#ashunera

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Here's a separate small post so the topic doesn't get lost mid-chapter. I will imply certain "writer's intent", but it is, of course, my opinion of the intent.

Appearing in the lore and, well, prominently in the games, there are two sets of three-fold "concepts" on Tellius.

First, the goddesses. Ashera, Yune and Ashunera. The first one is a name everyone will recognize as a real historical goddess name from our myths, the second one at least sounds like a name. The third one — the most important one — is more like "well… a choice was made". The combined name bears no particular meaning aside from containing the letters.

There is a reason for that. This highly legitimate reason is that neither Yune, nor Ashunera was mentioned by name in Path of Radiance. And that someone on the localisation team of Path of Radiance decided that one historical goddess is just as good as another, or maybe better.

Let's look at the original names: Astarte, Yune (Yunnu), and — Astartyune. Makes sense now? Yep, literally "a star tune". You know. The galdrar. Which are sort of important to the plot and all that.

The second set of named entities are Beorc, Laguz and Zunanma, which have much the same relationship as the first set. One side, the other side, the combination. I have no "legitimate" explanation for whatever happened to them, because they all get a mention in PoR.

So what are the names meant to be? Berkana, Laguz, Mannaz. Those are the names of certain runes: ᛒ , ᛚ and ᛗ. The first two were pretty obviously chosen to visually combine into the third one.

Imagine, someone even recognized the jp spelling of "Laguz" as the real word they should use, but then went literal with the "Beorc" spelling for some reason and deliberately mangled "Mannaz". I have zero ideas on what the goal was.

Please don't take all of the meta series as me purely shit-talking the PoR localisation. I'm sure they had, uhhh, their constraints. They even had little funny ideas. But at times, it's only possible to read the translated script like this:

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my three-part-series of the Tellius goddesses is finally complete! :D

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(Mod Toto) Today is a friend’s birthday, so I made a sprite of Ashunera doing the “I guess you are my little pogchamp” pose XD

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