It was also the first name I got through the name filter when making my EQ paladin.
Defensor? He is the combined form of the Protectobots; and my favorite Transformers toy. He stands on the shelf of my desk, silently pleading with me to get him some pre-cut reproduction stickers... hell, I may just do that right now. They were only 13 bucks...
Shortly after starting eq, I started coming here, and joined as loco830. A few months later, I decided to make Espio my main. The username 'loco830' just sounded dumb to have, since almost everyone here used a character name... so I made the Espio account... this was before you could rename yourself. Later, I added my EQ surname (short for Idiot Savant) to my username.
that was easy.. 
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Trillee got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
Main on EQ heh...that was easy..
What about your 20 other names?
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Ares had this to say about dark elf butts:
What about your 20 other names?
I accually did a head count... and yeah.. it's now about 20. And I only use one name in the chat at a time, and that's Drysart's fault! *snickers*
And they will never have accounts for the forums.. Only have one alt, and she was only made because I had loggin problems a long time ago, and only used her like once back when the flame boards existed. ;P
Nothing wrong with haveing many charicters. And It's like when other's change thier names in the chat for DND games. (see, there is a reason! Not just "Oh I feel like being... today!" ;P)
One day a guide noticed this, and asked what I wanted my name changed to. So I grabbed Small Gods, which was infront of me, and flipped till I found a name. Hence Vorbis.
Just've been using that ever since.
Wanted something that I thought sounded sort of elven and came up with Azerax. That was okay but I didn't think it sounded heroic enough. So I changed it to Azymyth.
Ever since I started going online, I've always used Azymyth for email, chat, gaming.
Rhiannah is an alteration of the name Rhiannon, which I got from a book of baby names.
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Dr. Gee probably says this to all the girls:
I gotGeeornFalaanla from EQ's random name generator and have been using it since.
Decided to go for a short, easy to remember name after the fiasco of accidentally naming myself after the monkey in captain planet 
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Everyone wondered WTF when Led wrote:
[xIMG]http://www.clarkson.edu/~dellesfy/sepcore_pics/led.jpg[/IMG]
That's a really neat picture! Where's it from?
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Led's fortune cookie read:
Old game called Septerra Core
A little story about that game and I.
I heard it was the most awesome game, and it looked like I'd likeupo it. So...did I save up my money really hard to get it? No! Instead I submitted an essay to good old RPGamers.com and won it from them. That's how leet I am.
And I played it for a while, and got really interested in it. The world was awesome, the plot was going somewhere, and I dug everything (something about the phrase "So that's why he wanted the Shell Five nations out of the picture!" is really awesome).
And then I come to a part where I just can't go on, there appears to be no way to progress...in the middle of some corridor and it doesn't seem to lead anywhere, neither does anywhere else. And neither GameFAQs nor any other power on this Earth could help me 
Disclaimer: I'm just kidding, I love all living things.
The fastest draw in the Crest.
"The Internet is MY critical thinking course." -Maradon
"Gambling for the husband, an abortion for the wife and fireworks for the kids they chose to keep? Fuck you, Disneyland. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is the happiest place on Earth." -JooJooFlop
My second character was a Barbarian Shaman named Tajdin (bonus points if you can guess the influence for that name).
I finally decided that I liked being a Shaman, but I knew deep down that the sexiest Shaman in the land were ogres. So I took Noktuk, chopped off the N and replaced it with the T in Tajdin. Yay, Toktuk.
When I first came here, though, I was playing Baldur's Gate II a lot, where I was a Half Orc Barbarian. So my account name is actually Toktuk the Barbarian. I lopped the second half off the day Drysart announced named changes.
-Tok
Gomaten was a name I made up quite literally off the top of my head. I took a few minutes one day, played with some vowels and consanants.. I actually originally used it to name someone else during an RP on this old chat I used to go on. Guy lost his memory, had no name, so I named him Gomaten. Rather random, actually.
Much time later when I dumped the chatroom and finally got a good computer that could play REAL games I came to realize I needed a name. I remembered Gomaten, figured it was pretty unique, so I used it.
Now, for the story of Gomateux:
So, I started to play Half-Life. Alot. I became very skilled at Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat. Made lots of friends, got involved in very popular eastern american leagues. My brother was very skilled as well, much better than myself. We both hung out in the same crowd, mostly people from montreal and whatnot. One of the coolest guys was named "Blade". Very witty, very skilled. There was another clan we used to associate with, CSST (counter strike's sexiest clan). They had a schtick going where they would add "euh" to the end of their names. I'm not sure why, but they did.
Blade decided to make fun of them, in a french way, by adding his own suffix. That suffix was "eux". Sounds just like "euh", but looks more.. french. And you know how it was back then, l33t was everything, so anyone who he thought was l33t was added into his little "eux" tribe.
I was one such person. Gomaten turned into Gomateux. Blade was now Bladeux (often times bla2. If you say that in french it sounds like bladeux).
Time passes, you ditch clans all together and decide to go lone wolf, kicking everyone's asses on pubs. For every game after that I've been using Gomateux.
