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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9447751" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Name: Mannahnin.I had a variety of different user names online starting in the late 80s on places like Prodigy, and dial-in private Bulletin Board Systems, but I came up with this one originally for <a href="https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/The_History_of_Dakka" target="_blank">DakkaDakka.com</a> and the Dakka Dakka forums.  Which became a pretty sizable international website for GW and other wargames, miniatures, and related subjects, but was originally local and created to serve a Warhammer 40k league of the same name based in Nashua, NH.  I joined the league in April or May of 1999 and created a user account for the forum.  At the time many of the existing users would issue challenges to games, write battle reports, or boast of victories in character, and would use the name of their army general/HQ as a user name.My first 40k army was Eldar, and I created my own craftworld and wrote my own background and fluff for it.  Taking my cue from GW's use of mangled Irish names (like Biel-Tan and Saim-Hann), I called mine Maen-Lir and named the farseer who led my army Mannahnin, a deliberate and attempted phonetic misspelling of Manannan Mac Lir.I was very active on the Dakka forums (moderating for around a decade, I think).  I'm still in the top 30 users by post count, with 24,364 posts between 2005 when there was a board reset and 2017 when I last posted, though only five or six posts in the 2015-2017 period.  So I got very accustomed to the name and carried it over into a few other forums and venues.Avatar: This is an image I trimmed from the cover art of the 1991 Ace paperback edition of Jack Vance's Madouc.  I believe the figure pictured is intended to be the magician Shimrod during a period in his life when he "...wandered the Elder Isles as a vagabond, sometimes posing as a peasant, more often as a peregrine knight in search of romantic adventure." to quote the novel's first chapter.   I've also used Shimrod as a pseudonym in a few places, including my old Livejournal account back in those halcyon days of yore.Shimrod is the scion/simulacrum of the archmage Murgen, and for any interested in the context, here is a longer excerpt from chapter 1.</blockquote>

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