It was a common nickname for me after my junior year of high school. My history teacher developed this game for an AP government class I took. We ultimately broke into groups, and created countries. Through a mishap of events I was in a group that was led by a monarchy. The dude who was labeled a king had no clue how to rule a country, but I having played the right type of games knew how to lead. After he was overthrown by me (He had made some poor decisions for our group throwing us into poverty) I led a war campaigns that consumed most of the imaginary continent. It was probably one of the most interesting class projects I've ever had the pleasure of going through. The teacher did a really good job crafting the entire game, so that we all gained a really deep understanding of how governments evolved over time. He did his best to relate some of our actions to the actions of real life leaders. Well, long story short it got out about my ruthlessness, and then the title War came from it.