Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20170707041037/@comment-31763506-20170819181803

LordCyberForte wrote:

And yeah, I have no doubts about the Anak being the one climbing the tower--I really think he'll be the final boss, as things stand right now. Also, I can't help but notice that the name of Philon's capital makes me think of the word "Apotheosis." Well, the actual meaning of the name "Philon" in Dog Greek is basically "Loveland", although it's also the proper name of a famous Jewish Middle Platonist who did most of the intellectual groundwork harmonizing Jewish theology and Greek philosophy that was subsequently taken up by the early Christians. (There's also the US city Philadelphia or "Philly", but that is emphatically not a place Americans look to for apotheosis outside the "Rocky" movies.)  So for that matter is "Erosia". Interestingly, there were four Greek words for love. "Phila" was mostly friendship, "Eros" was mostly horniness, "Storge" meant "familial affection" and "Agape" was something like "piety and humanitarianism". TLS doesn't have a country called "Agapea", but we do have a language called "Storgan", and that might not be a false friend given SL's obvious linguistic hobbies.

All the characters from Philon have Greekish names, the Anak's title is probably derived for the Mycenean word for "King". ("Basileus" originally meant something more like "Chief".)  His given name "Xerces" is a bastardization of "Xerxes" the Greek form the Persian royal name "Khshayarsha", who was the Greeks' example of a hubristic tyrant. The closeset Greek word to "Xestris" is "xestes" which is "pitcher or jug", but "cupholder" was an important position in the Persian royal court, our "Butler" being originally derived from a similar Greco-Roman position. "Lexandre" the Philonese Ambassador to the court of Esthera has the form of Greek name, the suffix "-andros" for man being very common, most famously with "Alexandros" or Alexander which is something like "Defender of Mankind", which is Alexandre instead of Alexander in the French versions of those kind of names. "Lex" is not a Greek word, but it is Latin for law.