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I know this is a topic that's been brought up a few times, but it's been a long while since I've last seen it discussed: What's the origin and/or inspiration for your Org username?
As for myself, I'm a huge Star Trek fan, particularly of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. As Martok is one of my two favorite characters on DS9, the name was a natural choice for me. :klingon:
Famous Japanese swordsman who got his ass kicked by Musashi. But, he has a cooler name than Musashi. So there!
I got my name from an anime series.
Handy little sword I bought in Okinawa. I was going to buy just a regular Katana, but I already had so much baggage that I couldn't possibly lug a Katana around with me, so I bought the little one instead, the Sword smith was this little old man who was probably well into his 80's or 90's and via my Japanese Speaking Brother had said "The Katana brings a man to his knees, the Wakizashi kills him." So thats the inspiration.
Rythmic was a band I used to be in. I'm getting sick of it, may change it to Psychonaut.
No, Rythmic is good. It's the only way to know who you are since you don't have an avatar. :wink2:
The origin of mine... well, I like three letter combinations, thus Raz was born.
Caledonian Rhyfelwyr comes from the only specifically Scottish unit in Europa Barbarorum, which was called Caledonii Rhyfelywyr or something along those lines.
Since I joined here they've changed it to Balrooae though. But I think I'll stick with CR.
The synonymous Pope. He was a transitional figure at best, but one who took some momentous initiatives. I love his bio in the Catholic Encyclopedia, which in a case like this is obviously the only acceptable source. Italics highlighting the funniest passages are mine:
Pope Adrian II
(Reigned 867-872.)
After the death of St. Nicholas I, the Roman clergy and people elected, much against his will, the venerable Cardinal Adrian, universally beloved for his charity and amiability, descended from a Roman family which had already given two pontiffs to the Church, Stephen III and Sergius II. Adrian was now seventy-five years old, and twice before had refused the dignity. He had been married before taking orders, and his old age was saddened by a domestic tragedy. As pope, he followed closely in the footsteps of his energetic predecessor. He strove to maintain peace among the greedy and incompetent descendants of Charlemagne. In an interview at Monte Cassino he admitted to communion the repentant King Lothair of Lorraine, after exacting from him a public oath that he had held no intercourse with his concubine since the pope's prohibition, that he would take back his lawful wife Theutberga, and abide by the final decision of the Roman See. He upheld with vigour against Hincmar of Reims the unlimited right of bishops to appeal to the Sovereign Pontiff. At the Eighth General Council, which he convened at Constantinople in 869, and presided over through ten legates, he effected the deposition of Photius and the restoration of unity between the East and the West. He was unsuccessful in retaining the Bulgarians for the western patriarchate; that nation unwisely determined to adhere to Constantinople, a course which was destined to bring upon it ruin and stagnation. Adrian saved the western Slavs from a similar fate by seconding the efforts of the saintly brothers, Cyril and Methodius. Of enduring influence, for good or evil, was the endorsement he gave to their rendering of the liturgy in the Slavonic tongue. Adrian died towards the close of the year 872.
Kagemusha translates directly as "shadow warrior", but the word is used in Japanese from a dobbelganger, so basically Kagemusha is the real me in internet so does speak, artificial internet side of me, still a real person.~;)
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Quoting from the info on my User Page:
It was born playing a very primitive Total War-like game for Windows, World Empire, years ago, in which you assume the role of a general with a cause ruling a country and fighting against others (human or computer controlled) for the domination of the modern world. Muzaffer Postal (the victorious military boot) was the name I had assumed and later came the bastardization, purely for personal amusement, during the days of Pharaoh.Quote:
Mouzafphaerre...what does it mean?
It's the bastardization of Muzaffer; a Turkish given name of Arabic origin (مظفر from the root ظفر) meaning victorious, triumphant. It has often been confused with μουσαφίρης, Greek and Turkish (misâfir) word for guest, also of Arabic origin (مسافر from the root سفر). The coincidence is unintentional.
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CountArach is from my general in the first army I ever owned for the tabletop wargame Warhammer. It has sort of just stuck now.
Back in the days of me being a little lad, I was playing Runescape.
I came accross this guy who was like a really high level (probably level 25)
He was mining (I love mining and smithing in games. I just do) and i made ingame friends with him. He paid me money to go smelt his ore. He paid me to go buy some blue clothes. Like 200 gp to walk for 30 seconds. I asked him why he couldnt do it.
"Because if i go out of here, my ex team mates will kill me in real life"
I stole his username. Heh. Mine now, search "pevergreen" in google and every single one is me. I cant get "pevergreen@hotmail.com" though.
