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Fae language(s)
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:53 am
by Arena Helerin
I'm a bit curious if anyone has any knowledge of the Fae languages both in historical background and possibly in dictionary/lexicon. For example, is the language of the nymphs the same as that of the fairies or are they seperate? Are there some nymph/fairy phrases that can be used in conversation? It would be nice to have a few words that I could throw around.
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 12:22 pm
by diddeecoy
I have a character that would be very interested in the same... I think 'fairy' is like a generic term that covers nymphs, pixies, nixies, sylphs, dryads, etc. , rather than a 'type' of fey.
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 1:18 am
by Gairus
If you possess a familiar and go through the (v) voice system, does it not print the text said by the pixie? I KNOW if seen it going to text on the screen... somewhere.
There's a start.
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 3:31 am
by Arena Helerin
Yes, that will get you three statements....a battle cry, yes, and no. The problem is that is all that you will find, and there isn't a translation, though you can make a bit of a guess what it is.
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:19 am
by diddeecoy
yes and no would be good ... what are they?
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:41 am
by Gairus
So little as those will help. Thought you'd get more though
V'heress doesn't go around speaking whole sentences of elven.
The person with the character who only speaks fae is a bit screwed though
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:23 am
by Arena Helerin
Voice commands...
Battle cry: Fliji yuma boogba!
Yes: Wimi, ninfa.
No: Namo...fima ni.
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:58 am
by Gairus
After fiddling for a while:
In the toolset, placed an ambient sound and "added" to it.
Gave me a list of filters.
Chose "Creatures"
The range "C_Fairy_<X>" was the whole list SANS text
The non gibberish ones Arena didn't find were (as near as I could figure):
_bat2 "meetyo falifey inca""
_slct "Soy-na"
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 4:15 pm
by Orleron
There's a few languages, actually.
Sylvan is the language common to all O'Ma fairies. On Avlis, Sylvan is a derivative of the spirit language, so it is about as close to elven as english and german.
Then each fairy race has a bastardized version of sylvan, which has become its own language over time. So there's nymph, dryad, pixie, fairy, etc.
Titanian fairies follow the Sylvan of the other worlds, so it's different than Avlisssian Sylvan.
Centaurs on Avlis have their own mishmosh language which combines both Titanian and O'Ma sylvan.