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Wolf Kanno
Also Golbezza (Golbez's actual Japanese spelling) and his Four Fiends are all named after Biblical demons from the Apocrypha Books of the Old Testament and other Jewish writings.
Really? Because the Final Fantasy Wikia gives this explanation:
"Golbeza" is a mistransliteration of Golubaeser (also known as Golubac Fly), a type of black fly named for the town of Golubac in Serbia, as Golubaeser and Golbez(a) are written the same way in katakana (ゴルベーザ). According to folk legends, the venomous flies were born from the body of a decomposing dragon, a fitting metaphor for what became of Theodor. This is further emphasized during Golbez's flashback scene in the DS version, where Zemus taunts Theodor by calling him an insect that was "birthed from womb of dragon's corpse," both a reference to the Golubac Fly and a corruption of the first line of the Mysidian Legend. Golubaeser is also the name of a demon in the book Devils by J. Charles Wall, from which several other names in Final Fantasy IV were drawn.
Which seems to make a lot of sense. It also gives the following explanation for the Four Fiends:
The four Archfiends are named after four of the twelve named Malebranches in the 8th Circle of Hell, the Malebolge, from Dante's Divine Comedy. Calcabrina and Geryon come from the same work.
I know for a fact that they show up in the Divine Comedy, but it's possible the names are older, idk.
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