» Tue May 10, 2011 8:16 pm
Surtur doesn't remember his original name. He hasn't been that person since the raiders attacked his post with the NCR 3rd Engineering Division and he fought back with an improvised flamethrower, burning the entire town to the ground in the process. When he realized what he'd done, he also realized he didn't really know who he was. Reading had been his only escape from the harsh truths of the Wasteland as a child, and the name of the king of Norse mythology's fire giants burned in his mind as he watched a house collapse into itself. It seemed fitting.
Truth be told, the name's actually spelled "Surtr," but the largely uneducated masses just stumbled all over that, so he went with a more colloquial spelling thereafter.