In terms of naming the first 3 classes for the fighter seemed simple and easy to understand Champion was obviously the more simpler subclass Battle Master hinted at variety in how you would fight people while Eldritch Knight just made little to no sense considering all of the things related to stuff being Eldritch is Warlock stuff? And then you have classes like the HexBLADE and the BLADEsinger like did they not wanna make the name sound simple and wanted to make it sound cool and it ended up making 0 sense?
In 3ed/3.5ed, the first "gish-fighter/wizard" Prestige class in the dungeon master was the Eldritch Knight, so propably why they went with that name... later there were many other prestiges and classes that did almost the samething with different features/flavor/etc, but the main name or simplest approach was the eldritch knight.
In terms of naming the first 3 classes for the fighter seemed simple and easy to understand
Champion was obviously the more simpler subclass
Battle Master hinted at variety in how you would fight people while Eldritch Knight just made little to no sense considering all of the things related to stuff being Eldritch is Warlock stuff?
And then you have classes like the HexBLADE and the BLADEsinger like did they not wanna make the name sound simple and wanted to make it sound cool and it ended up making 0 sense?
I think its mostly a legacy name to use.
In 3ed/3.5ed, the first "gish-fighter/wizard" Prestige class in the dungeon master was the Eldritch Knight, so propably why they went with that name... later there were many other prestiges and classes that did almost the samething with different features/flavor/etc, but the main name or simplest approach was the eldritch knight.
Just call it a spellblade then. Names can be whatever you want!
Thanks for giving me a legitimate reason