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:Oh yeah, forgot about Celebi! And IIRC some media called Lugia the "guardian deity of the sea" and Ho-oh the "guardian of the sky". --[[User:Celadonkey|<span style="color:#287a43">Celad</span>]][[User_talk:Celadonkey|<span style="color:#e85545">onkey</span>]] 01:08, 28 February 2017 (UTC) | :Oh yeah, forgot about Celebi! And IIRC some media called Lugia the "guardian deity of the sea" and Ho-oh the "guardian of the sky". --[[User:Celadonkey|<span style="color:#287a43">Celad</span>]][[User_talk:Celadonkey|<span style="color:#e85545">onkey</span>]] 01:08, 28 February 2017 (UTC) | ||
::As well, Azelf, Uxie, and Mesprit are called the "lake guardians" even here. So yes, we do have pre-existing guardian deities that are very explicitly guardian deities; the issue isn't that the term is ''vague'' so much as ''broad''. If we ''really'' want to use a term that incorporates "guardian", I'd suggest "Island guardians", since at best that could also refer to Cresselia and Darkrai (and I'm certain that ''nobody'' thinks of them as guardians of their rather obscure islands more than as representatives of the moon) but if it's an official term we need, then "Tapu" is better because it refers to them and ''only'' them, as well as being a far more popular term that people less aggressively invested in the lore of the series are likely to be more familiar with. [[User:Eskay64|Eskay64]] ([[User talk:Eskay64|talk]]) 20:54, 9 March 2017 (UTC) | ::As well, Azelf, Uxie, and Mesprit are called the "lake guardians" even here. So yes, we do have pre-existing guardian deities that are very explicitly guardian deities; the issue isn't that the term is ''vague'' so much as ''broad''. If we ''really'' want to use a term that incorporates "guardian", I'd suggest "Island guardians", since at best that could also refer to Cresselia and Darkrai (and I'm certain that ''nobody'' thinks of them as guardians of their rather obscure islands more than as representatives of the moon) but if it's an official term we need, then "Tapu" is better because it refers to them and ''only'' them, as well as being a far more popular term that people less aggressively invested in the lore of the series are likely to be more familiar with. [[User:Eskay64|Eskay64]] ([[User talk:Eskay64|talk]]) 20:54, 9 March 2017 (UTC) | ||
:::Island guardians isn't an official term, but Guardian Deities is. | |||
:::However, I don't think vagueness or broadness is the issue here. Tiddly said it himself that "vagueness does not hold up as a thing to count against a group's name". "Tapu" is used far more ingame, even not including duplicate uses of terms like "Tapu Village" or "Nest of the tubby tapu", and it is used way more in the fan community. --[[User:Celadonkey|<span style="color:#287a43">Celad</span>]][[User_talk:Celadonkey|<span style="color:#e85545">onkey</span>]] 21:24, 9 March 2017 (UTC) | |||
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