Where did “Krellis” come from?

I am often asked where the “Krellis” name that I use as my online handle came from. Eventually, I will probably forget the story, so I figured I will write it down here, and it can be remembered forever!

Way back when I was living in England, some friends and I played a table-top role playing game (RPG) from Palladium Books called Rifts. As part of playing Rifts, I needed to come up with a character name. Not feeling very creative myself, I went online to the CompuServe RPG forums, and asked around for name suggestions. Someone was just throwing out random names at me, and Krellis was one of them. I liked the sound of it, and took it for my character.

Later, when I was becoming more active online, and needed a nickname for myself for IRC, among other things, it just seemed natural to use Krellis. It’s been a long time since I’ve pulled out any of my Rifts books (though I do still have all of them, along with character sheets, dice, and all that good stuff), but I still use Krellis as my nickname and login name of choice online. To this day, I have no idea who the guy who gave me the suggestion was, or where it came from, but it’s given me lots of use over the years!