G-SANtos
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I haven't had much time to post here, but I wanted to share my theory on the region's name.
The map shown in the trailer has a Galarian letter that resembles a "V", and a piece of what could be the Galarian letter that resembles an "E".
Mastered Realm, creator of a fan made map that someone used as a fake leak, has speculated the region's name is Veria, from Iberia.
Now, with how Galarian letters were used in SwSh, you can't exactly say the region's name starts with "Ve" just because the text uses letters that resemble them. But there's two things that make this possibility very likely.
1- Galar's name in Galarian text is mostly made of letters that resemble their Latin equivalents. Only the L is rendered with a letter that looks nothing like it, although it resembles the ラ kana in its Japanese spelling, ガラル.
2- The trailer seems to hint some of the game's themes and inspirations are light, water/sailing (Age of Discovery style maps), and space. As a native Portuguese speaker, I was able to think of a word that relates to both light and water, "vela". It is Portuguese for both "candle" and "sail" and its Spanish equivalent is also the same word. Researching to see if there were other meanings I didn't know, I found out there's also a satellite named Vela, meaning this word also connects to the hinted space theme.
So, not only do these make it probable the region's name starts with "Ve", or at least the Japanese one if they pull an Unova on us, but the second point might actually give us the region's name. I think the region's name is Vela, or something similar to it, at least in the Japanese version.
The map shown in the trailer has a Galarian letter that resembles a "V", and a piece of what could be the Galarian letter that resembles an "E".
Mastered Realm, creator of a fan made map that someone used as a fake leak, has speculated the region's name is Veria, from Iberia.
Now, with how Galarian letters were used in SwSh, you can't exactly say the region's name starts with "Ve" just because the text uses letters that resemble them. But there's two things that make this possibility very likely.
1- Galar's name in Galarian text is mostly made of letters that resemble their Latin equivalents. Only the L is rendered with a letter that looks nothing like it, although it resembles the ラ kana in its Japanese spelling, ガラル.
2- The trailer seems to hint some of the game's themes and inspirations are light, water/sailing (Age of Discovery style maps), and space. As a native Portuguese speaker, I was able to think of a word that relates to both light and water, "vela". It is Portuguese for both "candle" and "sail" and its Spanish equivalent is also the same word. Researching to see if there were other meanings I didn't know, I found out there's also a satellite named Vela, meaning this word also connects to the hinted space theme.
So, not only do these make it probable the region's name starts with "Ve", or at least the Japanese one if they pull an Unova on us, but the second point might actually give us the region's name. I think the region's name is Vela, or something similar to it, at least in the Japanese version.
