Origin of the Name “Verci”

“Verci” is not the name Finn was born with — if he even had one. The Tonberries had no need for such things. But when he first wandered into civilization, he was asked for a name, and silence wasn’t enough.

He gave himself “Finn,” a name simple and clean, like the quiet waters he was raised near.

“Verci,” however, came from the journals of a scholar-turned-Tonberry whose fragmented notes he studied obsessively as a child. The Verci Manuscripts — written long before the scholar succumbed to transformation — documented the arts of subtlety, bladecraft, and quiet revenge. While others feared the Tonberries’ descent into darkness, young Finn saw in those pages a philosophy: to endure without shouting, to act without announcement.

Taking “Verci” was an act of quiet respect — not for a man, but for an idea: that power can live in patience and that the forgotten often see the clearest.