Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20170707041037/@comment-31808207-20170819230639

Oh, very interesting re: Anak... I guess it isn't that surprising, though. Not only were both the Greek and Hebrew alphabets descended from Phonecian script, but also a number of biblical texts only survive in the Greek translation as opposed to Aramaic, so it's fairly natural that there should be a confluence of terminology there... Ah, there's another interesting potential root that didn't even occur to me until I typed that.

It occurs to me that one possible reason for Storgan, if it does intentionally draw from that root, is that it was the language of whatever Incubus King-run kingdom was on Arclent prior to the First Arclent War. Considering Sierra said the dating systems from other continents are older, it's possible that Philon, Erosia, and Storga(?) had some common origin that was lost to the mists of time. Or they just shared a naming scheme.

Very true, though, on the potential double allusions. I hadn't made the connection between Esther and Esthera, although I could potentially see both sides of the allusion being -fitting-, as well, because the biblical story of Esther is about a queen who risks herself to save her people. In broad terms, the narrative could have parallels to her life before her rise to being Empres. If she was, for example, in a positions not dissimilar to Riala's, but ultimately found a way to ascend herself instead of finding someone else to do it. Or I could be totally reaching right after I said I wasn't going to read too much into given names... Hah.

Edit: Scratch that, for some reason I thought Storgan was the human language. Whoops. Though I guess the possibility is still there as an ancient unified elven kingdom...