What does your chosen name here mean?

[Tjol]

I don't know what mine means. I made it up, I liked the look of the letters next to each other, I like the sounds that the letters next to each other might make. It sounded alien-foriegn-exotic-strange-unknown... which fits the anonymity of a message board poster right?

[Romeo]

I usually use my real name for discussion boards, but everyone else seemed to use something else so I went with the flow. But none of the Land names really struck me as "me." (Troy was probably the closest, since I usually attack problems with the same kind of logic and passion that gets me killed in the end. heh heh) Luckilly when I was registering I was watching the movie Tin Cup. So I thought "Romeo" was a perfect choice, since I'm merely carrying the Pro's bags through the back nine of the Land.

(Romeo is the name of the caddy.)

[dlbpharmd]

So I thought "Romeo" was a perfect choice, since I'm merely carrying the Pro's bags through the back nine of the Land.

Thus the fine and I'm sure well deserved acknowledgment in "Runes." Hats off to you!

[[Syl]]

When I first joined, I thought about using Caer Caveral or Caerroil Wildwood, but I also didn't want to use something that would be already used or just tooo known on the board (elsewhere I've always been DjakFrost or UnbelieverDjak). So I decided to use something suitably forestallish. Sylvanus, the roman god of the woods (an aspect of Pan, perhaps) seemed to fit the bill. And since I found myself used to the shortened "Syl"...

[Brinn]

Brinn...The single-minded, unbeatable Haruchai warrior who achieves the penultimate goal of the Haruchai race.

I'm extremely competitive and appreciated Brinn's devotion to perfection and indominatable will.

[aTOMiC]

aTOMiC. Went by Tom C for a while (and other names to be sure) but finally settled on a TOM i C cause its got radioactive blasty goodness going for it. And a terrific Edge created avatar to boot. Yeah thats my face hidden in the picture.

[High Lord Tolkien]

You know, I always wondered what the capital lettters in your name meant.

[danlo]

Danlo is the main character of A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, the excellent trilogy that follows David Zindell's Neverness. He's one of my all time heros along with Mahatma Ghandi, Daredevil, Paul Klee, Neil Young, Akhenaten, (anti-) Thomas Covenant and Michael Jordan. (...and yes my Av is Danlo from the books)

When I first came to the Watch I figured if I had to have a Donaldson based name it would either be Baradakas or Darsint, but Darsint is too cool and I IDed with Danlo more (hard to tell who suffers more-TC or him...)

[Nerdanel]

The Donaldson character I identify with the most is Lord Amatin, but I could never use that name since it reminds me of my brother's name, and I'm not on good terms with my brother. Besides, I like cross-board consistency.

[CovenantJr]

I always wondered if you're just an anal nerd

My name means nothing at all. When I joined, most of the members had Chronicles or literature based names, so I assumed that was the way to go. I thought Roger Covenant would be approximately my age by that time, but I didn't want to use Roger in case people thought it was my real name, and Roger Covenant sounded too wooden. So in a fit of misguided whimsy I went for CovenantJr, which is truly horrible and really needs to be changed. Unfortunately everyone knows me by that name, so it stays.

And yes, there is another topic like this, probably in either Gen Dis or the Summonsing.

[covenantparadox]

I chose covenantparadox because I have always been intriqued by the paradox of power - how to truely have power one must be willing to give power to others. To keep it you got to give it away.

A covenant is a promise or commitment
A paradox is something that appears to be self contradictory or absurd yet inexplicably exists

Covenantparadox - The promise of something that appears to be impossible - but isn't.

At least that's my thinking on the subject. Thanks for asking

[The Laughing Man]

Bravo!

[Avatar]

Brinn...The single-minded, unbeatable Haruchai warrior who achieves the penultimate goal of the Haruchai race.

Penultimate goal Brinn?

--A

[Warmark]

Brinn...The single-minded, unbeatable Haruchai warrior who achieves the penultimate goal of the Haruchai race.

Penultimate goal Brinn?

--A

Typo?

[variol son]

Well, Mhoram was my favourite character at the time, but Lord Mhoram had already taken that name, so I chose variol son - which also happens to be one of my favourite chapters in The Power that Preserves.

[matrixman]

My username & avatar should get the vote for most stupidly obvious movie reference. No obvious connection to SRD or the Chronicles, but for the sake of argument there is a banal parallel on the surface: Thomas Anderson and Thomas Covenant both experience their respective alternate "realities" while their physical bodies lie unconscious. Neo must deal with a technological construct (the Matrix), whereas Covenant must come to grips with a supernatural construct (the Land). Both characters come to unlock their capacity for power, and both are empowered and burdened by choice. Or something like that.

Which lead some to the view that the Matrix is really a rip-off of the Chronicles, as put forward by A Gunslinger in this thread.

[Xar]

Strictly speaking, my name derives from a character in Weis and Hickman's Death Gate novels - at least, that's where I found it for the first time. I started using it for my first ever D&D character, and afterwards, it became my official nickname at game conventions, game fairs, and even among the members of the associations I belong to. It has become, in a very real way, a name just as real as my original one; many people, even people I've known for a long time, only know me as Xar because that's how I was introduced to them long ago. So, my original name is good for work and everyday life, but when I turn to my hobbies, my fantasy, my imagination, and my readings, I shed that for a while and become Xar

[duke]

My real name is Earl. There's an old song called 'Duke of Earl', and many years ago someone christened me with the nickname Duke. Us Australians tend to hand out nicknames to their friends.

Also, Duke and Earl are both royal titles, so Duke can also been seen as mocking my real name.

Borrowing the name of a character from the Covenant novels never really came to mind.

[onewyteduck]

Nuthin!

[The Laughing Man]

Charles Mingus
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Neo: Are there other programs like you?
The Oracle: Oh, well, not like me. But... look, see those birds? At some point a program was written to govern them. A program was written to watch over the trees, and the wind, the sunrise, and sunset. There are programs running all over the place. The ones doing their job, doing what they were meant to do, are invisible. You'd never even know they were here. But the other ones, well, we hear about them all the time.
Neo: I've never heard of them.
The Oracle: Oh, of course you have. Every time you've heard someone say they saw a ghost, or an angel. Every story you've ever heard about vampires, werewolves, or aliens, is the system assimilating some program that's doing something they're not supposed to be doing.


Morpheus: I believe it is our fate to be here. It is our destiny. I believe this night holds, for each and every one of us, the very meaning of our lives. This is a war and we are soldiers.

Commander Lock: Not everyone believes what you do Morpheus.
Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.

(ALL the names are cool here, so ya'll know! I'm just lazy and inconsistent... )