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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 7763559" data-attributes="member: 2518"><p>I do not dislike "near-earth" setting per se. For example I liked the Warhammer Fantasy world. My problem with the 7th sea world was how little effort they seem to have put into the setting. As if two college boys with bad grades in both geography and history pooled their limited knowledge of Europe and changed the names a bit by throwing darts at dictionaries.</p><p>"What do we know of France?"</p><p>"They are all aristocratic snobs"</p><p>"Good, lets put it in there"</p><p>"Oh, and Napoleon"</p><p>"Great, so Napoleon is an important NPC there. Now we only need to find a obscure French person whos name we can use for the country"</p><p>When it came to Spain they even stopped trying and took the historical name.</p><p></p><p>Their "Germany" (Eisen) is especially bad for me as I speak German and their pseudogerman is pure nonsense. Mostly several German words with at best a thematically connection and wrong conjugation mixed together.</p><p>It would be like calling a sword style the "Airwindycloud Style". Thats about the level the German names are in 7th sea.</p><p>And even if you just have single words it often gets silly. For example the elite force of Eisen is called "Iron Guard of Eisen". Thing is, "Eisen" means "Iron" in German. So you have the Iron Guard of Iron. That is a relatively minor thing compared to many other names, but still facepalm worthy and kills immersion.</p><p></p><p>Edit: Here are some translations of actual Fantasy-German sword schools in 7th sea</p><p>- Accomplishfortress (one word)</p><p>- Succeed</p><p>- Steep</p><p>- Inevitable</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Derren, post: 7763559, member: 2518"] I do not dislike "near-earth" setting per se. For example I liked the Warhammer Fantasy world. My problem with the 7th sea world was how little effort they seem to have put into the setting. As if two college boys with bad grades in both geography and history pooled their limited knowledge of Europe and changed the names a bit by throwing darts at dictionaries. "What do we know of France?" "They are all aristocratic snobs" "Good, lets put it in there" "Oh, and Napoleon" "Great, so Napoleon is an important NPC there. Now we only need to find a obscure French person whos name we can use for the country" When it came to Spain they even stopped trying and took the historical name. Their "Germany" (Eisen) is especially bad for me as I speak German and their pseudogerman is pure nonsense. Mostly several German words with at best a thematically connection and wrong conjugation mixed together. It would be like calling a sword style the "Airwindycloud Style". Thats about the level the German names are in 7th sea. And even if you just have single words it often gets silly. For example the elite force of Eisen is called "Iron Guard of Eisen". Thing is, "Eisen" means "Iron" in German. So you have the Iron Guard of Iron. That is a relatively minor thing compared to many other names, but still facepalm worthy and kills immersion. Edit: Here are some translations of actual Fantasy-German sword schools in 7th sea - Accomplishfortress (one word) - Succeed - Steep - Inevitable [/QUOTE]
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