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  2. Category:Surnames of Norman origin - Wikipedia

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  3. Tolkien's Middle-earth family trees - Wikipedia

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    Few fantasy writers so meticulously map their kingdoms, or invent legends, family trees and even languages for their characters." [4] Dwayne Thorpe comments in Mythlore that family trees are one of the elements that Tolkien used to make Middle-earth seem real: Elves and dwarves are drawn partly from tradition, of course.

  4. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).

  5. List of Arthurian characters - Wikipedia

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    Name Other names Earliest appearance Works featured in Description Accolon: Post-Vulgate Cycle, 1230s Morgan le Fay's love Aglovale† Agloval, Sir Aglovale de Galis The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis, The Once and Future King: King Pellinore's eldest son Agravain† Agravaine Lancelot-Grail, Le Morte D'Arthur, The Once and Future King

  6. Basque surnames - Wikipedia

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    The earliest documented Basque surnames occur on Aquitanian inscriptions from the time of the Roman conquest of Hispania and Gallia Aquitania.For the most part these can be easily identified with modern or medieval Basque surnames, for example ENNECONIS (the personal name Eneko plus the Latin genitive ending -IS, stem augmented by -N) > Enekoitz.

  7. Celtic onomastics - Wikipedia

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    Not until the time of his grandsons and great-grandsons was the name O'Brien used as a surname, used to denote descent from an illustrious ancestor. It has for some three hundred years been written as O ', but in recent years the apostrophe is often dropped, bringing it into line with early medieval forms. The apostrophe came into existence as ...

  8. List of fictional nobility - Wikipedia

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    The Hero of the Cartoon Network series of the same name, wields a magic sword to defeat the demon Aku. Real name is unknown, uses "Jack" as a pseudonym. Son of an also unnamed Emperor of Japan. Sanada Yukimura: Sengoku Basara: A fictional samurai loosely based on the real historical figure Sanada Yukimura. Tōyama no Kin-san: Various works

  9. List of fantasy worlds - Wikipedia

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    The world in which Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 take place. Final Fantasy X: 2001: V Temerant: Patrick Rothfuss: The setting for The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. The Name of the Wind: 2007: N Tékumel: M. A. R. Barker: A technological world is suddenly cast into a "pocket dimension".