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09-26-1997, 06:17 PM #1FinnssonGuest
Klessberg, humorous names, and
> BTW, the names of some of the Brectur provinces are pretty funny when
> you translate them from German to English. "Frog palace" and "three
> weasels" indeed! The German-English mishmash of other names is kind of
> jarring, though, and makes them almost as hard to pronounce as the
> bizarre names in Anuire.
We talked about that some time ago. I'm a scandinavian, so I think that the
Rjurik names are VERY funny (sometimes). I can mention that my city is in the
White Witch realm (Pitea, and my father comes from Boden : ).
I thought that we could put together a list over all the funny names they use
(just for fun).
//Finnsson
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09-26-1997, 09:22 PM #2Morten HellesGuest
Klessberg, humorous names, and
Finnsson wrote:
> We talked about that some time ago. I'm a scandinavian, so I think
> that the Rjurik names are VERY funny (sometimes). I can mention that
> my city is in the White Witch realm (Pitea, and my father comes from
> Boden : ). I thought that we could put together a list over all the
> funny names they use (just for fun).
Yeah, the Vejle province in the White Witch realm is a city in Denmark.
So is Viborg/Rjuvik. And 'Odemark' means 'Wasteland' in english! :)
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09-27-1997, 12:09 AM #3Ed StarkGuest
Klessberg, humorous names, and
At 09:02 AM 9/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I am going to be starting a campaign set in northeastern Brechtur soon
>and one of my players pointed out a problem (or maybe it's a "feechur")
>on the maps: the Klessberg. It is described as a glacier but the
>terrain that the Klessberg covers wouldn't form glaciers except in the
>western area. The whole eastern part should probably be a tundra. Did
>someone goof in designing this area? Should there be mountains all
>along the northern coast? And please, no handwaving excuses about "it's
>magic".
Sorry that this will sound like a handwaving excuse, but, the simple fact
is, Aebrynnis isn't Earth and, because of that, some things work
differently there. We checked out our fiction-related climateology (sp?)
with people who know what they're talking about and they said things could
work the way we postulate. Then again, they might not--it's a different
world. What it came down to was, we wanted a glacier, we came up with
reasons why it COULD be a glacier, and we went with it.
>BTW, the names of some of the Brectur provinces are pretty funny when
>you translate them from German to English. "Frog palace" and "three
>weasels" indeed! The German-English mishmash of other names is kind of
>jarring, though, and makes them almost as hard to pronounce as the
>bizarre names in Anuire.
Again, Brechtur isn't Germany and neither high nor low Brecht is German. I
have to confess, though, my editor on that project did tend to stray a
little too close (for my taste) toward real world German. I guess she felt
that was more "realistic" than my made-up Germanic names.
As far as the German-English mishmash, I can explain that as a
deliberate move. That mishmash reflects the fact that Brechtur was not only
conquered (or, at least, occupied by) Anuire (which uses many
English-sounding names as well as French derivates), but was set up as
something of a cultural mishmash on its own. "Everyone comes to Brechtur";
a higher percentage of the Great Bay's population is non-native in ancestry
than any other area on the world. That leads to strange, often
unpronounceable names, sort of like America. Bastardizations of words and
dialects led to the creation of low Brecht as a language, and the naming
system comes from that.
Ed Stark
Game Designer, Wizards of the Coast/TSR Division
Asst. Brand Manager, BIRTHRIGHT/GREYHAWK/MARVEL Group
TSR Website: http://www.tsrinc.com
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