So I am pevergreen everywhere.
My password for everything is another guy's username off Runescape, he gave me some fish. He was nice. He's been my password for many-a-year now.
Back in the days of me being a young lad, me and my father would play Age of Empires together. This was waaay back in '99. I subsequently made up this player name, which is just a twist on my real name, simple as. Then, when i found the .Org at the time of RTW's release, it only seemed appropriate to resurrect my old name.
When I discovered the.Org in the old Shogun:totalwar days, it seemed that half the usernames related to weapons, so (wanting to get with the program) I picked a fairly obscure weapon (kukri) and added "khan" in honor of the then-only-rumored Mongol Invasion expansion pack.
Thus kukri+khan = KukriKhan. It stuck.
Back in the days of me being born, way back in 1978, some woman and her husband decided to call me Andres. It has sort of stuck now.
For one with a non-English surname,
whom too much hears it misspoke,
then from the start as I often say,
The eyes have the way it is seen,
yet a tongue is the way it is said.
C macQ
Or maybe it should be C maKw???
It's a family thing. If you asked my wife how the lemur was doing, she'd know who you meant.
A friend of mine used to run LAN games on his company network on the weekends. He's an absolute assassin in most games, he plays all the time and just has an affinity for it, whereas at the time I didn't have any real experience in multiplayer games. So he invites me out to play Descent one weekend. I started out with another game name, but after an hour I switched over to drone, since that's all I was, a target. Been using it since.
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Originally Posted by Andres
yeah same here...:clown:
Mine dates back to my pre-TW life, when the most enjoyable game I'd found by then was Praetorians, and I was Macsen Rufus on those forums, and I was too lazy to think of a new one for the Org :clown:
Macsen derives from the Old Welsh story from the Mabinogion, "The Dream of Macsen Wledig", and is the Welsh form of Magnus Maximus, one-time Emperor/Usurper of the Western Empire. Rufus, well, it derives from the Latin, and is an oblique reference to William Rufus, heir to William the Bastard - as my old man was also born out of wedlock....
Being Welsh, Macsen abbreviates to Macs, not Mac, by the way :yes:
I chose the name for it to be slightly themed with regards to RTW. At the time of registration, I did not know about MTW or VI.
Your parents named you Elite Ferret!?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Elite Ferret
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I remember when you were Bob the Great and changed it because you got sick of everyone assuming your name was Bob. :laugh4:
As for me, Wing Commander Privateer is my favorite computer game of all time. I still play it. So, in a lot of things, my screen name is Privateer. But, Privateer tends to be taken so I decided to add something onto the end of it. After looking for inspiration through many hours of deep trancendental meditation, I decided to throw my name onto the end of it. Unless you couldn't decipher it from my screen-name, my name is Kevin. But no one calls me Kevin. Due to sheer laziness, everyone shortens it to one syllable and calls me Kev.
And that is my epic story. :balloon2:
The handle I used for most fps games I played when i first got into online gaming was Killermonk. When I came to the .Org I decided to drop the killer and just go with Monk. I considered Warriormonk a la STW but I just didn't like the look it. :no:
Mine is from the river in Nepal. I suppose the river took its name from Timur/Tamerlane, but I wasn't thinking of him fifteen years ago when I chose the name. I just saw a picture of the river and the country surrounding it, and was impressed.
Mine comes from Edyz (which is an abbreviation of Edward, my name) + Medieval, which stands for my love of the medieval ages.
I might change it to EddyzMedieval, it looks cooler. :cool:
~D
well not exactly, it all started back in the year 1066, when William was busy invading England. My ancestors were a group of warrior ferrets under the command of Edward the Confessor, before he passed away. They decided to side with the Normans as they had more 'ferret friendly' policies than the Saxons or Danes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Privateerkev
Then after the war was won my ancestors were rewarded by having a prosperous town in Bedfordshire, South East England, named after their race and being given the title 'of ferrets'. Over the years that title simply merged into a surname such as Smith or Wright, and newborn ferrets were given Christian names as well. My parents were the ones who relinquished control of Ferret Town (as featured in the BC hotseat game - ask phonics or Ramses) in favour of settling down to a quiet life in a country manor. They named me 'Elite' in memory of the brave elite ferrets who performed a crucial role in conquering England from theweaselsSaxons.
And that is where my name originates from :7jester:
jkarinen was my first intial and last name
CowTipp I recieved from an old gaming clan way back in the day
Veho Nex is latin for Rider of Death. He's the fourth rider of the apocalypse.
