InsaneJournal

Current mood:

tired

Really? (This Wouldn't Be So Hard)
...If I weren't intending it to be important.

I think I get it. I THINK. Excuse me, but I stopped at Swordhunt for overwhelming personal reasons, and recently found out that Ael became Empress of Romulus sometime in the last book, and can't find the Rihannsu omnibus on foot and refuse to order anything online because I'm weird, and those fen sore enough for a nitpick are probably still smarting over the now!canon depiction of Romulans, anyway.

Anyway, I think I understand how they're named.

(First name) (location name) (surname/family/house name) (inner name/personal name/guarded name)

Which would be something like "Bob of Springfield Smith", who chose to call himself Robert, and only a life-debt level of friend or lover would know that his other name was Robert. (Well, I mean, we can guess, but that's because we know human names and moreover are simplifying to a stupid degree to get the point across. Thus.)

I'm about 99.bar nine percent sure that's how it works.

First name was easy ^_^ I'm mutilating ADF's mutilation of canon (THAT'S JUST LAZINESS MR. FOSTER) to suit myself.

Spent ten minutes waffling over which name gets the i'/ir' and which gets the t'/tr', especially since the former is not gender divided but the latter is, and also my recall is years old, and My Enemy, My Ally is somewhat more opaque than The Romulan Way WHY DID I EVER LET IT GO I CAN'T GET IT ANYWHERE STUPID NEW JEDI ORDER CROWDING OUT MY SHELVES, I HAVE IT ON AUTHORITY THAT YOU ARE TRASH, YOU SILLY BOOKS *WRATH*.

I still can't quite justify why Nero thought flipping his name inside out and butchering it and hanging the resultant carcass out for all to see was a good idea.

Madness is not sufficient. I will have to use effort.

To the good: Ayel will probably have an utter screaming shitfit about it at least once. And we all know the best way to shut Ayel up is to stick things in his mouth. *Halo.*

tl;dr I'm about ready to say "screw this Rihannsu stuff" and talk out my ass.

The new fangirls won't notice. XD