#I like how the english localization didn't know what Dantarian was
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thewapolls · 1 year ago
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BRANDT Not sure where this came from, and it's generic enough a word/name that it could be almost anything. Maybe a reference to Joseph "Monster" Brant, aka Thayendanegea, a famous native american soldier and politician who notably sided with the British against colonists during the American Revolution??? But that'd be pretty obtuse even by WA standards.
SADAS & JR. we saw in the boss tournament. Another name of unclear origin. Google returns are Wild Arms, so it may very well be completely original.
ZABAT appears to be a mislocalization of TZEVAOT or SABAOTH, considered one of the names of the abrahamic god, an epithet from the hebrew word[צְבָאֽוֹת] meaning "armies." For lack of a better image here's the SMT art,
DANTALION/DANTALIAN is another Ars Goetia demon. I don't actually know why he's got the big star design. The original WA1 one i kinda get since he's just generally a sort of wonder worker, i guess he just kinda got tied to DECARABIA and carried forward from there.
speaking of which.... DECARABIA is the Ars Goetia demon specifically associated with appearing as a pentagram that changes into the form of a man. It's the real basis of this whole family tree.
BUER is yet another demon ins the Ars Goetia, originally described as a centaur famous illustration by Louis Le Breton solidified the popular image of BUER as a wheel of goat legs emanating from the head of a lion. From that image we get the 5 legs association with the star shape shared by the monsters here.
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