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[Khatovar]

My forum name, like most names I use for toons and our guild names, comes from the Black Company books. My husband's been into them forever and once I read them I totally fell in love. In the books, there is The Black Company, a band of mercenaries who hire out to whoever will pay them. They know next to nothing about thier beginnings, only that they are the last of The Free Companies of Khatovar, a land that is beyond a place called The Glittering Plane. The plane itself is a collection of gateways to 16 worlds, and in the center is a fortress that imprisions a demon goddess called Kina {or Khadi, Khatovar translates to "Khadi's Gate"}, and the golem Shivetya who stands guard over the Plain to prevent Kina from escaping.

There is also The Ten Who Were Taken, a collection of the world's most potent sorcerors and sorceresses who served under The Dominator. The Dominator used them to create a vast empire that peaked about the time The Black Company first left Khatovar. The Taken were created through torture, death and resurrection, leaving them more beaten into submission than loyal. Most of them are power-hungry, conniving and brutal, with little concern for any one or any thing that does not constitute a tool they can use to further thier own goals.

I just love using the characters as templates for my teams. :P

My icon is just a graphic I created for one of my websites ages ago.

[Lokked]

I used to go with Menlaben in EQ (my friend propositioned me to come up with a fantasy name for some character of his in Diablo II and I just blurted it out, along with Diadrik), but then someone called me Osama Menlaben! And I was thinking, "Damnit, you don't pronounce it like that!"

So my first character in WoW was a human warlock and I just thought Lokked sounded like a good name for a 'Lock.

I have no avatar because I am not passionate about anything enough to allow it to identify me. At least, this is my initial analysis upon the writing of this post.

[Sajuuk]

I already posted something like this earlier, referring to my character/guild naming scheme.

Sajuuk is the handle I use here, my most common one is avatardelta, made many years ago. (Avatar, because it sounded neat, and Delta, from the Delta Flyer on ST:Voyager)



Homeworld forever!

All the names are from Homeworld (The video game, an older RTS). Sajuuk is the progenitor weapon that is the focal point of Homeworld 2. In the game you abandon the second mothership for Sajuuk in the center of the galaxy, which you travel to through Balcora gate (My avatar)

Hraal, Paktu, Gaalsien, Soban and Somtaaw are names of Kiith clans in the homeworld universe (Think of them as family groups).


Unbound is a reference to the main protaganist and another (Friendly) faction. Protaganist Karan Sjet (a neuronics expert whose breakthroughs in neuroscience allowed the controlling of the first mothership. She wired herself into the mothership and became its core, as no computer could be controlled with such a massive task. The tasks included: Ship construction, research, ore processing, maintaining cryotanks (In the game the population of their world is firebombed, only 600,000 or so survive because they were in their orbital cryotubes), sensors, navigation, weapons, and a slew of other things.

It's also a reference to the Bentusi, a trader race that refers to themselves as the Unbound. To be "Unbound" is to have a physical, nueral link with ones vessel. You ARE the core of the vessel.

Quick Copy/Paste from Encyclopedia Hiigara:

Unbound was a term used by the Bentusi to describe persons or races that were directly connected with their ships. Karan S'jet was the first person of the Kushan race who was connected with a ship, thanks to cybernetic implants. Another known Unbound was the Vaygr warlord Makaan, using his connection with the Third Hyperspace Core to bring the myriad Vaygr Crusades under his command and begin the Vaygr War. Every single Bentusi was also connected with their ship.

In other words, Homeworld is awesome and I should actually go back and beat the first game. >_>

/rambleramble.

Homeworld is the RTS upon I base my judgments towards other space-set games. So far only EVE online has come close to Homeworld, but it didn't really grab me. I may try it again later.

Edit: Holy cow Homeworld will run! =D Hallelujah!

