Please use the Japanese name for the vanity system: "Mirage Prism"

[Gramul]

I hope it gets a lot of pointless sparkles when activated.

[SirSaber]

I hope it gets a lot of pointless sparkles when activated.

Like so ?

[Gramul]

Like so ?

Maybe a little more than that.

Except so bright, iris' will seal forever should they look directly at my glory.

[Ihm]

Mirage Prism sounds like an actual reason for why adventurers would be wearing one set but showing another, due to a mirage prism projecting another image of themselves. Glamour just sounds like a label to the system as a whole and in no way describes the system or why it is.

[Bufkus]

Mirage Prism sounds like an actual reason for why adventurers would be wearing one set but showing another, due to a mirage prism projecting another image of themselves. Glamour just sounds like a label to the system as a whole and in no way describes the system or why it is.

I don't think you understand that mirage prism is just a fancy engrishy name for the vanity system and is not literally a mirage prism like you think.

[BlueMage]

Maybe a little more than that.

Except so bright, iris' will seal forever should they look directly at my glory.

I'd have preferred a Sailor Moon style transformation scene anytime we change our appearance in some way.

[Zanmato]

Make it optional. I want Mirage Prism. Others want Glamour.

[Gramul]

Sailor Moon style transformation scene

I am 76% sure they got that idea from Disney nonsense like magic wish dresses that totally one up the effort your army of enthralled mice and birds torn to shreds by resentful and paranoid stepsisters.

[Rowyne]

As some posters have observed, “glamour” has an archaic meaning of “magical illusion,” and we have used it in this fashion since 1.0. Given the lore behind this new system, it was an obvious choice for the English version.

More specifically, glamour is the magic that faeries use to superficially change the appearance of an object. This meaning dates back 300 years, and to this day "a magic spell" is the primary definition of glamour, with strong implications of being a disguise. While the MMO standard these days is to call it a vanity system, SE could not have picked a more perfect word to describe what they are doing.

Glamour. It's a word often associated with magic and illusions in English folk tales, so I say roll with it.

a "glamour" or aesthetic/camouflage spell is pretty consistent with other fantasy novels. For example, The Kingkiller Chronicles and A Song of Ice and Fire both use the term. Even the Harry Potter series.

If you read quest text on leves and such, "glamours" are what its called when a monster makes itself look like another monster. Glamour seems to be the phrase for illusion magic in the english version.

I couldn't agree more with the above posters.

From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Glamour: 1: a magic spell <the girls appeared to be under a glamour — Llewelyn Powys>

The use of the word 'glamour' here stems from archaic definition and is still used in many fantasy genres to describe an illusion or magick spell. As Daenerys_Sedai mentioned, it's used that way in many well-known fantasy novels. I remember it being used in the Whedon-verse of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, where a glamour was a spell used to conceal or hide the true form of an object, person or area under an illusion.

'Mirage Prism' just sounds like a broken translation, IMO.

[LlenCoram]

I couldn't agree more with the above posters.

From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Glamour: 1: a magic spell <the girls appeared to be under a glamour — Llewelyn Powys>

The use of the word 'glamour' here stems from archaic definition and is still used in many fantasy genres to describe an illusion or magick spell. As Daenerys_Sedai mentioned, it's used that way in many well-known fantasy novels. I remember it being used in the Whedon-verse of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, where a glamour was a spell used to conceal or hide the true form of an object, person or area under an illusion.

'Mirage Prism' just sounds like a broken translation, IMO.

I honestly didn't know this. Neat.