I get a lot of people asking me why I'd name myself Syn. For the most part their brains automatically link Syn to sin even if they know the spelling. I know a large number of people throw syn into their name as a "clever" way of saying their character is sinful.

Firstly, let me explain how my name came to be. It was a gamertag back in the days of Quake; well the Syn part anyways. That's right, I'm oldschool. My gamertag had been Syndeth which was more of a title than anything. I had used other gamertags before, but people kept saying finding me in a dark alley was like finding death. I was one of those guys that would sprint straight for the strongest or second strongest weapon I knew of on the level, grab up all the ammo I could then creep through the darkest corridors I knew of sniping people. After a while of getting told that I was like death I changed my tag to Syndeth,

This leads me to the meaning of the name. Syn is a prefix, it means "same as" or "like". I had been top of my class in latin prefixes and suffixes and I loved using them to make new words. Deth was a purposeful misspelling of "death" that I took from a favorite band of mine, Megadeth. So, it was Syndeth, "One who is like death."

Well, when it came time to select a furname I went through a lot of different names that I tried out but didn't like, and several online people had been calling me Syn already. I didn't feel Syndeth was appropriate for a permanent name, but I did like the nickname Syn, so I went through a bunch of tryouts and finally settled on Synzin, my current name.

Hope this explains a few things to folks. Time to run off to work!