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MerryMortician
Explorer
This is fascinating stuff. Thank you all for the answers. I'll second the relevance of a Wiki page but I'm woefully inexperienced with the coding and think I might flub it up. In general, were real-world languages selected more often based on phonetic sounds or on a certain "feel" of cultural similarities?
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
I liked the feel of German for Heinrich
GlassEye
Adventurer
We do have a wiki page for Languages. It would be a small matter to add a paragraph outlining the language equivalencies.
I'd add to the discussion that I've also (as DM) used Ghoti as the language for the tribesmen in the Grasslands of the Pell even though it isn't listed on the wiki. And while Scott uses German as the equivalent of Old Landellian, I think Systole originally intended it to be more like Latin, the ancestral language of the other Landellian languages now only spoken in remote and secluded areas.
As for why certain language were used I think it is both: some based on phonetic sounds and some on the feel of cultural similarities.
I'd add to the discussion that I've also (as DM) used Ghoti as the language for the tribesmen in the Grasslands of the Pell even though it isn't listed on the wiki. And while Scott uses German as the equivalent of Old Landellian, I think Systole originally intended it to be more like Latin, the ancestral language of the other Landellian languages now only spoken in remote and secluded areas.
As for why certain language were used I think it is both: some based on phonetic sounds and some on the feel of cultural similarities.
FrancisJohn
Explorer
Well, maenor lists ancient landellian... That could be Latin?
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
I am thinking the Latin is more recent, the German more old and distant.
MerryMortician
Explorer
I don't see anything on the Wiki and I haven't come across anything in previous adventures I've read. Does Tritower have any standing military strength beyond a local militia? Or do they count on Venza? I'm putting the finishing touches on my new character on paper before transcribing to the Wiki and I don't want to contradict anything previously established.
sunshadow21
Explorer
They have a combination of militia and enough regular troops to comfortably cover their immediate sphere of influence in case of a sudden emergency and keep banditry well in check. They wouldn't be able to go invading anybody with their forces, but any invading forces would get a strong immediate reaction until Venzan troops could show up, chase them away, and pursue them.
FrancisJohn
Explorer
Did the appearance of Francis John in Yarvendul cause a rift in the space time continuum?
