Name

A name is a troll's 12-character identifier (usually stylised in two blocks of 6 characters), assigned by brooding matrons from the sounds made by that troll's lusus. Among nobility, it is common for the name to be phased out in favour of a noble title as one's primary identifier after the Rites of Maturation.

Names in alien cultures
The concept of names appears in most alien cultures. Direct naming by biological progenitors or by group elders are both common alien methods of assigning names.