Aiwe was my first larp character in Mordavia, I registered with that name on Mordavia forum, and then someone told me about Diatribe and I came and registered here and used same name because this is what I figured out I was in terms of larping. That was long before we started having so many larps that you can hardly do even half of them 
āAiweā means ābirdā in Quenya, the language of Tolkienās elves. That gives you a hint on what was my first characterās race 8)
Riordan is my surname. Itās Irish, pronounced āREER-dinā, and means āpoetā.
Based on a character in a story I was writing when I was about 14 or so. Itās been my online name since about then too. So umm, made it up I guess. 
I was pretty fascinated with Latin at the time so itās a bit faux-latin-esque.
[quote=āAiweā]Aiwe was my first larp character in Mordavia, I registered with that name on Mordavia forum, and then someone told me about Diatribe and I came and registered here and used same name because this is what I figured out I was in terms of larping. That was long before we started having so many larps that you can hardly do even half of them
āAiweā means ābirdā in Quenya, the language of Tolkienās elves. That gives you a hint on what was my first characterās race 8)[/quote]
A bird-person? =D [/stupidity]
Uncle Vanya is a play by Anton Chekhov. I love Chekhov, so it stuck, it is always fun to see who recognizes where the nickname came from.
I needed a name to play computer games, I went through the usual crazynames like Cerberus and WhiteKnight (a handle i still have on steam) but then I picked up a game called Dark Age of Camelot - played it for 7 years (its 10th anniversay was this year) where every one knew me as ācerusā
I had a ton of characters all with cerus as a core and a different letter at the front eg: Scerus, Zcerus, Xcerus etc.
But Xcerus was first.
Celt Druid on Prydwen.
The best thing about the game was you could search for other players using just a few letters of their name and it would give you upto 50 names that matched or were close, so all my friends had to do to find which character i was playing on was type in /who cerus
Good times.
I recognized instantly! Oh waitā¦
I was getting bored using my usual username so I tried coming up with a new one. I also happened to be reminiscing about High School at the time, and how I got called a āSlackerā for not always doing my work or paying attention, so hence the first part. Figured it was slightly to unoriginal, so I added another unoriginal thought to the mix and added a J to the end, it being the first letter of my first name. And hence my current default username was born.
I assumed it was from the grumpy anti-evolutionary prehistoric man from a book called āEvolution Manā
What a neat thread, so interesting
Mine is a made up name, I was running a D&D game in a world of my own creation, and I had to name all the gods. I had read something somewhere (Warhammer fantasy roleplaying rules maybe?) that suggested that Elven names used a few common suffixes - uvial, -riel etc. So I made up Anastriel to be my Goddess of Magic, Mystery and the Night.
Around about the same time, I decided I needed a new internet alias, as I had out grown my last (Also back from the days of the BBS when I was 15 
) . I like the sounds of Anastriel, and it was unique which meant I could actually use it for logins and emails with out having to add numbers behind it, so it stuck.
Cool. Yours was one in particular I wondered about as well.
The first part of my user name is taken from Oscar Wilde, I was on my third read of his complete works when I needed a new login name, and my favourite album I was listening to at the time was The Rose by Mediaeval Baebes. Hence WildeRose was born.
Waay back in the dimdarkdays, on my 2400baud modem, around 1989-90, I was a Top Gun fan - I signed in as Maverick on every local BBS I could find. Then when I expanded out of the Metropolis known as Invercargill I kept running into Mavericks, so I changed it to Iceman. Not long after that I kept finding Mavericks and Icemans (<-- good England!) so I changed it again to Viper (the instructor, played by Tom Skerritt).
Then when the actual internet became a thing I found out that every single website in the history of the world ever had a Viper (please donāt point out the obviousā¦) and sick of completely changing my name I just added to it - Viperion. Since then Iāve only found two places that already had a Viperion (EVE Online and Skype) and so have stuck with that for the last 10 years or so.
Wellā¦ mine is pretty obvious. But, to stay interesting, Iāll explain a common handle of mine, K-of-blades.
I got the original Fable when it first came out, and loved it. It was the first game I ever played which allowed you to have gay sex But it was good for reasons beyond just that.
The main antagonist of the game was a hero called āJack of Bladesā. Despite being a clever take of Jack of Spades, I really liked the concept of a name which had such a suffix. Iām surprised I hadnāt thought of it before (I mean, who hasnāt heard of Attila the Hun? Everyone knows heās real.)
Anyway, I figured that King of Blades was the logical step up to take from there. I shortened it to K of Blades, because K is also the first letter of my name. I wasnāt allowed spaces as characters for the forum I wanted to use the name for, so I circumvented it with hyphens.
You totally skipped over Queen of Blades which would have been the next logical step.
And thus, a new nickname is created for Kerry
Mine comes from the first tabletop roleplaying character I ever created. Since I was at a complete loss for how to name a character (especially an alien lizard thing), it was generated by blind random typing on an unreliable keyboard until I got a pronounceable bit. Itās been my email and internet handle ever since.
Mine is a fairly obscure Terry Pratchett reference. It thoroughly appealed to me when he pointed out that you canāt have just ONE of anything. So I became the other phoenix. And I donāt have to add numbers to it or find it taken very often.
[quote=āamphigoriā]You totally skipped over Queen of Blades which would have been the next logical step.
And thus, a new nickname is created for Kerry[/quote]
Actually, this was back in the day before I knew I could be the prettiest princess (I even had short hair!), so nyah! 
Oh! Iād thought because Erin has a phoenix user name that you were the āotherā one. Shows what I know!