Real World Influences

[Radical_Dreamer]

Nobody finds my treatise on the name Magus interesting, eh?

When my work weeks goes down from the current 72 hours to a more managable 40, I'll take a look.

Ai! That must be most difficulty, indeed!

The work is easy, and the pay is good. The trouble, to quote Blade Runner, is that "I want more life, fucker" and it doesn't really leave me much opportunity for that.

[V_Translanka]

The Magus stuff is interesting...But the fact that Magus is just his American translation name always made me less interested in it's origins and such...

[Dalton]

Serge
Serge is Russian for servant

Чушь. Bullshit. I'm russian so just believe me.  It's french name. But. In Russia this is Sergei. And sometimes we pronounce it on french manner

=Sonja

Wind goddess from Russian lore

Maybe. But it's actually more friendly-less official variation of Sophya(Sophia). Just like Cat from Catherine, Jenny from Jennifer and Susy from Susan.

[ZeaLitY]

Fixed.

[Mr Bekkler]

Regarding the real world definition of Mammon, a false god of wealth or wealth as evil, and that in Hebrew the word means money or wealth, is it possible that Magus calling himself Prophet was a pun? Profit?

[Kodokami]

That would be hilarious, and considering the other Ted Woolsey-isms (Slash, Flea, Ozzie, etc.), I wouldn't put it past him.

[Kodokami]

During Nikki's concert, he says:

[Nikki]
   Lo! The stars doth
   twinkle in accord
   with our song...

   The brighter one is the
   Star of Diarmuid...
   And next to it the Star
   of Grania can be seen
   shining so faintly...
   We mariners navigate
   our vessels by these
   two stars!

Now, I don't know of any real stars with those names, but Diarmuid comes from Irish mythology. Meanwhile, Grania, at first, doesn't seem to relate to anything, but I quickly realized it should actually be Gráinne from the same tale (which is pronounced like "grania", I believe).

Are these the only named celestial bodies in the Chronoverse? I'm wondering if these two stars belong to the "five brother stars" told by Belthasar to represent the Dragons. Curiously, during the same concert, Nikki drops the line "Neptunian nymph", which suggests the presence of a Neptune in Chrono history as well, either as a mythological figure or a planet. Or it could just be a grammatical quirk. 

[Acacia Sgt]

Are these the only named celestial bodies in the Chronoverse? I'm wondering if these two stars belong to the "five brother stars" told by Belthasar to represent the Dragons. Curiously, during the same concert, Nikki drops the line "Neptunian nymph", which suggests the presence of a Neptune in Chrono history as well, either as a mythological figure or a planet. Or it could just be a grammatical quirk. 

Neptune is also mentioned in the BlueWhale Summon description:

"Calls on Neptune's anger to create a tsunami"

I think it is a reference to Neptune/Poseidon. Unless BlueWhale is Neptune, considering things.

[Razig]

I always took the "five brother stars" to be the classical planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

[Acacia Sgt]

There could be some credence to the idea. Specially since you can make an almost perfect match with Wuxing.

Mercury - Water - Blue Element
Mars - Fire - Red Element
Jupiter - Wood - Green Element
Saturn - Earth - Yellow Element

Only issue I'd see is how to match Venus (Metal) with the Black Element.

[Kodokami]

Yeah, that's neat. I also struggle to see how the black element matches Venus, but the others are perfect.

Diarmuid then most likely corresponds to Polaris as a pole star.

[Redline57]

Not sure if this was explicitly stated but I found it funny even the first time that Janus was dropped near a town called Medina and then defines himself as a prophet. Though he wasn't truly one, he time traveled with information before others. Some could argue that he was sent 'through time by a higher power-Lavos', but this goes along the story of a false prophet from Medina. I'm sure this was deliberate.