Guild Wars 2

Charrs’ last name are suppose to depict their warband and a personal addition if I remember well. My question is what is the probability that 2 Charrs have the same last name and then what would it mean.

In fact I was playing in Fields of Ruin last week until I met a merchant called in the US version Harcla Grindtooth (Grincedent in french). I got really surprised (and happy) since my Charr ranger’s name is Rena Grincedent. I chose the name before I met this merchant and just for the sake of thinking I went to wonder what could it mean.

Any Xtooth charr in the game would logically be part of my warband (though in PS they almost all die in tutorial) but I would be surprised if 2 charr of the same band could have the exact same name.
Now I was wondering, and thought I could find an answer here : could 2 tooth warband coexist at the same time ? This would mean that the name is just pure luck (ofc it is in my case but I mean from a RP point of view) but so far I don’t recall any Charr bearing the same name.

Ranael.6423:

Now I was wondering, and thought I could find an answer here : could 2 tooth warband coexist at the same time ?

Yes. There was an interview before launch- charr aren’t limited in picking warband names, so they’re free to choose one already in use. Bands with the same name tend to be more competitive than usual, but for the most part it isn’t considered any odder than encountering someone who shares one of your names in the real world.

Alternatively, the merchant could belong to a Grind warband- there’s no set practice determining which order surnames are spelled out in, although it does tend to be consistent within a warband.

Thanksfor the precision, I somehow thought that warband could have a name of a former one, sort of a dedication to them. But I skipped the part of two at the same time

Oh and about the order of words, I also didn’t know it could change. Most of the time it is reversed between english and french but I wasn’t sure if it was different within a single language.