Ego?

Why are Spirit Weapons called Egos? Is that some sort of fan-name or something?

Duncan referred to Eiry, a Spirit Weapon, as an Ego Weapon at some point. It might have been when returning her to him. So, it built up as the fanonical name for a Spirit Weapon.

Ah, I see.

Plus, a spirit is an ego, so it makes sense to call it as such.

I looked into the game's files, it says "Ego" in place of "Spirit" for the incarnations.

Btw, what's the definition of Ego?

umm i think it means like you know that you exist? how you define yourself?

my guess it that spirited weapon have their own personality and stuff so maybe that's why we call them ego weapon.

Well that's just plainly weird...

rofl xDD

e·go Noun /ˈēgō/

1. A person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance: "a boost to my ego".
2. The part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity

In Korea, there are English Words for skills, such as Flame Burst is known as Flame Burst and Shock is known as Spark in Korea. In this case, "Ego Weapon" was the English Word used for their "Spirit Weapon". Does that explain why people use the term "ego"?

Perhaps...

But I don't hear people referring Flame Burst as Flame Burst, Stonehendge as Shadow Gate, etc.

I for one, still refer to Charge as Assault. But I do often hear these names being used, especially Spark. (Although not Shadow Gate.) But anyways, Ego is not the NA canonical term, but it is fanonically accepted version. Try to refrain from using the term on the wiki.

Ego was a mistranslation of the word Spirit. Like how Calla was the mistranslation of the word Color.

Since Ego is shorter and easier to use. It has stuck.

Wait, Calla=Color?

in KR version, item have both english and korean name.

it used to be written as "ego short sword" for Eiry.

T^T why did they kill Eiry? T^T

Look at the old template for the Color enchant.

Believe it was Calla or Kalla. Just mistranslations.

Doesn't help that even Nexon Staff calls them "egos"...: http://forum.nexon.net/Mabinogi/forums/thread/8379300.aspx Sabina uses the term "Ego weapons" instead of "Spirit Weapons", not just her, but many other Nexon Staff has called it ego now and then, interchangeably with Spirit Weapon. So I guess even Nexon NA accepts the term egos.

Bandwagon effect. Short hand term always wins.

In the beginning of the spirit weapon update. It was called spirit weapons exclusively. No reference to egos at all during that patch.

The only mention of ego during the game was when Duncan was talking about Eiry and referred to her as an ego weapon.

And i would really discount that as being "official" nexon. Due to the simple fact that in G2. Siren was called Seiren.

So lulz. They had a bare bones team back then full of koreans for NA.

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But really, C1's translators were terrible...

Also Esras being a male and not a female.

That was funny.

Actually you can't blame them for that. Nexon Korea purposefully made her female instead of male. And the translators were thinking of the mythical Esras, who was male.

Well i was saying it was funny. I am sure they had their reasons. Just bad localization on their part.