To piggyback on previous responses, a common trick I’ve seen in Feywild games is when introducing a new Fey, they would say “You can call me ArgleBargle, may I have your name?”
The trick is that if you give your name to someone in the Feywild, it is no longer yours.
But you only gave them your name. You never submitted to control.
There’s often stuff in fantasy about knowing a being’s true name giving you power over them, so you wouldn’t want to tell it to a fey. But if they literally took your name, then that would make it theirs, and now you know their true name. Also, according to the forgotten realms wiki, most people don’t know their own true name. It’s not the same as the name you go by.
Can someone please provide context for us noobs?
To piggyback on previous responses, a common trick I’ve seen in Feywild games is when introducing a new Fey, they would say “You can call me ArgleBargle, may I have your name?”
The trick is that if you give your name to someone in the Feywild, it is no longer yours.
Isn’t that good? Now people can’t use Gate to summon you into a trap.
at least from what i’ve seen it generally results in you becoming a thrall, they can straight up just completely control you like an RC car
But you only gave them your name. You never submitted to control.
There’s often stuff in fantasy about knowing a being’s true name giving you power over them, so you wouldn’t want to tell it to a fey. But if they literally took your name, then that would make it theirs, and now you know their true name. Also, according to the forgotten realms wiki, most people don’t know their own true name. It’s not the same as the name you go by.
Probably something about a beings true name giving power over them.