Shinryu, the Worm God.

In the new Shinryu Extreme fight there is a target called "The Worm's Heart". Unless the mighty Wyrm God has the heart of a lowly worm, I think this is a mistake...

Definitely, in the other languages this is Shinryu's / The Wyrm's Heart.

Yeah the craftable housing item Shinryu's Wing under Alchemist V recipe has description as "legendary worm's wing" as well, when it should be "wyrm".

The music rolls too are named the worm's heart and the worm's tail they should be address too

Actually, that might been intended...?
Wyrm is ethymologically a doublet of worm. Worm can be used to mean dragon, tthough usually this dragon is wingless.

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Originally Posted by Yasminou

Actually, that might been intended...?
Wyrm is ethymologically a doublet of worm. Worm can be used to mean dragon, tthough usually this dragon is wingless.

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While correct, "wyrm" would never refer to a lowly earth worm and more readily connote a dragon or serpent. On the other hand "worm" is more readily associated with slimy invertebrates in your garden.

This really doesn't look right to me, and I think it should be changed to wyrm or even wurm, but I'm open to the possibility that it's an intentional archaic spelling.

An official response from Fernehalwes would be great! But i guess it's because Worm is an old way of meaning Wingless dragons, while using Wyrm is fairly new, even if the root of Wyrm is older.

The two words are interchangeable, most people just prefer the "Y" spelling because they correlate the "O" to earthworms.

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Originally Posted by Vshunyi

While correct, "wyrm" would never refer to a lowly earth worm and more readily connote a dragon or serpent. On the other hand "worm" is more readily associated with slimy invertebrates in your garden.

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Funnily enough I didn't bat an eye to this due to another game that uses Worm when talking about some very powerful beings that have yet to be seen, which with some other info in the game highly suggests they actually are dragons.

Considering Shinryu's just going to get slaughtered over and over again by WoLs looking for weapons/orchestrion/scales/mount drops, "worm" might fit in fairly well.

I kid.

This still hasn't been fixed?

I get the impression the "worm" term refers to the nature of both Shinryu and Zenos, especially when they fight as one.

Their actions are definitely are not seen in a high regard as they are really destructive.

I sincerely would prefer for the localization team to use more common usage terms in this cases instead oif trying to sound clever for reasons unknown.
I mean, cool you reserearched for an old way of saying wyrm, but aside the fact that it should be considered wrong eitherway since shinryu, bahamut and co have wings, I think a localization should also be consistent in between languages and easy to read.
While the names of the various dragons fough is nice to be something found in folklore I belive that termynology should be as clear as possible for majority of ppl and easy to recognize

I've read about this, but I still don't understand why they used worm instead of Wyrm.
And for a second I saw your icon as haurchefant...

This is especially weird considering "wyrm" is used ingame already, notably in the "Dreadwyrm Set".

Has this been fixed??

Nothing to be fixed about it. Worm is essentially a "modern" version of Wyrm (even if usually used for dragons without wings.) and the ENG Localization team decided to go with it. Hell if your WoL doesn't like Zenos you could consider it an insult, or even an insult from the Mistral to him as well.

But it's inconsistent with literally every other instance of a dragon being referred to as a "Wyrm". Can we get some clarification from the localization team?

Still surprised this hasn't been fixed yet...