Etymology of terms.

[WhiteArchmage]

Just a few corrections/expansions to Cilia’s overview (and some of the others, and some from myself):

Arjuna (not Arjun, I realize I’m being pedantic) holds the Gandiva, which is indestructible and has 108 strings (108 being a “holy” number in Buddhism and Hinduism).

Longinus is mostly referred to as the name of the roman soldier that pierced Christ, which then became confused with the name of his spear (Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis plays with this with the Longicolnis, supposedly meaning “long horn” …it doesn’t mean that), it is also known as the Spear of Destiny.

Necronomicon means “Book of the Death” so of course “Draconomicon” means “Book of the Dragons.”

Ragnarok is a little more confusing as it can mean (from old norse) Doom of the Gods, the most generally accepted translation IS “Twilight of the Gods”, helped by Wagner’s Gotterdamerung (literally "Twilight of the Gods" in German).

An Ifrit is specifically a Fire djinn, the arabs believed the four elements were represented by different djinn (or genies), the Ifrits holding fire, the Marids water and the Djinni Wind, Humans were the earth genie, who unfortunately don’t have shape-shifting powers like the other 3.

Ramuh could be Rama, or he could be Lahmu from Akkadian myth (beardad man with a staff and and a red sash); or it could be an amalgam of Rama and Vishnu.

Sophia, besides meaning wisdom in greek is also the Gnostic goddess of, well, wisdom.

While Bahamut does indeed come from Babylonian myth, his appearance as a giant Dragon can be chalked up to D&D, where he appears as the Silver God of Good Dragons, FFI rolled with it and a dragon he stayed.

Sephi’s attacks are also emanations of the sephirotic tree (Yesod, Da’at and Tif’eret) while Ein Sof is the name for The Infinite (God, so to speak).

Durandal was Roland’s sword, with which he attempted to break so it wouldn't be taken from him after his death…and he ended up cutting a boulder in half instead.

Joyeuse HASN’T appeared, but has been mentioned as one of the first Sultansworn’s weapons. Joyeuse was Charlemagne’s blade, which, if I’m not mistaken, was said to change colors “30 times a day”.

Not sure if someone’s mentioned it but Benediction also comes from Latin, pretty much means “Good saying” or “Speak Well” but its actual meaning is “Blessing”.