There's some Oriental Grass in my Oriental Grass! so meta...

This may be nitpicky, but there are currently 2 items with the exact same name:

Oriental Grass
An ingredient for Oriental Grass

Oriental Grass
A patch of vegetation made with Oriental Grass

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...Oriental+Grass

Now, I noticed this isn't the case in the French localization where these roughly equate to "Doman Reed Bulb" and "Doman Reeds", which differentiate the seed (or bulb) and the grown plant

I would suggest either renaming the outdoor furniture "Oriental Grass Plot", or the ingredient "Oriental Grass Seeds/Bulbs", or both to alleviate confusion. See Lupin for example:

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...gory2=&q=Lupin

Bleh, don't you just hate it when that happens... I know I do. This will be revised come 3.2. Thanks for the heads up!

Kind of a pity that they are called Oriental anything in the English localization since they are meant to be Doman in origin, not from terrestrial East Asia. I know that the localization wants to make everything fit, but good grief guys what happened to fitting with the Lore of the game? Why scrub the Doman name from these things in our localization when it makes about 10,000% more sense within EORZEA and it's Lore to refer to Doman things as Doman things, NOT Oriental things.

Oriental fits canonically within Eorzea. Oriental is derived from "oriens" i.e., the latin word for East--Othard, and by extension Doma, are EAST of Eorzea. It still fits with the game lore for Doman things to be called/considered Oriental when we look at the world from an Eorzeacentric point of view.

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Originally Posted by Rocl

Oriental fits canonically within Eorzea. Oriental is derived from "oriens" i.e., the latin word for East--Othard, and by extension Doma, are EAST of Eorzea. It still fits with the game lore for Doman things to be called/considered Oriental when we look at the world from an Eorzeacentric point of view.

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I understand that, however I still believe 'Doman' would serve the lore, the game and immersionfar better than 'oriental' - which is a fairly common term in real life English. IMHO this detracts from the in-game origins of items like this which could have formed part of the Doman lore instead of being cultural references to real life. I don't expect change to existing items, but would like to see more use of Doman lore instead of generic oriental labels.