What lore do you ignore?

[Vyrerus]

Plus Sharlayans are snooty scholars from a snooty pacifist nation. Of course they'd instantly embrace lost knowledge about the planet's true name.

And for some reason they are a super well respected society, I suppose due to western hemisphere aethereyte distribution. It absolutely cannot be all that previously mentioned snooty, pacifist isolationism.

But yeah, this is a setting where teleportation exists. World leaders get in the know quickly (and should really never not be in the know, since having teleporting messengers is almost as fast as email once the attunements have been done).

Dissemination of knowledge in this setting should basically make any major news proliferate at about the speed it does in the real world with the internet. I mean, I'm sure the aethernet is slightly slower, but not that much slower.

[Iscah]

Dissemination of knowledge in this setting should basically make any major news proliferate at about the speed it does in the real world with the internet. I mean, I'm sure the aethernet is slightly slower, but not that much slower.

On the other hand, the majority of people are probably oblivious to high-level Sharlayan research altogether – from memory we have specifically been told (probably by Koji) that most people don't even know to call the planet Hydaelyn in the first place, or possibly don't even know of Hydaelyn at all.

We're basically dealing with a small pool of high-end researchers using a terminology all their own, about concepts that the average person has no idea about. This isn't about the plausibility of getting a whole population to use new words for an old concept – they probably aren't even aware of the concept, because the entire thing is beyond their knowledge.

[Cleretic]

On the other hand, the majority of people are probably oblivious to high-level Sharlayan research altogether – from memory we have specifically been told (probably by Koji) that most people don't even know to call the planet Hydaelyn in the first place, or possibly don't even know of Hydaelyn at all.

I still find it very funny that Sharlayan has verifiable, evidenced proof of how the afterlife works, and are clearly just not telling anyone. Granted, that might be a good idea, I imagine suddenly going public with that stuff would cause some holy wars.

I think the barrier isn't actually with the travel of information, though, and more with just people being stubborn. People don't change their language on a dime even if they do know it's right to (believe me, I'm a trans woman, I've seen it first-hand). Realistically we should see either people having to stop themselves using 'Hydaelyn', apologizing for doing so, or a couple jerks making a big weird Thing out of them deliberately not using the newly-established name.

[Denishia]

Realistically we should see either people having to stop themselves using 'Hydaelyn', apologizing for doing so, or a couple jerks making a big weird Thing out of them deliberately not using the newly-established name.

Oh dear, new headcanon that Sevestre is leading his reactionary Sharlayan faction into trying to ban the term Etheirys -dressed up in language about it coming ultimately from a forbidden knowledge adjacent source- and it's the raging debate in the Forum eating up all valuable time.