Christian Terms in FFXIV White Mage Abilities

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@shybandit521 7 ай бұрын

Liturgy of the Bell to me represents the flower it summons being the bell in question, as its healing pulses out like the slow rings of a massive church bell, and its a liturgy because it's group worship (aoe heals) organized by the ordained white mage

@Ailuromage 6 ай бұрын

I like this description!

@Salt_Mage 7 ай бұрын

As a fun bit, Divine Benison when it was originally added to the game used to use up your lilies as well. As for Liturgy of the Bell, the bell and flower aesthetic is also a link to Lilies of the Valley, which are also called May Bells or Mary’s Tears

@notGeist 7 ай бұрын

It used to use your lillies? I would have hated that.

@gackybass 7 ай бұрын

@@notGeist Lilies were completely different back then. They were consumed on almost all of your ogcd cooldowns, and would reduce their cooldowns based on the number of lilies consumed. The only catch was that for some reason, Benison would require a lily to be cast at all. They were also generated by doing... GCD heals. Yeah, it wasn't great.

@Salt_Mage 7 ай бұрын

It was worse. Lilies were generated 50% of the time when casting Cure and 100% of the time when casting Cure 2. Divine Benison required a lily to cast, but Assize and Asylum would use up all of your lilies on use as well.

@vincenttaylor5115 7 ай бұрын

The fact that the emergency heal button is the WHM literally invoking God's name is fitting. It's like "Oh God, please don't die!"

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

This works well ❤️

@mayastanford-hansen4005 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for covering the traits of Paladin and White Mage! I really enjoy being educated like this. Your content is very intriguing and enlightening! Keep it up.

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@raisylvaine8398 7 ай бұрын

7:12 you could say that Benison is you blessing your ally before the attack, similar to blessing food before eating it. It gives yourself or an ally a temporary shield after all.

@floofzykitty5072 7 ай бұрын

Tetragrammaton is like uttering God's name as a healing word. It's possible it was inspired by the concept of Healing Word, which appears in a few RPGs including Dungeons and Dragons as a small, quick heal.

@kyttynkross1121 7 ай бұрын

and yet, the scholar is the one who gets the angelic transformation skill. and when I protested this idea, saying I didn't like getting a white mage cosplay skill as the fairy / war mage / tactician class, on various forums, I got push back saying the white mage is a earth/elemental/druidic caster and has no connection to angels or Christianity but the scholar has seraph, so it makes sense. :/

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

White Mage has much more Christian imagery and references than Scholar in my opinion. Additionally (I could be wrong) I believe Scholar in Japan is called Tactician, and Arcanist is called Ritualist. Scholar is very much Fey themed in aesthetic.

@AndreasJosephTan 7 ай бұрын

As an Orthodox catechumen, this was very accurate without getting into the nitty gritty of things! Thank you for this accurate portrayal of our faith, I hope the research into it was enjoyable!

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

That's good to hear. Christianity is a major part of my study and I have other videos that take an introductory approach to the different practices and areas of the Church.

@tabetha2812 7 ай бұрын

What an amazing video, you deserve a lot more attention!

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@WonderBlubber 7 ай бұрын

this was a cool breakdown, subbed

@asmalldragon 7 ай бұрын

The term Liturgy of the Bell also reminds me of growing up in the roman catholic church. At the end of Lent (the 40 days before easter when you fast and sacrifice to symbolize/remember Jesus' 40 days in the desert) is Easter (which covers him dying and rising again). I got to be the bell ringer at Easter mass. During the veneration of the Eucharist this undiagnosed ADHD kid got to ring a handful of noisy bells constantly and as loud as I could in an otherwise silent church and then go home and eat all the chocolate I wanted (that I had given up for lent). That's my personal experience with taking damage and then being healed by bells (and chocolate).

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this 😹. I imagine Lent is very difficult for children but at least you got tons of chocolate.

@timalice-2833 7 ай бұрын

Another one is black mage’s Enochian. Enochian is named after Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. It is said to be the language of the angels and demons. John Dee and Edward Kelley say the language was revealed to them by an angel and it was initially called Angelical but later became Enochian because they believed Enoch was the last man to speak it. It is now seen as a magical language and has made a few pop culture appearances. In the Castlevania Netflix series, a word (teloch which means death) is spoken when Trevor, Sypha, and Alucard open the way into the Belmont hold. In the Bayonetta series the characters speak it when they perform their summonings. Also when the speak, the angels of paradiso and demons of inferno speak it.

@Asynd88 7 ай бұрын

thank you for these videos man, super cool

@Paramud 7 ай бұрын

in scientific terminology, a flatus is a fart

@FutayuriShironeko 7 ай бұрын

Scientific term for fart is flatulence, not flatus. Though it's not as funny.

@extrasouppy 7 ай бұрын

F A R T R A P T U R E

@ellasbian 6 ай бұрын

@@FutayuriShironekothe actual gas is called flatus though

@FutayuriShironeko 6 ай бұрын

@@ellasbian Yes, but Afflatus, is latin for Breath(noun) or Breathe in(verb). So fart still doesn't hold up. I know it would be funny, but don't stretch.

@s.a4034 6 ай бұрын

So much wisdom !!

@SamTAnderson 7 ай бұрын

Isn't Jehovah another pronunciation for the tetragrammaton?

