[Mid] Re: Name/Persona was: I might have a name

Fun question. I really made these decisions before I ever went to my first meeting and saved myself a lot of the new person problems.

I chose my SCA first name before I came into the SCA. At the time I had been writing in a shared universe fanzine and my character's name was Conrad Myers. Since the group tended to call each by their cahracter names (except Jeff who we didn't call Kate) I was used to answering to it. I just changed the spelling to Konrad which the seven language dictionary I had said was the German form of the name. I used Konrad der Ba:r (the bear) until Pennsic my first year when I submitted Konrad Meilander, which got changed to Mailander. Meilander is a family name (My great grandmother was a Meilander) I have since found that Meilander is a alternate spelling only found in Ohio, probably a immigration error that only effected one family. I later registered Konrad the Ba:r (a: = a with a umlat over it) as a alternate name (for the same persona) though I haven't used it much for a long time.

For personna I based it loosely on reality. The son of a Swiss soldier, my father's family is Swiss German/German and he spent 10 years in the army/reserves and a German farmers daughter, that is what Ma is; the daughter of John Meilander Hansen, farmer. Then built on it from there as I did research. After a little research I decided that just subtracting 500 years put me in a great time for a Swiss reenactor and easy to keep track of. I decided that Konrad was from Bern, Switzerland before I found out that is where the Niederhauser family actually came from (my mundane last name). Konrad set foot in the Middle Kingdom on April 7, 1493 and it is now February 11, 1510. Some things from the SCA I work into my Persona Story some I don't or I alter to make fit. I use my Persona Story as a reference point.

Meister Konrad Mailander, Hauptmann der Rotenkompanie
Apprentice to Master Brusten de Bearsul OP, OL(Gaming)
Squire to Sir Gunther von Brandenburg
Si hoc obstat, dejectum sit - If it's in the way let it be knocked down

So I wonder, how did others come up with their names and personas? Did you
have problems too? How did you overcome them?

Kitty/Ysabella

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From: "Dale Niederhauser" <konrad_at_netscape.com>
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Received on Thu 11 Feb 2010 05:50:39 PM EST