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I’ve written about this twice already:

Perihart and Harnier - Clan doesn’t mean what you think it is

Perihart and Harnier never considered each other siblings

My previous posts’ reasons for saying Perihart and Harnier are not step-siblings (and therefore NA Elsword is wrong) are as follows:

1. 가문 doesn’t mean immediate family in Elsword

It’s 솔레스 가문 and 가문 (家門 - かもん ), while the dictionary definition of the word is “family,” it’s more like a clan. The “family” you’re thinking of is 가족 (家族 - かぞく). And when I say clan, I mean like... Clans in Naruto. 가문 is not a “family” in a similar sense as an immediate family. The clan in the Elsword universe included everyone from servants to the immediate families of the Solace Clan.

When they say “Solace family” in Elsword, they didn’t mean this:

2.  If Harnier considered Perihart her brother, she wouldn’t have called Perihart “Lord Perihart” (페리하트 님 = Perihart nim = Perihart sama) when they first met

3. Perihart is 4 years older than Harnier and if they considered each other siblings then Harnier would’ve called Perihart “older brother” (오빠 = oppa = older brother)

And for all you culturally ignorant people who said “just because she didn’t call him oppa doesn’t mean they’re not siblings,” you are so disrespectful. You can’t apply your experience from your own culture to make sense of another culture you clearly do not understand. Let me explain what the hell I mean.

Everyone, and I mean everyone, in the Elsword universe, follows and adheres to Korean culture when it comes to addressing someone. If they don’t, then that was intentional -- in order to appear more rude because that’s what that character is. If they are sufficiently close enough, the younger characters call their older friends “hyung /oppa/ nuna/ unni” even IF THEY ARE NOT RELATED. Why? Because otherwise you are perceived as rude and ignorant.

Elsword and calls Elesis and Rena “noona” which means “older sister.”

Elsword and calls Raven and Ciel “hyung” which means “older brother.”

Note Elsword doesn’t call other people he doesn’t particularly consider “older” than him any of those titles - Lu, Ain, other NPCs - and he can come off as an unruly brat. Chung ends up calling Ain hyung though.

Aisha calls Rena Elesis “unnie” which means “older sister”

Ara calls her brother “orabuni” (오라버니) which is an archaic form of “oppa” (older brother) in Korean.

Laby adorably calls everyone by their names and even though it’s rude af people consider her like a child who doesn’t really fully understand these things and they don’t reprimand her for it.

Noah always always always says “hyung” when talking about Harque.

There are obviously more characters that I didn’t list

You can get smacked by your family members for calling your seniors by their first name without adding the proper title, because it is EXTREMELY RUDE. It means you see yourself as an equal even though you are a junior and you need to show them respect. Those who think this is stupid and act disrespectful are highly highly frowned upon. Noah saying “Harque” without adding “hyung” at the end would mean he’s willfully disrespecting his brother who he looks up to a lot, which uh, makes no sense. He would never.

Listen, this shit happens even with twins who are born on the same goddamn day. The first one that comes out of mother’s womb is considered the older one and is expected to act like the older one. That’s how seriously they take this shit.

4. They call each other freely with their first names as if they’re friends and 0 formal speech used ever since Perihart asks her to not call him “Lord Perihart” bullshit. They wouldn’t do that shit if they considered each other siblings.

They literally would not. THEY LITERALLY WOULD NOT BE DOING THIS IF THEY CONSIDERED EACH OTHER SIBLINGS.

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I even talked to someone who worked in KOG NA and I was told they don’t get detailed character bio or reference materials to fully understand more than what they can get from the in-game string in excel files they receive to translate. Did PM/Marketing team receive something the translators didn’t? That’s what I first assumed, because why else would they write something that’s not clearly described in the actual game itself? The game never said Harnier was adopted. But why would they write on their website that they are step-siblings? 

Turns out someone was just writing out of their ass.

A long time ago, when the El was whole and stable, Fenriart and Hernia were step-siblings that were part of the Solace Clan. Fenriart was a gifted user of El energy and was poised to become the Master of the Sun. The events that would start it all unfolded when he encountered his step-sister, Hernia, being bullied by their step-brother, Sigmund. It would happen frequently where Fenriart would keep Sigmund from actively harming Hernia. It was through this series of events that the two found out about their shared Rubenian Bloodline through the necklaces which they inherited from their mothers and the two eventually shared a bond.

(https://elsword.koggames.com/elysion-dungeons-6-7 wow it’s still there)

If you have reached this far and you still think Perihart x Harnier is incest

uh

They’re not step-siblings because harnier was never adopted into the family

They have never considered each other siblings for reasons I have listed above

This was literally never a problem with Korean and Japanese (and I guess other Asian servers with similar culture) because they understood in context of the actual game, that they never saw that Harnier and Perihart are like siblings and consider each other as siblings

Only people who don’t understand this kind of culture are labeling this as incest

And if even at this point you still think they are step-siblings and it’s incest, all I can say is

Why do you want them to have an incestuous relationship so badly? Why do you so desperately love incest that you want to ignore all, not only cultural, but also clear factual evidence proving otherwise?