[I've been there*g* I was helping GM a game online once which resulted in another co-GM asking me at one point if I had just named an NPC after a typo from a chat thread we were in. Because yes, yes, I had, because I couldn't think of anything else. It wasn't even a very interesting typo! ...I'd typoed 'kind of'.

For this, I'm fine either way:D Part of Xiulan's character is analyzing for potential patterns, but that doesn't mean either she (or I) expect that to always pan out to something material. Off the top of my head, I could easily see (a) Quill having a feather connotation just being a coincidence with Crow and Vulture, (b) Quill having had something to do with recruiting them and them taking 'inspired' handles because of it, (c) Coincidence by way of someone else randomly doling out handles from a list, (d) numerous other things I am too tired to think of. Whatever makes for the most fun.]