The meaning of your screen name

[Jaz]

This is another old OT favorite - what does your forums handle mean? Why did you choose it? Is it your real name, a variation on your real name, a nickname given by others, a name from literature or the movies or *gasp* from a game, or a name you made up yourself? Do you always go by the same name or do you have different 'identities' depending on where you venture? If you're an online gamer, is your online gaming handle the same as your Watch forums name...?

[Maylander]

Maylander - A cleric in Might and Magic 8. I liked the name and figured noone else used it.

Most of the time I use the name Keldorn in games (such as WoW) and other online places/forums. The name comes from Sir Keldorn Firecam, a Paladin in BG2.

If I ever play female in games (I hardly do, it's just not my thing) I use the name Moiraine from Wheel of Time. Talk about a woman with an attitude, hehe, she's great.

Oh yeah, I was known as "Ironfist" previously on various forums, the name of the king in Might and Magic 6, given because of my hardcore approach to games. Well, I was more hardcore in the past, the name doesn't apply anymore in my opinion.

[Korplem]

@Jaz - I don't think you answered your own questions. ;)

*In a gargish voice* "To mean dead one. Dead One," the gargoyle looks at you as though you are an ignoramus.

In the Gargoyle language of the Ultima games Korp means 'dead' or 'death' and Lem means 'one', put them together and you have 'Deadone'. I chose it because I really liked the gargs and Ultima in general. Also, nobody that I know of uses it.

I have several names that I use for games. In military FPS games I sometimes go by ET3 Miller which is my actual rate/rank and name. It's generic enough that I doubt anybody even thinks twice about it.

[HiddenX]

HiddenX = old super-intelligent entity in the Perry Rhodan/Atlan universe.

as a mathematician I like the double meaning "the unknown variable x".

[Danicek]

Danicek - name one would call little child with my name Daniel - my real life name - ove here in Czech Republic.

[JonNik]

An inaccurate amalgamation of The english equivalent of my First name and the
three first letters of my Last name.

[Jaz]

@Jaz - I don't think you answered your own questions. ;)I shouldn't post at all from here, and answering my own questions might become a lengthy affair... but I'll answer as soon as I'm home, promised..

[Myrthos]

I always thought my nick had no meaning. I just tossed around a few names, changed some letters and came up with this.
I recently found out it is also a beach on the isle of Kefalinia (greece). So I'm a beach :)

[JonNik]

@Myrthos

Actually it is Myrtos (lovely place btw) but close enough :)

[Corwin]

HiddenX = old super-intelligent entity in the Perry Rhodan/Atlan universe.

as a mathematician I like the double meaning "the unknown variable x".

Loved the PR series; I have the complete English version, but it got nowhere near the total of the original German version before they cancelled it!!

Corwin, of course, comes from Amber/Zelazny

[txa1265]

txa1265 - that is pretty much what I use everywhere. It is an ancient that I created in my undergrad days for my personal account on the mainframe. It is basically my college fraternity info - 'tx' is for Theta Xi fraternity, 'a' is for Alpha chapter, and '1265' is my roll number.

As for in-game names, anything with a standard profile / username gets txa1265 - which is funny when that is the name of your rapper / fighter in Def Jam Fight for NY ... in RPG's I have a few standard names I use depending on class and gender.

[Khass]

Khass -> Cass -> Casillas -> Iker Casillas -> goalkeeper of Real Madrid soccer team ;)

Always liked to play the goalkeeper in soccer, which is kinda weird, considering my very frail constitution, but eh ...

On forums, I think I can remember the entire history of my nicks, starting from back when I first joined my first forum. It goes like this:

dan27 (RL first name and favourite number) -> HelmuttSheperd (Helmut is the name of a legendary romanian goalkeeper, who defended four penalty strikes out of five in the Champions League final: Barcelona - Steaua Bucharest, 1986; Sheperd is the translation of my last name) -> Cassilias (I couldn't spell it right...) -> some other mispellings -> CassRo (first nick on RPGDot) -> Gravo (RP forum) -> Khass. Kewl, eh? Try that, person-over-30-who's-reading-this :D

[txa1265]

I can remember the entire history of my nicks, starting from back when I first joined my first forum. <snip> Try that, person-over-30-who's-reading-this :D

I just did that ... spanning nearly 2x your lifetime :biggrin:

But I was fairly late to Web forums (~2001 starting, heavily since ~2003), as I had been a Usenet fan for ages and left only when it really dried up ...

