Posted by Wildbill (pool-141-152-27-57.rich.east.verizon.net | 141.152.27.57) on October 30, 2008 at 02:36:01:
In Reply to: Re: Possible mistranslation, censoring, or someone who doesn't know what they're talking about? posted by Draken on October 30, 2008 at 00:53:57:
> As far as the whole "god" thing goes... I believe that we did a pretty good job showing how the NPCs revere Farus. I also believe that in the first PQ, the Raigans were perceived as being gods from the heavens.
For everyone's edification... an excerpt from our near-literal translation of the "official" Lennus-II game manual. As we said in the read.me, our English story followed the "spirit" of the original...
-a description of Farus from the manual-
(to say more would be a major spoiler, but this is something a cart buyer could read before he shucks the plastic sleeve.)
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[ Farus ]
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Some Terrans consider Farus "a sealed god" from Raiga and actually worship him in the religious sense. His statue has been residing in what many believers call the Temple of Farus, an ancient structure that an advanced Raigan civilization erected near the center of one of the four floating continents, called Al Terran.
Also, according to the legend, when the highly advanced Raigans created the subterranean world of Andel, Farus already existed, just not as a living entity. His flesh is said to be fabricated from amethyst, while his shimmering hair flows with precious silver and gold. But Farus’s progenitors froze his entire body, locking him into a near-eternal sleep, that is, until the light beam from the Aurora Sea awakened him from his 10,000 year slumber!
Now, those strange robed caretakers who inhabit Farus’s facility are urging him to embark on his journey and gather the four mysterious hidden treasures, wherever they may reside within Andel. Yes, Terrans everywhere are quite anxious for the much desired Great Union to go forward, so their civilization might be spared from further disaster.