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

Yes. Though it's much more used by Jehovah's Witnesses than any other Christian branch or denomination

@scifisyko 7 ай бұрын

I love the context! Any chance you’ll be doing Sage or Astrologian?

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

I've been thinking about Astrologian since I'm already familiar with Astrology.

@ralphbeez1411 7 ай бұрын

This was a very informative video, I did not know any of the connections Tetragrammaton had beyond perhaps hearing its literal/latin translation before. It seems like a mix of abilities made to have relevance and connection or merely latin flavoring for others. I think it would be curious to see if the original japanese script has any more skills or abilities that tie into Christian terms. Thinking on it a little more, older versions have had abilities removed, such as 1.0's Shroud of Saints (Turin?) so I wonder if more curious finds are still waiting?

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

I hadn't considered the removed abilities but that is a good point!

@acehealer4212 4 ай бұрын

I didn't know the meaning of Assize. That's cool!

@thenewdarling1 7 ай бұрын

YOSSSSSSSS!!!!!! Edit: yo i had no idea about some of these! (I also had no idea Christianity also inherited use of the Tetragrammaton! That’s so awesome! ^^)

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

Happy it was interesting!

@corn2454 7 ай бұрын

Something I wanna draw attention to here is Black Mage with its Enochian ability. Angels are a special interest of mine, though IDK how accurate this is since I found this by going down wiki rabbit holes But Enochian, to my knowledge, is the language of angels, which has some interesting ramifications for what incantations a Black Mage could be using. The job likely doesn't have any more references to it but thought it'd be a cool thing to mention.

@collenjets123 7 ай бұрын

looking it up, it was passed down from angels to occultists, and black mage would definitely fit the vibe.

@IzzetNilson 7 ай бұрын

I hadn't touched WHM cuz I was thinking it was more druidic Job than a Priest, but I had no idea there were this many christian named abilities. I'm going to have to level WHM now.

@livingreverie5951 7 ай бұрын

On the topic of Plenary Indulgence not having a cleanse We already have that across healers: Esuna So having effectively a party wide Esuna that also heals a pretty big amount in one spell on a Minute Cooldown is pretty huge

@gackybass 7 ай бұрын

Scholars had a party wide esuna for a while. It was one of Selene's skills, back when the fairies had different abilities. So the idea isn't unthinkable, and I can definitively say that there aren't any mechanics in balance-around content that would be completely broken by an aoe esuna, since they're scared of making you press buttons that aren't "do damage" "take less damage" and "heal damage".

@floofzykitty5072 7 ай бұрын

In content where it would matter, debuffs are either uncleansable or they are a punishment for failing a mechanic (like Dropsy). From my memories of savage raiding, if someone misposition and got Dropsy healers would rather drop down a GCD heal on that character than Esuna them. Healers healing is based on how much TANKS need, so a healer even dropping a small heal on a non-Tank is practically a full heal. Esuna is pretty underutilised these days because DoTs can also be counteracted by just healing more.

@qtscorpkid 6 ай бұрын

So if you can rework the abilities of a White mage would tetragrammaton act better as an AOE version of benediction? I've always personally thought asylum and sacred soil names should be swapped between scholar and White mage.

@Ailuromage 6 ай бұрын

I'm not totally sure, maybe it could have been a damage reduction buff? Implying you're being protected by God, giving a temporary damage reduction rather than just a quick heal.

@sammicopor 7 ай бұрын

I wondered why the Paladin & White mage were my favorite classes. I believe in God & the skill names reminded me of the bible but I honestly thought it was just referencing the bible but I see that the pld/whm are warriors blessed by God.

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

They do share a lot of terminology! I study the Bible and church history so I always noticed it but never had a platform for content creation.

@krellykrells 7 ай бұрын

sometimes the algorithm works, thanks for the video! I'm not very religious myself but i'm interested in theology nevertheless

@acolit1 7 ай бұрын

Do sage because idk what anything means

@Jcarte4308 7 ай бұрын

I believe sage are mostly medical terms in Latin. Seems like stuff I'd read in a medical text from the middle ages or something.

@SamTAnderson 7 ай бұрын

@@Jcarte4308 I thought Sage names are Greek?

@Jcarte4308 7 ай бұрын

@SamTAnderson ah you're right, I didn't double-check my post. Definitely Greek words.

@sxbmissive 7 ай бұрын

this is fascinating

@Raymond13557 7 ай бұрын

white mage for life

@RoxiieReadsLore 7 ай бұрын

idk how i got here but i dig it

@nothuma 7 ай бұрын

You forgot Holy, and Holy III ;)

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

I feel like the word "holy" is a very common religiously adjacent term but ultimately too vague to really say much about. It is a very pretty animation though.

@screamsformemes 7 ай бұрын

LETS GOOO

@ico1 7 ай бұрын

Came for the etymology on FF abilities, staying for the essays on Christianity. ;)

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed

@elecrom_9757 7 ай бұрын

The original vowels of the Tetragrammaton aren't lost. Going by multiple historic sources it is now clear that Yahwe is indeed the original vowelisation of it.

@Ailuromage 7 ай бұрын

Perhaps so. I've spoken to various historians and theologians, even various ordained priests, but I keep getting mixed conclusions, at least on my end. Curious what the global consensus is.