/lit/ - Literature

Shower thought, kinda. Was the information request at the very beginning of Cradle Suriel or Ozriel?

What are you going to write for NaNoWriMo, anon?

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Far more complicated is ancient Japanese names, though. For starters, a change in status usually meant a change in name. For example, becoming a retainer to a samurai from a commonborn position meant you had to call yourself a new name because your old peasant name is passe. It was also common to then take a character from your new overlord as part of your new name. If your master died though you now had the trouble of being named after him so you'd have to change your name unless you wanted to continue his fight against his enemies.