What even is a Cephaliarch?

laniakea_0

I can't even come close to a similar word...

Urzigurumash

From Cephalopod, "head foot", being octopi, squids, cuttlefish, and nautili.

tsaescishoeshiner

I think the linguistic root doesn't matter, just the English words cephalopod (octopi, squids, nautilus, etc) + matriarch/patriarch.

Abyssal cephaliarch is one of Mora's many names: https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Fragmentae_Abyssum_Hermaeus_Morus

freespirit

All I could come up with is......

Cephaliarch is not a common word in English. It could be a combination of cephalic, which means relating to the head, and arch, which means chief or leader. So cephaliarch could mean head of a group or organization.

Nestor

So a leader of a multi part organization that spirals out from the center and changes colors on a whim?

Urzigurumash

Nestor wrote: »

So a leader of a multi part organization that spirals out from the center and changes colors on a whim?

Octopus King, I would say is the meaning

Paralyse

Assuming that it's just a made up word but maybe based on Latin/Greek:

"Cephali" is a literal head (body part) from L. cephal- / A.Gk. kephale; it can also denote something which is figuratively or literally first or superior: the head waiter, head of the class, a heading; it can be also used in different forms such as "encephal-" to mean "brain."

"Arch" as a prefix or suffix is used to denote possession, ownership, leadership, or being a ruler/having power over something or someone: archbishop, archmage, exarch, hierarch, archimandrite

One possible very free translation might be "Ruler of Knowledge" which would fit Hermaeus Mora's title as the "Abyssal Cephaliarch" quite nicely.

Urzigurumash

If you're into cephalopods and you're on Xbox NA check out Dominus Rux's Fogbreak Lighthouse, it's the cephaliarch of houses.