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Old December 8th, 2016, 01:14 AM
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Re: A look into Heroscape name pronunciation and backstory

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Originally Posted by Xorlof View Post
I've started listening to this. It sounds like, @Majora's Incarnation , that you have done quite a bit of research on this, but are you guys punking us on some of these pronunciations?
I looked up and listened to people speak Old Norse, and how the sounds were made, and specifically how they compared it to the Spanish vowel system, it made it easier for me to understand it that way.

I did as much research as I could on all the other names, but I did point out that English has its ways of pronouncing names, in the case for Jandar, the J makes a Y sound in Old Norse, but it has been repeated in things like the webisodes as Jandar with a J.

Given how the Old Norse would pronounce it and how the characters pronounced it, I wanted to point out it was a possible indication of culture differences between worlds. Although I'm sure it's not the intention, the idea I wanted to suggest is that different people from different worlds would say names differently according to the customs of their dialect and accent and we thought it would be cool to capture that in the character interactions.

So in a nutshell, sure there are specific ways for the names, but in any event, depending on the world, time, and setting, the way to say it would be different so any pronunciation could go in a multiverse context. I wanted to make it seem that way despite the best way people could say it if they had the prior knowledge of such, aka in the scene where Raelin says Jandar with a Y and the Airborne Elite earlier called him Jandar with a J.

Thanks for asking!

- MI

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