Thread:ShonenChicoBoy/@comment-1493741-20140205194557

Sorry about the lack of a response to what you'd posted up on Roshan's talk page, the wiki gives very little notice to it and I only happened to luck into an email telling me you'd edited it. xD

Anyway, as for why Roshan's spells are in Japanese, its less of an in character thing and more of just a translation. Just as his name or equipment is translated into Japanese, its a placeholder of a kind for when (if) I ever decide to dedicate an article to the spells in question, where it would look more like: Shūryō.

And for advice on spells, I'll take a look at Asane's article and see what ideas I can personally come up with, but on a general level I look at things that would enhance a character's arsenal through support, offense, and, defense in a given theme. One of Roshan's weaknesses is that his eyesight isn't the best for archery, so he has a spell to temporarily overcome it when its actually vital in his role, he likes to misdirect his opponents so he has a spell to help create the image that he's a physical powerhouse when he really isn't and so on. 