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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 23
Message ID: 24
#24, RE: Last Names - why?
Posted by drakensisthered on Jun-21-01 at 00:41 AM
In response to message #23
>>>Duh.
>>>
>>>Oh, DUH.
>>>
>>>It *just* clicked. Until now, I honestly had clue none who Corwin
>>>Ravenhair was.
>
>Question that probably belongs in another section of the forum: If
>those Three are sisters, shouldn't they share the same surname? Now
>granted, what they've got are more descriptors, but still...
>

Don't see why. After all, the custom of family names is comparatively recent - it's been around in the Western world only half a millenium or so. The norse beliefs that involve the Norns lapsed long before, so descriptors are much more appropriate for the Norns, but any more recent arrivals could logically TREAT them as family names.

drakensisthered

So I simply said one of the great trite truths: "There is generally more than one side to a story." - Corwin, Roger Zelazny's 'Courts of Chaos'