Agustus wrote:as for Genesis... it was something that popped in my head i guess i wanted to play my old game system lol
Sorry, Gus, but I am now forced to refer to you as The Mega Drive.
As for myself... I have a long string of names to use, and all of them ultimately fit in with my roleplaying, though the writing project I began in 1995 called the
Ardan Source Files (ASF).
The first nickname I ever used on the internet was my original AOL account, Blitzkeg. Originally, it was a reference to the german word
blitzkrieg, but I was 12 at the time and you know how those things go. I then created a second account, Clerann. Clerann and Blitzkeg were the nicknames for my first two characters: Clerann Goldinarsen and Clerann Silvenarsen. When I discovered GemStone III (as all AOL accounts were given one character in GS3 at no charge), Clerann Goldinarsen was my first character's name. "King-General Clerann Goldinarsen of the Holy Army" was also my first non-GemStone MUD character on TeraMUD. Although those two characters' stories are ancient history, the term
clerann is still used in the ASF universe as a rank in Curulan's secret organization, the Mediators of the Balance -- as the name itself means "master of <something>". Clerann was my first Dragon Court character in 1999, and Clerana (the feminine form of Clerann) was Curulan's wife before she died during a story I wrote in 2001.
The second name I used largely was also for my first email address: AlphaStar. I continue to use this nickname, or rather variations of it, in online games. My Hotmail account was
AlphaStarA@hotmail.com, and even though I no longer use this email address, I still use it as my MSN login. Likewise, my third AOL account and my Yahoo! address were AlephStar. Using AlephStar on AOL, I created my second GemStone III character, Clerann Maginarsen. I also created a Clerann Maginarden on Dragon Realms, a sister-project to GemStone III, but I found the game's leveling system too coumbersome at 14.
As for ASF relevance, the AlphaStar was originally a sentient planet or star that was worshipped by the mortals of Arda, at least in my early drafts. In the final version of the ASF stories, AlphaStar was the name of the sentient AI/android that was in charge of the Starseed Project (for those who are following my writings of Titan's history, the Starseed Project was the space exlporation program that ended up populating the planet of Dragon Court with Elves, Humans, and Dwarves). I also had an AlphaStar character in Dragon Court briefly in 2001, though he was not in Titan -- he was in the clan Red Rose, run by a friend I met on the DC boards before the clan was disbanded. I often used the nickname Alpha -- a shortening of AlphaStar -- on IRC networks, though I have lately abandoned that nickname, and the character of Alpha (Thomas Dupre) is my primary character in the Elkandu roleplaying system, which was pioneered by a friend of mine.
My next major name, which I used for several years, was my first AIM account, fourth AOL account, and first major Dragon Court account: Glofinje. In my original ASF drafts, this character was called Glorfindel, after the Tolkien character, but was changed when I decided to stop imitating Tokien and write my own damn words. Glofinje was also the nickname I first joined Titan with back in 2000, but he was replaced by Curulan when I realized I accidentally registered Glofinje as a local ezboard account on Titan's board, rather than a global ezboard account. When I realized this, and registered the ezboard account of Curulan, I retconned a lot of the story I had planned for Glofinje and instead thrust that on the Curulan characer. In the ASF stories, the first Glofinje was the child of a dwarf and an elf during the era of the Cleranns, and the current character of Glofinje (Curulan's right-hand man and General in the Holy Army of Arda) is named after him.
Finally, I come to Curulan himself. This was my second AIM screen name, which I created when some dumbass at my university decided to be stupid and anonymously warn me all the way up to 100%. Not understanding the warning system, I logged off of AIM only to find out I could not log in again until my warning level had cleared (this was back in the days of AIM 3.0). I then set off to make a new screen name, wanting to use Curufin (again, from Tolkien). Finding that already registered (obviously), I combined the name Curufin mentally with CÃrdan to create Curulan.
I don't think I need to explain to you all who Curulan is in the ASF stories.