According to a friend of mine... Atheotes loosely means atheist in ancient greek... thats where i got it...
My real name --> Milan
Italian town --> Milan
Latin name for Italian town -> Mediolanum
Pseudo-Latin for my name --> Mediolanicus
My first .org name was Decius Curtius, but I forgot teh password and created Caius Flaminius.
Changed to Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, and got it to Caius for people like Andres who is lazy.
C is even shorter...Quote:
Originally Posted by Caius
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(Count) Hasimir Fenring is a character from Dune. I always thought he was a great character despite that he didn't have an overwhelming role in the plot. He was basicly an agent of the emperor, not in the least place a talented assassin. Despite the fact that he was a loyal friend to the emperor, he eventually refused to carry out an order to kill somebody (either because of affection, honor or both- it isn't made very clear) wich cost the emperor dearly.
The prequels written by KJA Anderson and Brian Herbert put him more in the spotlight, but made him look like a two dimensional sociopath :no:
Hmm... Started as greaterkhaan, which purely came from my obsession with the Mongols at the time(still do, btw:jester:). The extra 'a' was thrown in because of a documentary I saw on the History Channel in which the host visited Ulaan Bataar, and revealed that Mongolians, when using the Roman alphabet, spell it 'khaan', rather than 'khan'.
After 1,000 posts, I changed it to kamikhaan, which referenced to the Japanese word "kami", meaning divine(eh, roughly), and I also thought it was ironic because of the fact that "kamikaze" originally came about because of the Mongol invasion.
After 2,000 posts, I changed it to my current name, which means "hell conqueror(eh, roughly(once again)). Thought it looked cool when I was trying to pick out a new alternative username.
Eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho Nex
You refer to the equus pallidus (white horse) from Revelations 6:8, right? Its rider is Mors, the Roman God of Death who was the son of Nox, the Goddess of Night.
Veho = I bring, I carry
Nex, necis = death
If you wanted to say 'I carry death' in Latin, it would have to be 'veho necem', or rather 'necem veho' which would be syntactically more correct. But it wouldn't mean anything since the Latin equivalent of the modern day expression 'putting to death' is 'ad necem dare' (literally 'deliver unto death').
In other words, in Latin 'Veho Nex' means, well, nothing at all.
Whassup with your name bro?
This explains my name in detail
Aw Thank yew!
It's who I am.
I never retreat and I never surrender. :7knight:
Edit: The "198" is just my year of birth with the number 3 cut off the end.
Destroyer of Hope was taken from the Wheel of Time books, I got tired of it and eventully changed it to Lord Winter paritly because I wa reading A Song of Ice and Fire at that time and liked the Starks and partilly because I just like winter.
Omanes Alexandrapolites comes from two names randomly stitched together from the EB 0.8 names database.
~:)
Speed Metala Many years ago I was looking at a Air National Guard poster that showed a flight of F-16s and had the caption "Join a speed metal group."
Xdeathfire came from when I played starcraft really seriously when it came out on b.net. I don't even remember where it came from, but I think it was after an argument with a friend...
I changed my online names to TevashSzat when Guild Wars came out. It is I believe a former dragon planeswalker from the Magic the Gathering books if anyone knows them.
In my younger days as an environmentalist, I attended a series of seminars as a panelist with a penchant for troubling the politicians on the panels with the odd fact or two. One of these esteemed gentlemen snapped at me that I was like Banquo's ghost at the feast - a rather irritating conscience best wished away.
It stuck as a kind of professional nickname, often quoted in light-hearted introductions. I keep it as a nostalgic connection to a time when I actually made a difference.
Don't ask me, ask... (You know what comes next)
Woof!
Your favorite dog? :inquisitive:Quote:
Originally Posted by Beirut
It's the latin version of my name and my granddad once called me that when I just started learning Latin and entering the online world. Kept it eversince.
I've considered getting a name change. :laugh4:
I first stumbled across The Org, after reading the whole 'Masters of Rome' series by Colleen McCollugh. I assumed that all the well known characters that I liked would already be taken (Sulla, Agrippa, Caesar, Clodius, Octavian) and so went with my favourite minor character, Gaius Scribonius Curio the younger. I also like the description of his character and the way he comes across in the book 'Caesar'.
If anybody's interested he was a friend of Mark Antony and Clodius, who became a Tribune of the Plebs, and prevented the Senate from stripping Caesar of his command, in an attempt to stop the Civil War. In the end he failed and joined Caesar. Dispatched to conquer Sicily and Africa, he succeeded at the first, and was initially successful in the second. He was lured into an ambush and was killed.
