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Quick correction, Castilian and Spanish are he same thing. It's not an old dialect or an old language. Spain has lots of languages, and the renaming of Castilian to Spanish was a "recent" (last 100 years) attempt from a dictator to delegitimize all of the other languages (also prohibiting them from being taught in schools or being used officially).
Also I strongly dislike the use of dialects here, although there are many different accents the language remains the same. If we start to call Mexican or Argentinians Spanish into dialects we might as well call Texan or Californian English as dialects as well, since they're equally different.
Also, also, Mexico (the largest Spanish speaking country by population is in North America), not sure why you only mentioned South and Central.
That being said, yes, the Faun speaks very formally. It's not necessarily archaic, but the sort of language one might expect in a court room. But yeah, that used to be the colloquial Spanish a while back.
Thanks. I really wrote "Castilian" to mean that sources on the web suggest his dialogue is at least somewhat modern Spanish Spanish (so to speak) -- but I'm ignorant of the differences between Spanish spoken in the Americas, including North America as you rightly point out, and the Iberian peninsula. I didn't mean to suggest that Castilian was archaic.