 For example, Verkan Vall is called Vall by his friends, Hadron Dalla is known as Dalla to her friends and so on.It is also the case that nearly all male names have a two-syllable family name and a one-syllable personal name.Verkan Vall was born on the island of Nerros (Cuba) in the Home Timeline some time in the late 1800s; in "Last Enemy", he noted he was eighty when he and Dalla Hadron were first married.