OFFTOPIC POLL: What's in your name?

[WOLFGIR]

WOLFGIR
Wolfgir is my own creation a name with influences both from my interest in wolves and my nordic heritage (ir) .
Wolfgir is a name that I have used for at least a year and a half and I intend to stick to it.

Zertyr is the main character in the book im working
on, he is a kind of chaotic neutral char who ends up
in some diffrent adventures and wars.

(The book is not about the good guys beating the bad
ones, but about a half evil half good char who meets
both parts, fights them both, but mostly going for his
own profits)

Reminds me of me. Good luck, I love writing as well.

[Bahamut]

I love writing too, but I'm a lame writer. can't even get my english straight and bah! Im just really poor in writing.

If you're going to do fantasy writing...
I heavily reccomend RPing someplace...
It hones writing skills...
Or it least did for me.

[Moiraine]

Very good poll, Memnoch !

I had used for years now the pseudo 'Modesty', coming from an English comic from the 60s 'Modesty Blaise' (there are Modesty Blaise books too, and an old movie with Minica Vitti, and there are rumors that a new Modesty Blaise movie is in preparation). Modesty Blaise is a very very very good internation spy woman, while staying a woman (she also has sex with men, several men, which was very rare in the 60s).
However, Modesty Blaise is not widely known, and my husband keeps telling me for years that the 'Modesty' pseudo is just ridiculous, so for the first time in more than 10 years, I decided on a whim to change for once !
I have just discovered Robert Jordan's 'Wheel of Time' series (read all the first seven books in four months), so I settled for Moiraine because she is a small quiet woman with brown hair who happens to always get people do what she wants, and also because her name has a remote 'Frenchie' sound.
I am a big fan of Anne Rice too, my favourite is the 'Witches' series (read them in French, don't know the English names).
You males often seem to enjoy using trumpeting pseudos, ! I particularly enjoyed Worm's (and his 'Yes, I crawl, so what ?' signature.
Ladyzekke, where does your pseudo come from ?

[Bahamut]

I love mythological names. Can you guys give me a link on where my name is included? I mean the dragon, not the Hindu thing... : )

[WOLFGIR]

Hi there Moiraine!!

Well I´ve been reding Modesty Blaise s a comic simce I was seven and have read most books, so she is not that unknown

I also like Robert Jordan and his names, did you know that he gor the name Kirun from the Swedish city in the north? He has actually been traveling along the nordic countries looking for names and inspirations, cool eh?

[Cleric]

My name is cleric, becouse I am a cleric .

But i think it could be better diviner.

[Moiraine]

Hi, Wolfgir.

Glad to finally encounter someone who has actually heard of Modesty Blaise !
Here in France, I never met anyone who did. In fact, I find it very difficult to find her comics, either in France (totally impossible) or on the Net. So many I couldn't read ! Do you per chance have any tips for me about where I can find some of them ?

I would actually very much like to know how many people on this board know of Modesty Blaise.

I am afraid I don't know much about your Northern countries. But I am always willing to learn more ! I am a southern French woman, and as such very sensitive to the cold, so I know more about southern warm countries. Your pseudo talks of snow and forests and freedom. Very good one. If you like wolves, you must enjoy David Eddings Fantasy, don't you ?