Talk:Aurynn Amanth/@comment-34049573-20180114012439/@comment-3452092-20180114033626

I would imagine it's a cultural thing based on the naming customs of some counties in years gone by. I've done only enough research to figure out what my characters would be named, but I do a lot of writing and names are definitely not the same as they were a few hundred years ago. In the series I am working on I have a lot of characters born in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. Here are some of the naming conventions I have come across:


 * (Personal Name) de (Father's Personal Name) de (Paternal Grandfather's Personal Name) (Family Name) - Italy, fourteenth century
 * (Personal Name) ap/verch (Father's Personal Name) - Wales (I think) sixteenth century. Ap and verch indicate son of or daughter of respectively.
 * (Personal Name) (Modified Version of Father's Name) - Spain, fifteenth century. An example being the father's name is Lope and the family name is Lopes.
 * (Personal name) de la (Descriptive Term or Location) - Spain, fifteenth century.

That's just four examples from three different centuries in three different countries. Sometimes naming conventions were different for daughters verses sons. Sometimes names came from the mother's name, usually when the father was unknown. Names like Johnson, Jackson, and Alison meant John's son, Jack's son, and Alice's son. Yes, Alison was a boy's name.

I would imagine that in Fydoria the daughter's got their father's first name as a surname and the sons got their father's surname which was probably somewhere back along the line their many greats-grandfather's first name. Why? I don't know, but I would guess that is the case here. Do we know of any other siblings in the series that have last names?

SPOILERS: If you haven't finished the series, don't keep reading. Although if you have gotten to Aurynn, you are at least in the third book, but still this is a spoiler for the end of that book, so if you haven't finished, don't keep reading unless you want to be spoiled.

Oh, wait. There are the Nevrakris siblings. Seeing as not only does Zenobia have the same surname as her brothers, but so does Olivia, who must be Zenobia's descendant since Zenobia is the only sibling guaranteed to survive the series, their surnames must pass on regardless of gender. Maybe if you are the ruler or the ruler's descendant, you keep the family name. I don't know how that works. But there does appear to be a second naming convention going on here.

And there are the Blake siblings, so I would guess this is a Fydoria thing. It's never really explained, so I don't for sure, but I would suspect that it is something along those lines.