Talk:Gladiator

Naming Scheme
OCG: Each Gladiator class has a name in katakana, preceded by the word 宣凶師(せんきょうし). This is clearly a pun on the word 宣教師, which means "missionary" and is pronounced the same way. 宣教師, literally, means "he who proclaims the teachings (of God)". However, the replacement kanji in 宣凶師, 凶, means something more like "doom", and definitely has a negative context. With this information, I think it's clear that the Gladiators are not proclaiming the teachings of God, but rather the coming of a kind of "certain doom". I think a more accurate translation is "harbinger", which means "he who heralds the coming of" or "he who foreshadows a future event". In the lore, it seems like the Light civilization is extremely strong and doesn't hesitate to completely crush other civs when needed.

So basically, they're "missionaries proclaiming disaster" rather than your traditional "missionary", and "harbinger" is a really cool word and has a rather negative connotation to it.

Evolution: Evolutions are a name in katakana preceded by the word エール (aile, air, whatever), preceded by 聖皇(せいこう), which literally translates to "holy emperor", and is an alternate, honorific way to refer to the Emperor of Japan, the 天皇（てんのう）.

Multicolor: The multicolor identifier for Gladiators is 賢者, which means "sage".

TCG: The TCG uses the word "Explorer" here. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is a product of them not wanting to put Christian terms in their card names, because we all know how that issue can get in the US. However, it seems particularly silly in this case, like the whole "Vizier" business. If this is going to be one of the races we decide to be more loyal to the Japanese with then it should definitely be changed from DM-13 on.

Evolution: Combines the "aile" and the rest of the name into "Ail ", and precedes it with "Warlord", such as in Warlord Ailzonius.

Multicolor: The multicolor identifier for Gladiators is "Explorer", such as in Electro Explorer Syrion. Darkslime (talk) 14:46, November 13, 2013 (UTC)