believing that people have True Names - hokey but understandable
believing that each person has a single True Name - unduly limiting but not impossible
believing that a person's One True Name is whatever a government registry has on their records - the perfect blend of authoritarian and bureaucratic
then again https://santapau.tumblr.com/post/649813917362782208/romance-in-lonomia-the-secret-knots
(but it should be noted that if i lived here i would most likely be willing to pay handsomely to be smuggled out)
@carcinopithecus Names have power. Keep your One True Name to yourself. The government demanding to control what it is, is a power and domination move.
@carcinopithecus it then follows that you get a story about people who can't be controlled through true name magic because they don't have a name registered with the government bureaucracy… And the people working for the government, trying to find these unnamed people to assign them true names so they can be controlled.
@kepstin @carcinopithecus The Skulduggery Pleasant novels kind of do this, if you don't pick a name for yourself that suits who you are then people can use your birth name to have influence over you
@kepstin @carcinopithecus or a government bureaucracy that is very insistent on not using names
@kepstin @carcinopithecus for an alternative possibility
related https://hellsite.site/@CornishRepublicanArmy/105121873467988560