How did you come up with your IGN?

[Essence]

My wife, back when we were in high school, had a home-crafted 'religion' of moon-worship and magic.  (This after growing up Mormon, right?)  Her philosophies were so persusasive that she 'converted' a Catholic from Mexico and a Shinto-ist from Japan (both exchange students) as well as a few of the locals in Sequim, Washington, USA -- THE town with with the HIGHEST ratio of chuches to people in the western half of the United States.  Quite an accomplishment.

So, she named herself Majik. 

I started going out with her (fell under her spell?), and decided I should choose a nick that went alongside hers without elbowing in on her meme-space too much, so I decided on Essence.

I've been Essence everywhere I've gone online ever since. 

[jmizzle7]

Mine is based on my initials.

[lestat1]

my name is the vampire from interview with a vampire. Ive had that name since 1996. Its more out of habit than anything else.

[sillyking14]

i have been using mine for quite a while now i use it for almost everything with only slight variation to the number tag. it simply a character trait/last name,

[918273645]

  Random number sequence? Or is it? 

[ddevans96]

d is my first initial
d is my middle initial
evans is my last name
96 is my favorite number

There you go. On most sites, I have a z at the end, and that's random.

[BluePriest]

Blue Priest
Well, I started writing a book called Blue Priest, the Legend of the Elements with a friend of mine, and i just adopted the Alias Blue Priest/The Blue Priest. You see Blue Priest on something, its probably me.

[finkel]

Mine's just one of my nicknames. I also go by "bunnykill100" on some other forums, but realized that "finkel" was almost never taken, and if it was, "finkelz" was sure to be free.

bunnykill100 because the bunnykill series is amazing, and 100 is a nice round number. "bunny kill one hundred" sorta rolls off the tongue, dontcha think?

[Wardead]

Well I started playing a game on a site, called "Warlords: Call to Arms". I got really addicted and my favourite race was the Undeads. I soon created an account called Warlords Undead. Realized that this name was too big, I shortened it to "Wardead".

And that is how the coolest name in history came to be 

[Kuroaitou]

Hooray for thread necromancy!

Kuroaitou actually was the name of a Human Warlock character I played on World of Warcraft (*bows head in partial shame*) - I had spent hours trying to think of something original that would embody a Warlock-like character, but it turns out that the name itself was pretty emo ("Dark Misery") to correspond to the whole 'affliction' theme of the class.

Deseis (Kongregate Name, I use Kuroaitou now) was another name I used for another Gnome Warlock. It's the Spanish translation "Of Six", which could be referenced to "Of Demons" as 6 represents the sign of the devil (I'm not Christian, but it's hard to not hear about those silly references of 666 everywhere).

[Selenbrant]

I always played under the name "Bambi", but often its already used....
After some problems in my life... I changed my name to "Selenbrant". Its a songtitle of a german punkband, called WIZO. "Selenbrant" means "Burning Soul" in englisch, although the correct spelling in german is "Seelenbrand".

96 is my favorite number

Why not 69?

[MaxMilen]

I used to be a member of a message board that had a Pokemon-based play-by-post RP. My character for that RP was named Max Milen.

As to where I got the name for the character... actually, I don't know exactly how I came up with the name.