I like using historical or literary figures - have a fire elemental champion 'Nom the Sandgorgon', a paladin named Jeptha and named a giant boar mount Tiglath Pileser. So when we started playing DH and I wanted to play an assassin, not a far stretch as I like the sneaky types, why not take the name of the founder of the Assassins - the Old Man on the Mountain? Funny thing is that the cleric in the group started calling me 'Jihad' - especially since I have had a few dogmatic discusions with him and found his interpretation 'in error' on several instances.

Well I was jsut in a hurry and had a simple question I wanted to ask and I took my new characters name in Dark Heresy name which I had randomly rolled.. Its kinda a cool name. But I do regret a little that I not taken one of my old internet names.

I been changing internet name allot on the web. Some times the name already been taking this goes for WoW, Muds Age of Conan. I guess it is because I am more of a gamer on the internet than a forum user. In a game you othen need to make an background story and personality.

I got my nick when I was 12 or so (now 17)

I was registering on a forum for the first time (YA!) and I thought... all my friends say "you're weird" (as in... for a long time I was the only geek...) so I said, "masterofweirdness". I enjoyed my geekiness so I've kept the name.

However, my prefered moniker is now "toasty" but since I was masterofweirdness on the BI and old FFG forums I thought I should keep this name instead of going to my new name.

I am the absolute opposite of a Luddite. I'm a Transhumanist, work with tech on a daily basis and am a big fan of the AdMech in 40K so the name just suits me. Not only that but my other nicknames are just too embarassing to use on a public forum

Ah, nuts. Everyone has a much more cerebral source for their name than me now.

Locque was a bot in the original Unreal Tournament. I always joined his team (the Necris) for team games, and would thus replace him. i found it mildly amusing that instead of substituting my own name for his, I used the same name, effectively becoming a bot. Also, it was enormously humorous to make people think I was a bot in online matches.

Mine is 40k specific, despite being a common name for a group of plants. Some people misspell it Hellbore which is the large drilling transport from EPIC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellebore

The name though comes from the Battle Fleet Gothic Eldar Corsair fleet list. It's the most heavily armed escort in the Gothic Sector but point for point is the worst ship in the eldar fleet (you're better off buying 1 nightshade and 1 hemlock for 5pts more rather than a single Hellebore). It was my favourite ship despite (or probably because of) its flaws. All the eldar escorts are named after groups of poisonous plants (Aconites, Hemlocks, Nightshades and Hellebores). http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat1290346&rootCatGameStyle=

So I suppose I'm overly expensive and not very useful , or a pretty flower that, depending on the species can kill you...

Hellebore

Ah, see I have been playing The Witcher (Table Top RPG version somebody... please?) and, being the ignoramus that I am, thought that hellebore was a mythical plant made up for The Witcher as the plant features in the game. Of course now I know that hellebore is a real plant and feel like a right plonker.

Hellebore said:

The name though comes from the Battle Fleet Gothic Eldar Corsair fleet list. It's the most heavily armed escort in the Gothic Sector but point for point is the worst ship in the eldar fleet (you're better off buying 1 nightshade and 1 hemlock for 5pts more rather than a single Hellebore). It was my favourite ship despite (or probably because of) its flaws. All the eldar escorts are named after groups of poisonous plants (Aconites, Hemlocks, Nightshades and Hellebores). http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat1290346&rootCatGameStyle=

Thing is, I have squadrons of all the other escorts (including a floating weapons battery consisting of 6 Aconites that has been known to obliterate cruisers in a single turn with a few lucky rolls and a good firing position), but none of them have managed the same consistently excellent performance as my 4-strong Hellebore squadron... they just outdo everything else, to the point where they've been priority targets for my enemies (over and above my Void Stalker, which is apparently crewed by blind Groxen rather than elegantly lethal Eldar Corsairs) and still managed to outshine any other squadron or capital ship in my fleet...

Mine is due to my affection for GW Orks manages to refrain from slipping into Ork speak...................

Also its the one I use on most RPG forums (ACTA, Dark Reign, Green Ronin)

Mine goes back 20 years or so. The short version is that it is an early-Romanian/post-Latin version of the word "savior" (or saviour for those of you across the pond ) and pronounced roughly re-DO-chee-aye. I've used different versions of the story behind the name, but it is based on Stoker's Dracula and some historical books I read on Vlad Tepes. For a little longer version, here is one version of the story written by the character Redeucer.

Hello young ones. I am Redeucer and I am at least 500 years old.

What's with the name? What's in a name I ask? Very well... It is Romanian. Old Romanian. It is pronounced Re - DO - chee - aye ... or as close as I can get using English anyway. Some call me Red. Some call me Deuce. I don't care. Like I said...what's in a name? After over 500 years, who cares.

Romanian is the one language that is closest to its Latin origins, but has changed much even then. The name itself means Saviour. Laugh... Go ahead. I am far too old to take offense at your pathetic excuse to make yourself feel better about yourself and your own name. I was given this name. It is mine. I keep it in honor of the one who gave it to me.

