Talk:Enryu/@comment-28805348-20160705184138/@comment-26854521-20160714003517

Well, first of all we call it Sobriquet, because the translators translating that part chose to use that term. So that part has nothing to do with SIU and his intentions, at least not necessarily.

You already address this in your post that the connotation in the Tower is of importance here. To put it in perspective. Tower of God plays in a fantasy world. The word sobriquet means something different, or at the very least is a lot more defined in the world of Tower of God (a title for becoming a High Ranker).

I don't know Korean so I can only guess here, but maybe SIU chose the term he chose, because he didn't want it confused with just a mere nickname. Also the way most translation software works is that they give you the most commonly used translations. The words alias and nickname are alot more common in English, I'd assume it's similar in Korean, and it'd also make sense to use the more sophisticated term, well whatever or whichever that one is in Korean or not.