Now that I have pretty much all of my even remotely relevant characters uploaded here, I wanna do something I was originally going to do in Tumblr, but it actually fits better to this site: ramble about lore. I might extend this to other character categories later but at least at first I'll talk about some Flight Rising stuff. The first theme will be...

Naming conventions of dragons

In my headcanon there are a few different ways a dragon can get their name:

• the parents or guardians name the dragon as a hatchling (Arrede)
• an event gives the dragon a name or a nickname (Tuiske)
• the adult dragon chooses a name for themselves (Rumble).

Like in real life different dragons have different opinions about what is an acceptable name and a way to get a name. In Seafoam clan most of the dragons have pretty relaxed attitude towards the subject, but there are some exceptions. For example the leader Carran refuses to call her son Rumble and instead still uses his birth name Kyron. Nightblade's name is also so extravagant that it occasionally gets joked about among other dragons.

Even if dragons that haven't been born in Seafoam clan can have pretty much any sort of name, the dragons born in the clan tend to follow certain conventions with their names. The names usually don't mean anything themselves, but there is an often used suffix -n which roughly means "belowed" in Dragonic. It is used the same way as -son is used in Swedish last names like Svensson; using names like that is common but not mandatory and not having name end with -n isn't shunned. But what is shunned is using suffix -nn, which is sort of a mocking version of -n. No well-meaning parent who knows about this tradition would ever give their child a name ending with -nn, and as for example Lienn doesn't want to talk about it, one can only guess why she was given such a name.

The -n tradition is especially strong within Imperials of Seafoam clan, as so far every Imperial of the clan has a name ending with -n (Faelten, Davraseen, Aelian).