a little cousin to keep the memory of him alive after adventuring kills him, or worse he manages to flinch away from this thought before it sinks in too much

:I see.

Is 'Favonius' part of a long form of your personal name, or a separate component?:

:It is the surname of everyone who is a member of the hive. Except for my grandfather's rogue and his apprentice, for complicated reasons.:

:Ah, a household name. I know there are a lot of places on my world that have those, though my people don't.

(At least not formally: some households name themselves, and in some contexts you might informally refer to someone as, like, Storm of the Orchard, when disambiguating between multiple Storms. But you wouldn't put it on a census record.)

My people do matronyms, and in particularly formal contexts we add patronyms. I am Riverine, child of Brightness^† and Plover; although we customarily leave everything untranslated when among foreigners, so that's 'Minaiyu yet Talia bren Karini'.:

Is he a Favonius now? He's not sure how he feels about that.

Maybe he can stick it in there somewhere while still keeping his parents' names. He could get on board with it if it's an addition rather than a replacement, he thinks.

...how concerned should he be about Grandfather having a rogue?

He...supposes you need someone to break into the tombs of people who locked up their stuff rather than allowing others to inherit it?

(--wait, hang on, is that why the witch was talking about "resetting the traps" on Minaiyu's grave earlier? At the time, Minaiyu had vaguely assumed it was some sort of open-air burial practice where the traps were to keep scavengers from carrying off your bones, and hadn't really given it much thought considering the number of other things to think about.)

Anyway. Most uses of such skills are not even arguably ethical. Probably. It's not like he understands this world.

(oh boy does he ever not)

:Your grandfather's party must have many interesting stories to tell,: he sends politely, because hearing some of those stories at some point might be a good way to learn more about how concerned to be.

(Depending on how much they conveniently leave out. It could at least provide a lower bound on how concerned to be?)

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^†it comes across that this is a more poetic, or perhaps archaic, term for "brightness" than one would use in normal speech

Well, Marcus doesn't put anything on a census and rather prefers it that way. Maybe the king is aware there's a hive here, but that's his problem if so. Not a relaxing topic of conversation, so. 

:Matronyms and patronyms feel like they'd only make sense if you expect people to have heard of your parents. Like if my father was the Blue Mage I'd go around telling everyone, but this is different somehow?: 

:My grandparents have excellent stories! And so does Remo. He loves to brag even more than my Grandfather.: