Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
...but in thinking about it, it might be exceptional that of all the names to crop up twice, it's the famously Greek one. Two civilizations in the game have a tendency to tap into Greek, but Sharlayan basically only uses it for place names and descriptors; Greek names for people and figures, that's squarely an Amaurotian thing... who happen to be damn near the only civilization that could've conceivably left fingerprints across shards.

I hate the notion that we might have more Ancient Time ahead of us, and I really hope we don't. But I'd think that, if the writers were ever inclined to write up a link between the primal and the city, it'd trace back to that.
I’m under the impression that on the surface Sharlayan and Amaurot using Greek is just because of the thousands of years of western culture associating the Greek language with knowledge. If you wanted to justify it in-universe, you could say the Sharlayans picked it up after studying the Ancients.

Alexandria’s use of the actual Ancient script is a bit more mysterious but until we see any proof of a direct connection, I’m convinced the devs just picked it due to being a third pre-made script and not having to make a fourth one just for Solution Nine. Its use seems uneven too since Honey B. Lovely to me looks to be using cursive Eorzean script especially with the shape of her ‘y’ and she could be Tonawawta rather than Hyune.

As for future Ancients showing up, there was still that comment before from Yoshi-P asking us to remember the Convocation seats unless that was a red herring. And I won’t be convinced Altima has nothing to do with the Arcadion questline until the last quests wrapping it up after M12.