Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga: Digital Devil Saga - Terminology Changes

This is a cosmetic mod that changes some skill and mantra names to be more accurate to the original Japanese, clearer at conveying their mechanical effect, or just to sound nicer.

- Typos/mistranslations (Varna, Vayaviya, Fierce Spirit, Raksas) fixed.
- Calm Death → Eternal Rest for consistency with SMT3.
- A few skills/terms changed to be consistent with DDS2.
- Skills with non-indicative names given names that more clearly convey their effect (most notably, Null Sleep → Sleepwalker to avoid confusion with other “Null” skills).
- Elemental mantras now have more consistent naming schemes.
- Non-elemental mantras that had boring “[Adjective] Spirit/God” naming schemes have been changed to more interesting names.
- Ailment mantras now have a clearer and more consistent Buddhist naming scheme.
- Some race names changed (most visibly, Fiend → Mystic).
- “Last Meal” changed to “Last Supper”, because fun fact the Japanese is literally the same term used in the Bible for the Last Supper. The localizers really dropped the ball on that one.

A full list of changes and reasoning are provided in the readme file.

This is a cosmetic mod that changes some skill and mantra names to be more accurate to the original Japanese, clearer at conveying their mechanical effect, or just to sound nicer. A list of changes and reasoning are provided in this file.

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Typo/mistranslation corrections:
-Varna -> Varuna
-Vayaviya -> Vayavya
-Fierce Spirit -> Kishin
-Raksas -> Rakshasa

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Elemental mantras now have more consistent naming schemes. Except for Earth, they are now all:
[Element] Spirit -> [Element] Demon -> Elemental -> (Unique) -> [Element] Master

Fire Spirit -> Fire Demon -> Salamander -> Fire Lord -> Fire Master
Ice Spirit -> Ice Demon -> Jack Frost -> Ice Wolf -> Ice Master
Wind Spirit -> Wind Demon -> Sylph -> Wind Waker -> Wind Master
(yes it's a Zelda reference, sue me)
Bolt Spirit -> Bolt Demon -> Raiju -> Bolt Wizard -> Bolt Master
Earth Spirit -> Earth Shrine -> Gnome -> Earth Temple -> Earth Empire
(it annoyed me that the upper Earth mantras broke the pattern of being places rather than titles)

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Other mantras:

Wikipedia -> Abaddon
(This one had to be a joke placeholder, right? I can't find the original Japanese so I'm just making something up for this one.)
Dark Leader -> Dark Wizard
("Leader" is just really awkward in this context, sorry localizers)
Priestess -> Miko
(for consistency with my DDS2 mod)
Thrones -> Throne
(no idea why this was plural)
Evil Spirit -> Ghost
Dark Spirit -> Wraith
(increasingly edgy adjectives prepended to "Spirit" just sounds dumb in English, sorry)
Death Spirit -> Psychopomp
(I have no idea what this was supposed to mean, but it's confusing to have it on the healing branch, especially when there's already a "Death" mantra. I presume it's meant to mean "spirit with power over life and death", and this is the closest English has to that.)
Vicious God -> Messiah
(I have no idea what "Vicious God" is supposed to mean or why it's on the healing branch of all things. Since this mantra gives Salvation, I decided to just double down on the Christianity theme.)
Adamant -> Atman
(I assume this was a mistranslation, this fits with the ailment line's Buddhist theme)
Holy Leader -> Buddha
(same)
Evil God -> Devil
("Evil God" just sounds silly, sorry localizers)
Insane God -> Zealot
(consistency with other SMT localizations)
Monotheist -> Polytheist
(because it makes negative sense that mastering multiple elements makes you a "monotheist")
Godly Spirit -> Onmyo
(I don't like the YHVH reference when this is one of the very few SMT games where he's not present, so I've changed it to reference *this* game's final boss instead. Bonus, it's a Hindu term, which is the cosmology used by DDS.)

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Demon races:

Fiend -> Mystic
(for consistency with my DDS2 mod; yes, this is the same as the Nether race in DDS2)
Demon -> Brute
Evil -> Icon
(for consistency with DDS2)

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Skills:

Closdi -> Mutudi
Avalanche -> Landslide
(I associate "avalanche" soley with snowfall)
Vanity -> Madness
(Japanese name is a reference to a nihilistic Buddhist saying meaning "all is vanity, form is emptiness", essentially saying existence is contradictory. Given two of the ailments inflicted are mental, I assume the idea is the spell drives you mad by revealing the meaninglessness of existence?)
Calm Death -> Eternal Rest
(for consistency with SMT3)
Seraph Lore -> Seraphic Lore
Genocide -> Massacre
(more accurate to the Japanese and less edgelordy)
Ragnarok -> Apocalypse
(reduces confusion with Ragnarok being fire-element in other games, closer to original Japanese meaning "end of the world")
Feed Frenzy -> Feeding Frenzy
Ingest -> Swallow Whole
(better conveys effect, also more accurate to Japanese)
Last Meal -> Last Supper
(the Japanese is literally the same as the Biblical term, not sure why the localizers changed it)
Null Sleep -> Sleepwalker
(to avoid confusion with other Null skills)

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Combo skills:

Fimbulvet -> Niflheim
Titan -> Titanomachia
(for consistency with DDS2)
Gang Blast -> Rumble Rush
(more accurate to Japanese, also more accurate to component skills)
Millennia Curse -> Millennium Curse

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