Quote Originally Posted by Karifean View Post
Seeing the disambiguation of her name is kind of strange because the version of FF VIII that I mainly played is the German one, in which her name is "Artemisia". The Japanese Arutemishia is multi-interpretable, though I think Ultimecia is her official name.

Very nicely written article.
Well actually, the Artemisia version has links with Artemis of Greek Mythology, the Goddess of the hunt who is depicted as a winged woman holding a leopard and sometimes a lion. I don't see much of how Artemis links with Ultimecia really, but she was worshipped a lot by Women, and was also the Goddess of some womanly things, like virginity and childbirth - And of course in FFVIII Sorceress's were almost exclusively women.