The WoL's Canonical Name? (ShB/EW Spoilers)

[Vyrerus]

Last year, I did a quiz for funs and my Tumblr. It said Nyx. That works perfectly for me and thus for the ToasTiE. Also, me and the sun don't have the best track record, so I like to pretend to be a bit subversive whilst remaining entirely obvious.

Heh, I got Hephaestus. Neat.

As for the topic of the thread... I believe in the past when this has been teased around, or when I've made a thread about it before, I've leaned heavy on Azem being Apollo for reasons already stated by others in the thread.

But what if Azem's lineage expression is even elder to that of Hades? You know, just to put one more hammer down on that poor old man. What if Azem's name was Utu (Shamash) from Babylonian mythos? Utu was the god of the Sun, Justice, Morality, and Truth. He was the twin brother of the Queen of Heaven, Inanna (Ishtar). Obviously there's no Ishtar in FFXIV, but Venat's probably close enough (And in FFXII she assisted the Archadians - similar to Akkadians no? Ah, I'm reaching, but it's fun. It also doesn't need to make perfect logical sense).

I actually wouldn't mind them hammering down something more concrete about Azem, because we will never be past Azem, and even in individual fan fiction, people ignore what's set in stone all the time. It would also cause people to become more creative/think more about other elements of the past.

[Lyth]

I actually wouldn't mind them hammering down something more concrete about Azem, because we will never be past Azem, and even in individual fan fiction, people ignore what's set in stone all the time. It would also cause people to become more creative/think more about other elements of the past.

There are some decent opportunities for this to be explored between Pandaemonium and Myths. It's hard to say definitively yet if we aren't actually 'past Azem' given that we're apparently their spitting image (while Hermes and Amon look nothing alike physically). Perhaps our ancestral lineage has remained relatively identical in appearance across 120 generations, but there might always be an accidental second time travel loop lurking at the end of the Pandaemonium arc that explains Themis' 'falling star' prediction. I'm kind of hoping for the latter, because that seems like a very Azem thing to do.

What might resolve the issue somewhat is if Azem isn't actually even Amaurotian in origin. That allows their role in Amaurot to be fleshed out while leaving their overall backstory open ended. It also keeps them as a traveller of the world rather than tying them down to one culture.