(01-22-2015, 02:02 PM)Kamome Wrote: Oh, had another thought re: the Doman language.This may not merely be a depature from Doman language, and just simply how the Doman naming conventions have always been. While Doma is quite obviously based on Japan, it is not actually Japan so they are free to deviate from actual Japanese historical or cultural things such as naming.
Maybe the language really has phased out/become archaic judging by the NPC surnames we see in the Ninja quest: Moonrise, Sunrise, Redbeak, etc. I feel the fact that Domans seem to have surnames in line with the language of the rest of Hydaelyn shows at least some distance from the Doman native language, even though all of their forenames are Doman (at least from what I have seen).
Are there any NPC examples of Domans with actual Doman or Japanese surnames?
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