I played a game called grandia when I was much younger in around 97 and the overworld was called Gaia with operationYggdrasil being the overall story arc and I thought it was a cool name, young me didn't know anything more, it consistently pops up in many games particularly RPGs, hinted at in the lifa tree in ffix, legend of Zelda, dragoon, and more then when older started getting into mythology and cultures and I learned what it was and it's brilliant, my last name is Brant and back in PS2 online days an American misheard it and called me branch, branch was taken on most platforms so I decided I wanted to embellish it so I went for a literal embellishment and became gilded branch and it made sense since Yggdrasil had seemed to crop up through my entire life I kind of feel right with it so I found a golden/gilded version and yeah that's me (edited)