Quote Originally Posted by Bowen View Post
Fern, you're my hero!


This is a little surprising to me. I always assumed that Padjal could be of any race, but were reborn into a Padjal once they were blessed. This makes a lot more sense, though. I wonder why the family names contain the Padjali roots, though. Is it just because of the fact that they have a history of producing Padjal, so they changed their name at a point in time, or is it because they're old families and have those ties?
I'd go with they're old family names reaching back to the time of Gelmorra. More dedicated loremongers than I can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm also under the impression that the first padjal chosen by the elementals would have been when the Gelmorran civilization started to migrate above ground into the forest proper? So Gelmorran/Padjali would be more or less synonymous?