How do the loporrits get to and from Hydaelyn?

[Cleretic]

Ha ha, yeah. The writers made it super weird by introducing the term Etheiris and then ignoring it. Players are running around using a name almost no one on the planet Hydaelyn has ever even heard of. Imagine if you leaned what some long forgotten ancient civilization used to call Earth. If you started using it in conversation you wouldn't technically be wrong, but you'd sound like a crazy weirdo and no one would understand what you were talking about.

Actually, I find they use Etheirys almost too consistently. After the word is introduced in-universe it's used pretty much exclusively by everyone in the story, even if that really doesn't make any sense as far as actual people go, there WOULD be a much slower adoption. Not doing that is ultimately kinda necessary for Endwalker's story just to avoid confusion, though; when both Hydaelyn the figure and Hydaelyn the planet are gonna have presence in the same story, we need a way to differentiate in conversation. In comparison: try to have a conversation about Eureka without using any qualifiers about which of the three you're talking about.

Honestly I think the more egregious example is actually dynamis. That phenomena literally already had a functional name and theory around it in the modern world, we didn't need another one, but for some reason everyone completely drops using 'akasa' even in the story once the term 'dynamis' is introduced. Which honestly I'd probably put more to Sharlayan being a bit nationalist; they'd prefer to use the term allegedly used by a barely-evidenced extinct civilization than admit that somewhere like Thavnair figured something out before they did.


On the subject of the OP's question... I think the question here relies on one of the dumbest possible pieces of evidence: Is Namingway canon? The description of the Namingway minion perfectly describes him being from the loporrits, probably by complete chance (since it's very unlikely they had that part of the storyline's endgame figured out during Heavensward). If that minion's non-canon then there's not really a mystery anyway, but if they are then it requires there to be some way for the Loporrits to get to the planet from the moon outside of the Nethergate, albeit an obscure one.