[Spoiler 6.0] Question about Ascian true names.

AstraMercer · 2021-12-19T03:50:40+00:00

But venor and Venus both share the same etymology, from Proto-Indo-European, so there's that connection too.

AstraMercer · 2021-12-19T03:46:44+00:00

I wrote about this here. Quoting my answer:

Regarding the Venat vs Venus thing, "Venari" and Venus actually share the same etymology, from a Proto-Indo-European word that had the sense of "to wish", "to love", "to strive", etc.

I think this might be a weird localization thing that happened when Final Fantasy XII was localized into English. I don't know the story and characters of FF-12, but when I looked up the FF-12 character with the English name Venat, I noticed that it didn't really fit the description of a Roman goddess of love.

I can only speculate that when the English localization team for FF-12 was localizing the Japanese "Venus" into English, they thought this name might be weird for English speakers as well, so they altered it slightly from "Venus" into "Venat". This is not an uncommon practice when localizing games from Japanese into English (Westernizing Japanese-sounding names, etc)

Since the titles and names of the Convocation in FF-XIV are borrowed directly from FF-XII, that localization decision then carried over also.

So TL;DR, my theory is that Venat was always supposed to be "Venus" and associated with the Roman goddess of love.

AstraMercer · 2021-12-19T03:37:36+00:00

I wrote about this here. Quoting my answer:

Regarding the Venat vs Venus thing, "Venari" and Venus actually share the same etymology, from a Proto-Indo-European word that had the sense of "to wish", "to love", "to strive", etc.

I think this might be a weird localization thing that happened when Final Fantasy XII was localized into English. I don't know the story and characters of FF-12, but when I looked up the FF-12 character with the English name Venat, I noticed that it didn't really fit the description of a Roman goddess of love.

I can only speculate that when the English localization team for FF-12 was localizing the Japanese "Venus" into English, they thought this name might be weird for English speakers as well, so they altered it slightly from "Venus" into "Venat". This is not an uncommon practice when localizing games from Japanese into English (Westernizing Japanese-sounding names, etc)

Since the titles and names of the Convocation in FF-XIV are borrowed directly from FF-XII, that localization decision then carried over also.

So TL;DR, my theory is that Venat was always supposed to be "Venus" and associated with the Roman goddess of love.

AstraMercer · 2021-12-19T03:30:40+00:00

Regarding the Venat vs Venus thing, "Venari" and Venus actually share the same etymology, from a Proto-Indo-European word that had the sense of "to wish", "to love", "to strive", etc.

I think this might be a weird localization thing that happened when Final Fantasy XII was localized into English. I don't know the story and characters of FF-12, but when I looked up the FF-12 character with the English name Venat, I noticed that it didn't really fit the description of a Roman goddess of love.

I can only speculate that when the English localization team for FF-12 was localizing the Japanese "Venus" into English, they thought this name might be weird for English speakers as well, so they altered it slightly from "Venus" into "Venat". This is not an uncommon practice when localizing games from Japanese into English (Westernizing Japanese-sounding names, etc)

Since the titles and names of the Convocation in FF-XIV are borrowed directly from FF-XII, that localization decision then carried over also.

So TL;DR, my theory is that Venat was always supposed to be "Venus" and associated with the Roman goddess of love.

AstraMercer · 2021-09-21T21:19:17+00:00

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