From what I know these flowers are magic infused plants that grew into these plants with healing properties but how does that make sense.
Magic (without spirit infused into it) has been stated multiple times to be unable to heal things.
And lifeblooms/Saint lily flowers are able to heal things and their descriptions of spirit involvement any ideas why this is the case.
because vetex wasnât thinking when he made those
I assume Gaia is responsible for these in particular
metals are supposedly a gift from the gods, so these things could just be the same thing as well
Thereâs a bigger question at hand
If Christianity doesnât exist in AO, who the fuck is saint Lily?
We already had War Saint Nicholas, so its plausible. Lily could have been a Gaiaâs follower, or even one of her relicâs wielders
Can honestly be interpreted in a number of ways, but we personally want to chalk it up to âlocalization shenanigansâ. Albeit with a lot of confusion for us English and Romance Language speakers.
Primarily using this interpretation cause in universe the people in the Sea Clusters are basically either speaking the various Hellenistic languages, and or their own native languages with heavy Hellenistic language influence.
Making it where Saint Lilies can be/are supposed to be interpreted in the more literal sense. As in âSaint Lillyâ is basically just another way of saying âHoly Flower/Lilyâ or âSacred Flower/Lilyâ.
How it gets that name/association can be done in a plethora of ways, though we lean into the Gaia interpretation like Vit/Spirit Bio did. Would be neat and imagine that these lilies were known about pre-fracture or even before Magic was gifted to humans.
Saint Etymology for reference just cause:
Many real plants naturally have mild medicinal effects (anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, coagulant, etc.) already, so I wouldnât be surprised if the magic energy mutations in lifeblooms and possibly saint lilyâs flowers just cranked those properties up to 11
AO is based on greek mythology, which is heavily based on a potential misinterpretation of real life. Having a common plant with healing properties would be untrue to real life, as at least other fantastical elements are rare enough for plausible deniability or whatever.
Iâd assume specifically healing magic got put in those plants, which can just happen.
It is technically possible that whoever Saint Lily is was responsible for the flowersâ creation, before being spread into the wild
Saint clearly has a completely different definition in the AO universe
Since all the characters canonically speak some dialect of Greek, possibly fused and mangled beyond recognition, perhaps whatever word they actually use is just translated as such
War Saint Nick is Greestian.
okay imagine fallout series but instead of radioactive wasteland you have world of magic
okay what about lazarus blessing knowing that lazarus is a bible character
Trying not get too overly winded/complicated in explanation, but itâs basically the same situation with our interpretation of why saint is used in Saint Lily Flowers.
Us readers/players will immediately think of the story/tale of Lazarus if you knew/heard about it. Which allows ppl to get the general gist and idea of how the blessing functions, and that blessings are given by the divine. Largely done so as a reward to fufill a specific task in the same way that heros would arise to smack a monster that popped up in greek mythology.
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Especially considering that the blessing was for all intents and purposes basically created to make Freedrock a champion of the gods that would be an undying vessel/weapon. With the sole purpose that he would come back, and get stronger so he could die less and less from any shenanigans the Aberration wouldâve thrown. So that the gods could resealed him or smth as he stalled, primarily by dying over and over.
To which, the in-universe explanation would lean heavily on the meaning of the word/name as âGod has helpedâ for one reason or another. With the blessing named Lazarus to convey/denote that the Gods wish to help humanity with this blessing.
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Or it couldâve been named via the actions of Freedrock, that it became itâs âcommon tongueâ name. In which override its true name ,that Freedrock basically didnât care to rectify and what not. And its not like the Gods can exactly rectify it either, barring Athena.
Whom of which probably honestly wouldâve just referred to the common tongue name to help AO MC/Silas to immediately make sense of what the blessing does. With the in depth explanation given to help supplement, give specifics, and clarify any initial confusion/assumptions.
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It could also be called something else entirely thatâs more fitting in the context of the Arcane Universe, rather than us players/readers. Not too far fetched given that things mentioned in-game arenât exactly how it is in-lore. Especially Considering that the actual biblical figure themselves, and especially any other historical figures up until 100 AD are really dubious on whether they existed outside of greek and maybe roman mythology/history.
It has to make sense to us since us readers/players are delving into the world/story. But in-universe it wouldnât even cater to us but rather the characters and ppl in it.
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Forums running out of image space is a pain, so hereâs the wikipedia link for the etymology thingy. If Lazarus is the name choosen and used in-universe for the meaning of the name/word theyâd definitely use Lazaros instead of Lazarus.
i think its bc vetex forgot about it or he didnt know lazarus was from the bible
