I saw this picture and all I could think of was: "ALEXEI."

And then there was this:


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The constellations for Estelle's burst artes show each of the Entelexeia for their respective element. I never really paid attention before, but huh. That's pretty neat. Could it technically be considered foreshadowing?

And I'm doing alright in school. Except English. But that's okay.

...FFFF I WANT GRACES. :C

Video games really commonly take themes from mythology and what not, and with it so rampant in Symphonia and Abyss, it just didn't seem as obvious in Vesperia. An interesting tidbit though, was that vesper = Hesperus, which is the personification of the evening star. Interestingly enough, the 'evening star' is Venus (they have something like Venus ( Read more... )

Hmm...well, it wasn't really explained in the game how Emil had parents since he technically came into existance only after Marta woke up Ratatosk's core. Looking back on the intro scene, I guess it could've been that Emil really was the name of a person in Palmacosta, just not the form that Ratatosk took. Seeing as the point of view when Emil's ( Read more... )

Mostly a remainder to myself, but oh well.

Apparently, adephagos actually means gluttonous, which I suppose fits the way it is created (entelexeia "overeating" aer) and the way the Adephagos seems to "swallow up" the world...

Entelexeia has some history too, and goes back to Aristotle and some kind of physics I cannot begin to comprehend. Anyways, I' ( Read more... )