As far as I can tell, all Tryker have a patronymic or metronymic surname that is written first. The M' /Ba'/ etc. are marks indicating descent (just as Mac, Mc and O') are in modern Scottish and Irish surnames). There appears to be a minor breakage of that pattern with a very few Tryker, Stil Wyler and Loria being prominent. Since they are apparently true patryonymic and metronymic markers, one would not in general use the byname in formal address. (See the pattern in Iceland even today.)
Thus my proper name is Mac'Od Bittty, but I use Bitttymacod to avoid confusing the Sassenach (errr... I mean Matis.) Were I somehow to become one of the Taliar, I would be addressed as Taliar Bittty, not Taliar Mac'Od. In some of the Chronicles the order of name and byname seems to be regularized, probably for the same reason.
-- Bittty
Thus my proper name is Mac'Od Bittty, but I use Bitttymacod to avoid confusing the Sassenach (errr... I mean Matis.) Were I somehow to become one of the Taliar, I would be addressed as Taliar Bittty, not Taliar Mac'Od. In some of the Chronicles the order of name and byname seems to be regularized, probably for the same reason.
-- Bittty
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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