Username?

[Martok]

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.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Famous Japanese swordsman who got his ass kicked by Musashi. But, he has a cooler name than Musashi. So there!

[Csargo]

I got my name from an anime series.

[Samurai Waki]

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.

[naut]

Rythmic was a band I used to be in. I'm getting sick of it, may change it to Psychonaut.

[Raz]

No, Rythmic is good. It's the only way to know who you are since you don't have an avatar.
The origin of mine... well, I like three letter combinations, thus Raz was born.

[Rhyfelwyr]

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.

[Adrian II]

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]

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.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Quoting from the info on my User Page:

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.

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.
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[CountArach]

CountArach is from my general in the first army I ever owned for the tabletop wargame Warhammer. It has sort of just stuck now.

[pevergreen]

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.

[Mikeus Caesar]

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.

[KukriKhan]

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.

[Andres]

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.

[cmacq]

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???

[Lemur]

It's a family thing. If you asked my wife how the lemur was doing, she'd know who you meant.

[drone]

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.

[Ferret]

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.

yeah same here...

[macsen rufus]

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

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

[Viking]

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.

[Privateerkev]

yeah same here...

Your parents named you Elite Ferret!?!



I remember when you were Bob the Great and changed it because you got sick of everyone assuming your name was Bob.

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.

[Monk]

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.

[Tamur]

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.

[edyzmedieval]

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.

[Ferret]

Your parents named you Elite Ferret!?!

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.

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 the weasels Saxons.

And that is where my name originates from

[Veho Nex]

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.

[atheotes]

According to a friend of mine... Atheotes loosely means atheist in ancient greek... thats where i got it...

[Mediolanicus]

My real name --> Milan
Italian town --> Milan
Latin name for Italian town -> Mediolanum
Pseudo-Latin for my name --> Mediolanicus

[Caius]

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.