Surnames And Merseian History

On Talwin, Flandry met Cnif hu Vanden who was of Lafdiguan ancestry, shown by a slightly yellow complexion, but was born on a colony planet.

The Game Of Empire presents:

Fodaich Eidhafor the Bold, Vach Dathyr;

Cyntath Gadrol Cannonshield, Vach Ynvory, commanding a Merseian task force from the dreadnaught, Ardwyr;

Qanryf Bryadan Arrowswift, Vach Hallen, commanding a squadron from the cruiser, Tryntaf;

Afal Uroch the Lucky, Vach Rueth, commanding an escadrille of Fangryf-type gunboats launched from Tryntaf.

All of these Merseians have names of the Wilwidh Ocean type although Uroch has partial Lafdiguan ancestry, again shown by a yellow tint to his green skin.

While reading Bryadan's instructions to Uroch, I realized that the Technic History series presents a history not only of Technic civilization but also of Merseia:

first contact between Technic civilization and Merseia during the first Grand Survey;

interactions between Merseians and the Polesotechnic League in "Day of Burning" and Mirkheim;

the Roidhunate grows in the period of the Terran-Ythrian War;

the Roidhunate becomes the Empire's main enemy although some Merseians migrate to the Imperial planet, Dennitza;

Merseians do not conquer human space during the Long Night so we infer that the Empire and the Roidhunate have worn each other out.

There is a similar contemporaneous history of Ythri.