Everquest was my previous online game that I played before my two friends Senjaya and Jeremy introduced the possibilities of this one. Efalindrahn, my first Everquest character, was based off of a dark elf I used to write about who was a total cop out on Drizzt Do'Urden from the Forgotten Realms novels. Why the name has the "h" in it..I know not, but some part of me thought it looked more elvish. H's do that to names.

Dreadnok was Dreadwind's original name, and many know that in the cartoon "GI Joe" the Dreadnoks were Zartan's punker/biker gang. The name was originally for a lizard-man monk, and in the Everquest story line many of this race of beings had their names end with "ok"...so I generically jumped at a chance to include a reference to nostalgic 80's cartoons.

Dreadwind came to be (since some one on this server already had a Dreadnok!) just sort of randomly, as I was thinking of a noun to include after "Dread" and wind was cleared. Figured taurens like nature and wind..ooOOoo forboding Dreadwind. A good name, and I stand by it!

Alphatrion is the name of the first Autobot, and the creator of Optimus Prime. Another reference to 80's cartoons I used to love growing up, and it popped up because on the day I made my shaman, I had just watched an episode of transformers I'd downloaded on Limewire that was about Alphatrion and his creating Optimus Prime. :)