Names for Tempering

[finiteHP]

Personally I've been putting it down to geographical separation. Ifrit was the first primal summoned in mainland Aldenard and tempers everyone and their mongoose. Because of this he would be the first primal most Eorzeans think of, so when they think of "tempering" they think of Ifrit tempering. This would also of course spread to Vylbrand, but wouldn't gain as much traction there because the island already has experience with a primal who has been tempering people (assuming he did this the previous times he was summoned and drowning isn't recent tactic). Why use a different term when you already have one? The other primals may have specific terms for it (like touched which may just be what the Syplhs call it instead of pertaining specifically to Ramuh), but as Ifrit and Leviathan are the most prolific temperers their terms would be the most used.

[Anonymoose]

This would also of course spread to Vylbrand, but wouldn't gain as much traction there because the island already has experience with a primal who has been tempering people (assuming he did this the previous times he was summoned and drowning isn't recent tactic).

This idea of geographical and chronological order makes the most sense to me in an ARR capacity, in some ways. I've been afraid to latch onto it too hard because it falls back on making assumptions about what in 1.0 is still considered canon. Titan and Leviathan were first summoned around the same time and we never learned how Titan's tempering was referred to. Even the term "Drowned" didn't show up until ARR - in 1.0 they were just despicable pirates who'd abandoned their kin to "take up the Sahagin god." After Ifrit tempers some people, one Small Talk NPC inside an instance simply muses "I've heard rumors the beast tribes brainwash people - maybe that's what the Serpent Ravers are!" and left it at just "brainwashing."

Methinks I may need to go back to the Japanese transcripts of unreleased quests I got from some interblogz forever ago and attempt a more dutiful translation.

You think SE would pull the threads down if I tried to crowdsource some translations via Google Docs? lol