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I was just thinking about this while reading House Baenre. "Clan is the English spelling of clann, a Gaelic word meaning children or family." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan). "Many anthropologists use "Tribe" to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups (see clan and lineage)." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe). "A dynasty, a familiar descendance, for example, a Royal House." (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/house). So, possibly, there could be a category "Family" or "Families", and then there could be "clans", "houses", etc. I'd be wary of using "clan" only for dwarves, as it is the Forgotten Realms and somewhere there's probably some human barbarians, halfling nomads, and wood elf families that are calling themselves a "clan".
As far as existing, ug, not real sure, but I'd say, for organization sake, leave out the prefix, make the prefix a category type. But I don't have a strong opinion on it either way. --Fizzygoo 01:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)