Surnames

Achilles

Eld said:

Achilles said:

Personally I don't think having a surname should be required.  Achaea is at the very least, strongly influenced by Greek mythology.  The iconic Gods, Goddess and Heroes didn't have surnames.

Hercules

Achilles

Medusa

Theseus

Ajax

Hector

Odysseus

Personally I think it would be cool if they adopted the greek habit of adding their parents to differentiate them (and its even easier in Achaea since there won't be 20 Michaels).  i.e. Ada, Daughter of Ashden

But would that be Ajax the Greater or Ajax the Lesser?

Wouldn't be necessary given the fact there can only be one Ajax.  Maybe something like that in the case of Halo, Halios, Halos can be made.

Eld

Achilles said:

Eld said:

Achilles said:

Personally I don't think having a surname should be required.  Achaea is at the very least, strongly influenced by Greek mythology.  The iconic Gods, Goddess and Heroes didn't have surnames.

Hercules

Achilles

Medusa

Theseus

Ajax

Hector

Odysseus

Personally I think it would be cool if they adopted the greek habit of adding their parents to differentiate them (and its even easier in Achaea since there won't be 20 Michaels).  i.e. Ada, Daughter of Ashden

But would that be Ajax the Greater or Ajax the Lesser?

Wouldn't be necessary given the fact there can only be one Ajax.  Maybe something like that in the case of Halo, Halios, Halos can be made.

In Achaea it wouldn't, no, but you were offering those as examples of "iconic Gods, Goddesses and Heroes [who] didn't have surnames". I was just pointing out that the two Ajaxes of the Iliad, while they didn't have surnames, were identified either by Greater or Lesser, or by their homelands or ancestry, the latter of which serve the same function as surnames. I don't see why identifying people by their parentage is preferable to identifying them by surnames.

Achilles

I was giving an example of how ancient Greeks did it.  The original comment was whether surnames should be required.  Most people have them, don't know when it happened but the earlier generation of Achaeans never had surnames.

Krypton

Skye said:

edit: I've been told by Cooper that 'he doesn't know any Sa'Rithvens, not even (lol)Osis' so since he's an old fart and doesn't remember, then I have to quote a different surname instead.

The following members of the clan of The Sa'Rithven Family are in the realms:
Krypton Urth'Auren, Navigator of the Infinite

Pity the thought of having kids scares the sh*t out of me.

Iocun said:

Yeah, requiring surnames would be a bit silly. Not only because Greek mythology. Simply because of the fact that Achaea isn't a modern, standardized world. You really don't have to go back to ancient Greece to find cultures in which there are no surnames or they aren't particularly important.

Conversely, though, you can travel as far back as ancient Greek times and find non-modern cultures that DID already consider surnames important. Like ancient China.

Aliath

People should limit themselves to two surnames though, no matter how great they may be, always told that to Aliath's kids, stick with two even if if means dropping the Tiarell part

Cinya

I forget if I posted here or not, but Quoren gave Cinya her surname, though he only intended it as a nickname at the time. Then when she left Shallam (the first time) and was eager for an excuse to shed her Shallamese surname, "Ravensong" popped right into her mind. 

I have mixed feelings about the name itself since I don't usually like compound-word-surnames, but I absolutely LOVE the backstory.

RIP @Quoren.

Yue

Chryenth said:

I think that's spelled 'ninny'.

no

nini

edit: ^retarded last name

I like the clean, distinctly Achaean (non-random-english words, non-AdjectiveNoun names) like Rozzan, Corten, Vallah, etc.

Coeur

Solhar is mine, courtesy of @Zahan. We're a dying family! Alliteration with the rest of the name has stuck, I apologise.

As long as your title, inclusive of your surname, is short and sweet, we can be friends. No underlines or adjectives. And I swear, there are some families that just boom out of nowhere, I swear, there's a conspiracy... 

:-w

Reihaneh

Reih's started out as D'Ischai, became Windsong-D'Ischai when Tohran bloodlined her, then Windsong-Hayabusa when Stephine decided to change it, then went back and forth a bit while she was going through major family drama, and finally went back to D'Ischai. Then she married Hermaldo, so now it's Fireheart - which, I find Herm's post up there hysterical because he was all excited about continuing the family name when he and Reih got married. But yes, I do find the name rather corny, although it flows well with Reihaneh.

Hyphenated surnames kind of bug me. Especially when two people with hyphenated surnames marry one another. There are waaaay too many hyphenated surnames in Achaea.

Zii

Amseli, used to describe moths, I think.  Chosen surname.  Zii's drawn toward glory like a moth to the flame.

Tesha

The story of "al Ashtad" is pretty neat. Aurora spoke to Tesha, asking about the titles of old and her family name. When Aurora learned Tesha cut ties with her family, Aurora gave Tesha a new last name. "al Ashtad" means Justice in the language Aurora uses for her Aarashi stuff, and that is where Tesha's title (Golden Justice) comes from (also bestowed by Aurora when Tesha got dragon) (still sad mudlet crashed and I lost the log of that ).

Jiraishin

Judicator Tesha the Justice, the Golden Justice?

Still awesome, though.

Kresslack

Achilles said:

Personally I don't think having a surname should be required.  Achaea is at the very least, strongly influenced by Greek mythology.  The iconic Gods, Goddess and Heroes didn't have surnames.

Hercules

Achilles

Medusa

Theseus

Ajax

Hector

Odysseus

Personally I think it would be cool if they adopted the greek habit of adding their parents to differentiate them (and its even easier in Achaea since there won't be 20 Michaels).  i.e. Ada, Daughter of Ashden

That's because no one really had them until the middle ages. Traditionally a person would use the name of the city they lived in when describing themself.

Jonners

Coeur said:

Solhar is mine, courtesy of @Zahan. We're a dying family! Alliteration with the rest of the name has stuck, I apologise.

As long as your title, inclusive of your surname, is short and sweet, we can be friends. No underlines or adjectives. And I swear, there are some families that just boom out of nowhere, I swear, there's a conspiracy... 

:-w

You have two adjectives in your title 'Curiously Casual Coeur Solha, Captivating Charmer'. You're not friends with yourself?

Smithson had to do with me wanting a generic name for Jonners (AKA John Smith) as I had never planned to get parents for him. It was a happy coincidence he was Phaestean for so long.

Mordric

Longshanks FTW. I know it's plainly OOC historical, but it's one of the most culturally enriched bloodlines in the entire game. Danial, Vallah, Lokelinde, Teircel. Old school surnames carry a lot of inter-game heritage. I have a lolalt that's a Von Mordenheim. <---------I love that name.

Zenui

I was always rather happy with the sound of 'Ruthras' as Zenui's surname. (Though the origin of it is a bit silly: take Arthur, spell it backwards, and put an 's' at the end to make it sound nicer.)