Quote Originally Posted by stenovrain View Post
The Myths of the Realm bugs me more than a little because my character is a Raen, which means that she comes from another culture with a different religious belief.

And the Euphrosyne storyline indicates that the Twelve were probably created by Hydaelyn. Although their appearances have changed with people's prayers and imaginations, their names are remembered correctly all along.

Does that mean that only Eorzean on the planet believe in "real" gods but people from other cultures are pagans?

And who spread the gods' true names in Eorzea and Eorzea only?

In ShB Urianger mentioned that Azeyma and Azim might be both originated from Azem, which made perfect sense because all people on the planet had the same subconscious memories of the Ancient time, and the god's name just diverged because of different cultural backgrounds.

But now that the game tells you that the line "a realm embraced by gods" is "literal" -- this line doesn't appear in the English version as often as in Japanese actually -- it begins to bug me a lot.

It's bothering enough to know that the Source is more privileged than the Shards in EW MSQ (Hydaelyn made a Plan B only for the Source), and now you tell me Eorzea is more privileged than the rest of the planet? That's not a good move.
Yeah, this does annoy me, because it does place one religion as 'Right And Correct' as opposed to most of the others who were some level of in-universe misinformed (Garuda was an Allagan general, Ifrit was an ancient creation, Leviathan might've just been a big fish). This has actually been bothering me ever since the start of the raids.

There's the element that the Kami in the Far East seem to be mostly accurate, but it still kinda places the 'mainstream' religions as more true and valid than everyone else. Which is pretty at-odds with the game's overall very kind approach to religion, and feels weirdly condescending in that lens. 'It's wrong to discriminate against these people and their beliefs' doesn't really square super well with 'our beliefs are verifiably right and their views are quantifiably wrong'.