Why did your latin rant remind me of this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrian II
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Originally Posted by Lemur
Because you're a Total war gamer?
Anyway, to make things worse for myself I think I can actually reconstruct what happened. I believe our friend wanted to translate 'I bring death' into Latin. He took out an English-Latin dictionary, looked up the verb 'to bring' (always given in the first person singular, simple present, i.e. 'veho') and the noun 'death' (always given in the first and second declension, i.e. 'nex, necis') and then just strung them together. Of course the effort is laudable, even if the result is not.
Optimist always see donut, pessimist always see hole. https://img337.imageshack.us/img337/...liechandi8.gif
I always see crumbs, somebody else always eat my donut.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrian II
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Grave injustice. Nobody in particular always entitled to own donut. https://img337.imageshack.us/img337/...liechandi8.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Somebody Else
True. Sadly nobody important is ever without donut.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrian II
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The Jachyra's appearance is that of a man shaped beast with red skin and a thick ruff of fur about its loins. It has a cry that sounds like laughter, and its poison damages the body and soul. It relishes pain, and feeds on blood. The Jachyras were beasts that thrived on pain and insanity.
From the Shannara novels, but like everything else more and more people seem to be using it so I changed to Aeil which is slightly changed from Aiel from the Robert Jordan books, thinking if I changed it slightly there was less chance of others using it, no such luck. Might need to think of something else.
Ancient ancestors provided small comfort: someone in particular always care. https://img337.imageshack.us/img337/...liechandi8.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Somebody Else
What? I have to answer this again?
Oh well, here I go . . .
When I joined the Org, STW was the only game in the series, and many people chose names related to Japan. My name means "the wind created by a sword stroke". I found it as the name of a WWII destroyer, which tend to have rather poetic names, like "Morning Calm" and "Ocean Glow".
When I first found the website, it was from playing MTW, in which the Italians are my favorite faction. So I thought of a famous badass Italian and Don Corleone sprung to mind. I didn't have VI at the time and didn't know the Sicilians were a playable faction (the Corleones are technically Sicilian).
The summer between my junior and senior years of High School (1994 I think) I took classes at Cornell Univ. A bunch of my friends were exploring the wonders of the internet by signing up for free AOL accounts. Back then they expired after 10 or 15 hours of use, so we had to keep creating new accounts on a regular basis. The names got silly after a while. Two of the ones I came up with stuck with me after I left. The first was "Calsted" which was the result of slamming my left hand onto the keyboard and then adding an L. I used that handle for RPGs and chatrooms for several years.
The other was "Plastic Cow." That was because someone had told me that the Biology Department at Cornell had removed part of the skin and ribcage of a live cow and replaced it with a plexiglass sheet so that students could watch the animal's digestion process. I have no idea whether it was true or not, but that's where I got the idea. Plastic Cow was my shooter/action handle for a while, but my freshman year of college I was playing some game that I can no longer remember and Plastic Cow was too long for the name field. I had a friend who played Quake as Tinman, so tin sprang to mind and thus: TinCow. I dropped Calsted completely several years ago, and have been exclusively TinCow ever since. Probably will be forever.
Well lets see i have always ben interested in chinese and japanses things. Such as bushido and samurai etc. Then i started studying WW2. I really liked Kamakazi pilots. I started to paly a game called battle field on a site- playbattlefield of which i am still a member and i created kamakazi on there. Since then it is my username on everything...if not kamakazi ,kamakazi339
My namesake is the main character in the novel serial by French writer Pierre Naudin.
The novels depicts France in the Hundred Years' War period without chauvinism, clearly taking into account the failings of the French nobility...
When finding the Org, the name Tristan sprang to mind but someone had beaten me to it so I added the full name...
Being a French member (and one of the few, it seems...) I wanted to use a French sounding name...
Any one wanna hear my story?... No? Well too bad...
One day, young Japanese kid went into some net cafe to kick some ass in counter strike. I booted up CS and for some strange reason my name was Beefy.
So I went righto and used that name.
187 comes from BF2. I tried using the name beefy but unfortunately some fellow already took my name so I used the auto search name and it gave me beefy187.
Done :laugh4:
My story is similar to Gaius Scribonius Curio. Except that Quintus Julius Cicero is completely fictional. Anyone knows how Lady Frog got her name? FBE is rather perculiar... :dizzy2:
Lol, I'm sure she'll be along to cut and paste the story behind it.
I'd imagine she's been asked that ofeten she's got it saved somewhere.
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Originally Posted by Kamakazi
and now i have no reason for the name cuz playbattlefield jus went offline after me playing it for about 8 years.........