Quote Originally Posted by Delsus View Post
Fixed for you. This Atomos is not a maw, yes it looks like them from FFXI, but its only in FFXI they were refered to as carvenous maws. Atomos was around and looked very similar to this Atomos, that make FF9 Atomos a maw, and all the others?
I'd assume that the to-be-introduced quest "Monster of Maw Most Massive" will probably involve Atomos, and so they could actually be referred to as "Maws" as a nickname they'd be given like in this title. It could be about something else entirely, but familiarity in names is something that's likely to have happened here (that added nostalgic feel and so on). It's not exactly unheard of.