But after even LONGER now that I haven't associated with those people, nor played CS or DoD avidly I realized Gomateux no longer means anything, all it does is confuse the FUCK out of ANYONE who doesnt know a lick of french. I said to myself "Fuck it, everyone calls me Goma anyhow, so I'll make it permanent!"
And, lo, here is Goma.
I bet no one read this.
Edit: I later discovered that Gomaten is an asian dish of sorts. Looks kinda like the lasagna you see on Garfield. I wanna try it someday. Name isn't so unique afterall. Goma fucked around with this message on 07-13-2004 at 09:18 PM.
Disclaimer: I'm just kidding, I love all living things.
The fastest draw in the Crest.
"The Internet is MY critical thinking course." -Maradon
"Gambling for the husband, an abortion for the wife and fireworks for the kids they chose to keep? Fuck you, Disneyland. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is the happiest place on Earth." -JooJooFlop
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Gunslinger Moogle had this to say about pies:
Gomaten sounds like it could be a DBZ character's name =p
Yeah it does, doesn't it? I used to be a little DBZ freak back then. Perhaps there was some subconscious influence that had me create the name so it sounded like that..
The chat room was pretty focused around that type of role play. A bunch of stupid kids roleplaying as super powerful beings with signature moves, having text fights where the fastest, most strategic typer wins. Where guys meet girls one day, and their married and with kids the next. That kind of bullshit.
It was hella fun then, but it feels pretty dumb now. I still associate with some of those people, they're some of my best online friends now. But on a more mature scale, obviously.
Yeah.. Even though it was dumb, I do kinda miss those days.
Edit: The name I use for everywhere else is Auruspex, which, in hebrew, is roughly translated to Angel of Death. I was like 10 when I started to use it so sue me 
I use Helba for DAoC which is from .hack//sign.. the hacker character in it. -Yuri- fucked around with this message on 07-13-2004 at 09:59 PM.
Kael is short for Kaelen. Something I got from part FFXI random name generator and dice rolls. I use Kael or Kaelen in parts of other handles, like the handle I made at the last LAN party "Dirty Kaelen". Since I play dirty at SSBM, SC2, JA, and UT2k4. Or I'm just a fan of Dirty Harry. *shrug*
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Led had this to say about Cuba:Decided to go for a short, easy to remember name after the fiasco of accidentally naming myself after the monkey in captain planet
I weap for my lost CDs. That game kicked so much ass and it's one of the few games that I'm pissed I never got the chance to finish.
Origins: Lan party right after Q3 Arena came out, and I well had a K/D ratio of 25-1, dubbed Xaero. The razor part actually goes back to my first e-mail account on Juno... back when it was free dial-up e-mail. liferazor. I got the Razor part from favorite cartoon at time... SWAT KATS. the rest is well history...
It got shortened to Snoota around here and the main EQ boards(before they were shut down) because I'm an idiot. And lazy. I lost my password to my account at the EQ boards and didn't have access to the email address it was under, so I made a new account. Instead of going through the trouble of making a new name, I just dropped the Y. When Lyinar made me come here from the EQ boards, I signed up without the Y to avoid confusion due to my EQ celebrity status I enjoyed as the biggest asshole on the main EQ boards.
For crtlaltdel, I lost a bet. I actually grew fond of using it so I went with AltF4 also.
My EQ main's (And all my other games for that matter) has always been Alludar. I got the idea from my own name (Alan, my friends call me Al) and the spanish word 'to help': Ayudar. It seemed to click, I wanted to help people on EQ and still be called Al.
(As for the sigpic theme, I found a picture of what I think was a wombat, not sure really, just took that as a sigpic at first, before someone photoshopped it into 
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From the book of Random Insanity Generator, chapter 3, verse 16:
I weap for my lost CDs.That game kicked so much ass and it's one of the few games that I'm pissed I never got the chance to finish.
I still have my CDs
Sounds weird if you don't know it's the Danish equivalent of John, too.
Way, way back when I was 9 years old, and we'd just gotten dial-up Internet service (28K! WOO!), I played Diablo a lot and was a big fan of the game. The day we got 'Net access, I started playing online as my favourite class, the Warrior. (I always play the Warrior-type in RPGs, or hell, any game for that matter. I dunno why, but any other archetype seems boring to me.)
Now, things were going well and good, the 'net connection worked fine, and I got to the New Multiplayer Hero creation screen. Without thinking, I went for Warrior. It was instinct at that point, and still is. Then, for some reason, I wasn't expecting this: "Create a Name: _________________" In single player, I had always named my character something random, like "Death Machine 87", complete with spaces. I think it sounded almost like a Terminator-style robot name, I can't remember. However, I thought (wrongly) that a name like that wouldn't suffice on battle.net. I needed an actual, fantasy-setting name.
Suddenly, I got an image of my Warrior in my brain: The skilled, Elven swordsman, clad in magic chainmail, cleaving his way through Hell's minions with a nodachi. Hey, Elves were cool, and I'd be maxing Dexterity first off, and Elves tend to be dexterous and agile. So, the whole Elf schtick stuck. Now, he needed a name.
