haha, yeah I actually considered pushing for that at one point.
Probably wouldn't use "Searyx". My own trolling and damage to my name isn't
that bad, but
the other Searyx? Much worse, and that's the first thing that comes up on Google. I cut my alias short to Seary on every forum I go to except this one, and tbh I can't think of a champion design that would fit with that name.
And now that I think about it, I could have suggested "Tallon" instead of Talon. This is wishful thinking though.
As has been mentioned, the Riot president played on TZ (Tryndamere, Kilithyr, Narodnika for a while, etc). He played on VZTZ for a bit too (Ryltarr, Tryndamere). And of course we played on the Discord server. If SoE hadn't released that wacky one-month permadeath server, I probably wouldn't be working here right now.
Warmog was a troll warrior on Tallon Zek (Warmog's armor).
There might be a few more subtle nods to EQ/TZ, but that's all I can think of atm.