#i am a pedant about seeker lore i'm sorry every time i see a wolnpc ship where the oc takes the seeker woman's last name i'm like

[thefinalwitness]

i thought about for the longest time if i wanted y'shtola or l'aiha to change their names when they got married, like, how a spouse often takes the other person's last name. the problem is that, in seeker culture, the last name is meant to indicate who the seeker woman's father is, it's literally just their father's name minus the clan letter. so it doesn't make any goddamn sense for seeker women to change their last name to their wife's last name because her WIFE'S dad is not HER dad biologically, which is what the naming convention is for, you know.

but i thought really hard about what WOULD possibly change and i figured it out: clan letter. of course. so l'shtola or y'aiha. naturally i really did not like either of these and wishwashed onto the answer i was already probably going to come to regardless, which is that neither of them would change their names at all in the first place. but it was a fun mental exercise.