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It's also "nein," which is German for "no" rather than "nine" which is English for..."nine".that's.... a valid point. And a recurring joke during the game
It's also "nein," which is German for "no" rather than "nine" which is English for..."nine".that's.... a valid point. And a recurring joke during the game
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Critical Role's Mighty Nein Heads to Prime Video
Dungeons & Dragons actual play titan Critical Role has secured a massive deal with Amazon Studios to bring the Mighty Nein to animated life.gizmodo.com
they use german as a reference for zemnian in the show.
"From a gameplay perspective, Exandrian languages sometimes reference real-world languages but do not have direct equivalents. Zemnian, spoken by Liam O'Brien's character Caleb Widogast, uses German as a reference language, though Matthew Mercer did not consider them equivalent.[1]"
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Languages of Exandria
Many different languages are spoken across Exandria. Common is the most widely spoken among humanoids, though most races have a language associated with their people and some geographical locations have regional languages. Many creatures understand spoken language but not speak themselves, and...criticalrole.fandom.com
Zemnian is effectively German for reasons of Liam O’Brien wanted to play with the little bit of German he remembered from school
I agree with you.Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'm a much bigger fan of the Nein than Vox Machina (minus Percy and Grog).
It's a long-standing tradition to misnumber things. It goes back at least to the Battle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans, my aunt Fanny!Haven't seen/listened to any of them, but might be like Ben Folds Five, which was a three man band.
All of their group names are terrible. The current team is Belles Hells, which feels like they got 75% of the way to coming up with a good name, broke for lunch, and never came back.Also I want to go on record and say Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein are terrible names for groups, and this one is particularly bad because there appear to 7 of them!
So 301, then?300 Spartans, my aunt Fanny!
I thought they were saying a Mighty No!
Short version: They call themselves "The Mighty Nein" because it's a really bad pun.It's also "nein," which is German for "no" rather than "nine" which is English for..."nine".
Is this a Star trek joke?7/9 will make sense in the end.
You didn't listen to/watch Campaign 2, did you? They make the joke there.Is this a Star trek joke?
I am sure by the time I replied to this, someone has mentioned that that was the long running in character joke concerning the Mighty Nein.Ok so non-Critical Role follower - do I understand correctly that this is the second Critical Role campaign (Vox Machina being the first), with presumably mostly the same VA, but playing totally different characters in a totally different campaign in the same approximate setting?
Also I want to go on record and say Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein are terrible names for groups, and this one is particularly bad because there appear to 7 of them!
Still, hopefully it's as good as or better than Vox Machina, which I've been mostly enjoying on Prime (I wish they'd use more actual spells and fewer generic energy blasts though).
I am a fan of the livestreams, and came to accept both names in their original contexts. From the perspective of marketing their "all professional voice actors" gimmick in the early days of the livestream, Vox Machina was a solid name, even if said meta reference in Latin made no in-world sense. Mighty Nein was one of those stupid in-jokes that makes no particular sense but that you have a certain loyalty to if you were there for. But I still agree that as names to brand their cartoon shows with they are sub-optimal (even with a cool logo).Also I want to go on record and say Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein are terrible names for groups, and this one is particularly bad because there appear to 7 of them!
It was 300 Spartans. The perpetual failure to mention that there was also 700 Thespians, and a substantial number of the Spartans' quasi-slave heliots, who died just the same alongside them, does not change the number of Spartans which, to my recollection, the historical sources and other evidence generally agree on.It's a long-standing tradition to misnumber things. It goes back at least to the Battle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans, my aunt Fanny!
Agreed. I still watch…most episodes. For me it’s that everyone went with a joke character with a tragic backstory, except Liam. Like they all got together and decided that Jester and Caleb would be great templates and everyone made a kinda-funny, kinda-tragic character. The result just doesn’t come together as a whole.I really wish I could get into the new tabletop show. Belles Hells. I dont know what about it turns me off of it unlike the previous 2 shows