Talk:Arisen/@comment-31.121.232.149-20120612162557/@comment-88.112.12.246-20121101083716

The kanji posted here literally reads "awakened one", so "arisen" is a good, pretty direct translation.

With nothing else to go by, I&apos;d suppose the pronounciation to be "kakusha" (using the on-yomi as it&apos;s a noun with more than one kanji). But to be sure, I&apos;d have to hear the original.

This is because in a fantasy or scifi setting, the Japanese pronounciation for such specific terminology can be chosen pretty much freely, since the kanji already provides the word&apos;s meaning. Either it&apos;s the default "kakusha", the English "arisen" (which would transliterate into katakana pretty well as "araizen"), or a completely made up fantasy word (for an western analogy, something akin to Skyrim&apos;s "dovahkiin").

Based on what little I know, I&apos;d say the default seems the most likely. There was an article on the &apos;net with an interview with someone from the localization team, where it was said that (at least) the old world flavor ("ingle" instead of "fire"; "aught" etc.) was added to DD during the localization (the original Japanese sounding more mundane).