User:Alhadis

Online, I go by the name Alhadis ({{IPAc-en|{|l|h|eɪ|.|d|ə|s}} ). In the real world, people call me John.

My username is a reference to an old D&D character of mine, a street mage named Alhadis Di'Rayos. I chose it because the first online community I joined was the Wizards of the Coast forum in July 2002, specifically its D&D and world-building boards. I've used this handle on every website I've joined ever since.

Like every other name I devised for my high-school D&D sessions, the name "Alhadis" was assembled from random syllables I juggled mentally, often extemporaneously. It coincides with certain transliterations of حديث (al-Hadith, lit. 'the word'), which is why googling my username yields numerous results related to Islam or the Arabic-speaking world, despite my handle having no connection to either.

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