My personal favorite bad translation is of the Elements in Xenogears: Seraphim, Cherubim, Throne and Dominion into Seraphita, Kelvina, Tolone and Dominia. I didn't even realize that they're all supposed to be named after angels.
I suspect the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Clearly the game designers have left little or no instruction to the translators. I feel bad for them.
I never knew the source of the Fiends' names. Those demons or rivers? I always thought Rubicant was from the river Rubicon.
Ah well, the die have been cast.
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