In most instances, Excaliber is referred to as Holy Sword Excaliber; however, the quest reward window seems to say that the official system name for it is just Excaliber. Should we rename the page and just mention the "holy sword" as an epithet?
In most instances, Excaliber is referred to as Holy Sword Excaliber; however, the quest reward window seems to say that the official system name for it is just Excaliber. Should we rename the page and just mention the "holy sword" as an epithet?
They actually do refer to it as "Seiken Ekusukyaribaa" (Holy Sword Excaliber) quite a few times. Even the anime has such instances (e.g. end of episode 17).
I say keep it as is. I'm going by Demonic Sword Gram, and even though the sword is probably just "Gram", removing Excaliber's etiphet from the page title would mean Gram would require the same treatment.
I agree it's the holy sword excaliber, but we can leave a redirect from excaliber if needed. (It's already in place lol)
@Kai Not necessarily. For example, in Mjolnir's case, there are actually two of them - the original and the replica. Since we don't know the system name of the weapon, the epithet is useful for differentiating the two hammers. For Gram, we don't have any reference for its system name either and my policy is not to change names unless we do have a reference that proves the name in the system being different from the one we're using.
@Dim Actually, it's apparently just Excaliber. The holy sword part is just a player nickname for it. And of course we have redirects, as they are far better than using a link with caption, since we don't have to change all of them if we decide to do a renaming like omitting the epithet from the page name.
Now that I realize: I think the weapon's name is just "Excaliber". Going back to LN 4 (or even Episode 24 for that matter), both Oberon (I hate you so f**king much, Sugou) and Kirito used the command "Generate Object, ID: Excaliber" (that is, what it would be in English syntax). So, Holy Sword appears to be an epitaph...
Kai... you just realised that... I mentioned "the quest reward window" in the OP, as in, the weapon was given a formal system name in SII episode 17...
My mind wanders a lot. Don't hate.
Anyways, the Generation command should be the same as the code inside the game. If Kirito/Sugou called Excaliber as "Holy Sword Excaliber", I would expect an error, because an object "Holy Sword Excaliber" is non-existent, but "Excaliber" does.
Programming language. This is more reasonable to follow, rather than what the studio perceived. Realizing what I had posted, I would have put that in Excaliber's (and E19's) trivia.
Edit: Plus, I was referring back to S1, where the name was first introduced. This should support the fact that "Excaliber" is the item's name, where "Holy Sword" is only, and only, an epitaph.