Oh - and why is VB still your idol?

[Khass]

I just did that ... spanning nearly 2x your lifetime :biggrin:

Darn old people! :-/

Oh - and why is VB still your idol?

Better now? :biggrin:

[xSamhainx]

I got into the habit of putting an x before and after any name I wanted to get the one I want. Samhain is the name of one of my fave bands of all time, which is named after a pagan holiday, the modern American derivative (Halloween) of which has always been very special to me. I grew up a horror kid, and I'll always be.

[txa1265]

Better now? :biggrin:

That's just weird ...

[Ragnar]

My real handle is Bluebark. It was my father handle in the AF (Fighter pilot for the 64th FIS). But that really didn’t fit it a Gothic type scenario. So I chose Ragnar. It’s a name from one of those old Viking B movies that came out in the late 50’s early 60’s.

[Alrik Fassbauer]

In the "The Dark Eye" RPG system, "Alrik" is a more than common name. Virtually every child of this world with parents who are not able to imagine better name have "Alrik" as the first name.

My Alrik arose in a beginner's session for that system back in the late 90s. Could be 1997. The game master wanted a proper name for everyone, and "Alrik" was found very, very quickly :D, because it is so much common. ;)

The "Fassbauer" is a little bit more complex story, though.

I wanted a reference to the fantasy genre, and The Hobbit in particular. "Barrel rider" was one of Bilbo's nicknames, which is generally translated as "Faßreiter" or "Fassreiter" into the German language. I decided to put this reference not too near to The Hobbit, though, so I changed it a bit into ... Fassbauer, which means "barrel builder" or "barrel manufacturer" in English language.

I used it since then.

Edit : Just a quick note on "Myrthos" : To me, it sounds like a mixture of "mythos", the German word for "myth", and "myrthe" is the German name for a kind of flower : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrte.

[Jaz]

The handle 'Jaz' is one I've been using on and off for RPG-related stuff; my primary Elder Scrolls characters (with the exception of Cyrus from Redguard ;)) all bore names starting with 'Jaz': Jazintha, Jazeera and so on, but originally 'Jaz' was the name of my beloved first p&p Star Wars character who died a most gruesome (and heroic) death back in... '97 *sigh*. All other Jazes are named in his honor, but none ever came close. He himself was named after the IOmega JAZ drive; our GM demanded that we came up with a nickname/handle/whatever for our guys within 2 minutes or they'd have to go by number only, and folks at the next table were discussing magneto-optical drives (so I thought "MO drive... ZIP drive... JAZ drive...that's it.")
Kewl, eh? Try that, person-over-30-who's-reading-this :D
Okay...
Doom: Speeed (with 3 e). Because I was such an incredibly slow player.
Descent: Compass. I couldn't find my way out of a room with just one exit.
Quake: Kobalt (one of my RL nicknames is 'Nickel' and when playing on my first LAN I didn't want the other guys to know it was me... and the elements bordering nickel are cobalt and copper)
HL: Krefeld (I have a special love-hate relationship with that town), then Crowfield (for globalization's sake - it's still the name I use most often for online accounts).
CS, Q3A: Crowfield
UT: Bite-Me_Willi (don't ask)
Battlefield, DoD: [LYONER]von_Hoell ([LYONER] is the clan's name, and it's an in-joke, so... don't ask)
RO: {GD}GG while I was in the {GD} clan, otherwise Crowfield. They called me GG because I always chose the RO model that looked a bit like GG from the movie Stalingrad, but later it came to stand for 'grenade girl' (at that time, nobody hit anything with those potato mashers and their fickle physics... I did).

So you see, I do remember all my online gaming nicks, and I tend to choose different handles for different games. When it comes to forums, I usually pick a gaming name suiting the forums' topic.

[Prime Junta]

Everyone knows that no photograph taken with a zoom lens can have any artistic merit. We're here to enforce that.

(For the uninitiated, a prime lens is one that doesn't zoom.)

I don't have any standard names I pick for games. I try to think of one that fits the character I'm creating. And apparently unlike Corwin (going by his essay on role-playing in RPG's) I have no trouble role-playing a very wide variety of characters; in fact I play RPG's to get out of my real-life persona. Which is why I rarely play evil characters. ];-{>

[Cm]

Well, having had no imagination when I first registered for any boards, I used my rl initals, CM. However the watch won't let you have two letter handles so I just added the gamer part.

