What made you choose your name?

[littlelostboy]

Hey people, post here to tell us what made you choose your name. For me, I choose my name cause what of the girls in my school called me a cute little boy. Well, I decided to get rid of cute and replace it with lost and turn it the other way round.

What about you guys?

[Somebody Else]

Don't ask me, ask somebody else. I'm just nobody important.

[Duke Malcolm]

I preceded my Christian name with King
It is by mere co-incidence that the Scottish King at the beginning of the MTW time period has the same name.

[IrishMike]

I used to play with ColdFusion on most games, then when I got MTW I changed it to ColdKnight to sound more MTW. So just took my name from multi and used it here when I signed up.

[miho]

Personally it's my nickname at school from my last-name.

[The_Doctor]

It is my name with "-us" on the end and the "y" changed to an "i".

It is a Roman name.

[Dîn-Heru]

Dîn-Heru Elvish for Silent Ruler/Lord. Because I am a silent person, and Heru because it fits with the types of games I play, and because I like to think that I am in control of things..

[Togakure]

Back when I first decided to come online to give Shogun MP a try, I found myself here in short order. The first task I faced was creating an account. Ever a RPG enthusiast, I wanted to create a name that fit my character and interests. At the time, I was reading a lot about real-world ninja, and I really liked the ninja videos in the game, so I settled upon a ninja character for my alter-ego in S:TW-land.

Togakure Ryu is a well-known and respected Ninja school in Japan. According to several books that I've read, ninja hierarchy was divided into three levels: chunin ("grunt" ninja that carried out orders; the ninja shown in the game are most likely chunin), genin (tactical "captains," that were in charge of groups of chunin), and jonin (strategic commanders or ninja "generals," who made the major decisions for a ninja clan).

The prefix 'O' means "Great" in Japanese (or at least something to that effect). An example of its use would be O'Sensei, which means "Great Teacher," and is used to refer to Ueshiba Morihei, the founder of Aikido and arguably the most profound Japanese martial artist of the twentieth century.

I chose the surname Togakure from the ninja school, and O'Jonin as my personal name, though the latter is really a title (one which likely doesn't make any sense in the Japanese language).

All in good fun. I've been thinking for a while now about shortening my name here to just "Toga." The original name is too long, and most of my friends in the community call me Toga now anyway.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

All in good fun. I've been thinking for a while now about shortening my name here to just "Toga." The original name is too long, and most of my friends in the community call me Toga now anyway.

No Way!


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First posted using "Shinano" and played under "Mimesaka", both provinces from Shogun. Eventually decided I didn't like Shinano and changed the name to Sasaki Kojiro, which looks cool.

[Craterus]

I didn't have a say in it. My parents chose before I could get a word in edgeways.

[Reverend Joe]

I didn't have a say in it. My parents chose before I could get a word in edgeways.

Odd...

Well, everyone is tired of hearing how I got my name.

[TheSilverKnight]

Odd...

Well, everyone is tired of hearing how I got my name.

I haven't heard it. Tell me the story

[Togakure]

I didn't have a say in it. My parents chose before I could get a word in edgeways.

Do you have a bad acne problem?

j/k, j/k, j/k, j/k ... J/K!!! So sorry, but I just couldn't resist!

[Reverend Joe]

I haven't heard it. Tell me the story

Basically, I was tired of my old name- Meatwad- it had a connotation to it that I did not intend when I chose it. Then, about a month or so ago, I saw "Zorba The Greek" for the first time. Seeing it completed a major personality shift I had been having for some time (ever since I started college). It was also a momentous occasion for me; I felt more alive than I ever had in my life (with a few exceptions, but those are other stories, and not for you to hear.) And so Zorba seemed like a much more suitable name for me than Meatwad ever was.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Well Kenshin was a Sengoku Jidai era warlord, and I love STW (though I didn't join until after RTW came out I was playing Total War from the start), I liked playing as the Uesugi and so he was my favorite general in-game, out of game he is also extremely interesting and I'd say he's my "favorite" in reality as well.

[PaolinoPaperino]

unable to register to play online Shogun with all the standard nick names, I was frustrated and angry...
then I've seen a comic on the desk next to me with Paolino Paperino as main character..
so I've thought.. stupid it's stupid, maybe it works......and I could log in!!!!
from that moment I was Pao

[Kekvit Irae]

http://www.kekvitirae.com/portraits/index.html

[Papewaio]

Papewaio... name of a dishonoured samurai like character in the Lady of the Empire series of books.

A rather fine series of books IMDHO.. In My Dis-Honourable Opinion.

[solypsist]

i inherited this name when i was promoted to moderator (from the previous user) when he took on the Tosa Inu name to run the site.

my original name is something i can't remember right now.

[Kanamori]

Chose it as my online name cuz it sounded cool:S Kanamori Yoshishige,the lord of Takayama, the family is of minor consequence too Boy was Magy in for a surprise when he thought I was the DemonKanamori back in my total noob days.

[Byzantine Prince]

God.

[Strike For The South]

God Save The South

[LeftEyeNine]

Left Eye is private to me.. #9 always sounded cool , it's on the edge but the greates of all and was special to Turkish Khans..

People say it sounds good, whateve, it's totally unique and been absolutely my virtual identity.. everywhere you see this nick or LEN it's me

P.S. I wonder who the other freak may be to choose such a nick..

[ichi]

There was a thread about this a while back, lots of replies

member name thread link

ichi

[Taurus]

Well I used to be called Taurus not so long ago and still am called this on RTW mp. But I changed my username to Hero quite recently but because Hero was already registered I had to replace the o with a 0. Thus...Her0

[Ironside]

As mentioned in the the thread ichi linked, Ironside was one of the better generals I had once in MTW.

[GoreBag]

Well, when I started to use this pseudonym, I was listening to a lot of the Kovenant. The reference, though, is to a track on the album I like least.

My other pseudonym is, well, because I look and act like a troll.

[Dâriûsh]

I forgot. Oh wait, no I didn’t. Dariush is my actual name.

[English assassin]

Mine is from the Jerry Cornelius books by Michael Moorcock. He is the English Assassin, (in fact that's the title of book 2) amongst a lot of other things.

I use Jerry Cornelius on other sites. If I was reregistering here I'd probably go with Jerry here too, but I'm used to being EA and its not worth the bother.

[Adrian II]

I am, in fact, AdrianII. AdrianI was shot on his way to work. There is an AdrianIII in the works, we are honing his taste, aim, language and lethal delivery skills as we speak.