Padjal Naming Conventions?

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Speculation aside, this is a really weird theory to me, because here's the thing: like Ferne said earlier in this thread, the three families which constantly produce Padjal are the Pesi/Yan/Senna families. So...assuming they are the only children of that family, they kind of would have to be able to reproduce to keep the family line going. If we go back maybe a few hundred years or so and maybe only one Senna was born, and that Senna was a Padjal, we would have to assume that that Padjal had kids; whether they grew horns and were blessed by the elementals is a different story because, as stated, it's pretty damn rare. So, unless O-App/E-Sumi/Kan-E and her siblings have other , Hyur siblings we don't know about to keep the family line going (that would be an interesting twist), that would be the only explanation to me...which, yeah, is a little creepy considering the only Padjal who even looks somewhat old enough to do that is Kan-E...so unless the elementals are giving them magical babies out of trees...it's pretty strange.

...Though, keep in mind, the Padjal are much older than they look, as E-Sumi states in both 1.0 and ARR, saying he has "seen many more summers" than you would first think. It makes me wonder what determines a Padjal's biological clock to stop--for example, the Sennas. Is Kan-E stuck at being the oldest-looking Padjal because she is the oldest of the siblings and the "Elder Seedseer"? Is Raya-O stuck as looking like the middle child and A-Ruhn the youngest? I never really knew so I always assumed the Sennas were the youngest Padjal...I felt like E-Sumi (who I'm assuming might be over 100) was actually older than Kan-E. They don't give us much history on her in the story aside from the Twin Adder blurb on the Lodestone, nor any of the Padjal-producing families in general. So I'm stuck with making my own crazy theories about how old they all really are...and that's a story for another day. :P

I personally interpret "consistently (albeit rarely) produce Padjals" as meaning that while quite a few members of those families become Padjals, the majority do not. It is the normal Hyur members of the families that continue on the family line. There probably wouldn't be many instances where there is only one child in a generation, so the family could carry on. I'll use myself as an example. I am an only child. If I had become a padjal my parent's line would have ended. But I have 10 cousins on my father's side. As long as they didn't become padjal and had kids of their own the family would carry on.