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07-03-2001, 11:02 PM
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Mine sort of appeared in my head as I was staring at the form. I figured that since I'm female and enjoy D&D, it made some sense.
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07-03-2001, 11:06 PM
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Since I just posted this in the Pub thread, I'll just copy it here:
The true story is simply that I have a bleeding heart for all those creatures killed and experimented upon en masse in modern science. Some people care only about the "cute" animals like rabbits or cats, I care equally of all creatures who can experince pain. At the same time, I'm pro the use of animals in science, but that doesn't mean I like it.
So, I have the habit of naming all my CRPG characters after this kind of creatures. My Diablo II sorceress was named Aplysia, a sea snail often used in neuroscience  It's just a stupid way of sending a small thought for them.
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07-03-2001, 11:08 PM
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This is a repeat of Chrissy's first thread  
Anyway, I was couldn't decide wether to post or not to post here when I chose the name (I was on the brink of posting  )
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07-03-2001, 11:11 PM
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oops, sorry about repeating a topic, I should have checked. 
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07-03-2001, 11:15 PM
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<STRONG>oops, sorry about repeating a topic, I should have checked. </STRONG>
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My name comes from when I was in school. 
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07-03-2001, 11:17 PM
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@dragon wench-I don't think anyone would mind
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07-03-2001, 11:30 PM
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I’ll repeat what I’ve said here as well:
My name is a Welsh "compound name composed of the elements 'gwalch' (hawk) and 'mai' (plain) or 'maedd' (a blow, battle). The name is borne in Arthurian legend by a nephew of King Arthur, his most distinguished and celebrated knight. (GWAHL-kmí)" [according to "A World of Baby Names" by Teresa Norman (1996, p.563)]
I thought it made a cool character name for BG2. Waverly believes that the name Gawain is a cognate of Gwalchmai, but someone else tells me that they are different. Nippy says there are some fantasy books out there with a character named Gwalchmai. None of these things were known to me at the time. I just thought it was cool.
Oddly, the reason I was looking in the Welsh section of the Baby Names book in the first place, was while my wife was pregnant with No. 2. We had given a Welsh middle name to our first (no, we have no Welsh ancestors), and were thinking about a repeat of the pattern. But, all I got was the character name. No other Welsh names struck our fancy for No. 2.
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07-03-2001, 11:35 PM
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i use Leedogg on all of my internet stuff, so i thought why change it here!
hey there weasel, you are up late(or early:eek
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hey there weasel, you are up late(or early:eek </STRONG>
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07-04-2001, 12:22 AM
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When I first came to this message board, I was heavily involved in the item creating side of Baldur's Gate 2. I was playing with some names for a powerful +4 Bastard sword and I called it Elemental Vengeance. Running the ever-so-handy thesaurus, I discovered the word Vehemence, which means passionate fury.
So I liked it and chose Vehemence for my GB name
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07-04-2001, 02:45 AM
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My name came from school. Nippy meaning fast which is exactly what I'm not. It is also something to do with my surname (Parsons).
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