Eiji Aonuma Interview Reveals Origin Names for both Majora and Termina

The latest issue of Nintendo Dream, a Japanese video game magazine, featured a brand new interview with Eiji Aonuma mainly focused around Majora’s Mask. One very interesting topic covered in the interview was actually the origins of both the Majora and Termina names.

According to Aonuma, Takaya Imamura—the art director for the Nintendo 64 release of Majora’s Mask—not only designed the mask itself, he was also the one who created the name. He invented the word Majora by combining the names of characters from the 1995 film Jumanji along with his own name. Aonuma actually said he thought the name was good from the very beginning, the only concern came from using Majora’s Mask as the subtitle for the game.

When asked about the name Termina, his answer was actually a lot more simplistic than the one for Majora, “Termina is a terminal, right?” Aonuma states that terminal means “a place where people come and go,” so they used that definition as a basis for using the word as their inspiration for the land.

Both of these origins are extremely interesting to me, especially the simple reasoning behind Termina. I always thought it had something to do with the word “terminated” instead, since it also seemed to fit the world and its atmosphere. What do you all think about these name origins? Did you find them intriguing or do you honestly not care? Let us know in the comments below!

Source: Nintendo Dream (via Nintendo Everything)