I spent a lot of time playing MUDs in 3rd year uni, and at the time I was reading a fair amount of fat-fantasy (eddings, donaldson, etc). I wanted to invent a user name for MUDding that was wizardly but not obviously lifted directly from any of the individual characters I was reading about, and it sounded about right.
I've toyed with moving on from time to time, but it seems to be globally unique - I think saw someone else using it for an account name on an online game once, but they're now lost in the 1710(!) google hits that all appear to refer to me. It's quite handy having something that is unambiguously me.
Re: *ginormous brain hums*
I spent a lot of time playing MUDs in 3rd year uni, and at the time I was reading a fair amount of fat-fantasy (eddings, donaldson, etc). I wanted to invent a user name for MUDding that was wizardly but not obviously lifted directly from any of the individual characters I was reading about, and it sounded about right.
I've toyed with moving on from time to time, but it seems to be globally unique - I think saw someone else using it for an account name on an online game once, but they're now lost in the 1710(!) google hits that all appear to refer to me. It's quite handy having something that is unambiguously me.