What does your ENWorld name mean?

[lutecius]

mine's not very creative.

Lutetia (French Lutèce) is just the ancient name of Paris, Lutetius was my old Pendragon character and i thought "Lutecius" looked better and was less common (but some guy in the Czech Republic keeps using it on several sites )

 

[Peskara]

My screen name has a super nerdalicious origin.

It's the name of one of my character's raccoon familiar. It means "mask" in a dead language from Barastrondo's homebrew setting (Vedan, a.k.a. "The Sorcerers' Tongue", basically the wizard equivalent of Latin).

A word in a made-up dead language from an imaginary place. I don't think I can get any nerdier than that

 

[Hella_Tellah]

Tellah is a character from the Super Nintendo game Final Fantasy II/IV. He's a white mage/black mage, pictured to the left there, and he is most famous for uttering the phrase, "You spoony bard!"

Hella is late-90s West Coast American slang for "very", as in "Hella nice rug you've got there, dude; really pulls the room together." Or: "Do you enjoy obscure bands and expensive coffee?" "Hella."

It also helps that I'm from a small town in Washington State called "Walla Walla," so I'm Hella Tellah from Walla Walla.

Thanks for starting the thread! It's been fun learning the Secret Origins of posters I've been reading for a few years now.

 

[Bluenose]

Mine is a physical description.


Possibly.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I do some writing (never published...because I've never submitted anything for publication).

"Danny Alcatraz" is the street-name of the main character in a cyberpunk story that I have yet to perfect. It comes from the name of a waiter who worked at a California Pizza Kitchen. They had (and may still have) a policy of having people's name badges consist of their real first name and their hometown as a fake last name.

While Alcatraz is not really a town, he thought it sounded better than "Danny San Francisco." As he put it, that would have been the "gayest name ever."

So I told him that I write, and the name would be perfect for a character...he said "Go for it, dude!"

Now if only I could actually satisfy myself of the story's quality...

 

[Garthanos]

My name started as Garthan in a Dragon Language I made up during high school(over 30 years ago inspired by Tolkein) it meant Straight or True One... the -os on the end is a greekification of it.

In my youth I had a truthfulness obsession.

It was also a D&D character name of a Dragon Master character.

 

[ArmoredSaint]

"Armored Saint" was a 1980s metal band whose name I found evocative; it neatly encompasses both my primary hobby interests in life: medieval armour and church history.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

"Armored Saint" was a 1980s metal band whose name I found evocative; it neatly encompasses both my primary hobby interests in life: medieval armour and church history.

Hey, with Anthrax's classic lineup on tour with Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer, is John Bush back to recording with Armored Saint?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm Simon. A player in a PBEM I ran many years ago took to calling me "Little Devil S'mon", always whispering evil advice in his ear.

And forcing him to touch random colored panels?

Mine is quite boring - the first three letters of my surname, followed by the first three letters of my first name.

I would have been Aubant.

Hmmm...that would make a nice PC name...or it may become my tertiary online name.

To explain, I have never encountered a website where "dannyalcatraz" was in use by someone else, but just in case, I have a secondary name waiting in the wings, "BubbaIMHOtep."

But Aubant has a nice sound to it.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Mine is the name of some bounty hunter played by Steve McQueen.

More or less.