Talk:Overlord Volume 11/@comment-27168967-20161008063332

I just remembered something. This actually begins back at vol 01 so I don't think it's considered a spoiler so here goes. To put it simply, it's the term "Overlord".

Nigun once thought about this term back in volume one, some time before he ordered Dominion Authority to use Holy Smite for the first time. At that time, he thought オーバーロー (Overlord) but the meaning to it is actually 超越者 (The one who surpasses). For Ainz, Overlord bears the meaning 死の支配者 (The one who dominates/controls death).

Then in volume 10, when Ainz asked Go-Gin using the term Overlord, he uses the term in his own meaning but as we all know Japanese is intended to be heard using its pronunciation rather than its secondary meaning unless the speaker wants to make the meaning explicitly known to the other party. So, Go-Gin should not have heard of this "Overlord" before no matter what the meaning may be. I can't remember clearly but I think there's been a couple of times Ainz mentioned this to NW residents but they didn't bat an eyelash at that word.

Then, Nigun's version of Overlord comes up in Volume 11, from a Frost Dragon no less though he did not speak it out loud. It's almost like "Overlord" is something that only exists in both the Slane Theocracy's and Dragons' vocabulary. I find it interesting that only that two particular group would be using the word "Overlord", except the Frost Dragon gave us the actual scope of the word; the one who posesses absolute strength.