So I got your attention now, eh? Heh. Young ones are always interested in a story. Very well. I will share it with you. You won't believe me, but nevertheless it is true.

I was given the name by Vlad Tepes. Or as you may know him better Vlad The Impaler or Vlad Dracula. Before you ask, no, he was not nor is he a vampire. That is purely a story by Mr. Stoker, who I rue the day I ever met. But that is another story for another time. I was a body guard to the Prince of Wallachia during those final years before he was assassinated in December of 1476. I saved his life from several such attempts and that is how I was given the name Redeucer.

Like I said...what's in a name?

So why I am still alive you ask? How have I lived for over 500 years? Well you remember I told you that Vlad Tepes was not a vampire and that I rue the day that I ever met Mr. Stoker, right? While I am not a "vampire" as you would understand it, or as Mr. Stoker would have you understand it, or any other writer would have you understand it. Yet in some ways I am. I "feed" off the energy of others. I do not drink blood. It is much different than that. I do not believe any harm comes from what I do any more than you would harm a stream by drinking from it - the stream refills as does the energy I take. I believe it was this analogy that gave Mr. Stoker the vampire idea and used Vlad Dracula for the character in his book.

I have gone down the centuries alternately rejoicing in the wonders that I have seen and being depressed by the way things have changed. It was not until i had returned to my native home land in Germany that the 5th Column happened to find Mr. Stoker's notes and researched the truth behind them that things changed for me. They captured me and experimented on me. A lot of the research that they use in their super soldier projects came from the torture that I endured. They took what they learned and twisted it beyond all recognition. It was during this time that I lost many of my memories prior to the time I served Vlad Tepes. For all I know, I may be older still. But who really cares.

During the last days of the war, I escaped in the pandemonium. I was starved and weakened but I survived. And I have changed. I don't know if it was something that was done to me, the long period of starvation, or the prolonged time I spent isolated from all. Something inside me has awoken. It is a flame. It is anger. It is a dragon. It is power. Where did this come from? Did I have it before and never know it? Is it something that I knew but I lost? I do not know. I just know that I will use it. And now I will use it to teach a lesson. My destiny seems to be to wander down time and be witness to the atrocities that man inflicts upon man. So be it. But from now on, I will inflict some of my own misery. Not that I was ever a saint, that I remember. But at least now I have power and extract my own brand of vengeance.

And there you have it. The birth of a name.

I needed a name for a D&D charicter, so stole this from a WoD suppliment I was reading at the time. I then used it in Everquest when I needed a name for that, and since then it has pretty much become my sole internet handle. (Although people are starting to use it to refer to me in real life, which is ... odd.)

My name here is an obscure Stargate SG-1 reference. For anyone that remembers, user 4574 was the username that Colonel Simmons used to access the SGC's computers in order to access SG-1's personnel files

My name came from a Stephen King book, The Stand. A slang term for the "disease" that gets out and devastates most of the world population is "Captain Trips". And it has a military slant as well, so it has meaning on a couple of levels.

Wu Ming is my 'nome de plume' under which I've been published. It simply means 'without name' or 'name less' in mandarin, and is a very common pen name amongst chinese and even some western authors. There are also larger more metaphysical asociations related with taoist doctrine and cosmology as 'Wu Ming' is also another name for the Tai Chi. I originally used it on the old forums but an error locked that account and wouldn't let me re-use it.

So I used Cypher instead, for one reason because as a name 'cypher' is also akin to a blank or unknown, or unknowable which shares a simmilar sentiment with Wu Ming and secondly because of the 40,000 character of the same name who despite it not being possible I still maintain is a Doomed One of Malal . I've also used Sinenomen or Sine Nomen and various interations thereof as well as my kunya Abu Ibrahim or AbuIbu.

A handful of years ago a branch of White Wolf came out with a wonderful setting called "The Scarred Lands". In the setting one of the villains - a madd jester/arch villain - was called The Jack of Tears. (jack meaning prince) For a long time I was one of those dark poetic gothic types (not goth!), so it seemed very appropriate. Since then I've hung on to it as a tribute to the since vanquished setting, and just because I've liked it ... nor have I seen anyone else using it anywhere I've been.

I have been Crimsonsphinx since about 1998. My friends and I were trying to create unique email addresses so we did not have to have numbers or various other things altering them. We came up with an idea to pick an animal or object and a colour and combine them. Crimsonsphinx then became me, and as far as I know it is totally unque to me as a username on the boards I have ever visited.

It helps enormously having the same name for every website

SJE= my initials.

Stephen Joseph Ellis

My forum name was originally used when i used to play a game called Planetarion

(An old text based web game)

I was thinking up a forum name and got as far as "Lord of" then i ran out of ideas as to what i could be the Lord of without sounding incredibly pompous or stupid. So i filled the blank with ??? and it stuck.

It's from my LARPing days, when I was criticized for all of my characters being "overly violent". I just started using it to annoy my critics -- and it stuck.

immortal elf is from Shadowrun, it's my Dumpshock Forums name and my GM name in my RPOL SR4 game.