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So: Rose family: Scatter Xiao Long family: burning heart Schnee family: snow flake Belladonna family: nightshade Arc family: "rainbow" Nikos family: ...I don't how spear and shield contribute to the name Nikos. It does allude to Achilles as these were his trademark instruments in battle. Valkyrie family: ...I don't know how a thunder hammer contributes to the term Valkyrie. It does allude to Thor though. Of course it may be playing Valkyrie similar sound to Valerie, the root of which valere means "to be strong." Wukong family: (actually, he probably has no family) Wukong has absolutely no ties to monkeys, apes, or primates (sun has to do with "bending"), so his monkey symbol obviously alludes to the Monkey King fable. Team CRDL's symbols are all birds (except Sky, whose symbol we haven't seen), so unless Cardin is his family name... Winchester roughly translates to "dweller of the Roman fort." Could be a sign of things to come.

Cinder Fall: It seems to be a winged heart. If you look at it sideways, it resembles "slippers". I suppose you could say it technically also resembles a leaf. Emerald's symbol is very likely an emerald. Neptune's symbol is a crosshairs (seems to be the consensus).

Then there's Roman whose symbol seems to be a Jack-o-lantern grin. Speaking of Jack-O'-Lantern, the legend behind the tradition involves a man named Jack cursed to roam the world with only a burning coal forever undying. It's obvious by the allusion to Candlewick we're meant to see the suffix as denoting the lit part of a candle, the "wick." But wick/wyck also means village in Old English. Torch is actually from Old French meaning "handful of straw" which itself is from Latin torquere "to twist". But whatever, none of that helps in clarifying why Roman's symbol is a JoL.