Politics

[Chasingstars]

I thought Wuk Lamat said something along the lines of Tural adopting Eorzean as a unifying language between all of the different people that make up the country so that no one native language or culture dominates the others. Harmony between the local peoples is achieved by adopting a foreign script/tongue for inter-tribal communication. I don't believe that the bar sign necessarily means Eorzeans are directly involved but it's still a possibility. Just as I am still interested in how distinctly US-ish the aesthetic of Xak Tural is compared to Yok Tural though and if it has anything to do with Limsa Lominsa's influence during the initial exploration 80 years ago or Merlwyb's recent reestablished contact starting 20 years ago.


On a side note, "Yok" is obviously "South" and "Xak" is obviously "North". "Wuk" seems very similar to those and it wouldn't be unusual to name such an important character something symbolic so I wonder if "Wuk" is "West". I wonder if that would also mean that "Vik" or Vek" is "East".

Well the word on the sign reads Bar and its done in the eorezan typeface. But sadly we don't have a comparison for the Tural version of the typeface or written language.

I lean towards it being foreigners as in the 6.55 there is book on the origns of blue magic. One of the interesting curiosities about it is the author taught the whalaqee tribe the eorezan tongue in exchange for magic training and living among them. Which would point to Martyn, as the author refers to blue magic as a "noble magic" as Whastrach didn't value it. Another quirk of the book is that the term blue magic didn't exist before in the "common tongue", so the whalaqee of the new world have a different word for the same magic.

EDIT: Obviously for us the player foreign language is a non-issue as we have the echo which allows us to understand all sorts of things. And the reason for the blue mage talk is to show that any usage of a more common language is more of a recent invention that eorezans brought over.