LacrimaCastle.Net (LCN) both regrets and is overjoyed to inform you that there has been a translation error by members of our staff, and members of our members, in the nomenclature of certain persons and items in the multi-platform Japanese role-playing game "Riviera: Yakusoku no Chi".

Recently (a few minutes ago) has there come to light that the main character, Ecthel, is in fact not supposed to have been named "Excel", but rather the name given by the Japanese game company who chose the transliteration. This comes on the heels of a similar, even greater discovery: Ecthel's sword is intended to be named Ecthelion. The name comes from a fixture of fantasy literature: J.R.R. Tolkien, early in his career, wrote of a character, an elf by race, named Ecthelion. This is undoubtedly what should have been the translation of the name of the sword.

LCN apologizes profusely for this lapse in attention to detail.

In addition to the Riviera PSP backgrounds, we now have the Overskill Cut-ins and Status Screen Art available for...viewing.

Yggdra Unison, Blaze Union, and Gloria Union now have their own pages under Yggdra Union's section, and all but Gloria have some sort of content. Should be some more interesting things there eventually.

Gungnir has also been added to the site, and will definitely have exciting stuff up soon.

Be excited(or we'll hurt you).

The Riviera PSP backgrounds are finally up! Although we've had them for a long time now... Thank Walrus for all the coding shenanigans.

But will Gungnir ever get any love? Only Rai knows the answer.

• Gloria Union's site is now open! CHECK THAT OUT IF IT INTERESTS YOU. Gloria Union is a part of the "Union series" which I'm pretty sure wasn't supposed to exist in the first place. But hey, Yggdra Union's a fun game. Maybe it's okay to want more of it.
• There have been a couple of updates to Gungnir's site so definitely take a look if you haven't already. I've also finally added a forum for Gungnir so you guys can have your focused discussions and joke topics and whatever else. Have fun with that. I realize the addition of another forum just makes the whole thing look fatter, but remember that you can collapse entire categories with the little +/- signs on the right of the category's title.

I guess there really wasn't enough to say to make the list tag worthwhile. Oh well.

Go now and savor the information and art.

For people who can't handle all that Japanese, Siliconera has a nice article giving a few details about the game up for a few days now. Something they don't mention is that this is confirmed to be Episode 9 of that crazy Dept. Heaven series we all love. Or just like.

It's gonna be for PSP and its release date is May 19th. Get excited!