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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thondor" data-source="post: 4555851" data-attributes="member: 31955">Thanks for the info. So . . . Austin and Amirad I like it. Hmmmm as for a last name I haven't made one yet. (BUt yes I think we have a concensus that your mother is the common relative). I'm not sure what kind of naming conventions I want to go with. I suppose we should sortof decide together as we are from the same society/kingdom.Here's the last name possibilities that occured to me:1. Take the name of where your from eg. Luke of London, Billy von York, 2. Take the name of your father eg. George son of Robert, Alfred Robertson, or perhaps Austin Harrelsen?3. The more common (nowadays) of just keeping the last name that your father had. This would allow for the more easy reference to House _______ (House Harrelsen) that seems coomon for merchant houses.4. Taking the last name of the House/clan/extended family that you marry into. This also allows for even easier reference to House _______ (House Harrelsen) that seems coomon for merchant houses.I like number four. I also like the idea of your father marrying into the House (probably to the eldest daughter.) And then some strife occurrs splitting the merchant House into two seperate 'new' merchant houses.So we could both have an old last name in common (hmmm maybe something like Valderben?) eg. the name of the old merchant house before the split.And a new last name for the 'new' merchant houses Harrelsen for you and hmmm maybe Kalveten for me. I like them as middle level struggling traders not amazingly wealthy merchant princes (or even rich ones). The level where sometimes they still often travel with their wares.How bout some "Traditional family roles"First son : Takes care of family business (uncle Thomas)2nd son: Joins some kind of military (my father hmm Radigos)3rd son: joins the priesthood (is there another uncle?)We can change the order based on where you view your character 'compared' to his siblings. Fact switching 2 and 3 might work better for me. I see my character as originally training for priesthood, then when my father died taking over his "Military" role in the larger family. Though that can be played with.Anyway I guess that's a lot. Thoughts? I can restate it in more concrete terms this was a little stream of conciousness . . . Maybe we shouldn't develop it to much more, never know when one of our the character might die . . . (Of course then we could bring in relatives<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</blockquote>

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