My Tri round 3 family chose a "Lords" theme and that was when Lord of the Rings was coming out so i chose Lord of Gondor. My leader name was Aragorn. A clear sign that I hadn't read the trilogy yet or i'd have known to take faramir or boromir as my leader name instead of the King of Gondor....

Was my first full round and i used variations with Gondor for my empire name for a number of rounds after so it stuck.

I got mine (not TeePee..) cuz of the awesome ice cream: New York super fudge chunk (Ben&Jerries) so i somehow extracted Fudgeh outta there..

I had an empire called Macedonia but gave it up to take over another account, Cyborgia. For a while I called myself Cyborgia and then Cyborgia[85] in chat and stuff. 85 being the family number in beta 3. However, I also wished to still be Macedonia as it is an awesome empire, but couldn't call myself Macedonia without alluding to the fact I had swapped accounts, so shortened it to Mace.

In subsequent rounds I have used variants of Mace for empire names, theme ideas, etc. These have worked on the many meanings of Mace, various acronyms and company names.

RoGue, I love the basis of this thread. Good work

Parsonally, mine stated as SilverBullet - some might remember it, Target will - which came about as the name of my favourite song. I also played as 'Peloxissis once or twice, but that was crap name. SilverBullet was my favourite song as I said (I've grown up singe then I'm pleased to say) but it was easily shorten to Bullet Theory which was also a song I liked - linked in with Funeral, as we both took our name from the same band. From there it was easy to get to Bullet, simply by being a lazy typer. I took a break, came back and only used Bullet, so simples

Far less exciting than I make it sound.

<Mizzle> ive been in a jailcel for the first time of my life during this night lol
<Mizzle> new experience

thats the spirit!

I used to be Alaitoc Ranger Force and it got shortened to ARF, then lengthened to ARFeh.

"zee Frenchie" bit was God damn Primo X(

That gay homosexual X(

redundant

I was signing onto AOL in the mid 90s and choosing a screenname and I couldn't find one without numbers after it  Chris123101252
but I am not  a number, I am a free man
so I remembered a Harlan Ellison story called "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream"
"The Scream" had #s
"The Yell" did not

Mine was from when i was 14, at that time when i first started my internet indoctirnation - irl i could force myself to 'Squeak' as i talked, basiclly i was going through puberty, so since it was at the same time, one of my friends started calling me Squeaky Smit(my real last name is Smith) then ofc its easier to type Squeaky than Squeaky Smit... so Squeaky it became and has stayied

Had a mini spell of like 2 months where it was 'Setsuna' which i stole from the anime Gundam 00.  But it didnt look the same so i changed it back and now it stays...

although ARFeh - without that 'zee frenchie' bit on there, it just wouldnt look the same

Mine's from playing Quake TF online all those years ago, started out using Jackal or something similar and just got fragged constantly. So changed it to Walking_Corpse as an ironic joke and instantly started playing better..  Go figure.

originally, my name was WHSwizards, spawning from when i started playing in year 7 at weaverham high school, 2004. Then after a few rounds, i was in a family in milky way, and our theme was bands. so Funeral for a friend being my favourite band at the time, i had that. then after a few rounds i realised that it needed to be shortened, so i just left it at Funeral

basiclly a nick usually starts out longer, then however people starting calling u in chat, is how ur name ends up