Zhen Dil Oloth
01-01-2007, 10:52 PM
Hi guys,
I thought I could start the year by answering one of the question that people ask me the most;
"Why Zhen Dil Oloth?"
I'm a RPG (Role-Playing Game) nut.
I have started in the late 70's with those "Find your fate" books. Little novels where each paragraph is numbered, and each end with multiple choices with a number assigned to each choices. The choice you make take you to the number of the next paragraph you must read to continue your "adventure'. ;)
Then early/mid 80's I got into D&D (Dungeons and Dragons).
Then in the late 80's to the mid 90's, one of my friend and I had our own LRPG (Live Role-Playing Game). It was a great experience. Amongst other things, I had to make up hundreds of NPCs (Non Player Characters) during that time.
At some point, we needed 2 magic users for our game. So me and one of my friends came up with Zhan dil Sussun (from the Drow meaning something like mage of light) and Zhan dil Oloth(mage of darkness, which I kept on misspelling into Zhen Dil Oloth). Twin brothers magic users, one good and one evil.
Then later when I started going online, I tried to use "Zool" (the name of some evil god in my LRPG) as my user name, but to my surprise, there were hordes of "Zool" online. So I always ended up with Zool26374678 or something.
So I looked in the truckload of names I had in stock for a name that no-one else in the known multiverse would use online. And I went for Zhen Dil Oloth.
Also the name I used for my main character in various CRPGs (Computer Role-Playing Games, BG 1 and 2, IWD 1 and 2, PoR 2, ToEE, NWN, DDO).
Here is a pictorial representation of what my character more or less end up looking like in those various games. ;)
Hope you guys like it.
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7111/zhensmallej0.jpg
I thought I could start the year by answering one of the question that people ask me the most;
"Why Zhen Dil Oloth?"
I'm a RPG (Role-Playing Game) nut.
I have started in the late 70's with those "Find your fate" books. Little novels where each paragraph is numbered, and each end with multiple choices with a number assigned to each choices. The choice you make take you to the number of the next paragraph you must read to continue your "adventure'. ;)
Then early/mid 80's I got into D&D (Dungeons and Dragons).
Then in the late 80's to the mid 90's, one of my friend and I had our own LRPG (Live Role-Playing Game). It was a great experience. Amongst other things, I had to make up hundreds of NPCs (Non Player Characters) during that time.
At some point, we needed 2 magic users for our game. So me and one of my friends came up with Zhan dil Sussun (from the Drow meaning something like mage of light) and Zhan dil Oloth(mage of darkness, which I kept on misspelling into Zhen Dil Oloth). Twin brothers magic users, one good and one evil.
Then later when I started going online, I tried to use "Zool" (the name of some evil god in my LRPG) as my user name, but to my surprise, there were hordes of "Zool" online. So I always ended up with Zool26374678 or something.
So I looked in the truckload of names I had in stock for a name that no-one else in the known multiverse would use online. And I went for Zhen Dil Oloth.
Also the name I used for my main character in various CRPGs (Computer Role-Playing Games, BG 1 and 2, IWD 1 and 2, PoR 2, ToEE, NWN, DDO).
Here is a pictorial representation of what my character more or less end up looking like in those various games. ;)
Hope you guys like it.
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7111/zhensmallej0.jpg