I know we talk about how John takes away the personhood of his disciples by renaming them, but - I do wonder if it isn’t an inherent part of the resurrrection process. The first time he speaks Ulysses’ and Titania’s names out loud is also the first time he moves them. Gideon needs her soul to be reattached to her body, and she wakes up as Kiriona.
Names have power. We know this. John has been careful not to spill a single drop of blood in the last myriad. He has also, crucially, changed his last name. Arithmonyms are as unique to their bearers as their first names. The lyctors keep their first anmes private from an anyone but each other, and have all but forgotten their last names. The mere mention of the name Alecto makes John flinch, and Nona shatters her middle thoughts.
Abigail for my mothers. Pent for my people. Step two: analyse the soul. Understand its structure, its shape. Three syllables you did not even understand.
And Isis said unto Ra, “O my divine father, tell me thy name, for he who is able to pronounce his name liveth.”
I wonder if Pyrrha remembers John’s old name.
So you know how the Eightfold is described as several things, such as a path to be walked, but specifically it’s called the Eightfold Word, to be spoken?
There was a post somewhere speaking about the power of names in TLT, and it explored the possibility that Harrow needed to specifically block Gideon’s name from her brain because her name had to be part of the spell, and it couldn’t continue running if the name was gone, because it couldn’t assimilate something if the value is null.
Anyone remember that post by any chance? (Though it may have been on Reddit and not here).
