#also idk if they're actually Zaunites if the undercity is still technically the undercity of Piltover but like. I like Zaunites

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I would like to mention the naming patterns in arcane

I've watched the first season of arcane 3 times, and the second one twice, and I've can't remember the last name of any Zaunite to save my life

Piltovians: Jayce Talis, Caitlyn Kiramman, Mel Medarda*, and the late council members*, Cassandra Kiramman, Cecil Heimerdinger, Torman Hoskel, and Irius Bolbok

*Mel Medarda is a Noxian, but was introduced to us as a council member of Piltover, so I will still count her

*It seems that "Salo" is the councilman's full name, as the Arcane Wiki (Fandom though it be) and google had no other name for him, so I will not be counting him

This is the opposite for the Zaunites though

Vi, Jynx, Silco, Vander, Sevika, Isha, Ekko, Viktor, Sky (Viktor's assistant who was in 2 episodes)

I don't think this was a mistake on the writers' part, rather I think it's another way they show the disparity between topside and bottom. Last names are typically denotations of status, as many things in Piltover are run by families, every member of which would typically share the same last name (e.g. the Kirammans).

I think the writers wanted to show that the typical Zaunite had very little power, as the people in power in the under city are crime lords who have been in power for years and will stay in power until they die or are killed (all of Silco's crime lord buddies) because the have the money and the influence to do so.

So at the end of the day, I think the way that the Zaunites have no last names wasn't a mistake by the writers, but an intentional choice to show the way that Piltovians and Zaunites differ in power and influence.