Pathfinder 2E Paizo drops use of the word phylactery

[Benjamin Olson]

XP for the slope warning, but I don't know how fallacious it is.

Curiously calling out "slippery slope fallacy" as if any argument concerned with a slope being slippery is inherently fallacious is, itself, a generalization fallacy.

 

[Jmarso]

If you are looking for a snazzy-sounding phrase, anima vas is 'soul vessel' in Latin. You could make it animvas if you wanted to squash it down to one word. Or pick your favorite language, except maybe not Danish. (Run a translator and you'll see why).

 

[darjr]

Hmmm cage is cavea
Anima cavea

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Hmmm cage is cavea
Anima cavea

And anima cave is "beware soul", which the souls should be of a phyla... or... ah...

I'm just going to go with "lich-a-majig".

 

[MGibster]

They should just call it a reliquary since that what it holds - bit or relic of the lich.

I think that's the best suggestion I've seen. But, seriously, nobody tell Paizo about druid or cleric.

 

[Tonguez]

shabti are Egyptian funerary figurines, would that do?

i like Reliquary

 

[gss000]

Yeah, but Ancient Greeks don't currently suffer the prejudice modern Jews do in today's world. Unless you happen to know some Ancient Greeks? Antisemitism is a real thing in the real world which affects real people. Anti-ancient-greekism isn't.

While I do support your general point, this response is frustrating to me. I'm full Greek, and many of us feel a connection with our past such that there is no heritage distinction between modern and ancient Greeks. Depending on the situation, it can affect "real people". I routinely experience microaggressions by people who do not give the same consideration to Greek culture and heritage given to other cultures because it is deemed "Western". While what you're talking about here - using Greek derived words - isn't at all of the same significance as the use of the term phylactery, it's not as simple as you term it.

 

[MGibster]

While I do support your general point, this response is frustrating to me. I'm full Greek, and many of us feel a connection with our past such that there is no heritage distinction between modern and ancient Greeks. Depending on the situation, it can affect "real people".

As an undergraduate, I took a lot of anthropology courses that were also part of our Middle Eastern Studies program. In one of my courses, we were covering modern Egypt and I was a bit surprised to learn that many Egyptians still have a connection to ancient Egypt. I had assumed because it was so long ago, pre-Islam, and they didn't even share the same language that they wouldn't really care. Boy, was my assumption wrong.

I recall hearing on the news that a lot of Greeks weren't so keen on Disney's Hercules cartoon.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

 

[Hussar]

Again it is a question of scale.