[Alrik Fassbauer]

In C-RPGs, I tend to use names with an ancient Greek flavour, since archaeology is my greatest hobby. "Thalos" is my most used name, then.

[lostnumber]

The first nickname I ever had was whathappened. That name hails from the good old days of quake and team fortress classic. Whathappened was born when I made my first attempt to establish a connection to an online gaming network, the name of which I cannot remember. For those of you who remember HEAT is was something like that. Anyway, my 36.6 dial-up connection was finicky at best so many of my attempts that day were met with failure. When I finally got through I was asked for a user name, in my confusion I typed in whathappened the rest is history, well sort of.

Lostnumber is the name of a somewhat fearsome looking monster from FF7. To be specific, it's the one that attacks immediately after the safe in the Shinra mansion is opened. I liked the monster and loved the name so I took it. By today's graphical standards Lostnumber is no longer very fearsome looking; I just keep the name around for its nostalgic value. Chances are that if you have seen the name lostnumber or thelostnumber anywhere else it’s been me; either that or its some lesser imposter.

The avatar is Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force playing the air guitar in an attempt impress a prostitute he brought to his termite riddled house. I could go on but trying to explain the premise behind an ATHF episode to anyone who hasn't seen it is a hopeless endeavor. It anyone reading this hasn’t watched at least a few ATHF episodes I would encourage you to do so. They take a little getting used to, but once accustom, they’re nothing short of hilarious.

[ToddMcF2002]

Corwin, of course, comes from Amber/Zelazny

Shouldnt your avatar look a bit younger for that name? I'll change mine to Eric!

[Myrthos]

@Myrthos

Actually it is Myrtos (lovely place btw) but close enough :)
No that's a village on the isle of Crete.

Myrthos is the name of a beach on the isle of Kefalonia. Different island... but close enough ;)

[slam23]

Slam23 is my tribute to the best basketball player ever to grace the court (for you pagans: it's Michael Jordan). The slam part came about when I discovered chat rooms for the first time, back in about 1996-97. It was the site of a hoops magazine called "SLam" and I couldn't believe that I was the first one to use the nick. The experience of instantly being able to talk hoops with people from all over the world blew my mind. Especially when you live in a hoops-starved country like I do. Somehow of all my nicks it stuck and it is the only one I use now.

Besides slam23, I have used MrBassman (another hobby of mine and real life nick when I performed with my band) and Ancalagon_the_Black or BlackAncalagon if they won't allow underscores. That last one is a tribute to Tolkien and it refers to the primordial dragon that Morgoth created to be his protector. The name literally means "iron-jawed swan". I'm absolutely a sucker for dragons in games and movies. I only just found out that "Ancalagon" can also mean "a fossil of a priapulid worm that is commonly found in the Burgess Shale". Bummer....

[curious]

mind comes from the feather "curious yellow" which is from the book vurt by jeff noon. to know more read the book. plus i like the name. i had an image of a feather on my computer a few years back but lost that gem. so instead of nothing, like on the 'dot' i put up the wizard of speed and time logo - from my days in grade school.

[Cormac]

When I registered here I was reading a book by Cormac McCarthy, the great american novelist. I didnt know what name to use and I certainly didnt want my old one from rpgdot so I took McCarthy's.

[Alrik Fassbauer]

I only just found out that "Ancalagon" can also mean "a fossil of a priapulid worm that is commonly found in the Burgess Shale". Bummer....

Not Anomalocaris ? I know a few bits about the Burgess Shale, since it has always been fascinating me (I've studied Geology and Palaontology for a few years, by the way).

But Anomalocaris was no worm ... so you might be right, although I've never heard about this worm before ...

[JonNik]

No that's a village on the isle of Crete.

Myrthos is the name of a beach on the isle of Kefalonia. Different island... but close enough ;)

Ah, so spending most of my childhood summers in Poulata
(my mothers birthplace)
a few Ks from the Beach and also swimming there at least once
a Week would not make me an Authority on the matter you say eh :) ?

Weeell here something in Latin characters that may help:

http://www.e-city.gr/kefalonia/home/view/1210.php

But I see what the misunderstanding is: Phonetic spelling. You see for us
Greeks "Th" phonetically is pronounced as the one in "thesaurus" for instance.
So for the names to be understood correctly when you want to pronounce a
"tee" just use a simple "t" t with an inaudible "h" simply will not do since we
dont have a relevant device in our Language (Meertos phoneticaly but using
the y is OK since it makes us think of the Greek ypsilon). same Goes for Talos
(Thalos) that someone mentioned above...

