Eorzea or Etheirys?

[Ilisidi]

It exists in German. But regardless would people really pick Mother Hydaelyn for the world and just Hydaelyn for the Primal? I'd have taken it to be the other way around.

I found it very annoying how they kept going on about stars that apparently weren't stars but planets and other things. Especially since German does have a perfectly serviceable word that would have been less confusing.

[Caitlinzulu]

It has bothered me too everytime i read it. A star is not a planet but a sun, the source of heat and light. The stars we see in the sky arent planets at all, its impossible to see them with the naked eye or even the best telescope directly. Its their suns we see.
Please SE stop using this gross mistake.

[Cleretic]

It has bothered me too everytime i read it. A star is not a planet but a sun, the source of heat and light. The stars we see in the sky arent planets at all, its impossible to see them with the naked eye or even the best telescope directly. Its their suns we see.
Please SE stop using this gross mistake.

It's not a 'mistake' in this context, it's deliberately pulled from archaic language; there's a few different civilizations (I believe including Japan) that called the Earth a 'star' using the same word as the ones in the sky. Now in their case it was a genuine misconception, but for FFXIV's writers it's using that old convention to add some of that high fantasy gravitas.

And then there's the weird situation of Geomancers which are apparently an inversion of Astrologians; rather than gathering energy from the stars above them, gathering energy from the star below them. Not sure how they pulled that off, but in fairness I don't think the Geomancers know either.

[Ransu]

It has bothered me too everytime i read it. A star is not a planet but a sun, the source of heat and light. The stars we see in the sky arent planets at all, its impossible to see them with the naked eye or even the best telescope directly. Its their suns we see.
Please SE stop using this gross mistake.

FFXIV uses old English and bases their phrasing on a lot of old languages. The term planet came from the Greek word planetes which means wanderer. Planets were viewed the same as stars in early times.