Daniel: Arendain Paraigaltonri? I pity the fool who has that name in an inner-city high school.
It's an epithet, Hadriel, not part of his name proper, nor even a surname. Say, calling me Daniel Writer of Stories (though that sounds decidedly stupid.) It's the way he would be mentioned in poetry to finish off a line of verse. It occurs time and again in the Iliad - from which I learned that - say, Odysseus, Sacker of Cities, or Diomedes of the Great War Cry. However, in the Iliad, those do not exactly describe them: rather, they were just convenient descriptions that end off lines, accounting for Menelaos and Diomedes having the same ones, as well as Odysseus and Akhilleus. Even though I'm not - or at least not yet - putting my story into epic poetic form, I still like the style and sound of it, and so decided to do the same thing, but have it be an actual description as something he is renowned for. And breaking shield-walls... that is quite the brave feat, I should think, as you would have to be front line, and somehow overcome the front lines of the enemy phalanx, avoiding their stabbing spears, the crushing press of men from behind, and still somehow kill your foe. Anyway, Arendain probably has a few names like this, but this is the only one I've thought of so far.
