It was the term used by the people that actually isolated the substance but, as England likes to do, they colonized the term to their standards and then pretended that was the right way.

Substance discovered by folks that called it alum or aluminum for literally five centuries then the Brits come galloping in to colonize the accepted name then try to look down on everyone else

…can someone get this guy a history book? Shakespeare alone used 14.

Actual conversation had with my wife, who was watching me play near the end:

“That chick is cute. I bet her romance is adorable!”

“She’s aromantic and asexual, you can’t romance her.”

“I bet her quest line is fun”

“Nope. It’s a really boring fetch quest where you set her up on a date with some bland woman old enough to be her mother. She is also very obviously sexually and romantically attracted to this woman.”

“…huh.”

I love Parvati but Drinking Sapphire Wine is a terrible quest.