"I see. I mean, granted, your name isn't very Chiss either." He would have thought 'Altair' was his core name, but Altair had outright said that he hadn't been giving a Chiss name. Eli was rather glad for core names while serving with the Chiss, since many of them had those long names.

"On the Steadfast, the concept of human naming conventions escapes most of my crewmates, so they call me Eli'van'to," Somehow, Eli managed to convey that his name was said as one long one rather than as a first and last name. "They even got a core name out of it. Ivant."