"I know the power of names, but I am being paid more money than Princess Onfrie will see in her entire life to be placed under an invisible knife wielded by the captain. He ordered me to be fair and merciful to you on pain of death, so I will. Alas, I will not be able to forget your name. Apellodynes do not forget names. However, once I am paid I honestly and truly intend to leave this abhorrent world where names can cause slavery and never return."
"As to unexpected interactions, I cannot rule them out, but I sincerely doubt they will harm you. I have interacted with another system of magic involving names before, a race of people who could swear promises upon their name and be literally unable to not follow through. I could change their names and release them from promises, and those they swore to only realized it when they began to act in ways the promises forbade. They could still swear promises under their new name, and as far as I could tell none of them suffered in unexpected ways."
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"As to unexpected interactions, I cannot rule them out, but I sincerely doubt they will harm you. I have interacted with another system of magic involving names before, a race of people who could swear promises upon their name and be literally unable to not follow through. I could change their names and release them from promises, and those they swore to only realized it when they began to act in ways the promises forbade. They could still swear promises under their new name, and as far as I could tell none of them suffered in unexpected ways."