User:CyberWarlock

The Origin of the Name

CyberWarlock - Short for Cybernetic Warlock

cy·ber·net·ics (n) Etymology: Greek kybernEtEs pilot, governor (from kybernan to steer, govern) + English -ics 1 : the science of communication and control theory that is concerned especially with the comparative study of automatic control systems (as the nervous system and brain and mechanical-electrical communication systems)

war·lock (n) Etymology: Middle English warloghe, from Old English w[AE]rloga one that breaks faith, the Devil, from w[AE]r faith, troth + -loga (from lEogan to lie); akin to Old English w[AE]r true 1 : a man practicing the black arts : SORCERER -- compare WITCH 2 : CONJURER

In the early days of BBS and the Internet I originally used just "Warlock" as my nick. This was based on the both the Adam Warlock character from Marvel Comics and Julian Sands' Warlock character. Adam Warlock was my favorite Marvel character at the time and I was constantly told when the movie came out that I resembled Julien Sands (because I dressed in black and had long blond hair and a ponytail mostly).

I also chose the name Warlock because it was gender specific. Early days of IRC and BBS chats would always find at least a dozen people asking A/S/L (age/sex/location) or "Are you male or female?", so I thought I would go with something that would be generally apparent to those looking as to my gender. I occasionally get a lot of flack from Pagans because of my use of Warlock and yes I am well aware of the negative connotations of the name, but as I said, it is gender specific and if I were to refer to myself as "CyberWitch" MOST people would assume I was female. In around 1995-96 when AOL and CompuServ began dumping people onto the net by the thousands, more and more "Warlocks" started appearing in chat rooms and web sites. It was at that point that I changed my nick from Warlock to CyberWarlock based in part on a story I was drafting at the time about Nhicodima the Cybernetic Warlock. (I had not at that time adopted the word "Technomancer") The original story was a much darker tale than that which I later chose to publish online in my Sailor Moon Fanfics and later redesigned the origins of in the Starseed Chronicles.

For a time, I dropped the CyberWarlock nick and adopted the name TekStorm when the meaning of "Cyber" online began to take on negative (or alternative) meaning. TekStorm, being the shortened form of yet another of my fantasy story characters, T'ekenduis Stormmaker. I eventually dropped that nick and returned to using the CyberWarlock, since the vast majority of my pages and information are under that name.

So, just in case you were curious... now you know.