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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nathan C." data-source="post: 8212876" data-attributes="member: 7029503">I don't think it's a petty critique. It's not what I expected people to bring up, but that doesn't make it any less useful. The four Otherworldly Domains are themed around the range of human emotions. Their physical environments where themed after their emotional component, not the other way around. Tiranmairg corresponds to sorrow, Scaymlah to fear, Culghairm to disgust, and Adhlacad to Rage (happiness is reflected by Andulra). The "Woeful", "Gloaming", "Plagued", and "Blazing" elements of the names were just as important as the "Frosts", "Woods", "Mucks", and "Wastes" parts. I was worried that the thematic association would be too obvious (especially that I state the emotion they are themed after in the first sentence of each domain), but I must have overestimated how effectively an outside observer could have caught on to that.I neglected to provide a pronunciation guide because all of the words pronounced exactly as they are spelled, with the exception of the "air" grouping that I thought people could catch on to quickly. People seldom ever explain the pronunciation for a word with phonetic spelling. I shouldn't have assumed it would make sense to others. I will mention that in the next draft of the Guidebook. Either way, that should let you in on how to say it. With that pronunciation cleared up I hope that makes it a little clearer why the names are like they are. If you wouldn't mind, could you pronounce them like that and see how they sound. I know what I think the mental effects of their sounds are but I want to know what others would notice. Also, just for some extra context, all of the names are based on Irish Gaelic words for concepts related to that domain. For example, "Scaymlah" comes from the Irish word for terror sometimes anglicized as "Sceimhle" (pronunciation isn't the same, but it's somewhat close). The Otherworld in DoS was already based off of Irish concepts of Tir Na Nog and similar Spirit Worlds, and the language itself has a naturally mysterious and magical ring to it, so I thought it would be best for the names to sound like they came from Gaelic.</blockquote>

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