What language is this on these enemies?

[Yasuhiro]

Edit: Question Answered

Thank you!

[Enkidoh]

It's Pulsian writing - those enemies are actually recycled from FFXIII where they were relics from Gran Pulse's extinct civilization, and because SE just reused the models, the textures retained the Gran Pulse font. Just ignore it, it has no lore connection to FFXIV at all.

[Yasuhiro]

Oh, I knew they were from FFXIII which I admit never played much of. That's pretty dissapointing that they didn't adjust the model even just a little bit. Makes you wonder if these machines are actually acknowledged in this world and aren't throw away recycled mobs.

Thanks for the quick response!

[Yasuhiro]

Well just did Fractal again in a roulette and I don't know how I didn't notice it but the Clockwork Knights and Clockwork soldiers are mantles in the museum like place so they do exist in this world and aren't throwaway. (I don't know how to word this better, they are obviously there) I've been reading head canon theories some silly some intriguing about Allagan's being part of Pulse's ancient race but I wouldn't want that to be true.

I think it's best to assume that Eorzea is just a Nexus of Final Fantasy stuff.
I think a bestiary would be nice so we can read up about the monsters existing in Eorzea's world would shed some light on some monsters that exist "just because"

[Zohar_Lahar]

It was probably some Third Astral Era script that the Allagans thought looked cool.

[LineageRazor]

It was probably some Third Astral Era script that the Allagans thought looked cool.

This is actually a very fair possibility. It has a correlation to a common practice in real life of putting Latin phrases on logos and such to add gravitas.

Why write "E Pluribus Unum", when you can just as easily say "From many, one"? Because using the Latin gives the phrase more perceived weight and authority. It's FANCIER.

There's no reason to think that the Allagans couldn't have had their own precursors that they admired, and whose dead language they co-opted to decorate their automatons.

Not that that gives us any clue as to what this phrase actually says. A decorative language used by a dead civilization that was dead even when the civilization was still alive? Need quite the Rosetta stone for that, I'd think...

[Rhodkr]

It would be kind a funny if it was just some grafiti/vandalism that says something like 'so-n-so was here' or 'down with the emperor'

[Yasuhiro]

Since other Final Fantasy games or the characters like referenced in Relm's minion description as being a "fairy tale" character
Is it far fetched that Allagans based their language on another world, maybe it is just a plain old recycled texture that they left in but it'd be neat to make sense of it to give it purprose rather than brushing off.

Whole museum dedicated to it too so like before these aren't just throw away enemies like Compile Heart does. (Notorious for recycling anything and everything)