Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20160505033846/@comment-146.113.65.245-20160505201238

Servant of Evillious wrote: Or we just have to accept that mothy spreads very obvious draws from a popular western imperial power for ancient history across multiple countries. Beelzenia, Levianta, and to a lesser extent Tasan all have aspects that fit general historical events with Rome or share aspects of its cutlure.

I don't see why we have to accept such generality. There are reasons to think that specific aspects of the branches of the Roman Empire that sprang up after the core one's demise can be roughly ascribed to Empires that sprang up in Evillious in the wake of Magic Kingdom Levianta's fall.

For the reasons I've stated, Magic Kingdom Levianta seems to be a clear-cut relation to the original Roman Empire. In the historical timeline of the world, the Roman Empire is long gone by the time countries like, say France and England started popping up. The Holy Roman and Byzantine empires, on the other hand, were definitely still around for a long time even as their power and influence dwindled due to these rising national powers. Therefore it seems pretty safe to say that they are NOT based on Rome but one of the offshooting empires that sprung up after its fall.

If they all seem to be drawing on vaguely similar concepts it's because A) Rome heavily culturally influenced the countries left behind in its wake and B) the later empires had a historical timeline that went somewhat similarly to Rome.

Like, none of these are direct translations of the real-world equivalent and I'm sure he's mixing a matching a little more than I've stated here but that doesn't mean "All of them are based on the same imperial power" has to be our policy on this. It's my opinion that out of all of them, only MKL is intended to be like the original Roman Empire specifically.

As for the title, I personally was always in favor of "Ma Survival" but let it rest because it was kept "Survival Ma" to match "Project 'Ma'". So I'm in favor of changing it now that mothy has contributed his official translation. Since he has removed the apostrophe/quote marks, I think it would also be alright to remove those on the wiki.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by the second bit but I think not putting in the quote marks in all cases of 「」 for future titles without an official translation is a completely unnecessary measure. Mothy took out the 「」 in this case, that doesn't mean that he'd do the same for all of them. And if they are there, they should be translated as such.