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So, how do we feel about changing the term 'ikon' to 'eikon'? Both are variant spellings of the same English word descended from Greek, both with connotations of religious iconography. I have already seen some tiresome protests that 'ikon' is just misspelled for the cool factor, where eikon makes it a lot clearer the variant spelling is fully intentional.
I don't know of any other possible real-world significance to one over the other so I'm just throwing this out there. I like either variant spelling, especially since it disambiguates from many other relevant uses of icon and again drags up those divine connotations.
I would prefer Eikon since the word in greek is εἰκών. But Ikon is also the normal way to spell the word in German, and while one is a Korean Boy Band, the other is financial software so I dunno.
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I don't know why but Eikon simply looks more cooler to me.
I like Eikon as well since it just looks cooler and feels less like a misspelling of Icon.
Yep. My problem then is that it necessarily maps to one real world culture. Just “Icon” would work, as there is no need to make a weird alternate spelling for a word that already exists, but I would prefer another “object/item” word completely.
I get the feeling minutiae like this aren’t really up for debate though…
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For what it's worth, eikon is just an English word, albeit a rare one, not unlike thaumaturge and eidolon that already exist in the game.