Hmm on retrospection phonetic spelling is made for you people to pronounce
our names correctly so I guess you may well damn use what you wish :D

Also my Father hails from Sfakia in the province of Hania Crete ;)

Sorry about the Rant but language and origins are two things Greeks
are a bit touchy about.

[JonNik]

Double post :)

[slam23]

@Alrik: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapulid
Look at the first genus under phylum Priapulida.....

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Ah, thanks.

I've been reading a bit about ancient worms recently, so I understood what it is.

"Th" in German language is spelled unlike the "english "th", by the way. It's basically an t with an more or less omitted h. So I guess it's like in Greek language as well.

[titus]

My nick is the name were my real life name comes from: tiziano comes from titus.
but only found that out later. I wanted something that sounded like a roman warrior or emperor and based on my own name so I took the tit (my name is pronounced titsiano) and just threw a us after it
so there it was titus.
I used it in most games or I use skullion.

[Prime Junta]

Long way between an emperor and a scullion...

[Uriziel]

Uriziel.....now HMMMMM....where did I get that nick?

In Homeworld, then later in various online play I was the original DeathBringer. That nick got whored out so much I abandoned it.....dam lamers shoulda thought up their own nick.

On non-gaming forums I am nitrolife....no caps, no other font tricks....simply nitrolife. I sometimes have the privelege of driving 8,000 horsepower nitromethane burning top fuel race cars. When I am driving them, I am truly living the nitro life.......figure it out from there lol.

On crap sites that make you sign up to get something I need ONCE and never need the site again, the nick is WTFever and the password is blowme......feel free to test that username and pass before signing up.....who knows, i mighta already been there lol. Oh, I almost forgot, the email addy is biteme@home.com :P

[Myrthos]

But I see what the misunderstanding is: Phonetic spelling. You see for us
Greeks "Th" phonetically is pronounced as the one in "thesaurus" for instance.
So for the names to be understood correctly when you want to pronounce a
"tee" just use a simple "t" t with an inaudible "h" simply will not do since we
dont have a relevant device in our Language (Meertos phoneticaly but using
the y is OK since it makes us think of the Greek ypsilon). same Goes for Talos
(Thalos) that someone mentioned above...
Great, in that case my nick means absolutely nothing. Kewl :)

[titus]

yes it is a far way between skullion and an emperor. but the emperor parts only works for titus, which nickname i also use in real life among friends.
skullion came from skeletor, in the time i played D2, skeletor was taking, skulllord en skullmaster too. So i kept the skull and trewed a more somewhat latin/scientif ending to it and there it was: skullion :D

[enodenroH]

Username : Read me backwards. My inner evil self...
To me, it invokes pawa!

Towlie icon : Makes me laugh. My funny side.

[SirDeity]

I originally got my screen name many years ago, just after the original EverQuest was released. I purchased the game and stumbled through the set-up and account creation process and ultimately arrived at a point where I needed to choose an account username. At the time, having never played an MMORPG before, I thought it was asking me what I wanted my character to be named (since I didn't at the time understand the concept behind an "account name"). So I thought... "well... this is an important decision! This gaming experience is bound to be an incredible ride that'll last a long time! So I put a lot of thought into it and wanted to have something witty, demanding of authority, and yet deserving of some degree of respect. Ultimately, and with the help of a thesaurus, I came up with deity... which addressed my desire for a name that was deserving of authority, and in day-dreaming of the soon-to-come immersive experience in a medieval world where magic and swords and armor were the tools of conquest and survival, I remembered the great movies based in the same era I had enjoyed. I remembered that a man, upon becoming a knight, was conventionally henceforth addressed with the word "sir" before his name, in recognition of his honor. Thus, I put sir before deity and said "this is good." Haha...anyway, I realized that the account wasn't anything anyone would see so I never actually used in the my EverQuest experience. Instead, I invented new names and a role-playing story behind each of my characters. However, I needed to memorize sirdeity to log into my account before I could enter the game everytime I played. Soon after playing EverQuest I started visiting forums for games and found that it was difficult to remember my usernames for all the various forums I'd visit... so instead of writing them all down and looking them up whenever I forgot one, I simply used what I already had memmorized... and why not? I like my username... you could say I've grown attatched to it =) Anyway, so I use SirDeity at every forum and every registration that isn't extremely confidential. I use different password though so don't get any ideas ; )

[Jaz]

Username : Read me backwards. My inner evil self...YOU'RE A GOAT???? I thought Bartacus was a goat :p...

