I was reading something in the WoW subreddit(as I often do) and I ran
across an interesting question: How do you come up with a name for your
characters? This is such an interesting question because everyone has
different reasons for why they use a certain name. Some choose names
from other games, some just use the in game random name generator until
they find a name they like, and some don't care about their character names and pick random things. Each person is
different and while some names are completely unoriginal, they probably
mean something to the person who rolled that character. As for me, I
have a long and weird process I go through when I pick a name for
characters.
I once made the joke that you can tell when
in my life people met me by what they call me. If you call me by my real name we probably met in high school. If you know me as Jedi Optimus, we most likely
met when I was in college and very active on several online message
boards and I also played many online FPS games where that was the handle
I used. Many a noob cursed that name in anger as I shot them ingame. If
you know me as Jedem, we most likely met in 2005 when I first started playing WoW and I used that name for my
very first character, a warrior. I eventually changed servers and
classes but the first character I rolled on Ursin was a mage named
Jedem. If you refer to me as Izak, you probably raided with me in BC
when my pally sadly became my raiding main. Now Jed, well if that's what you know me as and you have never been in my guild,
you probably met me in Wrath when I first started blogging. Of course if
you have ever been in my guild regardless of when, you eventually know me
as Jed.
