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Nothing can help them either, considering I update Dark Councilors exactly when I finish an update, usually without proper proofreading .
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Randomly, these are songs I associate with characters, while this post is short. I often play these songs when writing their segments . Don't read too much into it, but I thought it'd be fun to share.
Verdigris - "The Land of Ice and Snow" Stratovarius
Hoquer - "O Brother Sleep" Diary of Dreams (voice included)
Nozoma - "Somewhere" Within Temptation
Kamina - "Misre Mani" Era
Zixer - "Cathar Rythm" Era
Selia - "Leaden Legacy" After Forever
Edge - "Come Night I Reign" Lake of Tears
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Randomly, these are songs I associate with characters, while this post is short. I often play these songs when writing their segments . Don't read too much into it, but I thought it'd be fun to share.
Verdigris - "The Land of Ice and Snow" Stratovarius
Hoquer - "O Brother Sleep" Diary of Dreams (voice included)
Nozoma - "Somewhere" Within Temptation
Kamina - "Misre Mani" Era
Zixer - "Cathar Rythm" Era
Selia - "Leaden Legacy" After Forever
Edge - "Come Night I Reign" Lake of Tears
"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
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So exactly how advanced is azzarn civilization technologically? If they're so magically advanced, then it follows that they must have an extensive knowledge of biology, chemistry and physics... and yet we don't get much of an idea as to the breadth of their applied science beyond magic. There doesn't seem to be any electricity, gunpowder or advanced machinery.
Maybe they're weak mathematically? Syvorian currency seems rather bizarre, and a mathematical weakness would explain engineering delinquencies with millenia under a very scientifically-minded people. As for guns, maybe magic already fills the role of the powerful ranged weapon and firearms are simply unnecessary. I'd also bet that civilization was far more advanced in ages past. I have nothing to back this up other than my assumption that allignment-defined traits are unnatural.
Bah, sorry about that. I was going to ask Umber if he ever reads fiction and if so what kind of stories he likes. ^_^
Maybe they're weak mathematically? Syvorian currency seems rather bizarre, and a mathematical weakness would explain engineering delinquencies with millenia under a very scientifically-minded people. As for guns, maybe magic already fills the role of the powerful ranged weapon and firearms are simply unnecessary. I'd also bet that civilization was far more advanced in ages past. I have nothing to back this up other than my assumption that allignment-defined traits are unnatural.
Bah, sorry about that. I was going to ask Umber if he ever reads fiction and if so what kind of stories he likes. ^_^
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Doubtful in the extreme. Maybe magic could replace the need for artillery, but it doesn't seem common enough to replace guns.As for guns, maybe magic already fills the role of the powerful ranged weapon and firearms are simply unnecessary.
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Huh? It seems very common. Well, destructive magic does, at least. Remember the Llanlleian grunts? They were throwing around spells in between their melee attacks. Surely only real wizards and other magic specialists can use the big spells, but the fact that common foot soldiers also use it suggest that DCverse's magic has a more shallow learning curve than some other worlds (either that or they use it via enchanted artifacts).Ford Prefect wrote:Doubtful in the extreme. Maybe magic could replace the need for artillery, but it doesn't seem common enough to replace guns.
Besides, in all that time surely someone thought of using an explosive to fire a projectile through a tube.
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What?Darth Raptor wrote: Huh? It seems very common. Well, destructive magic does, at least. Remember the Llanlleian grunts? They were throwing around spells in between their melee attacks. Surely only real wizards and other magic specialists can use the big spells, but the fact that common foot soldiers also use it suggest that DCverse's magic has a more shallow learning curve than some other worlds (either that or they use it via enchanted artifacts).
What is Project Zohar?
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"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
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I kinda saw that coming from Verdigris,
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It didn't until... now!
Krym. That sound like anything else? Not that I know of, ...
Krym. That sound like anything else? Not that I know of, ...
"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
Sounds good to me.Pick wrote:It didn't until... now!
Krym. That sound like anything else? Not that I know of, ...
Is the rest of the DC world, beyond the landmass occupied by Llanellia and Syvoria, and the mountains that cap them to the North, ocean? Have any azzarn attempted to cross the waters seen in your earlier map?
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Stanislav Petrov- The man who saved the world
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Never heard of it, but these things are good to know with naming (which is hard. And sucks.)
Disdazen.
Disdazen.
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"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
Too many syllables. Names should be monosyllabic or bisyllabic, often the latter. Look at actual cultures that have names for important things like where they are. Like the two classical languagesPick wrote:Never heard of it, but these things are good to know with naming (which is hard. And sucks.)
How about Mielakora?
Latin: Latium/Italia
Greece: Hellas
I like Krym more. Honestly it's not noticable to anyone except someone who reads Dragonlance and even then I took it as a concious obscure reference.
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Except the azzarn don't recognize that Lazaari exist, that is, if you said the word to any of them it would be meaningless .
"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
But they got many words from the Zaa, who do.Pick wrote:Except the azzarn don't recognize that Lazaari exist, that is, if you said the word to any of them it would be meaningless .
So what would the Zaa know their world as, really?
And I still like Krym. It is short, simple, and sounds like a real place. (Probably because The Krim is another name for Crimea/Southern Ukraine, although I think it is archaeic and refers to a slightly different, more westerly spot).
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Actually, I've settled on Kao, since it's short and doesn't mean anything that I'm aware of .
"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
Well it does refer to a certain bovine food animal.Pick wrote:Actually, I've settled on Kao, since it's short and doesn't mean anything that I'm aware of .
Sounds nice. I get sort of easter vibes from it, since AO=OW is a sort of chinese type of sound. Us dirty anglophones would have said Kow or maybe even used a C given the sound.
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Kaoen.
And you need to pronounce it like a bloody Oregonian (sounds like it rhymes with "k-yow") Though suddenly I'm wondering if the other names are being perceived as I do... .
And you need to pronounce it like a bloody Oregonian (sounds like it rhymes with "k-yow") Though suddenly I'm wondering if the other names are being perceived as I do... .
"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
Well I'm willing to bet Fvier is wrong in my head: Is it F-Veer? Fiver? Five-Ee-Er?Pick wrote:Kaoen.
And you need to pronounce it like a bloody Oregonian (sounds like it rhymes with "k-yow") Though suddenly I'm wondering if the other names are being perceived as I do... .
And it is Hai-Rahl and Hokker for Hyral and Hoquer, right?
Caia would be K+eye-ah and not Kay-ah, right?
At this rate you'll have to make a list...
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Just do what Robert Jordan did. Make a recording of yourself pronouncing all the names/words you created, and then refuse to speak with anyone who mispronounces them.Pick wrote:Though suddenly I'm wondering if the other names are being perceived as I do... .
An Erisian Hymn:
Onward Christian Soldiers, / Onward Buddhist Priests.
Onward, Fruits of Islam, / Fight 'till you're deceased.
Fight your little battles, / Join in thickest fray;
For the Greater Glory / of Dis-cord-i-a!
Yah, yah, yah, / Yah-yah-yah-yah plfffffffft!
Onward Christian Soldiers, / Onward Buddhist Priests.
Onward, Fruits of Islam, / Fight 'till you're deceased.
Fight your little battles, / Join in thickest fray;
For the Greater Glory / of Dis-cord-i-a!
Yah, yah, yah, / Yah-yah-yah-yah plfffffffft!