Q:
Eir's last name.
Kin-of-Stegal. Who Stegal was, and what they did to warrant being remembered, we don’t know, but it’s pretty commonplace for norn surnames to reference famous relatives, usually parents, but not always.
i like to no who Eir’s mother was there is no info ad all
only found this
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Family_trees#Cliffstrider
only see Eir’s father but his last name is different ??
there is 1 statue ad eir’s home setta bladestrong but again no info about her
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only see Eir’s father but his last name is different ??
Norn surnames are very rarely hereditary. The child usually claims a different one than the parent, especially in cases like ‘Cliffstrider’ that are titles taken as names, since they’re usually specific references to something the individual had done.
Young norn tend to take a name after their more famous parent (see Braham Eirsson), but once they gain a legend of their own they take on their own name – be it akin to a surname (Einar Cliffstrider) or more like a title (Bjorne the Sun Chaser).
Eir’s surname is a bit of an odd one since I don’t think there’s any other ‘kin’ surname. Given that, however, I would argue it relates not to family but to legend prior to Destiny’s Edge.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Norn surnames are weird.
Though Konig summed it up decently. You’ll see something like Olaf from gw1 “Olaf Olafson” or a name that directly mentions a parents early on, but sometimes they either pick a new surname or do something epic/awesome enough either they or everybody else starts calling them that.
Eir’s mother was a wolf. It was a one-night drinking-laden romantic fling left out of the Norn history books. For obvious reasons
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Eir’s mother was a wolf. It was a one-night drinking-laden romantic fling left out of the Norn history books. For obvious reasons
Just like Braham’s father is probably Garm?
Eir’s surname is a bit of an odd one since I don’t think there’s any other ‘kin’ surname.
Avid Grelkin shares that particularity.
It could be that Eir was not raised by her biological parents, but by more distant relatives (grandparents? uncles/aunts?), and she chose to take the name of one of her caretakers.
Personally, I’ve always associated the name with deer. I don’t really know why, though, other than the similarity to “stag”.
also her wolf Garm where is he coming from its a 1 off a kind
its 2x bigger then other wolfs its also black and very powerful
and nowhere in the world off GW2 you see 1 so far i no ??
Yeah, norn take on their own surnames if they choose to/have the merits for it.
@Genlog: We don’t really know why Garm’s the only adult black wolf we see in GW2 – there were numerous ones in GW1, but we do see Garm playing with a black wolf cub in one of the personal story steps. And there was an interview once that mentioned Garm’s uniqueness and his meeting Eir is an important story… we just don’t know it. Like, y’know, 99.99999% of all important things of GW’s lore since GW2’s development began – seems Anet finds ‘mystery’ and ‘not knowing there’s anything important there’ to be the same thing nowadays (which explains the horror of Scarlet’s plot).
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
@Shiren I always saw it as part of Eir’s character. She dwells on her failures, not her successes, and you never once hear her bragging or see her showing off. I think as far as she’s concerned, she hasn’t done anything legendary, anything big enough to claim a new name.
@Konig there are actually plenty of adult black wolves in the game- it can be a little hard to tell, unless you have a grey one next to it to compare with, but they’re certainly there. They aren’t ‘dire’ wolves though, and only the same size as the other two varieties.