Some Warriors change their names and cut all contact with their previous lives to protect their family. To assist with this, they change their
name to a stand-in name when they first arrive at an academy, which then serves as their real name for social and legal purposes from then on.
The reason such secrecy is needed is because, in the past, jealous Warriors have captured non-Warrior families of powerful Warriors to use them
as bargaining chips in exchange for strength. While the main instance of this occuring resolved without any deaths, one of the civilians was
maimed, and the powerful Warrior decided it would be for the best to stay away from her family in the future.
It is a serious and ongoing discussion within the Warrior community to question both the efficacy and the mental health implications of such a
system. Some argue that it hurts the name changers; others argue that its beneficial effects on their families are purely hypothetical and are
not worth the very real and present cost of social isolation. As of the main story, no attempt to topple the system has succeeded, largely
because the job of a Warrior is, first and foremost, to protect, and anything that may hurt the people a Warrior most wants to protect is very
unwanted indeed.
It is a point of pride among Warriors to have a rather silly and on-the-nose name that matches one's power. It means she is so strong that her
power poses a threat to the people she cares about.