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Just a reminder that I wrote my History Thesis on Science Fiction and Fantasy, so I am a bit of a fan of the genre ...
Hi, I’m Aeln. 

As the column broke out of the forest cover, they found the ranks of the cavalry under General Aceilr Adeeeilmn waiting patiently on the plain.
Ace rested her hands on her pommel and smiled down at the Captain, 'what fun we're going to have today, now you've finally arrived.'

#Aadm Kkooosstuu sends his highest honours to General Ace.
Claire: General Ace thanks the pre-eminent Aadm of the Kkooosstuu for both the honours from the groves and that crate of particularly lethal warrior bees, used to great effect in the last campaign.
#Aadm Kkooosstuu: Our bees are always at your service, General.
Claire: You are a scholar and a gentleman.

#Achilno
Claire: Achilno was the most famous bard in all the land, and she only ever had to use one name.

#Eefijnnr Eippr sat under the tree beside their cottage, utterly hidden from the world and unseen by men. They knew the battle would come. The battle over how to pronounce Eef's full name without losing any teeth.
Claire: When the leashed tongues of those who sought knowledge were finally loosened enough, there was the Time of Great Spitting, where supplicants would face each other, in waterproof vestments, and call out the name of the most Eefijnnr Eippr until utterly soaked. The holder of knowledge was never summoned, but they did delight in all that moisture unleashed in their name ...
#Eefijnnr Eippr: Only the bravest among them would attempt to pronounce the middle name. Not for fear of extreme dehydration, but rather because they knew that any person who could wrap their tongue around all three names certainly disappear sometime after midnight. Many would never return. All would be heard calling, "Eeehrst," over the wind for weeks to come.

#Amy just sat and sulked.
Claire: 'isn't she just gorgeous?' murmured the crowd, as Amy's litter was carried through the throngs around the palace, 'hair as black as the cavern depths, red lips like the blood of your enemies spilling over the waterfall. And that name. So exotic. What do you think it means?' In the years after Amy married the Princess, almost a thousand babies born in the kingdom were given her name in adoration.

#Finn Hmpruy
Claire: Finn + Hmpruy were just minding their own business in the bar, nursing the first beers of the night, when they caught sight of the WANTED poster. The photo was so bad that there was no immediate danger, but goddamnit, the local authorities had finally spelt their names correctly. It looked like these beers were going to be the last ones for tonight, time to get outta here.

#Aaehm Nostt
Claire: General Ace was just sorting out a victualling dispute when a presence over her shoulder was felt; her spymaster had slipped back into camp. She glanced at Aaehm as she made her decision, and he nodded slightly, in his only method of communication. That nod spoke a thousand words and was the genesis of the name he was known by, Nostt.
#Aaehm Nostt: Thoughtfully Aaehm raised his eyes to the sky. After some time his eyes, emboldened and quivering, fell towards earth and met those of General Aceilr. Nostt nodded.

#Aeffir Aiilms 😂😂
Look, we saw it here first, the hero of your first fantasy novel …
*cough* Aeffir Aiilms, the pride of Wakanda, and their most widely travelled ambassador. Aeffir was known for her playful stories over the treaty table that started out as relationship building exercise and always ended up with a very elegant threat that always got the result she and her nation wanted.

#Adinor Agry
Claire: Adnior the Agry is the name of that terrifying zombie that Cersei Lannister has turned The Mountain into.

#Aacijnt fiiillnop
Claire: Aacijnt Fiiillnop was one of the most successful teachers in the whole region, and her name became synonymous with excellence in the vocal arts. It was said that you achieved mastery of her methods when you could articulate each individual 'i' in Fiiillnop without running out of breath. Truly, only the adepts were that good.

#Aaimryz
Claire: That is really beautiful
The pilgrims entered the oasis as the sun rose, bathing all the buildings in a lemon-yellow glow. The House of Aaimryz glowed at the centre of this remote temple complex; the beautiful bright mosaics and gold painted porticos of the cult centre of the God of Delight were designed to shimmer in the crisp morning air, and impart joy to and induce reverence in the weary supplicant, newly arrived after ten days of travel from the coast.

