True names and revealed status

[kbs666]

I'm working on my next video and was messing around with all the stuff you can do in the manage names dialogue and found some rather strange thing.

Once a true name is revealed it does not become the name of the topic if shown in player view. As a matter of fact the true name and alternative names do not appear to be connected to the topic at all in player view even if they are revealed.

Further if an alternative name is revealed but the base name is not then no snippets can be revealed in the topic.

This leads to some rather difficult naming issues. Consider someone building a Middle Earth realm. A certain ranger could conceivably have these names: Strider, Aragorn, Elessar Telcontar, Estel, Evyinatar and Thorongil.

Certainly depending on the intended POV of the realm almost any of those could be the topics name and several others, due to quirks of play, could be the name the players came to know a scruffy ranger by. But the first time the topic is revealed to the players the gig is up.