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[Andres]

Changed to Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, and got it to Caius for people like Andres who is lazy.

C is even shorter...

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[Kralizec]

(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

[seireikhaan]

Hmm... Started as greaterkhaan, which purely came from my obsession with the Mongols at the time(still do, btw). 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.

[Adrian II]

Veho Nex is latin for Rider of Death. He's the fourth rider of the apocalypse.

Eh?

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?

[InsaneApache]

This explains my name in detail

Aw Thank yew!

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

It's who I am.

[Spartan198]

I never retreat and I never surrender.

Edit: The "198" is just my year of birth with the number 3 cut off the end.

[Lord Winter]

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]

Omanes Alexandrapolites comes from two names randomly stitched together from the EB 0.8 names database.

[spmetla]

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."

[TevashSzat]

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.

[Banquo's Ghost]

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.

[Somebody Else]

Don't ask me, ask... (You know what comes next)

[Beirut]

Woof!

[Martok]

Woof!

Your favorite dog?

[Conradus]

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.

[Samurai Waki]

I've considered getting a name change.

[Gaius Scribonius Curio]

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.

[Lemur]

In other words, in Latin 'Veho Nex' means, well, nothing at all.

Whassup with your name bro?

Why did your latin rant remind me of this?

[Adrian II]

Why did your latin rant remind me of this?

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.

[Somebody Else]

Optimist always see donut, pessimist always see hole.

I always see crumbs, somebody else always eat my donut.

SE

[Adrian II]

I always see crumbs, somebody else always eat my donut.

SE

Grave injustice. Nobody in particular always entitled to own donut.

[Somebody Else]

Grave injustice. Nobody in particular always entitled to own donut.

True. Sadly nobody important is ever without donut.

SE

[Ja'chyra]

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.

[Adrian II]

True. Sadly nobody important is ever without donut.

SE

Ancient ancestors provided small comfort: someone in particular always care.

[Tachikaze]

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".

[Don Corleone]

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).

[TinCow]

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.

[Kamakazi]

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

[_Tristan_]

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...