- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
*smacks himself*
I forgot to make a little note after the end of Chapter 13, that would probably have cleared up a few things that may have seemed odd.
I've taken the road of adopting the Halo Library's description of how an Elite's name is structured. I'll just post the bit the site has on it here so everyone can read it.
Because names are important to the Elite society, each element of the name has a meaning. Elite names are contructed from a series of parts. An example is Ado 'Mortumee. "Ado" is his given name, which is all he had until he was considered an adult. As an adult he earned the right to carry the badge name "'Mortumee". This name is made up of three parts: MOR (an adjectival descriptor, such as "fast", or "deadly"), TUM ( a créche name, basically his family name), and EE (an honorific indicating he is a participant in the military). Most Elites will have names with this kind of construction.
Now, if examine the names of the two Sangheili I've put into Chapter 12 and 13:
Aki ForLUMee and Ido NasLUM
I'm trying to be subtle here, but I think I'm failing.
Ido Naslum was not in the military of the Covenant. Some might argue that every Covenant member is in the military, but that's just not so. During the Age of Discovery when they were attempting to recreate the Forerunner technology into their own weapons and star ships, they needed scientists. While the Hunagok (Engineers) are good at taking things apart and rebuilding them, they are useless when it comes to converting technology. Sangheili, being the prime race aside from the Prophets in the Covenant, would have been given the task of doing so.
The structure that I chose for the names of Forlumee and Naslum are very important, and will become clearer when Chapter 13 rolls around, and later on in the story.
With that bit of info, maybe some of Naslum's dialogue makes a bit more sense now huh?