Tanz is the name most of my online friends know me by. It is not that common (unless you are a female in the Phillipines, I have found out recently) so I use it on all the sites I go to.
Tanz Sixfingers is/was the name of my main character on the mmorpg EverQuest (1), and I created Tanz on EverQuest 2 as well, but they wouldn't allow me the last name as they said it was sexually suggestive (go figure!).
Tanz began as the main antagonist for my series of stories I am writing. He is a genetically-engineered orphan cum pirate who dances on th thin line between good and evil. All my stories are science fiction, so the names of my main characters are more along Star Trek or Babylon 5 lines, and EverQuest is a fantasy setting, so the first major character who had a name that would fit in fantasy was Tanz...
And now you know the rest of the story.
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