[xSamhainx]

Horned Reaper, is that you?

http://www.raph.com/3dartists/artgallery/ariu2i.jpg

[Uriziel]

Horned Reaper

For some reason I am mildly turned on by that. /me has played to many RPG's :(

[xSamhainx]

Oh yes! The screech of a smacked imp, the cry of a troll on the rack, the Dark Mistresses strutting their stuff and cracking their whips.... Dungeon Keeper is a strangely erotic title for the strange.

The Horned Reaper is definitely a phallic symbol, nay, a DUAL phallic symbol!

[Jaz]

I loved Horny! And I would have loved to have one of the Studio Oxmox Hornies.

[Lintra]

One day my brother and I were starting a Dragon Quest game, and I wanted a good androgenous name for a red haired elf I was creating ... I was running on mental empty ... and then I recalled a name from a Zelazny book. At the time Lintra was mentioned only once (the hellmaiden who cost Benedict his arm). I thought, oh good, a nice obscure name.

Played the Lintra character through 100's of years of his life ... and a good 9 months of my life ... he had some fantastic adventures ... before he had to be retired to NPC status - as there reaches a point in an RPG characters life where they are just too powerful. He was a healer, beast master (long story there), ranger, courtier, air mage and fencer. One of his 50+ year adventures resulted in the aquisition/creation of "Cats Paw" and "Mouse Whisker" (again feeling unimaginative and fell back on Fritz Lieber for inspiration) - a rapier and main gouche (sp?) that rank amoung the most powerful artifacts in a magic item poor world. Both where created by a master swords smith that Lintra had rescued (more than once) and were just warm ups for his ultimate creation. Both are interesting in that they had the same critical failure during the creation process and look like worthless lumps of soft iron - a major plus in Lintra's eyes!!

Some of the silliness exhibited with Pinnen has it's roots in Lintra's gaming experience ... he did actually manage to use a mop head as a wig and pull it off (okay there was a hood involved, but it *did* generate a good picture, and a good laugh, and hid his bright red hair). He had a very complex and full character ... a bit of Rincewind crossed with a young Elrond (try role playing *that* someday).

So, a decade later as the proto internet was forming and coalesing I choose that as my nick (handle?) and have stuck with it ever since. Despite the appearance of the original Lintra in later books it still remains a name I can usually use ('cept in Hyjal realm of WoW. Gotta find the owner and ask them to kill the character if they aren't using it).

There. You asked for it.

[Arma]

Arma, my current alias, come as a short from Armageddona, which in turn is based on a character I created years ago, a Discworld vampiress in a purple sweater. On the other hand, as it is derived from Armageddon, from Byblic mythology, it kinda grew on me, as everthing is in complete chaos around me, as if the Second Coming has come ang gone :)

[txa1265]

Arma, my current alias
It's funny, I was going to look, because when I see ARMA I think 'autoregressive moving average' ... ;)

[LordRac]

Rac was my arcade game initials, and as for the Lord part:

When I started playing Ultima games, I was a bit pissed off that I would always be known as the 'stranger from another land'. I mean come on Lord British, don't you recognize me? So in frustration I started up Ultima VI and decided to don the Lord title for myself.

Heck I completed five adventures already AND rescued Lord British. That should at least get me my own kingdom to run! :)

[Arma]

txa, I chose Arma as a username as it is a lot shorter than Lady Armageddona and I grew tired ot typing it everytime I have to actually log in manually ... Same reason most of my in-game character bear real world names like Samanta, Miranda, Polly, Kevin, and so on.

[txa1265]

txa, I chose Arma as a username as it is a lot shorter than Lady Armageddona and I grew tired ot typing it everytime I have to actually log in manually
Oh, I got that - it is just that part of my real life work is as a statistician, so ARMA has a specific meaning that made me chuckle - I knew your meaning was different :)

[Lintra]

It's funny, I was going to look, because when I see ARMA I think 'autoregressive moving average' ... ;)

I *knew* it looked familiar! Thnx Txa. All you had to do was capitalize the all the letters.

[Arma]

Just who is this ARMA you're speaking of, anyway? Neverheard of her, and should correct the matter ...

[Bartacus]

YOU'RE A GOAT???? I thought Bartacus was a goat :p...

