Monster Names

The highest three gods in the Hindu religion are Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the sustainer), and Shiva (the destroyer). Garuda is a half-bird, half-human deity and the mount ridden by the god Vishnu.

I wonder how devout Hindus feel about Garuda and Shiva being vicious monsters worshipped by beast tribes and needing to be defeated by mere mortals. Probably about the same as Christians would if one of those monsters had been named Jesus.

If you look at many of the "Primals" they take from many religions and myths.

Like Odin, Bahamut, Gilgamesh, leviathan, just to name a few more.

These names have been used for decades with Square and are iconic in their own way outside religion and beliefs with just the fans of this game franchise.

I wonder how the Wotan feel about their God Odin (the All Father) being as a Rabbit eared black knight.

I wonder how the Mayans/Azetec's felt about their god Quetzalcoatl being misrepresented too.

And hellz ya! I would love it if Jesus was in this game. I would totally camp him so I could say "I killed jesus"

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Originally Posted by Reiterpallasch

Oh man it could totally be a special leve quest and everything, where you need to turn in some lumber and nails.

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(its a fantasy, if you get that worked up about a fantasy game, then you are the one with the problem...)

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Originally Posted by Nero

How the Wotan feel about Odin? The fuck? You know Wotan is just a different Name for Odin? XD Well also used in Old-Germanic instead of Odin, but yeah.. its been a while since people here believed in Walhall. xD

lol.. don't take it too serious. :p

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I thought the Wotan was how the modernday believers/followers identified themselves. I knew it was another name for Odin. But ya, looks like you got the point anyway!

Final Fantasy games are pretty blatant in their anti-religion stance, off the top of my head there's a guy in Camp Drybone that questions the whole Ifrit thing - "worship me or burn in hell for eternity, doesn't sound like much of a choice to me" which is clearly a dig at Christianity. There's probably way more that more observant players will have picked up on than that one snippet that caught my attention.

This vid does a good job of putting together the pieces from previous titles- http://youtu.be/MLhiWw3pzQk

Odin, who is one iconic primal and in other games summonings and the only thing he gets here is one lazy fate :<

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Originally Posted by MageBlack

I wonder how the Wotan feel about their God Odin (the All Father) being as a Rabbit eared black knight.
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How the Wotan feel about Odin? The fuck? You know Wotan is just a different Name for Odin? XD Well also used in Old-Germanic instead of Odin, but yeah.. its been a while since people here believed in Walhall. xD

lol.. don't take it too serious. :p @ Topic.. Square is using those Name since forever.. idk why someone would make a big deal out of it. There are many Names in many Games, which are grabbed out of Mythologies around the Globe. SE is notorious for that and i seriously don't mind at all. Fenrir, Fafnir, Nidhogg, Midgar, Quetza, Kujata etc etc etc.. and many many many more.

It's Final "Fantasy". It's fictional. If someone got offended that easily. They shouldn't watch TV, play games, or watch movies. The world has it's parodies, mixtures, and well comedy that could involve offensive materials.

Shiva, in Hindu mythology, is depicted predominantly as a male. Between the loose interpretation of this and other gods (noted above but repeated here: Ramuh, Odin, Gilgamesh, Fenrir, Fafnir, Nidhogg, Kujata, Ifrit, Quetzalcoatl, etc), it's hard to take any offense. If anything, it's rather cool that a predominantly (entirely?) single religion and/or culture design team was willing to borrow from other religions and cultures to give their own mythology a greater sense of depth.

Think about it this way: you know how every FF happens in its own universe but there's still summons, chocobos, moogles and the like?

Well, same thing with their gods. FFXIV's Garuda isn't Earth's Garuda, it's Eorzeas. Same for every other deity.

Just because Garuda and Shiva have always been iconic names given to monsters by SE does not excuse the blatant disregard for the sensibilities of modern day Hindus. How would the Japanese like it if some western game developed had an iconic monster named Buddha?