What Does This Mean?
A secondary character a player builds and plays in a game alongside their main, used to try different roles or content without affecting progress on their primary character — a gaming-specific meaning distinct from the general internet identity concept of an "alt account."
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"I leveled up an alt character just to try the healer role for once."
LORE & ORIGIN
Standard MMO vocabulary from the late 1990s onward, describing the practice of maintaining additional characters beyond a player's main for variety, alternate roles, or trading, later shortened to just "alt" within gaming contexts specifically.
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