Does the linguistic background for Gorbesh have an RL analog? If so, is it the same thing Kaldar names are based off of? If not, is there some other precedent in the lore of the game for developing Kaldar names? And otherwise, what personal inspirations have those of you who are big into the lore used to come up with the name for your Kaldar?
DBABIASH
DUNTS2
Re: What is in a name?
02/15/2016 10:34 AM CST
While I can't speak to any RL analog for the liguistics of the Gorbesh language, I can at least share how I chose a surname for my Kaldar. For what it's worth, I chose my character's first name before I really knew much of the game's lore, so it doesn't fit into the lore well, but I figured I could at least make a pass at something meaningful for his last name.
His backstory has him coming from a family that had been heavily involved in the priesthood of Orisas, prior to the Kaldar/Gorbesh schism, so i wanted that reflected in the name. I hit up the book of Gorbesh language (https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Gorbesh_Language_%28book%29) and rifled through the glossary with the intent of crafting something meaningful. After sticking words together and without any concrete knowledge of how they'd actually be constructed, I came up with "Leshyahen" as a melding of "leshya" and "ahen" to bring together "voice" and "spirit".
If I could go back and choose a new first name, armed with a better understanding of the lore and naming conventions, I likely would, but at this point I handwave "Broichan" as a name that his parents came across during the migration into Kermoria and found fitting for one of their children.
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His backstory has him coming from a family that had been heavily involved in the priesthood of Orisas, prior to the Kaldar/Gorbesh schism, so i wanted that reflected in the name. I hit up the book of Gorbesh language (https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Gorbesh_Language_%28book%29) and rifled through the glossary with the intent of crafting something meaningful. After sticking words together and without any concrete knowledge of how they'd actually be constructed, I came up with "Leshyahen" as a melding of "leshya" and "ahen" to bring together "voice" and "spirit".
If I could go back and choose a new first name, armed with a better understanding of the lore and naming conventions, I likely would, but at this point I handwave "Broichan" as a name that his parents came across during the migration into Kermoria and found fitting for one of their children.
For some reason you just can't stop thinking about glarmencouplers.
GODKING
Re: What is in a name?
02/15/2016 02:06 PM CST
As a gnome, for my ranger character's last name I seem to recall I got at least part of the name from a Gorbesh word meaning "small" or "little". We gnomes take great pride in our small stature.
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THAYET
Re: What is in a name?
02/15/2016 03:39 PM CST
I use traditional Icelandic names with a dash of slavic.
The word 'kaldar' is itself a word in Icelandic.
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The word 'kaldar' is itself a word in Icelandic.
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ISHARON
Re: What is in a name?
02/15/2016 05:25 PM CST
>>Dbabiash: Does the linguistic background for Gorbesh have an RL analog? If so, is it the same thing Kaldar names are based off of? If not, is there some other precedent in the lore of the game for developing Kaldar names? And otherwise, what personal inspirations have those of you who are big into the lore used to come up with the name for your Kaldar?
I, too, would be curious to know whether Kaldar (whether back in Albaria or here in Kermoria) have different naming conventions from the Gorbesh.
When I name characters, I look at the racial language dictionaries, language imitator, and canon NPC names. Sometimes I use actual words. Other times I just modify existing words or names or even just make something up that looks like it could be a dictionary word.
https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Gorbesh_Lexicon
http://www.gridaksma.com/tsarenzi/words.html
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I, too, would be curious to know whether Kaldar (whether back in Albaria or here in Kermoria) have different naming conventions from the Gorbesh.
When I name characters, I look at the racial language dictionaries, language imitator, and canon NPC names. Sometimes I use actual words. Other times I just modify existing words or names or even just make something up that looks like it could be a dictionary word.
https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Gorbesh_Lexicon
http://www.gridaksma.com/tsarenzi/words.html
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PRIMEQ
Re: What is in a name?
02/15/2016 05:44 PM CST
Like Isharon, I tend to find my inspiration in the racial language. That is, after all, what these people speak, and it stands to reason that their names would stem from similar sounds.
The exception in this case appears to be that Gorbesh emperors and generals often have names that include the letter X -- for example, Xesior, Ixas, and see also the gods Xosiurion and Xin'Alaudas. Check out the Albarian timeline for more. However, X literally never appears in the Gorbesh lexicon. I have to think that this was because the GM who wrote the timeline did so before Gorbesh itself was written, but who knows? It may be that they only use the letter X for names, possibly only for certain people.
Ultimately, I chose to stick more closely to the Gorbesh language because I felt that was the safest, especially for a modern Kaldar (as opposed to the Imperial Gorbesh found in the timeline). I went with sounds that were pleasing to me, with a little bit of an eye toward where those sounds come from. It turns out "nave" means "to question" and by chance that worked out very well for my character.
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The exception in this case appears to be that Gorbesh emperors and generals often have names that include the letter X -- for example, Xesior, Ixas, and see also the gods Xosiurion and Xin'Alaudas. Check out the Albarian timeline for more. However, X literally never appears in the Gorbesh lexicon. I have to think that this was because the GM who wrote the timeline did so before Gorbesh itself was written, but who knows? It may be that they only use the letter X for names, possibly only for certain people.
Ultimately, I chose to stick more closely to the Gorbesh language because I felt that was the safest, especially for a modern Kaldar (as opposed to the Imperial Gorbesh found in the timeline). I went with sounds that were pleasing to me, with a little bit of an eye toward where those sounds come from. It turns out "nave" means "to question" and by chance that worked out very well for my character.
- Navesi
