Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
Given how many wrenches are thrown into the whole thing from Shadowbringers' revelations, I wouldn't put too much stock in that. (Never did, to be honest.)

Sure, you've got the Convocation of Thirteen named after effective footnotes in XII's bestiary... only those are just titles, and the only one whose true name is known references Greek myth / a relatively obscure summon from VII. The city they once lived in, Amaurot, and the only other known named Ancient (Hythlodaeus) reference Thomas More's Utopia, while the Termination seen in the actual dungeon takes a lot of cues from the Bible's Book of Revelation.

Make of that what you will.
With the revelation of Emet-Selch's true name is Hades (a summon from FF7), and the possibility that the form he took was his real form during the fight with him, I see small similarities also to the Esper World in FF6 and Feymarch from FF4. Beings with incredible power that wear robes and normal clothes like any other person, but their true forms may be something different. With that in mind, if we were ever to look for the true names of the 14, we might be needing to look at other FF game summons for their true names. I'm personally still of the mindset that the 14th's true name is Maduin, since if we go under the assumption that the WoL is the soul of the 14th, then the 14th has a habit of being a guardian that protects people just as Maduin in FF6 was a higher ranked Esper who was the guardian of the Esper World.