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[jaebility]

Been distracting myself with the naming system in my magic!school!story. I want the last names to be derived from both parents, instead of the typical patrilineal surname practice. Two main reasons for this: Women are more powerful and influential in this world and tracing lineage through one's mother is as important, if not more important, than doing so through one's father; character J is a bastard, and I want everyone to know this immediately. People need to see him as half a person, as castrated, even. Also, this is a British setting, and I like the connotations that the hyphenated last name has.

Yay! Love working on things like this.

Comments

[nan]

Oh my God, I have a magic!school!story too. Except my school is more military than fantastical and my students become soldiers.

HP and FFVIII's lovechild. XD

[jaebility]

Ooh that sounds really interesting! Is it an original story or a fanfic mash-up of HP and FFVIII?

Magic!schools = awesome

[nan]

Original fiction. It's really a lot of fun to plot out and world build. :D I'm not sure if I want it to be my NaNo story this year.

[jaebility]

World building's my favorite part about writing. I spend all my time on that instead of actually writing the damn thing.

You should post it so I can read it!