Names/Old Magic

I'm'a ramble a lot
Here it comes <3
So: I have no idea what goes on in the Morphic Korps universe.  I don't know much about the setting, I haven't read the Big Book if there is one, and in general I'm not aligned enough with the Korps to be super interested in coming to know it.  That being said, it does provide interesting parallels; it's not essential for any fantasy setting to BE true in order to make one feel and experience things which are themselves true.

As for demons and fae, I have no special leaning towards spirituality; mine aligns closely with multiverse theory and what little we think we know about higher-dimensional interactions, and I tend not to push it too far.  Sam and I both ruminate on it often, I've 'used' it to cause some interesting technologies and possibilities to take shape, but other than that my alignment with same is not firm - it is cold comfort to know that Nala is still around in other versions of my life, just not the one I myself observe.

That being said: the idea of naming as a whole concept is a good one, if a fantasy-ized version.  For the most part, I look at names mathematically, and since they are an entire description of a being all in one, I imagine that the sigil or the written version of that name would either be frighteningly dense shorthand which would need significant effort to deconstruct and understand (just like the person it describes), or would in short be impossible to fit in one's head for long enough to write in a book.  Being able to sing to you in a way that we clearly have means that we have some piece of your puzzle for ourselevs, but neither of us will or even could know the whole shape of your name.  It's something that we can deal with instinctively, something which we can share pieces of, and something which we can give piecemeal to someone we adore or trust or wish to understand.

I'd have to imagine that the word you used was accurate, since it elicited such a negative response and yet was so firm.  Still, it's not only the fact that this word connects with its counterpart in the whole shape of your name, it's the idea that the space between these expressions - the substrate names are 'written' on, for example, the numerical or pictographic system in which naming takes place, the ways and means by which one connects with the other (since opposing forces of this kind are so often interconnected by multiple concepts and play within multiple areas of your life), etc., are all essential, part-and-parcel of the name itself.

Those concepts - not opposing so much as they are interconnected - are yet only pieces of any name you might have, in my view.  A name is an autobiography in a form which can be read; with the correct piece of said name, one could use this as a method of command or control, just like the right information could be used for blackmail, but all of this takes observation, work, connection; it's hard to establish with a rival or outright enemy, and totally essential to the concept of sharing oneself, as Sam and I have started to do.

Us, our pairing, our constant conversation, is the act of learning and reinforcing this thing about ourselves, even though neither of us ascribes any special kabbalistic or faerie purpose to same.

That'd be what I think about it. >_>  I think I see 'em pretty differently, although I also see them - the whole shape of them, any specific piece of them, etc. - as powerful in and of themselves, and the interest and inclination to study same similar to the willingness to pursue the study of language, or perhaps literature.
Tue 3:33 AM
I feel like names are stories, rather than words, and that people who understand them do so in the same way as one learns to throw and catch.  With complete control over a human muscular system, describing in equations and distances and applications of force how one would catch and then throw a ball would take months and months of research, but despite the fact that this task is impossibly mathematically dense even in constrained situations (and even more so in a situation which does -not- take place during a single, endlessly-replicable throw-and-catch pattern), it can be done *by a child* still learning to control their body.
Tue 3:37 AM
The way that we understand and use names, or any part of the Old Magic we may wish to lay hands on, is incredibly more instinctive and fortunate than it is mathematical or arcane.  The fae and even demons might be more naturally aligned with this!  but in the case of -demons-, they are very often not complete individuals; demons often have a specific purpose, are never intended to grow (and don't, without exposure to some extropic force), and perform whatever task they are damned to from this day until the end of days; as a result, a demon might be described easily enough that a few hours of chalking and candle-lighting could describe them into being wholesale, with even less necessary just to compel, bind, or summon one.