Golden Dhyata - Evidence

[Eisi]

The German word for "wedge", "Keil" is used in the German localization for The House of the Crooked Coin. It's literally called "Nhaama's Wedge".




Same word in the Dhyata's dialogue just for proof.







Evidence that would support the theory that the Dhyata refers to the House in it's translation would be if there were six other locations like this around the world.

[RicaRuin]

Eh. Eeeeeeeh.

As a fellow german, I think it's very thin evidence. 'Keil' is just such a common word, especially in more 'old-fashioned' settings, and the other languages lack such a connection of the terms from the Quest and the location. Unless the term used in the Quest and the name for the House of the Crooked Coin align in other languages as well, it's just as much likely as any other theory regarding what the 'wedges' might be.

[Eisi]

Eh. Eeeeeeeh.

As a fellow german, I think it's very thin evidence. 'Keil' is just such a common word, especially in more 'old-fashioned' settings, and the other languages lack such a connection of the terms from the Quest and the location. Unless the term used in the Quest and the name for the House of the Crooked Coin align in other languages as well, it's just as much likely as any other theory regarding what the 'wedges' might be.

It would be if the text that the Dhyata translates didn't talk about the lifestream. The "serpent" is a metaphor for the lifestream.

So what if the "wedges" being "driven into the serpent's back" are actually literal physical devices which have been inserted into the planet to connect to and alter the flow of the lifestream? People have speculated already that the House of the Crooked Coin might be connected. With the German translation I seek to provide more evidence.


By no means is it conclusive though and I appreciate scepticism.

The topic of the Golden Dhyata's an older discussion that I didn't reference in full in this post.

[Iscah]

Do we have any idea what the "House of the Crooked Coin" name is actually supposed to mean? It's not a house and has no apparent relation to coins, and it just seems like a really random name for it.

"Nhaama's Wedge" is still cryptic initially but it lines up with what we soon learn about it being a device that blocks the flow of aether, and generally sounds more like something that fits into Xaela mythology.

What is it called in Japanese and French? Did something get lost in translation?

[Cleretic]

I can't decide if I want the Golden Dhyata's message to be solved near immediately so that these theories can be put to rest, or for it to not get even tangentially mentioned for several expansions so that we can see the theories get more and more strained.

I personally don't read much into it, since the message was pretty clearly the type of cryptic that's deliberately saying nothing tangible or useful, but pretending it is. Really useful for long-term serialized storytelling, because it means you can write whatever you want and retroactively justify it as foreshadowing. I'm all on board with that, and I love it when it means they pull up weird little bits of worldbuilding to make a story around (like Eureka Orthos most recently), but a cryptic message just doesn't give me any meaningful hooks. I'm much more interested in the Dhyata itself.

EDIT:

Do we have any idea what the "House of the Crooked Coin" name is actually supposed to mean?

'Crooked coin' is a bit of a difficult metaphor to untangle, because there could be multiple meanings and none of them are super clear. Google threw me a probability problem (because bent coins don't have a striaght 50/50 chance), an old romantic custom in William III's time, and old stories about counterfeits, and I can also immediately think it might be related to damaging coins with stuff like putting them on train tracks. All of those are theoretically plausible given both what we know the Crooked Coin actually does, and what the Dotharl think it does.

[Vyrerus]

Y'shtola did a thing with it, and let it perform its function back in that same patch with her roasting Magnai. It was all tied to the aetherial workings that let the Allagans launch Azys Lla and Dalamud, yeah?

So I don't think it actually goes into the Lifestream, but we still don't know its exact depth I guess.

I am curious about what it's called in other languages.

As far as it being House of the Crooked Coin, that's basically like saying, "House of the Lover's Amulet." With Nhaama being Azim's lover in Xaelan mythos. Which is the romantic custom Clereti mentioned.

[Iscah]

As far as it being House of the Crooked Coin, that's basically like saying, "House of the Lover's Amulet." With Nhaama being Azim's lover in Xaelan mythos. Which is the romantic custom Clereti mentioned.

Cleretic mentions "an old romantic custom in William III's time", so an English custom, which sounds unlikely to automatically carry over to a fantasy-Mongolian culture.

[Vyrerus]

Cleretic mentions "an old romantic custom in William III's time", so an English custom, which sounds unlikely to automatically carry over to a fantasy-Mongolian culture.

A fantasy Mongolian culture living in an area once inhabited by an older civilization that proliferated across most of the fantasy world, having conquered it. That same fantasy Mongolian culture having myths based around actual events concerning that same empire. With underwater area in the steppe having a Hyur statue face at the bottom.

Names for things often carry across time and cultures in the real world. A fantasy world made by people from our world isn't any different.

[Iscah]

Names for things often carry across time and cultures in the real world. A fantasy world made by people from our world isn't any different.

It's possible, but it's nowhere near conclusive enough to say that it "is" part of Xaela custom and that explains the name.