User blog comment:B214/General Discussion/@comment-2601:8C:601:5692:301C:7B46:8FA7:99BE-20180111214206

Well this is interesting, and if true possibly shows just how much Ishibumi plans ahead about characters.

Well then, I've always been bothered about Freed's (and now Lind's) last name. How should it really be spelled. In light of the relatively recent revelations about the Sigurd Institute, I think I've discovered the answer. Due to some other LN/WN series I read, I've taken more interest in names in general and thus know that many European surnames have a patronymic form (i.e. {"father" name}+son). Thanks to this, I noticed that Freed's surname vaguely sounds like "cell's son". After further noting that Fried's and Lind's names (derived from Siegfried and SiegLind, respectively) are both German in origin, I chose to check the German TL of "cell" and "son" (as well as their pronunciation). Lo and behold I get words that would/could sound like 'sellzan' and after combining them I got Zellssohn