Where do all the Nicknames stand for??

[Rataxes]

Rataxes -> The name of the semi-evil Rhino King in the french cartoon show Babar

Oh, here he is

[Sir Goulum]

Babar...I remember that show...

Edit- Heres a good image of Gollum [img]tongue.gif[/img]



[ 02-01-2003, 04:31 PM: Message edited by: Sir Goulum ]

[Gangrell]

Gangrell- Well, honestly I don't know, I just used this name with one of my BG characters once, and I've been fond of it ever since. (Though originally I went with Gangrel, but my registration got screwed up)

[Sir Exxon]

Well, I first started using 'Exxon' for some years ago, before I knew what it was. [img]tongue.gif[/img] I had heard it somewhere, and thought it sounded cool, so I started using it on my characters, and on internet-communities.
Originally, I did not want that name here, because by that time I had figured out what Exxon really was ( [img]tongue.gif[/img] ). If I had gotten it the way I wanted, I'd be known as Aragorn to you. That's because I had just finished reading LotR for the second time at that time, and was really into it. [img]smile.gif[/img]
But then, Aragorn was already taken, so I just went for Exxon here as well, plus that I added a 'Lord' in front of it. Later, during the short periode where we could change our names, I switched the 'Lord' to 'Sir' - it was during the Keldorn's Order-"era".

[Vedran]

And what is Exxon in the end?

Vedran is... ahhh... my first name. That was a time when I couldn't make an original nick.
Vedran is not-so-frequent croatian name, its meaning is connected with adjectives: serene, clear; bright; fair; cheerful; unruffled, unperturbed.

I use Zvijer on other forums, and it will probably stay like that. Zvijer=Beast .

[Bardan the Slayer]

Bardan the Slayer was a insane, psychotic murderer controlled by a demon in his axe, Snaga.

Later the axe would pass to Druss, his grandson, who banished the demon from the axe and became the greatest hero in Drenai history.

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[Indemaijinj]

Originally posted by Gangrell: Gangrell- Well, honestly I don't know, I just used this name with one of my BG characters once, and I've been fond of it ever since. (Though originally I went with Gangrel, but my registration got screwed up)

In the rather well-known White Wolf role playing game Vampire: The Masquerade (the stuff all the goths play) Gangrels is one of the different clans of vampires. Gangrels are kinda the animal/nature/ranger kind of vampires.

[Blodulv]

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

Talking about names I just remember the first real nickname that I used on the internet and still use it in my ICQ... I'm sitting here being bored on a saturday evening so I might as well tell the short little story about that nickname:

When I was 10 years old gameboy was very popular and some of my friends brought their gameboys to school... Well, I never had a gameboy, don't actually thought about getting one if I can remember correctly, but due to this gameboy-hysteria me and a friend decided to make ourselves gameboys out of wood in wood-shop (is that the correct word? I'm from Sweden and though my english is quite OK I am not certain if that is the correct word). We took some pieces of wood and sawed them into fitting sizes and glued some buttons on it and with a burning-pencil (hehe, can't even come up with the right word in Swedish... a pen with a metalpoint that is heated up so you can burn-write on wood) we drew the screen and details. On the screen I drew a little guy with a smily for a face and wrote the name Gurto on the "cartridge" on the backside of the gameboy (which i called träboy, trä meaning wood in Swedish) and so the name Gurto was invented. I later wrote severel stories about him and developed his character into a UZI-wielding mafia-boss that went through lots of adventures... I get all nostalgic just writing about it [img]redface.gif[/img] )

I have no idea how I came up with the name Gurto, don't think I have ever heard it before either... So if anyone has heared about that word/name before please tell me where, could be fun to know if my subconscious took it from some certain place.

Maybe this was a little bit offtopic, but I just had to write it down when we were talking about nicknames...

[605]

Since I'm still kinda new here, I'll just waddle my way into this topic and pretend I know what I'm saying.

605 is a kinda hard nickname to explain, but it helps to say that it's normally pr0ject605. Not a D&D nickname really, just something I associate with a lot when making aliases. It's just something I go by because whenever I create anything (being someone who's always painting, drawing, making cds and tapes, writing, all kindsa stuff) I number it, and I dunno why, but I have this feeling 605 is going to be a really important one. Maybe it'll be the book I finally sell! *hope hope* I actually debated changing my name to a more D&D type name... there was a character in a Dragonlance book I read... can't remember which, but his name was Ravenshadow, and I always loved that name. I've had various characters I've really loved, or just loved their names; Tarison the half drow mage, Chandra the love crazy bard, Takari the hengeokai (sp?) oriential mage (who was female, so I don't use that name much [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) But certain names I've really liked, it's just this one I relate to a lot more... and it's what the majority of my friends call me so *happy dance* There you have it.

[Desuma Malevois]

Desuma Malevois was the name of an old Tunnels & Trolls character of mine. I use it because my real name, Mike Thomas, and its permutations are common enough that it's difficult to make a user ID out of it on some BBs. "Desuma" is an anagram of "medusa", and "Malevois" is a kind of bastardized way of saying "evil eye". In the game that I played, Desuma was a gorgon wizardress.