What lore do you ignore?

[Iscah]

Seeker name pronunciation really deserves to be its own thread, not tacked into this separate topic.

"goo-RA-ha"

The thing is, that is essentially how it's pronounced, but the "oo" part is so short that you skim over it and end up with "gRA". It's generally how Japanese representation of English sounds would work.

I think it relates back to your last paragraph. The "oo" sound would come out more if you needed it as a a dividing sound because the following given name doesn't flow nicely from the starting letter. Thus F'lhaminn can be pronounced with "fLA" but with a less compatible name it would be more of a "fu".