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Old 04-03-2008, 01:17 PM
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Darkfall Urk Blah

Since there will be different races and items, etc, I think it would be great if we brainstormed right now what we will call these things in Darkfall. I've been learning a lot of Black Speech lately and I wanted to summarize what I've learned. I'll try to keep it as simple as possible for those orcs that don't like to learn new words. However, a nuuburn has over 50 unique words they have to remember, so I expect that adding a bit more Orcish to our vocabulary couldn't be all too painful. Keep in mind, these ideas are only beta :)

For the races, I'll italicize the words that are not real Black Speech. I put the words I had to extrapolate in quotes, and the words with parantheses are the real translations. I tried to have some "Oomie sounding" alternatives, but I prefer that we choose black speech names for things. I underlined the words I like the most (usually because they were the shortest and easiest).

Human = Oomie, Shara

Bloodclan Ork = Ork, Urk

Mirdain (Elf) = Elb, Elv, Mirdum, Golog, Karanzol, Paken, Zan, Albh

Dwarf = Liddulguy, Shakutarbik, Vok, Gazat

Mahirim = Mahirim, Wolfie, Naur (werewolf), Burujak "Man Wolf", Scarashar "Wolf Man"

Alfar = Alfar, Darkelb, Burzan "Darkelf", Zanorrat "Elfdark"


I can't decide on the Mahirim. Comments appreciated.
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