You know, I’ve always sorta wondered what the last names of fire emblem characters are. I know the ones from 3 houses have last names, but otherwise most characters last names are unknown. Anyone got ideas? It would probably have to relate to their character, or if that’s lacking their first name/gameplay utility.
Leif Faris Klaus
where does that come from?
I’ve heard it before, and it always confuses me
FE5, there is a scene where Leif gives a fake a name to an important figure. When released, his retainer yells at him for thinking that the guy would be stupid enough to fall for the lie, when his real name is Leif Faris Klaus
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Jill as a side character in FE9 having an actual last name (Fizzart) instead of its protagonist Ike is always sick
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There’s Sigurd Baldos Chalphy and Seliph Baldos Chalphy.
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neat, I like fe5, but the chapter where you get Glade I had some trouble. Not just that chapter, but taht broke the camels back. Previously, Brighton got killed by a 1% crit, My units got trapped between the doors where you fight kempf (also halvan died), and dandelion fortress map was a nightmare. Safy didn’t have enough staff rank to warp, so I had to go through the gauntlet, and accidentally killed troude with Osian. I play slow and steady, so a lot of my strategy is blocking reinforcement spawns, which didn’t work well on the tahra map where you get Glade. Then glade got hit by multiple 30%s or so and died, allowing the enemies to seize tahra. Thanks for the info though!
Weirdly enough, out of the three Tellius Beorc nations, only Crimea and Begnion have rulers with full names (Elincia Ridell Crimea and Sanaki Kirsch Altina). Pelleas’ lack of last name I understand, since he wasn’t recognized by Ashnard*. But Ashnard seems to not have any last name.
Elincia’s last name has something funny. It means the kingdom of Crimea is named after its ruiling family (and it’s most likely Senator Cardock (the founder of Crimea)'s last name). If Ludveck would’ve won the civil war, would he change the name of the kingdom?
If Marth Lowell is canon, then Caeda becomes a Lowell, and Chrom, Robin, Lucina, and Morgan have the potential to be Lowells.
Also Alm is (spoilers for a decade old game)
Summary
Albein Alm Rudolf
I thought it was Lowenthal 
Like, as karmic revenge for Yuri Lowell.
For a long portion of history, people didn’t have surnames. You were defined by your occupation, immediate parentage, or some major event in your life. When surnames became legally necessary, we got occupational (Baker, Miller, Noble, Smith), parentage (Johnson, Hodgeson, MacDonald), life (Armstrong, Palmer, Godsave, Sweetapple, Wildblood), and even some other things, like where you came from (York, London, Hill, Wood).
These same ideas are prelavent in almost every language – it means that for the most part there’s very little reason to give a fantasy, loose-historical character a surname; often you just tack on a word. You can see this in this very world: Hilda Genealogy-of-the-Holy-War/FE4 vs Hilda Three-Houses/FE16 (even though she already has a surname!), or the Annas, or any other number of many such cases.
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I recall hearing that there was an old novelization of Mystery of the Emblem that gave the characters full names, but I don’t recall what those names were. I’ll have to dig around for whatever tweet thread I read that from, assuming it’s still around.