EditofEdit: Giving link to the Homeworld Historical and Technical Briefing - It will give some background information.
http://files.filefront.com/Historica.../fileinfo.html

Editofeditofedit: Soo...old and pixellated...*shudder*

[Zub]

The handle 'Zub' comes from one of my troll toons. being remotely into RP I wanted to have a really trolly name and came up with Zubjuwal. Zub is just the short version of it.

in the end i'm not playing Zub anymore, but rather the guys described in my sig (Mainly Soap and Ghor).
The avatar just represented some of the combos i tri-boxed. (elemental shamies with NS+EM+CL, mages with POM+Pyro+blast, and druids with strafall+NS+Wrath)

my toons and have semi-RP names (apart soap i guess :-)
- Ghur: my original toon, just wanted a name that 'sounded' tauren.
- Zubtres is part of the Zubwan, Zubtoo, Zubtres trio that i leveled and discared in the end.
- Cian and Cixi are from a french comic book, Lanfeust de Troy. C'ian's gift is healing when the night comes (and became my holy priest) and Cixi''s gift is to change water to whatever state she like (wapor/ice/liquid) and she's quite nasty in the comic, so she became my shadow priest. they are both sisters and look quite alike. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanfeust_of_Troy
- Frizza is my troll frost mage. wanted a name that sounds cold.
- Soap the paly. she cleanses.
- Wazzaaaa! my dumb rogue. he's a nice troll, has got magic fingers, but can't think for shit. He's usually doing whatever Cixi asks him to do.
- Shaiah, no real erason for the name, i just liked it
- Ghørmy druid. he's very similar to Ghur.

[Tdog]

Handle = I was called T-Dawg by alot of people in High school and I made my dual-boxing.com account in 2008

Avatar = the game I'm addicted to!

That's kinda funny as my Handle came from me being called TDog alot in middle school as my first name is Tom. I also orginally only created an account here because I just had a few questions on getting started on multiboxing and never thought I would of made more than 3-5 posts. I never thought I would of found such an awesome place with so much shared knowledge as this.

Avatar = After about 2 weeks of posting on the forums and already having over 100 posts or something like that I figured I might as well put up and avatar. So I googled dog pictures and after looking throw about 50 of them I picked the funniest pic I found.

[Otlecs]

Hmmm.

Otlecs is one of my old character names backwards ("Scelto" for those of you struggling ).

When I first started out over two years ago, multiboxing was firmly in the "grey area" of WoW, with no public position statements from any credible source as to whether it would be allowed to continue, so I didn't want to use a real character name but I did want to feel at least some connection to my forum account.

I turned off signatures and avatars ages ago, and completely forgot I even had one! The ghost animation is lifted from Ultima Online, which I played for <mumble> years.

It's how your character looks after you've been killed, and how I spent 90% of my time when I first started out, usually watching as the murderer rummaged through my belongings and clean-looted me as punishment for not having any good gear for him to pick though!

I lost count of the number of characters I re-rolled just to get that startup gold again! Happy days

[Owltoid]

Handle: my druid toon names... most unique name I could think of dealing with Owl beasts.

Avatar: I like to think of the guys from Office Space as my treants (the main reason I enjoy playing druids is to summon the forest of doom!)

[Vmpwraith]

Handle: inherited it from my university days as the PC lab user name they assigned me. I like to think it means vampire ghost but hey.

Avatar: Just me standing on the Great Wall of China. That's because I live in China at the moment and well I had nothing else more clever.

[mooglej]

Handle: mooglej, waaaaaaay back when, before I ventured into MMO's as an addiction, The Final Fantasy series were among my favorite game series. Course with the success of FF3 (6), and introduction to my favorite character Mog the moogle, I had to use it. At the time I was programming AOL proggies, Ha! Who remembers this era? I used moogle as a programmer handle. Fast forward 15 or so years later after many MMO’s played, I’ve continued to use moogle across the internet, but this day it’s taken in almost every venue, so I tack a J, as my name is Jeremy.

Avatar: It’s me defending your freedoms… Pewpewpew IRL if you will. In the desert now actually on my 3rd tour, was almost 130 degrees yesterday… I wanna go home and box! /wah

[Fat Tire]

SERE

Survival,Evasion,Resistance and Escape. Describes boxing in pvp to a T for me.


I went thru the school at Coronado Island about 10 years ago while I was in service. Army, Navy/Marines, Air Force all have different schools around the country each with a different kind of survival schools, some are like family camping and some are not. All high risk capture specs must complete certain SERE training before continuing on with their units. Anyway, I find in funny about all the mass media hoopla about waterboarding.....Anyone who has gone thru the C class SERE knows all too well. ;(


Oh and Fat Tire....My favorite Beer.