The queendom had officially established its new law that granted our residents rights to gain a last name. It definitely shocked the population, but most of them had positive insights about it.
As said in the meeting before, while the common people gained last names, the members of the nobility would be having a second and nobiliary name to keep up their superiority.
Naturally, that applied to our family as well, and we were having a hard time choosing what our other names would be. We had been dealing with it for months, and thankfully, we came up with what we thought were perfect names for us.
After Mother signed and officialized the documents in front of the audience and journalist in the Hall of Mirrors, she stood up, which my family and I followed suit. By the way, Iris and Sophia were here with us today.
"Following this new law, we, the members of the Queendom of Raevender royal family, will be renaming our official identities." Mother said. "Before the people here, I would like to reintroduce you to the Raevender family with their new full names."
After that, Mother then placed her hand on her chest, implying that she was going to introduce herself first.
"Each of the members of the royal family has five particles in their names. Starting with the current Queen Regnant of the Queendom of Raevender. My new name is now Mylene Clare Therese Lou Raevender."
That was Mother's new name. She had now three other names inserted between her former name. Since we were royals, we could have up to five names, which we took personally.
For our nation, we decide that the nobiliary particle for our royals and nobles would be Lou. It did not really mean 'from' or 'of' like some nobiliary particles back on Earth. It was just the shortened version of our capital's name.
As for her other names, Clare and Therese had special meanings in them. Clare was obviously borrowed from Mom's name, but in another form. Meanwhile, Therese was a tribute to honor her late mother.
"Next are my queen consorts. From now on, you can address them as Claire Marie Helena Lou Raevender and
Gabrielle Eris Deirdre Lou Raevender."
After officially introducing our new names to the audience, Mother then turned around toward the direction where our vassals took their seats. Michael and the others then stood up and faced the audience.
"As part of our nation's development, it was an honor for the royal family to introduce our vassals' new names to the world. Everyone, let us welcome, from right to left, Dane Graceblade, Michael Romans, Lucy Corbeau, and Uriel Scarlett."
Since they were residents of the queendom, our vassals gained their own last names naturally. The way they chose their names was interesting.
Dane basically coined her last name from her nickname, Dancing Blades. Dancingblades sounded cringe for me at least, so she picked the name I suggested. Her movements were gracious when she used her Unique Skill: Magnetician, so it was somewhat accurate, if I were to say.
Michael cleverly chose Romans so that his name would sound like the name of one of my favorite bands. Also, we were fans of the greatness of the Roman Empire, including the eastern one, but definitely not the western side. Insert a quote from Voltaire.
Uriel's and Lucy's last names were related to colors that described themselves. Scarlett referred to Uriel's main power, which was fire, and it also described her dress colors of choice.
Lucy's last name was kind of contrary to her given name. Lucy was a diminutive form of Lucifer, the angel of light, while Corbeau was a translation of raven, the shade of her hair.
Those were their names for now, but they would be having other names in the future when they were granted peerage. Aside from Lou, a second name would be added to their identities.
(Which means that Michael Romans only lasts short. How sad.)
Anyways, our government had hired hundreds of statistics officials and staff to accommodate everyone who wanted to acquire a last name or family name. To lessen the hassle, we also approached the heads of some families and clans in our nation and let them decide for their family names.
For those who could not decide what would be their last names, they could just use the Scandinavian naming system, in which their last names would be their father's, or mother's if none, given name with the suffix of -son or -dottir.
Afterwards, the queendom was busy for the next few weeks.