Talk:Skine

So the Anon editor knows - yes there was something wrong with your edit. We do not assume surnames. Skine is never addresed as "Skine Redkite". -- LordTBT File:Tbtico.jpg ^Talk! 00:09, November 15, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, especially since the stories are set in a medieval-type world where surnames are sometimes tacked on like nicknames instead of passed down from family to family (i.e. Damug Warfang is not Damug Tunn).

--Scotty Bluefleck File:Scottyblue fife by Jump.jpgFile:Scotty Bluefleck by Selound.pngO Sword of Truth! Fly swift and sure, that Evil die and Good endure! 16:54, November 15, 2011 (UTC)

Damug Warfang is a title. Damug Tung is his real name. Argulor (talk) 17:52, August 30, 2017 (UTC)

No, surnames are not assumed, because many characters have different surnames than their parents. -- LordTBT File:Tbtico.jpg ^Talk! 00:26, August 31, 2017 (UTC)

Why do they have different surnames than their parents? Shouldn't that be proof that they aren't biologically related? Argulor (talk) 04:23, August 31, 2017 (UTC)

Different cultures do surnames differently in real life than the traditional western of passing the father's surname down. For instance, in some nordic lands, your surname is either your father or mother's Christian name with "-sson" or "-dottir" added. In some native tribes surnames are added like titles based on doings, like the vermin add titles such as "warfang" to their surname. If there is variety in real life there is no reason why there can't be variety in a fictional series of books. In fact, even if there WASN'T variety in real life there's no reason there can't be in a fictional book because the author is quite entitled to make up his own world with his own rules. --Scotty Bluefleck File:Scottyblue fife by Jump.jpgFile:Scotty Bluefleck by Selound.pngO Sword of Truth! Fly swift and sure, that Evil die and Good endure! 04:49, September 1, 2017 (UTC)

This is extraordinarily naive. No? Many siblings have different surnames than their parents, and each other. Even in western society. That is not how the world works. Additionally, many siblings WHO ARE NOT biologically related can have the same surname. -- LordTBT File:Tbtico.jpg ^Talk! 22:38, September 1, 2017 (UTC)