Is it worth mentioning that "perimal" is not a name? It's Greek "peri-" for "around" and "mal" meaning evil--"surrounding evil".

Well, in the context of the series, it is a name -- it's just a name with an outside-the-fictional-universe meaning. Having a meaning doesn't disqualify something from being a name. Matthew Jude Brown 17:53, July 19, 2010 (UTC)