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fandom-geek · 5 months ago

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vaguely fascinated by osana sov's naming choices. she chose for her daughter a name that can mean "bitter (strength)" or "lady" in two ancient languages (hebrew and aramaic) and for her son a name that means "old friend" in another ancient language (old english)

like every other golden age character has a name that's pretty normal by our standards, which tbh includes mara, then osana just names her other kid uldwyn. then again, even osana's name is either a variant of the hebrew hosanna or after an obscure and possibly fictitious old english princess-saint whose name means something along the lines of "godly solitude", so i suppose mara might be considered the odd one out

#destiny 2 #osana sov #ngl i lean towards the old english meaning for osana bc it's very fitting given she lives in the wilderness w uldren in the distributary #also want to acknowledge osana's name could be japanese (“childhood friend”) but given her kids have names from hebrew and old english #it seems pretty likely that her name has one or both of the same origins #either way osana was def a history nerd btwn this and her mentioning weregilds unprompted in the marasenna #though it's very interesting to me that most of what we *see* of osana in her in the context of her motherhood #even though she's also an extremely renowned negotiator and mara mentions osana also had premonitions (presumably of the collapse)#...there's a vague irony that osana and mara (and crow) had truthful visions but uldren's were purely a deceit by riven #also i have feelings abt the fact that mara and osana were the only ones to remain w their names unchanged amongst the original awoken #(to our knowledge at least) since mara whose namesake comes from the book of ruth where naomi changed her name to that out of grief #and mara changed basically every other person aboard that ship consciously or otherwise #but did she change her mother/let the transformation change her? idk it's been a lingering thought in my brain since forsaken #anyway this is inspired by me trying to figure out what the revenants' watchtower is guarding #i don't think it's the pre-existing one to the dreaming city bc the scorn are already there #notably all the lore calls it *the* watchtower but the livestream mentioned *a* watchtower so i think it must be a different one #my spinfoil hope is that it's guarding the entrance to the distributary but also interamnia (awoken capital) would be cool #edit: should prob mention i'm assuming uld- equals ald- (old) but like. fairly simple assumption given everything

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