Zenos is... [big fat spoily]

[Avatre]

The planet, not the god. Should have specified.

So...Etherius. Hydaelyn was the deity, not the planet.

[NegativeS]

So...Etherius. Hydaelyn was the deity, not the planet.

[Avatre]

I stand corrected

[Katie_Kitty]

I stand corrected

I don't think you've been corrected at all. For all intents and purposes, it's clear the devs want us to consider Etheirys the name of the planet. They've made that quite clear in endwalker.

[Avatre]

I don't think you've been corrected at all. For all intents and purposes, it's clear the devs want us to consider Etheirys the name of the planet. They've made that quite clear in endwalker.

While I can agree with that, it still technically is called that...so partially corrected I guess.

[Absurdity]

I don't think you've been corrected at all. For all intents and purposes, it's clear the devs want us to consider Etheirys the name of the planet. They've made that quite clear in endwalker.

I actually see it completely differently. Etheirys is what the Ancients called it when it was still their unsundered planet. We never knew our planet as anything but Hydaelyn and the Ancients are a thing of the past, their age is over.

So why should we suddenly adopt their name for it? Just because they told us? We don't use Gaia, Jöro, Ki, Geb or Tierra as names for our Earth just because people in the past called it that.



And who knows, maybe there are races in XIV that call it something completely different yet again, we just haven't encountered them.

[Iscah]

I actually see it completely differently. Etheirys is what the Ancients called it when it was still their unsundered planet. We never knew our planet as anything but Hydaelyn and the Ancients are a thing of the past, their age is over.

So why should we suddenly adopt their name for it? Just because they told us? We don't use Gaia, Jöro, Ki, Geb or Tierra as names for our Earth just because people in the past called it that.

The simplest out-of-story reason is that it has always seemed unnecessarily confusing to have both Hydaelyn the planet and Hydaelyn the goddess, and it's easier to have separate names for them.

[linayar]

The simplest out-of-story reason is that it has always seemed unnecessarily confusing to have both Hydaelyn the planet and Hydaelyn the goddess, and it's easier to have separate names for them.

That said, it's not necessary as the goddess no longer exists.