Neat stuff from the EN/JP comparison sheet bc why not.
this was interesting due to the parallel it has with the frenzied flame. the latter seems to seek a return to 'oneness', but is also notable for being destructive to spirits. meanwhile, the ancestor spirits apparently also assimilate multitudes into a whole while still preserving, rather than destroying, those spirits.
the contrast between their epithets in JP highlights how they view themselves. morgott remains an 'abomination', identifying with being something worthy of scorn, while mohg rejects that, emphasizing his parents' role in abandoning him. this is also linked to the tenets of his dynasty and its focus on a loving mother figure(who loves through harm, no less).
thought it was cool the way 'noble rot' reaffirms the knights' willingness to become infected with rot in service of malenia.
those are very different names! aurelia and aureliette both mean 'golden', which gives you the sense of them belonging to some family that lived under the golden order. but clara/clarice means 'bright' or 'clear', which, to me at least, sooner makes me think of the stars/sky, and would be more in line with their apparent gravesite in the ancestral home of the sorcerers. of course, stars can also be seen as golden so :p
a point in favor of the 'seluvis was pidia's puppet' theory. still don't subscribe to it personally, but worth wondering why he'd have a name with such connotations. even as ranni's servant, it seems a role taken on willingly. same for a preceptor, i'd think.
did raya lucaria start as a place of religious significance and shift towards an academic institution over time? or was it once a place of worship for liurnians before the sorcerers came down out of the mountaintops? neat little implication that gets lost in translation.
hilarious to think everyone notices how angry, sad, and miserable rogier is and just doesn't give a shit lol
so the nox were not just being punished with exile, but being actively eradicated by the greater will. there are a few instances of explicit intent ascribed to the greater will, and this one is most interesting to me bc it implies that it DOES (or once did) care what is going on in this world.
this makes a small difference and goes a bit further to explain things like why the lazuli conspectus is still permitted in raya lucaria in spite of being heretical, or why they still hang rennala's portrait. if they decided she had never been that great, it'd be weird to still revere her contributions to sorcery.
it might be worth highlighting a few ways the asuras could share traits with okina, or be used for one's own bolstering of his character for fics or RP. asuras are described as being driven by 'envy, ambition, and hostility'. that constant jealousy led Indra, king of the gods, to expel the asura from their original home among the gods, and the asura have fought endlessly to regain access to this divine realm. sounds familiar...
Whoa, very different story being told between these two, if true.
both named banished knights were dubbed 'wings of the storm king' rather than just 'of the storm'. which begs some questions! did they serve the storm lord before their defeat by godfrey(the banished knight set *does* mention 'territorial losses'), and were banished after that? were they given grace in spite of being enemies of the golden order, because how else did they live from the reign of the storm king til morgott's rule of leyndell during the shattering? and did morgott take an interest in them specifically due to them surviving a fight against the father who abandoned him, a kind of centuries later 'lol fuck you dad'?
this is pretty confusing because how many soulless demigods have their been, and how could one of them be resurrected? in what way, and who is it? we know it isn't godwyn given miquella's inability to do just that...the mausoleum knights remain so mysterious!!
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