The real name of Versus' main character!

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I haven't seen any thorough theories on this yet, so I decided to write up what most likely will be his name.

I think his name will be
SOMNUS
Reason for this?
Well so far we have actually found out the title of the song played in the background of the Versus trailer is called Somnus Nemuri. Nemuri is a japanese word for sleep, but what about Somnus?

Somnus, is the roman god of sleep and according to Wikipedia "his palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines." Does that ring a visual bell? Look at where the main character sits, and he is even sleeping.

Now Squaresoft has a great tradition of bringing in names and legends from different mythologies around the world. So far, Greek, Arabian and Norse mythology has been covered very well. Now it seems they will use this name for the main character.

The main character which I will now call Somnus. Seems to be based on the real Somnus. We have read translations that from another not yet public trailer, that a voice in Somnus' head says "wake from your sleep".

So here we got a real dark fellow, sitting all alone on his throne of darkness, sleeping.

The real Somnus from the mythology was also portrayed with wings on his head several times. We can see the dude has got some crazy hair again, but that's just Nomura, but we know he can fly according to the not seen trailer, or teleport that is. And this just embraces the image of Somnus.

Lastly Somnus image was always used to illustrate death, and this is were all symbolism boils down to make sense. A cave of darkness, loneliness, the sleeping character, it clearly illustrates the underground of society. In the bible this is basically hell, but I'm not going to go as far as saying Somnus is the devil.

However, we also know that Pulse and Coocoon are the two worlds. The one up in the sky which is like heaven, and the other is below on the planet, bothered by many crystals creating monsters. Violence roars around here so obviously, it can be somewhat related to hell.

If I'm right about this, we will also probably see other characters be named accordingly to the mythology. Those names are: Thanatos, Nyx, Morfeus and Endymion. Which basically, sounds like your typical cast of Final Fantasy characters.
 
This should be in the Versus XIII Section...

FTR: No, his name is not deffinately Volcan
 
See...about Somnus....if you dont have any sources to back you up i cant believe this, no matter how good you make it sound, an "unseen trailer" isn't a good enough source IMO

And as for Volcan....any proof? :P
 
I have no reason to try to convince you. You obviously haven't payed attention to the news.

First of all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnus There you can read up about Somnus, and is that hard to wiki it up?

Second of all, I clearly state that this is a theory, so what do I need sources for, this is what I think and what is probably a good bet taking many things into consideration.

Third of all, since you don't follow the news, you probably didnt hear about the extended version of the Versus trailer, where they show that Somnus teleported himself up on the roof, and that he was awoken by a voice in his head, and that he uses telekinesis to move his many weapons to where he wants them to take action.
 
that's a proof I can't put my post i don't know why

Well, First, good theory Marius.
Yes I've heard about the new trailer of Final Fantasy Versus XIII, but I haven't see it (can you put a link pleaaaase?)


I would like he will be named so, cuz I'm a very studious on the Mythology, but I'm afraid SQUARE finally will put a stupid-simple name with no history-meaning like Vaan (desambiguation of the netherlander's lastname "Van"), Tidus (desambiguation of Tifus), Zidane (the same name of the superstar football-player) or the worst of all...Cloud (....a cloud...like.....a "cloud"....).
So I bet they're going to put him "Butsh" or "Bred Patt".
It will be a very good change if Nomura puts mythologycal gods names.

QUESTION! I looove the song, but I only have the Trailer version (with stepsounds and gunshots) anybody has a "clean version"?



[Somnus mean in Latin "sleep" (the feeling, not the action) and his greek name was Hipnos; Somnus (hipnos) is related to death for his twin brother, Tanatos. That symbolizes the similarity between Death and sleepness]
 
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I think it'll be named after a natural phenomena sort of thing.

I was reading something about final fantasy once, and it was pointed out that all the main characters main names were after NP's.

Cloud, Tidus, Squall (don't know what that is though), Zidane (same as Squall). And I'm guessing Vaan is some sort of NP too.

I'll take a guess and say Hurricane. :D
 
A Squall is a sudden gust of wind. Zidane is a French soccer player. VAAN is the acronym of the scientific name of some blueberry. Yup, sounds like natural phenomena to me.
 
What makes you say that? You couldn't rename your main character in FFXII and I don't think there was much complaints, if any so I doubt you will be able to name the main characters in FFXIII and FFVersusXIII.
 
basically those using the old rename functions in previous ff's just screwed up the game.

when i was a kid, i thought it was incredibly cool to name cloud Mario MacDJ, then half a year later i absolutely hated it and had used all that time getting a real good save and all...
 
Cloud - that's obvious
Squall - isn't that a powerful, quick-forming storm?
Zidane - I highly doubt he is based off of the football player. Wasn't his name an anagram of some sort meaning "Thief"?
Tidus - wasn't this from the japanese "tiida" meaning "Sun"? (like Yuna was "Moon")
Vaan - I thought this was a play on the french "vent" meaning "Wind"?

I like the Somnus theory. I just don't like the name XD I don't like Volcan either.
 
Gatekpr said:
A Squall is a sudden gust of wind. Zidane is a French soccer player. VAAN is the acronym of the scientific name of some blueberry. Yup, sounds like natural phenomena to me.
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May I just add that Tetsuya Nomura was the character designer for FFVII, FFVIII and FFX. And he wasn't the character designer for FFIX and FFXII.

But I've now found out that he will be the character designer for FF Versus XIII.

Incase you didn't notice, every time he was the character designer, the main character of the game had a name referred to some sort of natural phenomena.

Anyways, I think I win this argument.
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I don't know if this has been ruled out or what, but on some final fantasy website I saw a rumor that his name could also be Storm...I hope not >.>
 
This should have been put in the versusXIII forum ages ago, but now there's already another topic there discussing the exact same thing, so:

*closed*
 
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