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Aquanova
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 Posted - 22 Dec 2008 : 22:17:22
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By the gods, it's been forever since I last visited Candlekeep.
So I looked all around the web for an elven (hell, even a Tolkien elvish) word for "deer/stag/cervine," and found nothing.
I ask because I'm conceiving things for a homebrew setting, and I really loved the idea of a tauric elf/fey that's half elf/half-deer. Because language building is so darned hard I just plan on taking using FR elves (including their language) and porting them in, and I wanted something I could plug into "___'Tel Quessir."
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Lord Karsus
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Posted - 22 Dec 2008 : 22:31:26
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-There isn't a Faerūnian Elven term for 'Deer' (Or any other derivative thereof: Stag, Doe, etc.) that has been "made public" to us, sorry.
-You could use the catch-all term previously used for the Sharn, FhaornQuessir, which translates as 'Transformed People'. |
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Edited by - Lord Karsus on 22 Dec 2008 22:33:01 |
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 23 Dec 2008 : 03:21:40
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That's kinda like the hybsil, detailed in Monsters of Faerūn -- except the hybsil is a bit smaller and is part antelope. It is something already in existing Realmslore, though.  |
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Aquanova
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Posted - 23 Dec 2008 : 05:48:26
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Originally posted by Dagnirion
-There isn't a Faerūnian Elven term for 'Deer' (Or any other derivative thereof: Stag, Doe, etc.) that has been "made public" to us, sorry.
-You could use the catch-all term previously used for the Sharn, FhaornQuessir, which translates as 'Transformed People'.
Yeah, I looked over Candlekeep's own compendium of elven words, but the closest I could find desirable would be "Vandor Tel'Quessir," and even then that's pretty vague.
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
That's kinda like the hybsil, detailed in Monsters of Faerūn -- except the hybsil is a bit smaller and is part antelope. It is something already in existing Realmslore, though.
Yeah, I knew about them, but they're kinda tiny. I was picturing something a bit more majestic.  |
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Lord Karsus
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dwarvenranger
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Posted - 23 Dec 2008 : 16:06:53
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 23 Dec 2008 : 16:33:13
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quote:
Originally posted by Aquanova
quote:
Originally posted by Dagnirion
-There isn't a Faerūnian Elven term for 'Deer' (Or any other derivative thereof: Stag, Doe, etc.) that has been "made public" to us, sorry.
-You could use the catch-all term previously used for the Sharn, FhaornQuessir, which translates as 'Transformed People'.
Yeah, I looked over Candlekeep's own compendium of elven words, but the closest I could find desirable would be "Vandor Tel'Quessir," and even then that's pretty vague.
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
That's kinda like the hybsil, detailed in Monsters of Faerūn -- except the hybsil is a bit smaller and is part antelope. It is something already in existing Realmslore, though.
Yeah, I knew about them, but they're kinda tiny. I was picturing something a bit more majestic.
You could make them half-elf, half-hybsil (and hybsil are a type of fey). That way you'd have the size, and still have the basic body type. |
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Markustay
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Posted - 23 Dec 2008 : 17:21:00
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| And in the RW, crossbreeds actually tend to be larger then either parent, so that works perfectly. |
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Aquanova
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Posted - 23 Dec 2008 : 20:55:24
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Could work... fluff it so they're say, whitetail deer instead of antelope; and since deer are smaller than horses, a cervine centaur would be smaller than an equine one....
...now I just need a nice name for them.... Maybe I'll just go the lazy route and go "Aras Tel'Quessir," using the Middle-Earth elvish word for "deer." It seems legit for Faerun elven. |
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Lord Karsus
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Ionik Knight
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Posted - 23 Dec 2008 : 21:12:20
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I've done some checking and cannot find the Candlekeep Elven Dictionary. I'm embarrassed to ask, but could someone give me link?  |
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Lord Karsus
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Ionik Knight
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Posted - 23 Dec 2008 : 22:00:06
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| Thanks Dagni |
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Elven word for "deer"?
