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    Endemerrin's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
    Considering that Eorzean looks like the handwritten English alphabet with kata/hira-style shifts, I'm betting the Garleans, Roman in nature all around, just use straight up LINGVA LATINA
    From what we've seen, even their bases have Latin names. Castrum Novum, for example.
    It also hit me that the White Raven's theme is sung entirely in Latin as well. Could simply have been an aesthetic choice for the song to fit with the theme and merely a coincidence, or maybe the Garleans do literally just speak what we would call Latin.

    Which would be awesome.
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    Last edited by Endemerrin; 04-05-2013 at 11:10 AM.

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    Thal Icebound
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    Quote Originally Posted by Endemerrin View Post
    From what we've seen, even their bases have Latin names. Castrum Novum, for example.
    It also hit me that the White Raven's theme is sung entirely in Latin as well. Could simply have been an aesthetic choice for the song to fit with the theme and merely a coincidence, or maybe the Garleans do literally just speak what we would call Latin.

    Which would be awesome.
    Their military structure and basic history also aligns reasonably closely to that of the Roman Empire.

    (This makes the Eorzean parallels to ancient Greece even more interesting.)
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