The story of my name change

I just changed my summoner name. It was on sale for 650, and I wasn't happy with my old one.

Way back in the day, I played DotA RoC 1.6. My favorite character was one of the early carries, Lina Inverse. At the time, she threw flaming rocks at her opponents, and had very high attack speed. With the sound of it, this character had a great feeling to play. Plus her nuke (ults are called nukes in DotA) dealt a lot of damage at decent range.

So when I chose my summoner name in LoL, I chose "Ms Lina Inverse". This was to mark myself as someone who likes playing carries, and had been playing this style of game for a long time.

Then, I found this:



Lina is the main character in an anime show called "Slayers"; this is where the DotA character got her name. So I watched the first two episodes to see if I would mind being named after her. I did mind. She's got the right kind of attitude, but the show is just (in my opinion) too dumb for me to be named after its main character.

Right about then, Riot announced that they would clean up some old unused names and put summoner names on sale for a week after the 3.7 patch. So I spent some time trying to come up with a new name. Their name cleaning script messed up, so they prolonged the sale beyond the 3.8 patch. So I spent some more time working on names.

Here's the list I came up with:


Blue Ice Dragon
Mizuki Takahama
Justice Almo
Justicar Almo
Master Almo
Sneak Master
Norjia Greystone
Slate Monster
Slate Golem
Type 2 Supernova
Norjia Mistvale
NorjiaWinterwind
Reginald the Sly (Sir Reginald was taken!)
Arctic Sapphire
Mystic Opal
Angela Blaze
Eiko Magami
Frozen Sapphire
Krystal Blue
Angela Starr
Damij Master
Damij Tsunami
Deep Indigo
Azure Hamster
Dean Corso
Alonzo Mosley
Jack Walsh
Grt Stone Dragon

I'm usually "Almo" in games, but with millions of people playing, that was already taken. I didn't want to take my usual adjustment to Almo by adding a number, so I tried to come up with something new.

Some explanations for the names:

"Justice Almo" and "Justicar Almo": I'm ranked in the top 400 Justices in the Tribunal, the League's player-based toxic-player punishment system.

A Type 2 Supernova is one of the most powerful events in the known universe. I studied physics in college, and always liked stellar mechanics.

The "Norjia"s are variations on my original Diablo II Ice Bowazon's name. Norjia Blacksteel is my EVE-Online name.

"Sir Reginald the Sly" was my Thief in Wizard's Crown on the C64.

"Eiko Magami" is the main character in Project A-ko, an anime movie I did like.

"Dean Corso" was the main character in one of my favorite movies, The Ninth Gate.
"Alonzo Mosley" and "Jack Walsh" are characters from another favorite film, Midnight Run.
"Grt Stone Dragon" refers to Eddie Murphy's great line in Mulan: "Uh... did I mention I was the Great Stone Dragon?"

You'll also see references to blue and ice, because my favorite color is blue, and I like cold weather.

Still unable to choose, I asked my wife which she liked. She picked the "Damij" ones, and "Azure Hamster". So my name is now Azure Hamster. :)