Bozjan lore is properly scuffed.

[Iscah]

Don't suppose we could flag down Fernehalwes...?

Document all the lore and the contradictions – every quote about Hrothgar society, in and outside of the Bozja storyline – and then raise the question when they call for lore Q&A submissions.

I got there eventually with resolving one big lore glitch in the AST quests.

[Ashlyn_Ishina]

I mean, that would work. Though that doesn't help my current issue. In my current short story I am delving more in to the character of her father and I *need* to know how to handle this in it. I am not a fan of retconning when I don't have to. It's bad enough I have to take certain assumptions and liberties within Viera culture in the jungle due to how little information we have despite them being in the series for just under TWENTY YEARS. Though, that does mean that as long as I make that stuff believable, it's very unlikely to be contradicted by a primary source. Unlike the Bozjan lore.

[Cleretic]

I mean, that would work. Though that doesn't help my current issue. In my current short story I am delving more in to the character of her father and I *need* to know how to handle this in it. I am not a fan of retconning when I don't have to. It's bad enough I have to take certain assumptions and liberties within Viera culture in the jungle due to how little information we have despite them being in the series for just under TWENTY YEARS. Though, that does mean that as long as I make that stuff believable, it's very unlikely to be contradicted by a primary source. Unlike the Bozjan lore.

There was a queen before the Garleans invaded. She was probably a Hrothgar. She was not named Gunnhildr, but 'Queen Gunnhildr' is a historical figure that Bozja still holds in high regard. At this point naming your daughter 'Gunnhildr' would probably be similar to if you named your son 'Jesus'. (Or in a perhaps more accurate but less immediately understandable to western audiences way, if a Middle-Eastern family named their child 'Nebuchadnezzar'.)

That queen is dead now. Probably in the initial conquest of Bozja, but if not, definitely after the Bozja Incident. We will probably not be looking back on her, as post-liberation Bozja is more interested in moving forward with a more egalitarian society to moving backward to a more stratified monarchy.

That all you needed? Everything outside of that is fair game, and if someone tries to say 'but in THE CANON' later on, you can say that it wasn't known at the time you started writing.

[Ashlyn_Ishina]

There was a queen before the Garleans invaded. She was probably a Hrothgar. She was not named Gunnhildr, but 'Queen Gunnhildr' is a historical figure that Bozja still holds in high regard. At this point naming your daughter 'Gunnhildr' would probably be similar to if you named your son 'Jesus'. (Or in a perhaps more accurate but less immediately understandable to western audiences way, if a Middle-Eastern family named their child 'Nebuchadnezzar'.)

That queen is dead now. Probably in the initial conquest of Bozja, but if not, definitely after the Bozja Incident. We will probably not be looking back on her, as post-liberation Bozja is more interested in moving forward with a more egalitarian society to moving backward to a more stratified monarchy.

That all you needed? Everything outside of that is fair game, and if someone tries to say 'but in THE CANON' later on, you can say that it wasn't known at the time you started writing.

Gunnhildr isn't a name like we think. It's a title as much as a name. No children would have been named "Gunnhildr" It's like The Dalai Lama. It's as much a name as it is a title. Though not a single child is named Dalai Lama. There have been many Gunnhildr, just named Queen Gunnhildr. The one who we saw the life of just happened to be *the last* one, which is why she's so important. It's like the name Ceasar. Once again, title as well as a name.