banned by Thingol, and Quenya became a language of lore, loved by the Noldor, the Edain who knew it, and the Ents, but not used in public.

It remained a language of lore among the DÃƒÂºnedain, and in later ages its use was a sign of respect and friendship for the Eldar.

Quenya was a beautiful language, its liquid syllables suited to songs and poetry. It is also called the Ancient Speech, the Ancient Tongue, the High Speech of the West, Eldarin, High-elven, High Eldarin and Valinorean.

hope thats not too geek for ya

Massalinie · Post by **Massalinie** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:29 pm

My tale is a simple one. You may or may not have noticed where the name actually came from. Basically I was about to start a new morrowind game and I thought, i want a proper morrowind-style name instead of something ordinary like my real name, so i was walking along looking at people's names and i came across the mages guild in Balmora and the guild guide, Masalinnie Merian, so basically I stole her name, only i spelt it wrong and i forgot the last name so i made one up. After that, i used it whenever i joined anything new, on the internet or whatever, which i had never really done before I became utterly obsessed with Morrowind.

horodnicdragos · Post by **horodnicdragos** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:37 pm

Well...this is my real name

Horodnic Dragos Stefan.I know what you think at.I just had no inspiration when I joined up.

Tags · Post by **Tags** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:40 pm

Hmmm... lets see I used the name for one of my Rifts characters, nd again for my FF XI character... ;> So I stuck with it, besides I got bored with my old names...

Lutemoth · Post by **Lutemoth** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:44 pm

Many many moons ago, I first tried my hands at literature with a story called "Ignoramia" (secluded empirical island of every drawn/designed character ever made). One of the many political strifes turned to battle was the war between insect/bug people and the Roleplay characters. A key leader of the commanding outposts was Major General Lutemoth, a level 42 Dark Elf bard (or drow, as D&D calls it).

After putting a hiatus on that, I began playing Daggerfall. The first character I made was Lutemoth

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:43 am

I thought that Massalinie was that ancient roman lady who had quite an appetite for...forbidden pleasures.
Dunno if that is how she is called in English but in my lingo it is Messalina (spelled Mess-al-in-ah, read each one separately, then altogether and you said the name), so I connected it immediately.

What a misunderstanding! As long as I live, I learn...

RowanTiernan · Post by **RowanTiernan** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:56 am

Ok guys- this is my short, rather uninteresting story... I wanted to be a nord character in morrowind, so as the over thinking person I am, set onto a quest to find a seemingly authentic name for a character of nordic descent. Having studied viking and irish legends and lore, I chose Rowan Tiernan, because it sounded authentic, and rather kick ass to boot

... as well as being a fan of Ireland and irish lore in general, Im super excited b/c im going to ireland in June! Gonna tour the continent, and visit the Guinness Factor!! YAY! (Sorry, that was my random tangent for the day.... i hope you enjoyed it

) Peace out,

~Rowan

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:05 pm

Basically, it's simply my initials.

If some dude called Gunther Edward Zygorski had the same idea before me, he'd have took the same username, too.

Orix · Post by **Orix** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:29 pm

My first major online game was StarWars Galaxies, and I needed to come up with a decent name for a Trandoshan (lizard person), so I basically searched a few StarWars encyclopedias on the net and found Orix, some minor Trandoshan thug in a novel who lived during the old republic and died, basically. I liked the name, so I decided to use it.

Little did I know its also the name of a huge Japanese firm as well... and there's someone else on the net who also likes to use the name since I've had trouble registering as a user name on larger networks.

For Morrowind and Galaxies, I extend the name to Orix Solariss, mainly because I was watching the movie Solaris at that time. Terrible movie, cool word though!

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:35 pm

Lady Nerevar wrote:Hope thats not too geek for ya

...Me and my idiocy. I can remember the entire line of Finwe and almost every name in the book, but can't remember what they call high elvish...

Lud · Post by **Lud** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:03 pm

Mine is pretty boring.
My real name is Luke and I just changed that to Ludovic.

[comic shop guy voice]Worst reason ever[/comic shop guy voice]

Hamlet_Shakespeare · Post by **Hamlet_Shakespeare** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 3:08 am

Well, mine is the lamest of the lamest of the lllllllllllllllllllllllllamest. I simply thought up a random name for TR. On all other websites, my name is zenomorph or zenomorph8. Just in case you were wondering why my name sucks so much...