The name needed to sound Elf-like, soft and flowing, but at the same time needed to have a kind of strength to it. After all, you can't have a mighty warrior running around with a name like "Daisy", can you? I played with letters a bit, and came out with Ruvyen.
My first character in EQ? Warrior, Half-Elf (the first of a few changes). Ruvyen was the fifth name to come up on the generator, and I thought, "Holy shit! Why the hell didn't I think to use it before?" Thus, Ruvyen, the Half-Elven Warrior. I mention this, because I doubt the name would've stuck had I not used it in EQ.
Over the years, I've developed the character, and the only two similarities between Ruvyen now and the Ruvyen of old (olde?) are the name and the profession. And even then, the profession's iffy: It's changed from wandering swordsman to mercenary. Still a warrior, though.
Heavenblade got added later as I found it a very noble, paladinish kinda surname, and that has thus been my name for over two years now.
Contrary to the beliefs of CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS it's inception had nothing to do with maranara sauce. Rather, I was struggling for a name, hit the random name generator, erased everything but the first letter and typed in "aradon". So now my name is aradon. NO! my name is Maradon.
Later, I found out that "Maradona" was a popular argentinian soccer player, and also a small town in one of the wheel of time books. This is largely the reason that I hate argintinians, and the wheel of time books, despite having never read them. And also because I saw an interview with Bob Jordan once and he was an old, fat, bona-fide-purple-john-lennon-glasses-wearing hippy.
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Maradon! had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
My EQ necromancer was Maradon. It was just a name I made up.Contrary to the beliefs of CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS it's inception had nothing to do with maranara sauce. Rather, I was struggling for a name, hit the random name generator, erased everything but the first letter and typed in "aradon". So now my name is aradon. NO! my name is Maradon.
Later, I found out that "Maradona" was a popular argentinian soccer player, and also a small town in one of the wheel of time books. This is largely the reason that I hate argintinians, and the wheel of time books, despite having never read them. And also because I saw an interview with Bob Jordan once and he was an old, fat, bona-fide-purple-john-lennon-glasses-wearing hippy.
That's what you get for not watching soccer. But seriously, you've never heard of Maradona's Hand of God goal?
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x--AlekO-('-'Q) :
That's what you get for not watching soccer. But seriously, you've never heard of Maradona's Hand of God goal?
I know nothing about either Maradona or international soccer.
I blatantly fucking stole my old name, Justaris, as well.
In fact, I've pretty much ripped off every name I've ever had. I'm kind of a bad person that way.
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*Tal* said this about your mom:
Correction. My shortened nick was from Woody, over at /gu, after I made this one thread.."Tal, what the HELL is wrong with you?"
Was that when you posted the link to the never ending pop-ups of gay porn?
Got mine from Sluggy. Mildly wish I could change it without the name resetting, since I'm not really the hyper happy person I was when I arrived here.
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Maradon! had this to say about Tron:
My EQ necromancer was Maradon. It was just a name I made up.Contrary to the beliefs of CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS it's inception had nothing to do with maranara sauce. Rather, I was struggling for a name, hit the random name generator, erased everything but the first letter and typed in "aradon". So now my name is aradon. NO! my name is Maradon.
Later, I found out that "Maradona" was a popular argentinian soccer player, and also a small town in one of the wheel of time books. This is largely the reason that I hate argintinians, and the wheel of time books, despite having never read them. And also because I saw an interview with Bob Jordan once and he was an old, fat, bona-fide-purple-john-lennon-glasses-wearing hippy.
I fuckin remember the phone conversation you lying sack of cow-shit. Tellin you man, Maranara Sauce and the Don of a cartel, you wanted to be a saucy mafioso, and you got it. Stop living in denial.
As for my particular handle, I mudded for 7 years, finally quit last year (I'm sad ), I used 2 major roleplaying names there, and decided I was going to go against the grain and not use my roleplaying name as my internet handle, so I took my initials, CB (Christopher Bailly), and Tao, since a few years previous I had the classic teen questioning of faith, read the bible, read on every different theological backround I could find, and nothing satisified my view of existance, met my sifu/stepfather who introduced me to Taoism, and taught me first hand through martial arts, and decided that would be my handle. A balanced me.
I prounounce it incorrectly since its a name tho.
See-Bee-Tow as in towne. CBTao fucked around with this message on 07-14-2004 at 03:18 AM.
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CBTaoing:
I fuckin remember the phone conversation you lying sack of cow-shit. Tellin you man, Maranara Sauce and the Don of a cartel, you wanted to be a saucy mafioso, and you got it. Stop living in denial.
1) I remember no such conversation
2) If I said it, I must have been joking, or maybe the line was bad. It just ain't the case.
Terran (you know her) calls me bunny, its a nick that kinna stuck among a couple ppl and myself. I was signing post sparatically with ~bunny and when I posted a thread on what I should rename myself this was the best.
