Sharing one’s name CHAPTER XII
How does one get married in Lothriel? Which are the traditions concerning marriage? Let’s begin by saying that “ phantarhaarbhali”, the word for “marriage”, is the same that in our language indicates adoption and, literally, it means “transmission of the name”. Not only on a linguistic level, but also in our law, in fact, for the Pirin adoption and marriage are the same thing. It is a rite through which an individual decides to share one’s name, and therefore, symbolically, one’s love and familial affection, with another individual, who from that moment on becomes a member of one’s family in all rights.
That is what is important for state and society, for in other respects the possibilities and varieties through which love is expressed are close to infin
