Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
I'm not sure what zos means, but it's probably something to do with Garlean leadership naming conventions, possibly (though, this is a stretch) a neutered form of the widely known Jewish word Zohar which means "radiance," so perhaps his full name means, "The Only, the radiant, Leader." Latin leaders had a similar term for radiant used to mean godly: divi, meaningly divine. It was used in many Imperial leadership names.
Given that the emperor of Garlemald is referred to as "his radiance" I suspect your hunch is on target.

As for Gaius van Baelsar...
Quote Originally Posted by Hestern_Nestern View Post
Baal or Bael, one of the seven princes of hell, a demon, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

Tsar, a Slavic title equivalent to emperor, king, or the like, from the name Caesar.

= Demon Prince/King?
This also sounds credible.

Another thing to remember about the legati is that there are, surprise surprise, at least fourteen of them foreshadowed, with number fourteen protrayed as a lasting antagonist. Now Nael's story supposedly bore thematic links to FFVII, so it would logically follow that each legati will have a backstory aligning to the themes of the FF game in question.

The Legatus of the Third Legion may very well be the Cloud of Darkness manifested. The commander of the sixth legion may be somewhat mad and the thirteenth Legatus could be focused on re-booting creation.

Granted, I haven't played FFVII myself, but are people able to work with this concept for a closer examination of Nael's name?