Ashina Hideki

4/28/16:

So it's been painfully obvious for a while that I needed to rename Jin because his name kept getting confused with Jian, and then I finally acknowledged that there's no way he's going to be in a position to name his son after a concept from Kabbalah (because sort-of Judaism exists but they have largely been left alone and medieval alchemists never got the chance to borrow from it) and also it always sounded weird anyway. Looking for a replacement for Kether came first, since that needed to have some kind of implications, and I wanted to keep the K sound. I ended up with Krmi, कृमि, which is Sanskrit, is the name of a minor Asura in the Rig Veda, and also means silkworm.

It comes from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning worm/wyrm with serpenty connotations. Considering his father was trying to create something like the Dragon and ended up with Kaana the watery serpenty Tiamatish figure instead the potential for mistranslation there is intentional and useful.Jin was easier. I just looked for a Japanese name I liked. /lazy So he's Hideki now.For a last name, I wanted something that went with both names. Hideki is from a minor noble family, while for Krmi I needed something that didn't look super out of place. I settled on Ashina, Ashina Hideki and Ashina Krmi both look reasonable to me.I am keeping Keiji for his civilian life, and I settled on Qiulong, 虬龙, as his military use name - it means both horned dragon and hornless dragon, which seemed appropriate to his situation.Now I think I'm finally happy with everyone's names…

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