> Hi, Everyone -
>
> I just can't keep up... Sorry to everyone if this is old news by now.
Not to me it isn't, at least.
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> the NPC's are from. For example, if they meet someone named 'Liam', I'd
> like them to know he's from, for example, Ralios (if they're cultured enough
> to know that).
Indeed, good reason. Also it's much easier to give names to the NPC:s / Narratorial characters when you have a cultural namebase to draw them from.
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> Pentans: Mongolian and Turkic
Mongols for me, definitely. Parhaps Manchurian names too.
> Praxians: American Indian
For some reason I keep getting the Praxians more like beduins. I use the indian names for the Grazers (and the centaurs/beastfolk)
> Carmanian: Persian**
> Firespeech: Hebrew*** (possible replacement: Ancient egyptian?)
Interesting choise :) Hebrew would also make a nice language of sorcery, come to think of it.
> New Pelorian: Arabic****
That propably works well. With the sort of islamic feel of the spreading faith of the Goddess. I think I'll adopt that too.
> ** Changed from Turkish to reduce confusion with Pentan names. Also, the
> Persian influences on Carmania (dualistic religion, 'Shah', etc) are too
> strong.
Hmm. I'll have to think about this. No I don't... If I already have Cataphractoi there, it makes sense to have the language from which the word comes from. Thanks.
> *** I disagree that this should be greek, for three reasons. First, I want
> to preserve Greek for the Pelandans, who have no greater connection to
> firespeech than the dara happans do. Second, given that this is bronze age,
> ancient greek wouldn't be old enough. Finally, hebrew was the original
> monotheism.
Ancient greek is from bronze age, surely. But it's just a matter of choise and esoteric taste.
> **** Of course, changing New Pelorian from Latin to Arabic will mean that
> I'll have to rename a huge number of NPC's, especially from TotRM - no more
> Appius Luxius! So there's more work in that. But on the plus side, that
> means I can reuse some of the common source material without people knowing
> exactly what's going on.
My toughts exactly :)
-Adept
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