Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXVII Lore Discussion

[Anonymoose]

Ok but... WHAT ARE THE NAMES USED?

The ones we know for sure?

• Ifrit - Tempered (in the Inferno)
• Leviathan - Drowned (in the Whorl)
• Ramuh - Touched (by the Levin(light))

I think I heard "sundered" in there as a first-time, out-of-game reference, but I'm not sure and wouldn't know who it applied to. That'd be a good one for Titan, I think. Looks like Odin? You could also be "touched" by Garuda's wind, theoretically (and something about "He's been blown by Garuda!" just ... rolls off the tongue ... in a way I don't think they'd intend or approve of.) Perhaps shorn? That's what I been going with with headcanon, wise. Shiva, of course, never tempered anyone that we know of. She didn't need to; you summon what people believe is the deiformed ice goddess of your matron saint and it's gonna turn some heads.

The sylphs have been called both tempered and touched. Tempered is, after all, still a catch-all term. I maintain that this might be because the term was popularized thanks to Ifrit's mass-whooshing of anyone the Amalj'aa bring to him on account of fire spreads and consumes all and he believes he's the one true god.

Then you have a bigger question: Do you stop at the "elemental" primals, who are unique in representing the facets of the Crystal's light? Do you come up with a theoretical Frost-tempering and calling it a day? Or keep going for every primal influence ever? What King Thordan allegedly did to Grinnaux? The theoretical effects of Inferno and Crag from Ravana or Vortex and Whorl from Bismarck? Whatever the hell Zantetsuken is doing to generate Odin-blessings?

We'll see where the Dev. team falls on that one, lol.