Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I think some of this quesitoning is valid, but not all of it.

I don't think we did get their 'true names'. Consider that the Watcher is basically the same sort of thing as the Twelve but without the influence of prayer, meaning that they probably were about the same as him originally; I don't think Byregot was the Builder's 'true name', I think Byregot became his name just by cultural consensus. After all, remember that we do know Althyk and Nymeia's names, and they're not 'Althyk' and 'Nymeia'.

As for how their stories came through, remember that after the Sundering people did have some memories of the Ancient world, just... mangled and clouded. I think it makes sense that a few stories did persist, and mutated through the years. You also have the factor of the Ascians on top of Hydaelyn; it seems pretty plausible that their own recollections of these people and their shenanigans leaked over time, and lined up with those fragmented memories enough to match up. If people have faded memories of a man punching a meteor, and then both visions of Hydaelyn and the grumblings of certain shadowy figures describe Rhalgr in association with meteors, then people are gonna link those names. It's worth noting that very few of those legends actually fit very close, too; Llymlaen throwing a knife at a nameless researcher for getting too close to a fish somehow turned into her throwing a knife at specifically Oschon for seeing her naked; that's a LOT of narrative drift in that tale, they aren't very close at all to the truth.
It seems that you misunderstood what I meant and I still believe my questions are valid:

The current names of the Twelve are not the same as in the unsundered world, but was the same as what the Omphalos Monument recorded. In 6.3, what was written on the monument was said to be "written by gods themselves."

So in the sundered world, the names Eorzeans knew were the same as the deity defined themselves, no matter if it's Hydaelyn who named them when creating them or they named themselves. In my opnion, the names on the monument are the Twelves' true names, which have nothing to do with their names in the unsundered world.

So my questions are still valid: Who told these names and (at least) part of their background stories to Eorzeans? And why wasn't it spread to the rest of the world?
It seems that the term "Eorzea is embraced by gods (in the Japanese version is "loved by the gods")" is now literal rather than figurative. IMO it does not shed a positive light because the game's world has expanded to far beyond Eorzea and the vibe of monotheism -- your gods are truer than mine -- does not taste good.