The_Warder · Post by **The_Warder** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:02 am

I got mine from the wheel of time series. Originaly it was unseen_eye. from the unseen I eyes that people thought were watching them in the dream world.my dad mad a couple of jokes about an unseen_eye. so I changed it so he would stop.
I got the_warder from the warders in the wheel of time. these are my second favorite group of characters in the series and my favorite character is one (Lan). pretty cheap huh.

Silvone Elestahr · Post by **Silvone Elestahr** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:45 am

well...my name came from a book I'm trying to write. One of the characters was just a background character, the personal guard of a lesser king. His King is slain and he fades into the background. After fleshing out his character a bit, I realized he wasn't very different from me. So I took that name on as my own, in a way. Everything I write, I write as Silvone E. Elestahr. Most places I go to on the internet I call myself Silvone. My girlfriend even calls me Silvi (short for Silvone, obviously). She only uses my real name when shes pissed off at me...

Vholdrian · Post by **Vholdrian** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:58 am

My own name is Adriaan, well thats dutch, so it would be Adrian in english. So i heard of the badass from Harry pooter and his name was Voldemort, i liked that so i combined the english version of my name with Voldemort, which turned out to be Vold(emort)(Ad)rian. Then i added the H because i thought it was cool

sirwootalot123 · Post by **sirwootalot123** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:56 am

It all started when my brother and I were too old to share an AIM screen-name (I was 13, he was 15). I was just gonna be "Sam Woodman", but that sounded too much (exactly) like my actual name, so I made it Samwootman67. After a year, I decided that sounded too gay, and tried to come up with something suiting me. I liked the "woot" part of it (I had no idea woot was a phrase till sometime around me coming here a year later), and had just watched monty python and the holy grail, so Sirwootalot evolved - from sir lancelot, of course. The 123 at the end is because I tried registering about 7 different times when I first discovered TR, and I used AOL for email and it kept deleting confirmation messages. I'd have it shortened to just "Sirwootalot", but the 6 or so unactivated accounts are still there so I cant steal the name.

Mr. Sorry of Balmora · Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:20 am

Macar wrote:Macar just popped into my head. I derived it from the elvish (quenya) word for sword- macil. I made it up for TR, and it has become my online username for everything.

either that or youve been playing...

The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
[img]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a44/Mr_Sorry/makar.gif[/img]

though his is spelled Makar

Edit: forgot mine...

Mr. Sorry is a nickname i've gotten from my family
Of Balmora just to tie in morrowind.

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:14 pm

Vholdrian wrote:Harry pooter

*snirkt*

Bwahahahaha ! [img]http://www.nothingland.com/forums/images/smilies/topher/images/24.gif[/img]

sxotty · Post by **sxotty** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:39 pm

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:44 pm

Mr. sorry, I've never played windwaker, or any zelda game for that matter.

Another coincidence: My father told me that Macar means "sneaky" in arabic.

Vholdrian · Post by **Vholdrian** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:58 pm

Harry Pooter is not a typo. Thats what i like to call the little *******

Andres Indoril · Post by **Andres Indoril** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:04 pm

I made my user name from my first name which is Andres and added a more Dunmer kind of a last name Indoril, so I could lie that Nerevar Indoril was my grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-father.

Boompiee · Post by **Boompiee** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:46 pm

Boompiee is a a nickname my sister gave me based on my last name. I used to use the nick Lord Voraz a lot, which comes from the book Battlefield Earth by Ron L. Hubbard. But since that sounds a little too nooby now, I went with Boompiee.

Theo · Post by **Theo** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:09 pm

When I came as an exchange student to Leeds to study theology nobody could really properly pronounce my true name. So my Chinese friends adviced me to pick a nick, as they usually do when they are annoyed by foreigners calling them "wax tadpole" instead of "soldier of fortune".
Theo was an obvious choice as I was there to study theology and moreover I like the name and Kojak series as well. So now I am known as Theo from Brazil to Japan

Arondil Rethan · Post by **Arondil Rethan** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:47 am

Arondil Rethan is the Dark Elf thief, which I used to play in Morrowind. The history of the name was, that I needed the name, that fit the 'Rethan Manor'. First name wasn't yet made up, but in 5 minutes the name 'Arondil' just popped in my head. <ItÃƒÂ¤s been my name ever since.