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Is this where Ægons name comes from?

TP33TP33 Member Posts: 1,773 ★★★★★
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So I recently found out that in Ancient Greek the word ‘contest’ is translated into ‘αγων’, pronounced a-gon. I immediately thought of Ægon, @Kabam Miike is this true?

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  • Hector_1475Hector_1475 Member Posts: 1,794 ★★★★★
    It could be. Or it could be inspired by the Aegean Sea, which has been Greek for the past thousand years. Which in turn, as per the Greek myth of Theseas, was named after the Athenian Greek King Aegeas, father of Theseas, who committed suicide falling into this sea, erroneously thinking that his son died in the island of Crete, fighting the Minotaur.

    Generally speaking, Aegon is heavily inspired (his costume, his helmet, his name, his blue color) from the Ancient Greek history and mythology.
  • Thicco_ModeThicco_Mode Member Posts: 8,852 ★★★★★
    That could be really cool. I'd love to see mods comment on this
  • RU11011RU11011 Member Posts: 880 ★★★★
    Always assumed it was of a Greek origin, although I'm not very familiar with the "Æ" character. I also love the comment of Aegeas, Greek mythology is one of my favourite topic to talk about!
  • SpideyFunkoSpideyFunko Member Posts: 21,973 ★★★★★
    it makes sense. He has a very Greek feel to him, sort of like the underdog. Because the Champion also has a Greek look as well, and we all know how close those two are
  • TP33TP33 Member Posts: 1,773 ★★★★★
    So I did some research and the Ancient Greek word for champion is completely different so it won’t be from there like I thought it might
  • SpideyFunkoSpideyFunko Member Posts: 21,973 ★★★★★
    TP33 said:

    Hector_1475 said:

    Snizzbar said:

    Interesting - Google Translate has 'διαγωνισμός' (diagonismós) as 'contest', and 'αγων' (agon) as 'struggle'.
    You may be on to something after all. Or, as usual, Google translate is hopelessly wrong...


    I confirm both translations as accurate (being Greek ).
    I’d hope so thats what I’m being taught in school
    you can take Greek? That’s awesome! We have the standard Spanish, French, German, Latin, then I think a few different Chinese dialects, and Japanese.
  • TP33TP33 Member Posts: 1,773 ★★★★★
    @SpideyFunko believe me Greek is savage, we have to do Latin as well so it means we have to do the Latin GCSE early. Luckily decided not to take it that far
  • H_I_ZH_I_Z Member Posts: 496 ★★
    TP33 said:

    The Ancient Greek name makes sense bc of his helmet and general clothing style. He also uses a spear, traditional Greek weapon but other than that no other weapons, surely if he can conjure ANYTHING with the ISO belt he’d conjure a gun or something but no, he uses ancient and traditional methods

    It's his story, he's from the original contest waaaaay back, so that's where the spear comes, also, I wish they would give us a version of him without the helmet, his hair is epic
  • LunaeLunae Member Posts: 371 ★★★
    H_I_Z said:

    TP33 said:

    The Ancient Greek name makes sense bc of his helmet and general clothing style. He also uses a spear, traditional Greek weapon but other than that no other weapons, surely if he can conjure ANYTHING with the ISO belt he’d conjure a gun or something but no, he uses ancient and traditional methods

    It's his story, he's from the original contest waaaaay back, so that's where the spear comes, also, I wish they would give us a version of him without the helmet, his hair is epic
    Aegons just Brad Pitt abducted by the Collector while filming Troy in the mcocverse :D.

    He’s just that dang method and committed, it’s beautiful really :'(
  • LunaeLunae Member Posts: 371 ★★★
    One minute he’s there then the next he’s aegon >:)
  • NetbreakerNetbreaker Member Posts: 195 ★
    Well u guys know that this is a marvel Character, ryt? And his name nor the Character himself is a kabam creation..
  • King_Leo321King_Leo321 Member Posts: 1,211 ★★★
    After all he is king of this contest.
  • SpideyFunkoSpideyFunko Member Posts: 21,973 ★★★★★
    Netbreaker said:

    Well u guys know that this is a marvel Character, ryt? And his name nor the Character himself is a kabam creation..

    actually, the character is a Kabam creation
  • GroundedWisdomGroundedWisdom Member Posts: 37,620 ★★★★★
    You're probably on to something, OP. ;)
  • Hammerbro_64Hammerbro_64 Member Posts: 7,463 ★★★★★
    Netbreaker said:

    Well u guys know that this is a marvel Character, ryt? And his name nor the Character himself is a kabam creation..

    It’s actually both. Kabam made him, and with their association with Marvel, obviously being a marvel game, he became a Marvel character as well.
  • NetbreakerNetbreaker Member Posts: 195 ★
    Okay lessons learned...
  • AldacAldac Member Posts: 478 ★★★
    I just assumed the designer was a big Game of Thrones fan...
  • jdrum663jdrum663 Member Posts: 551 ★★
    Hammerbro_64 said:


    jdrum663 said:

    I'm pretty sure his last name is Muhface. Lol

    I made a visual aid.
    Awesome!
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