C'kayah sees names as being extremely important, and takes pains to both remember the way people like to be called, and to spend an inordinate amount of time tearing apart someone's name mentally in order to guess at the symbolism behind it. He's distrustful of aliases, in a business where so much depends on the ability to trust the people you're dealing with. He knows of Crooked Tarot, for instance, but he avoids him as untrustworthy simply because the man works with aliases so much.
That said, he calls people different things for tactical reasons. Full names, shortened names, pet names, nicknames, and taunts are all used to reflect how he feels about someone. For himself, he usually simply goes by C'kayah (Kayah to his close friends - a sure fire way to earn his ire is to use the familiar form inappropriately). Sometimes he takes the Moonkeeper form Kayah Polaali (his maternal grandmother is a Polaali). Whether "Kayah" is the shortened familiar form of C'kayah (and thus only for close friends) or the Moonkeeper form (appropriate for anyone) is a matter of context.
That said, he calls people different things for tactical reasons. Full names, shortened names, pet names, nicknames, and taunts are all used to reflect how he feels about someone. For himself, he usually simply goes by C'kayah (Kayah to his close friends - a sure fire way to earn his ire is to use the familiar form inappropriately). Sometimes he takes the Moonkeeper form Kayah Polaali (his maternal grandmother is a Polaali). Whether "Kayah" is the shortened familiar form of C'kayah (and thus only for close friends) or the Moonkeeper form (appropriate for anyone) is a matter of context.
