Maybe it was inspired from other Pokemon? It was man made after all, maybe it was the Mewtwo approach to recreating a mythical Pokemon, but inorganic.

Me too. Been away due to college. And Undertale. But mostly colleg (Undertale reference).

I’m game.

That center part of Magiana (just below its head) looks very similar to some ancient pokeball… maybe that’s the secret behind Magiana.

I thought similar but not Gen 7 but rather Gen 6.5. I’m saying this because the designs of Jotho and Kanto was really different but let’s say Magiana is part of Gen7 it doesn’t look that much different than Gen 6 Pokemons. I thought about Magiana being part of “Southern Kalos” with new Pokemons and the rest would be like your theory. If you look at all Generations of Pokemon you actually see that each Gen has their own kind of Artstyle that’s where my doubt came from Magiana being part of Gen7.

Actually that is a bit closer to how I’ve been saying it.

The g is hard like great. But the name breaks up like this (As i learned froma fluent japanese speaker)
Magi=magic
Gia= Gear
Na= japanese feminine suffix
This further proves fairy steel.

Really? I thought it was “Maj-ee-aana”

It’s a hard ‘g’, like in the word ‘golf’ if that’s what you mean. The final English name may differ slightly of course, or *possibly* even take on a whole new name. The ‘gia’ part of the name is likely playing on the word ‘gear’ as in ‘cog’, given that it is a mechanical Pokemon with a gear for a head who is in a clockwork kingdom lol. So ‘Magearna’ is one possibility for a localization name, but it really is up to the judgement of the localization team, then if they get permission from Gamefreak to proceed with their localized name idea. There’s often a lot of back and forth there I’m told. It’s too soon to tell for Magiana though.