User blog comment:GoDai/GoDai's Translations: People and Groups (2) - Zahard and the 10 Families/@comment-4076672-20120616194043/@comment-4076672-20120620045326

Ah, I think there're 2 types of adoption in the Tower. It seems to be an issue of allegiance as well. I call Families like Mule family, Chicken Love family, Zahard Family, Edrok Family, Jaina Family, Mollic Family and so on... like Special Families. They're not commoners.

Apart from Zahard and the 10 Great Families, the rest of the Special Families probably operate with knowledge and blessings of the Zahard Empire. They probably have special contracts, somewhat high to very high privileges and so on... that's why they're not commoners and count as nobility.

1) You get adopted into a family and you get considered as one of the members and you have their family name. Zahard's Princesses is the same. This is formal or full adoption. Same for Androssi Zahard, I think she was eventually accepted as one of the branch Family she belonged to. That way, they could claim her as one of their own when presenting her as a Princess candidate.

These people call the Family head father or mother. It's unknown if they call their birth parents "Father" or "Mother" anymore.

If they get fully adopted, they lose the right to wear their family crest(if it's a special family) and even their birth surname. In terms of allegiance though, it is unknown if such people like Zahard's Princesses have loyalty towards their birth family. But probably, they're supposed to put the interests of this "fully adopted" family before their own birth family.

2) Like the rankers into Hendo's family, you get partially adopted to uphold its rules and so on, in exchange for privileges like contracts and so on. I don't know if you can get into SIU's hidden blog or not but hendo's profile is from there.

It's like Mule Love. The proof is he retains his birth surname but he's part of the Chicken Love family. I don't know whether his Love name is from the Chicken Love family or not though lol. But if you go by Ren's name, Love probably doesn't get to use the Chicken surname.

In exchange for privileges for serving this Family, they probably get the right to bear the Crest of these Special Families(I just call them Special 'cos they're not commoners type of families and Zahard Empire is probably aware of their presence.).

But in return, they probably lose or give up the right to wear the crest of their birth family. Like Ren, no crest of his birth family(Bia) but he wears the crest of the Zahard Family.

This is partial or informal adoption.

These people... they probably don't call the Family head "father" or "mother". They're probably like semi-outsiders. They probably have full allegiance to their birth family.

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It's unknown if Eurasia Enne Zahard was partially adopted into biduah family or not since she retained Eurasia family name. Yet her father runs the biduah family. Or if there're other rules about adoption like she is a full member of both families.

Sorry for being so fussy, GoDai. have to be careful about this stuff. And dear gods, why does SIU love to confuse people so much?