Talk:Silver-Eyed Warrior/@comment-28171999-20181220181607/@comment-35434444-20190103102845

Well, like I said before, I think they should be named after the Spirit Mercurius because I think it matches thier role within the story, the dubplicity in them implied by Tock saying the power carried a "price" and because the Brothers Grimm actually recorded a story about Mercurius called, "The Spirit in The Bottle."

It refers to silver in that Mercuary is synonymous with the alchemical quicksilver, which summons up Ruby quite well because she has both silver eyes and a speed semblance.

What exactly Mercurius is would take multiple essays to give a satisfactory account of. It's one of the most incomprehensible psychological concepts there is because the most essential aspect of Mercurius' nature is that he is a feature of the human mind that existed before the segregation of conscious and unconscious thought and therefore has no divisions within himself between the opposites; he is paradoxical.

This is reflected in Fullmetal Alchemist. The main antagonist, Father, represents the devious side of Mercurius that likes to expand it's consciousness, but Mercruius is also the spirit of metals and of life itself embodied by Edward Elric. So perhaps the short way of conveying what Mercuruis is would be to say that he's the fullmetal alchemist.

The main problem with introducing any nomenclature that refers to Mercurius directly is that he is indeed represented by the Roman god Mercuary who already exists in RWBY as the antagonist of the same name. Mercurius, as the bridge between the conscious and unconscious minds, rerpesents psyhological healing, hence why he is associated with Mercuary as the god of revelation and carries the caduceus; the snakes on the staff representing the opposites being brought into harmony.

Another way in which Mercurius would fit right into RWBY is that he has an opposite: sulpher which is refered to as the "ashes extracted from the ashes." You might call it a cinder.