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    MikkoAkure's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
    Specifically, their language (seen both in their own names and the names of Toto-Rak and Tam-Tara) is based on the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan. In-universe the language might have been appropriated from the Duskwight of Gelmorra, but I don't recall where exactly that notion came from. They also started happening after the people that would become the original Gridanian settlers made a pact with the Elementals; it wasn't that the Elementals went 'okay, those guys that're already around, those are our guys'.
    When I was making that post, I was fact-checking what I had written while looking for things I may have missed and found this from encyclopedia:
    Quote Originally Posted by EE1
    [The first Padjal] discards his birth name and takes to calling himself I-Ohok-Pota, which he describes as the sound made by the aetheric waves when the elementals speak unto him. Henceforth, Jorin and his children adopt the surname Pota.
    I don't know if that counted as their language or if they just got names that way though.

    I wonder how much cultural mixing the Elezen and the Hyur had since they still maintain separate naming conventions and do not mix their races even after the establishment of Gridania. I also wonder what the Elezen think of only Hyur being chosen as Padjal.

    It would be neat if the game could revisit and expand on Gridania, Gelmorra, and what all is going on there now and in their history because Limsa and Ul'dah always got the spotlight despite the Twelveswood's setting being more "classical fantasy".
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    Last edited by MikkoAkure; 04-24-2024 at 11:11 AM.