Board Thread:Editor Board/@comment-6697950-20130616201345/@comment-6697950-20131026074828

Let's not go off topic, this is about ALO city names, not characters. If we go off topic, it will be hard to return to the topic...

Anyway, the reason we chose "ze" instead of "se" was:

"Ah, I just happened to go through some old SAO material.

And realised that the concept art from Kunori-sensei from the web novel days had names for those three characters. So they're apparently... Ronye, Tiese and Sortiliena.

Any opinions? I'm personally fine with them (especially Sortiliena, though Tiese does loses the "z" sound)."

I even left a note about it on the "official naming": In the illustration it was actually Tiese, but "z" was used by Baka Tsuki for better pronunciation indication.

Technically, the illustrations are not completely official, since it was web content and because Reki apparently gave some kind of different name for the characters in his twitter messages, even though they are not exactly accurate based on the kata.