Talk:Daemon/Daemon Lord/@comment-26571774-20190719092320/@comment-12642484-20190926194304

The way I understand it, some of the translators correctly interpreted that 悪魔公 was refering to, what I call, "Daemon Lord" since very obviously デーモンロード indicates that.

But you need to keep something in mind here. As far as I know I am the first one who introduced using the term "Daemon" instead of "Demon" (based on some information like the "Primordial of Daemons" transliteration from LN vol. 11, and the Furigana being different compared to the "Demon" from Rimuru's "Demon Slime"), which means before I introduced it, everyone always used "Demon" for this race instead.

So that created some obvious problems, since 悪魔公(デーモンロード) would have to be translated as "Demon Lord"... that'd quite obviously clash with what we always knew as Demon Lord 魔王 (maou) in the sense of being the apex of monsters. So the translators just cleverly "reworded" the term hence arriving at terms like "Demon Noble" (FanTLs) or "Demon Peer" (official English YenPress translation). But by changing the spelling to "Daemon" we don't have this issue here on this wiki to worry about anymore, since it's distinct and just to be sure I added a disambig notice at the top of both pages to note that Demon Lord and Daemon Lord are different things.

As for "Demon Lord Seed", technically it's correct to say that 魔王種(まおうしゅ) should be "Demon Lord Species" or "Demon Lord Breed", since if it was about a Seed, it'd have to be be something like 魔王種(まおうたね) instead.

However at the same time the Seed depiction works well because in LN vol. 5 there was one phrase that either Great Sage or the Voice of the World states that literally means "sprouting the Seed". Don't remember if the English YenPress release captured that bit of imaginry or not, but the RAWs certainly did.

And by the way, according to the Databook... the concept of "Hero Egg" still seems to exist, strangely enough.