Hank

He'd always hated the name. Stupid archaic name from a past so far gone, trying to redeem a present so sullied that the name could never avoid being tainted by association. 'Born from honorable stock, you were' his dad would say when ever Hank scowled during the manifold introductions he was subjected to in his youth. Aaron Joseph Jacob Riley Hank Stevens, as it ran in long form. The fourth name was usually the father's, the fifth, if a family was prominent and presumptuous enough to bestow the honor of a fifth name on the heir apparent, was most often the given name - the name the offspring was expected to go by. To assume a nick name or prefer one of the initial three, which came from the previous three generations, was social and filial blasphemy.
Hank was the name of a progenitor that was credited with saving one of the Five Tablets. True enough it was only the fourth tablet that he saved, but any association with preserving the powerful and revered tablets would be helpful for a family that was maneuvering to recapture their place in the powers that be.

As soon as Hank came of age and became the primary orchestrator of the family fortune, he had a communicate electrode sent to every living blood relative of the name of Stevens, subconsciously conditioning them to call him Aaron - the name of the progenitor that he admired most. Great great granddad Aaron was the first rational male Hank hand ever met, and, so far, the only. Nobody knew that Hank has done this. As far as anybody was consciously aware, he had always been Aaron. Communicate electrodes were expensive, invasive, and risky but very very thorough. They messed with current memory and scribbled over anything the sender wanted the receiver to forget. Fortunately, for Hank, they were illegal, rarely used, and completely confidential.

Unfortunately for Hank, this was the only name Selia knew to call him. It still baffled him how she had even heard it in the first place. She was an Other, not under the jurisdiction of the Five Tablets; nor was she associated with the insert some kind of female association here. Where she came from was still a mystery. How she ended up at the furthermost edge of his family's holdings wearing nothing but a floor length white silk chemise and clutching the family's patence in her powerful ivory hands was even more so. But the greatest mystery of all was how she recognized Hank, addressed him by his full formal title, handed him the patence and fainted.