Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-65.103.12.54-20130217000600/@comment-7472785-20130510165225

Class?

Surnames historically were reserved to upper class - commoners didn't have a surname.

Most of our surnames derive either from professions (Miller, Baker, Fletcher, Smith, etc.), or from bynames or nicknames or otherwise descriptive.

That could work for Weiss, who seems of noble(r) family, it could also work for Blake, as Belladonna is simply 'beautiful woman',as such just a byname.