#I'd argue this is a Big M Mystery too

[rootandrock]

"So your god's name is Witchfather?" asked and Ask from a now-deactivated account with a debatably insensitive name.

Well... kinda? It's one of those things where I have heard him speak his name, but I've never heard that language, so I can't really get it, y'know?

He says his name, and I FEEL the meaning. Zeus comes from Deus. Jupiter from Deus Pater.

So it's sort of like that. That name was whatever way his culture said: The One Who Makes Witches, Who Feeds Them And Educates Them From His Own Means, And Raises Them Up In His Family.

In English we'd say Witchkeeper, Witchherd, Witchward, Witchfather... something like that. I'd make a joke about "he's the dad who stepped up", but that's pretty much it.

And Witch here being a spot within a venn diagram too complicated to draw let alone describe.

I don't call him with just a name. I call him with love and the bone-deep terror of knowing that he will answer. Kinda hard to render that bit out phonetically so yeah Witchfather.