Quote Originally Posted by Edellis View Post
FFXIV's localization is very much like the Ivalice titles (Vagrant Story, FF tactics, FFXII). They've used this sort of dialect before, extensively. Trial by Battle or "in the eyes of gods and men" has nothing to do with GoT. They just borrowed elements from the same culture.


The other stuff just seems to be typical tropes of this kind of conflict. It's frigid, something terrible is coming, people stand watch, corrupt highborn, ect ect.

Naturally, they would borrow references from Game of Thrones, as it's highly popular, the same way they snuck a Frozen reference into Shiva. But I think you're just viewing the tropes here a tad too narrowly. Game of thrones is not original in most of these instances at all, you're just ignorant of where they pulled it from.
You assume too much. I am very knowledgeable about past FF games, as well as real and faux-medieval speech patterns and phrases used in historical as well as fictitious writings.

These are not coincidences. None of them are. These passages in the story are deliberately lifted wholesale from Game of Thrones. I knew people would argue against it because people always argue even the dumbest things. I'm just stating the facts though. This thread isn't for debating whether or not the references are a coincidence - but whether or not we have left "clever reference" territory and ventured into straight ripoff.