[Pinocchio(Shrek) voice]I am not a goat, I'm a real boy[/Pinocchio(Shrek) voice]:p

And I ain't wearing ladies underware (and it's not my nose that gets longer when saying this :biggrin: )

Bartacus stands for my name combined with the famous Spartacus (gladiator movie from the ancient times for those kids around here). Sometimes I get adressed Bartus too, but that's a different story -> Comes from one perticular Simpson episode where Bart gets chased by Homer and they get those name tags like in a documentary. It was first translated in Dutch like this: "Bartus reculus" and "Homer erectus". My hotmail adres (which I rarely use today) makes it even more clear. (bartus_reculus@hotmail.com)

Another username is GothicFan or RealGothicFan. The reason of the first is obvious, the second was due to the fact the Jowood boards were at first seperated in an English and German part. When the came together, one of the German guys was faster then me to rejoin and took my/his username before me.

[elkston]

OK, mine is stupid but here goes:

When I was an adolescent (12-14 years I think) some friends and I had a "book club" where we would write our own "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories. You know those kids books that had branching multi-path stories and endings ...

Anyway, one of my books was called Galactic Hunter and the main character was this Boba-Fett type guy named "Robert W. Elkston". So that's where the "elkston" comes from .... :)

[Lintra]

Just who is this ARMA you're speaking of, anyway? Neverheard of her, and should correct the matter ...

AutoRegressive Moving Average - you can find her lurking in most basic statistics books. At least those with eye towards finance or economics. I found her on page 356 of "Intermediate Business Statistics" *grin*

[txa1265]

I enlist her assistance bringing order to self-correlated FAB processes ;)

[Rendelius]

Loved the PR series; I have the complete English version, but it got nowhere near the total of the original German version before they cancelled it!!

Corwin, of course, comes from Amber/Zelazny

They are at Nr. 2558 here in Germany/Austria. I stopped reading the series a couple of years ago, but I was a big fan. I met Ernst Vlcek and Wiliam Voltz in person, and I even had a short story printed there *g*.

So, my screen name: comes from the name of my real father, Georg Rendl, a famous austrian writer and painter (he died in the seventies). I just added some pseudo-roman flavor (to honour my grand father, who wrote the most popular books to teach latin in school here in Austria) :-)

[Pladio]

I only had one other name before this one.

It was Empiresfan, I first started using it with The Settlers 3 online. It's very simple, I was interested in a multitude of empires, Roman, Greek, Persian, Babylonian, Chinese, Mongol,... So Empiresfan.

Pladio came when I started playing Diablo II online. I had to choose a name for my character and I chose a Paladin at the time, 90% of the names I wanted were chosen already, except for the odd names like : fdgffde, qhql or kfhq, so I chose Pladio. :D

[KazikluBey]

Kaziklu Bey means Impaler Lord in Turkish, which is what the Ottomans called Vlad III Basarab/Draculea/Tepes.

I've also used Ro'Jadre and Terahnee (both from the Myst multiverse), but nowadays I mostly use KazikluBey. Male protagonists in RPGs generally find themselves being called Ro'Jadre though.

[Fenris]

Fenris is the germanic Version of "Fenrir", a giant Wolf that was prophesized to kill Odin, the highest norse God. The gods wanted to chain him and made a Wager with him, that he can't break the Chains they create - they tried two different strong iron Chains and he broke both. Than they tried an enchanted one, which made Fenris suspiciuos. He made them promise to unchain him, should he not be able to break it, and one of the Gods should place his hand in Fenris Mouth, as protection against betrayal. At first no one of the Gods wanted to do that, then Tyr, the War-God (or should I say "a" War-God - it seems to me that every ancient nordic/germanic God was part War-God^^) had enough courage to put his Hand in the Wolf-Mouth. Fenris couldn't break the enchanted Chain, the Gods didn't free him as promised and Tyr lost his Arm ;)

Fenris was betrayed by the high ones, something that happens to me a lot, so I choose this Name. Back at the Dot I had the name "Schattenherz" which was the Surename of my favourite PnP-Charakter and means "Shadowheart" in English. My male Protagonists end usually with Fenris as First Name and Shadowheart or Shadowspawn (depending if a "dark" Race is available) as Surename.

Oh, and I played the Lone Wolf Series until around Book 12 or so... fun, but couldn't hold a candle against "The Warlock of the burning Mountain" from Steve Jackson (Back-translated from German - the Name might differ^^)