Thread: [Spoilers] The Patch 4.2 Discussion and Speculation Thread!

Originally Posted by Rocl

Given limited wikipediaing, in Japan, 96% of women take their husband's surname and it's a requirement for a couple to have the same last name to receive married status. (Of note, this is obviously the MODERN day, and not whatever medieval period Doma in XIV is based off of.) Which... makes me curious... Asahi's mother (married) is Naeuri, and her sister was also Naeuri (Gosetsu says Yotsuyu is an orphan of the Naueri) ... shouldn't this be impossible? Yotsuyu's family is definitely muddled. All languages refer to the Naeuri family being compensated for Asahi's prowess or something. Unless Yotsuyu's mother and Asahi's mother married into the same family.... I think there's something ridiculously hidden here, lol. Naeuri is definitely the "surname" / "house name" / "family name" but I'm having difficulties finding the dialogue I linked above in other languages currently.

In Japan women normally take the name of their husband's family but that isn't always the case. The reverse can happen particularly for prominent families that lack a male heir. This practice is called Mukiyoshi. As to how both Yostuyu’s Mother and Aunt could be blood-sisters and Asahi and Yotsuyu could be part of the same birth clan something like this could have happened:

A) Yotsuyu’s mother was the eldest daughter of the Naeuri clan and Asahi’s mother was the next (unmarried) eldest.
B) Yotsuyu’s mother marries, her husband becomes Naeuri (clan heir).
C) Yotsuyu’s parents die when she is young, and she has no (male) siblings. As female, Yotsuyu can’t be clan heir.
D) Yotsuyu’s aunt marries and her husband becomes Naeuri (clan heir).
E) Asahi is born.

This could also explain some of her aunt’s or clan’s justification for abusing Yotsuyu—she was a failed attempt to produce an heir. Moreover, Yotsuyu’s aunt might resent Yotsuyu’s mother; perhaps she was always jealous of her sister or perhaps she too was forced to marry a man she did not want to by her clan because of her sister's death and Yotsuyu being female.

Given my track record with predicting story-lines this probably isn’t what happened, but it is technically possible.