#Aev Diortu, sounds like a Star Wars name to me lol
Claire: Yup. You belong in another universe!

#Aaacdnrss Elorsw is on the case. Known to her friends as Acss, she pays her respects to Ace.
Claire: Ace and Acss were inseparable both in the training yard at the Academy for War, and when carousing in the libraries and laboratories of the Universities next door. A well-rounded experience of what life can offer is essential in the leaders of tomorrow ...

#Aaddenz Abdnru-Ajnnsso pulled her burnoose tighter around her as she stared up at the Milky Way at the clear desert night.
Claire: It's been a long time since Aceilr and Aaddenz were sitting together with travel rations in hand at the edge of a continent, but hopefully it will happen again soon. Also, many happy returns on your wedding, lovely friend, I hope all is tea, chocolate and hugs for you both
#Aaddenz Abdnru-Ajnnsso: It has been! If you ever find your way to Santa Cruz, (maybe on your book tour?!) I do have a guest room as well as plenty of tea and chocolate to share! Thank you! Sending many good thoughts your way!

#Aekt 😊
How you going Claire? It's been so long since Ive spoken to you xx
Claire: Aekt was the fiercest house mother at the Academy of War, and the years Ace attended there was a phrase you chanted under your breath as you snuck back into the dorms after curfew:
"Check yourself before you Aekt yourself"
But it didn't matter, you were ALWAYS Aekt'd. She never slept ...

#Aceijss Deeknny, little sister of Ace ..!
Claire: Right after you graduated from the Academy of War (or University if you were going into the Administration) there was a year that each graduate spent in the forests or desert as rangers or guides across various regions of their country. While partners deep in the clearings of the western forests keeping dancing circles clear of debris and the sounds of the forest swirling, Aceij and Aceil kept their names and schedules as aligned as they could so they could be effective and open to listening.
#Aceijss Deeknny Sista Rangers in the forest, educating on esx abeilnort, perhaps

#"Alpu" is not really a goer Clever Niece 😁
Claire: Look, we all know Alpu is Ace's trusty comedy sidekick, who gets her and the calvary into some sticky situations - no lives are lost though. Eventually, it is discovered that Alpu has a very powerful family 'back home', and when that penultimate sticky situation arrives, so does Alpu's family to save the day (and ensure the cliffhanger for the next volume of the series … because Alpu's family is INTERESTING!)
#Alpu stumbles gracelessly into Ace's presence. "Forgive me once again Eminence, I fear I have exposed your left flank … Aceil and Adeimn are about to launch another assault from the west. It may have something I said!" Ace smiled benignly and Alpu breathed easily once again.
Claire: I laughed until I snorted. Oh dear.

#Abe Lnoprstu cracked his reddened knuckles and prepared to loose the dark soul of Abemnno Ry from his place within. Of course, no one knew that his middle names were Ramon Byrne, so his cleverness was overlooked.
Claire: For some reason, I have located you in a Robin Hobb universe with the whole two-spirits-in-one-body-but-noone-knows line of thinking. I always find Robin's books a little distressing to read, because nothing ever runs smoothly for her characters, ever, and when you've just met them, you hope that if you keep reading, something will work out ...
#Abe Lnoprstu: I am an ill-made mute. I keep talking 😊

#Bruy!
Claire: Bruy and Ace didn't talk much about the communication networks that allowed them to discuss military strategy across the borders of their countries during peacetime, and across their respective lines of engagement during armed conflict.
These networks only occasionally carried low-level intelligence, the system mostly carried elaborate and ridiculous false-information to annoy anyone observing them, and the next move in the three-year-long chess game they were currently playing.

#Aeigonr aemrsy
Claire: Well now, you are clearly from The Wheel of Time universe with that name! How exciting to have a new Universe visiting - we've had Star Wars on this thread.
I'm going to guess Two Rivers stock, but with a bright future ahead of you in the service of the Queen of Andor. May you be a legend, that fades to myth, that is forgotten by the time the Age that gave birth to you comes again ...


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