Midgardsomr and the Sundering (Spoilers)

[Enkidoh]

In the context of the game, when someone refers to 'this star', it actually means planet or world, not a sun/ball of gaseous plasma undergoing nuclear fusion reactions (this pops up quite commonly in manga and anime, which I understand is due to the Japanese language not having a specific word for 'planet', instead using a word commonly translated as 'star', but I dropped out of my Japanese language class so someone far more knowledgable on the subject would be better able to clarify or deny that).

Either way, the Sundering only resulted in Hydaelyn the world being split into the Source and 13 shards. The dragons were not sundered because they are not native to Hydaelyn and arrived on the Source long after the Sundering occurred.

[Eloah]

In the context of the game, when someone refers to 'this star', it actually means planet or world, not a sun/ball of gaseous plasma undergoing nuclear fusion reactions (this pops up quite commonly in manga and anime, which I understand is due to the Japanese language not having a specific word for 'planet', instead using a word commonly translated as 'star', but I dropped out of my Japanese language class so someone far more knowledgable on the subject would be better able to clarify or deny that).

Either way, the Sundering only resulted in Hydaelyn the world being split into the Source and 13 shards. The dragons were not sundered because they are not native to Hydaelyn and arrived on the Source long after the Sundering occurred.

I can confirm that, yes, the Kanji used for star (星) also means planet, or more specifically a light emitting/reflecting heavenly body. The main distinction would be that the word for star is the Kanji by itself, and is pronounced as ho-shi (ほし). But when the Kanji is combined with others to create a myriad of celestial objects it is often pronounced as se-i (せい) as in the actual word for planet (惑星) wa-ku-se-i (わくせい).

The English word Star is actually very similar but is actually a homonym. It comes from the Ancient Greeks who first discovered the concept of planets, noticing that they moved across the night sky. The term used to describe them was, planētes asteres, which means wandering stars, or simply planētai, wanderers, for short. It isn't used as often today, but it still sounds "old timey" so that's probably why it's being used in FFXIV.