Just feels kinda Roman privilege to assume the almighty wants to hear Latin.
An omnipotent and omniscient being probably doesn't give a shit about which language you use...or, being omnipotent, you actually can't address it in any other way than it wants you to.
Hot take. I like it. Very Lovecraftian. Impudent to even imply.
God literally created all languages, so surely he knows them all.
*She, and all except for Esperanto
Godless ass Esperanto....
Or ithkuil
Kind of funny to think about if Jesus learned English through prayers, so he assumes that "Please let me win the lottery" translates to, "Hi, how are you doing?"
My mind somehow meshes the ideas from butcher's dresden books, where your belief in an icon as a symbol of the faith matters more than its actual connection to the religion, and lackey's high magic (compared to the wild magic) where the collective energy of the populace can be collected and stored to be used. So I end up with this idea where the catholic church has collected a vast amount of energy to be used, and the utterance of latin is the individual's (in this case constantine's) personal symbolic link to the catholic church to harness that energy.
This bother me so much. I mean, once he went through the trap would no longer work.
It's supported by a latticework of it's fucking magic. They're going to go get a goblet that makes you immortal, you expect 100% realism?
How else I'm going to get my degree?
A leap from the lion's head ;)
Wait until you learn that the letter J wasn't invented until the 1500's.
What? Who invented the letter J?
Some Yerk
The Italians of all people.
you can see the pillars intended to be the safe letters in the shot
I think the Catholic Church does Latin because that was the language the first pope (Saul/Paul) was given his revelation in.
Omniscient being(s) would, of course, understand any language.
The weave/astral is manipulated by intelligence/will and the somatic component if any is just to provide caster focus.
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