The Greek Humors
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Taurochole is the single target, and Kerachole is the AOE.
If Dyskrasia is the opposite of Eukrasia its pretty funny that in DT we’ll get Eukrasin Dyskrasia
Sage is my favorite of the healers to play, and pretty much the only one that gets my full time attention when it comes to them. I'm normally an omni player, but when it's time to play as healer, I generally prefer Sage.
I did some quick research on Taurus as it relates to Greek medicine. The astrological signs are each associated with an element and a modality. The Taurus is a Fixed Earth sign. Fixed signs are said to be associated with slowness and resistance to change. In good humors, this translates to a resistance to disease, lasting vitality, and endurance.
In-game, Kerachole and Taurachole are applied both when the target(s) are still in mostly good health (otherwise Ixochole may be used first, or Druochole / Eukrasian Diagnosis in addition to Taurochole) ahead of incoming damage. The damage mitigation and regeneration (by Kerakeia) make them great representatives of the Fixed Earth sign, Taurus.
It has been my interpretation that when you use Phlegma, you are sneezing on the enemy for massive damage.
Toxicon could also refer to the gods Apollo and Artemis. Apollo was known as a god of medicine, but the twins arrows could also be interpreted as plagues or sudden death. You could pray to Apollo for healing, or prayed to the twins to not bring their arrows down upon you. This association probably explains why the word toxic comes from word that originally meant archery.
Ixochole could also have been derived from the word "ιξός" which is the word for Mistletoe. Mistletoe has long been used in ancient medicine.
I am now forever going to refer to Nouliths as "my thinking rocks" XD
Pneuma literally means spirit in greek but is also halve the word lungs i.e pneumonia which is a disease of The lungs! So its basically a combination of those 2 things
Thank you for the fun videos as always. Sage was the only healer where I had personally went and looked up the terminologies of their abilities when the EW media tour info released because I was like "it's all greek to me" and wanted to know more, considering I knew a lot of medical terminology comes from Greek.
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A connection that popped into my mind in regards to taurochole and kerachole is that the sacrifice of bulls was a famous enough piece of ancient greek religion/culture that it pops up from time to time in the literature. Both of the abilities feature strong mitigation effects at the cost of an addersgall stack and so you could read those abilities as you sacrificing your addersgall (a very limited and important strategic resource) to receive divine favour/protection in the form the mitigation and healing provided by those abilities.
Also I've heard that ixochole could be drawing from the greek word for mistletoe though I couldn't say for sure but if that is potentially correct then the two main healing uses of addersgall coming from the words for tree and mistletoe would make a lot of sense since components from both of those sources are thought to show up quite a lot in ancient medicine so the healing abilities being medicines does make a lot of sense.
i can't believe the alchemist combat class i've wanted was actually sage the laser mage this whole time
Will you cover more terms for the new abilities of the jobs already covered some time after Dawntrail?
It's important to note that Pneuma is not only "breath" in the literal sense but that in Greek cosmology it also refers to the "breath of the universe", a concept similar to "mana" in fictional mythologies or "aether" in FFXIV.
Wonderful breakdown <3
I know it's Phlegma, but there's just something funny about saying "Fleg-Ma Balls"
this was the best one of these so far to me.
The one ability you skipped, and the one I was hoping you'd cover, is Sage limit break Techne Makre, where they briefly summon a technological three. I'd like to know more about the references used for the ability.
This is not only helping me to understand Greek and history, but it's also teach me how to play sage, 110/10 useful video 😮
Babe wake up the magic cat posted about Greek things!
In all seriousness I loved this vid and am sending it to my friend who is learning Sage
I'm glad to be the 800th sub for you. This channel seems really interesting, and it's always fun to learn more about a game I have fallen in love with and other topics such as religion and the sorts of magics.
This is SO cool.
For the Choles I do believe each of them is named after a bile used to process certain things. Taurochole relates directly to the bile taurochenodeoxycholic acid which is heavily used when digesting meat and cholesterol heavy foods. Druochole being tree bile probably refers to the bile responsible for digesting cellulose, Kerachole likely refers to the bile that breaks down keratin. Ixochole means mistletoe bile so I have no clue what how that relates to anything we eat, maybe another bile that our bodies use to break down plants. They mostly make a lot of sense and all of them other then maybe Ixochole have a real life counterpart.
I really do love your channel, it seems to hit about every center I have of interest. Most notably, your AST videos did change my perception of astrology as a scholarly topic. Thank you
Phlegma Balls
No one can stop me from pronouncing the 'g' in Phlegma.