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Celephais
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 Posted - 22 Apr 2023 : 01:48:09
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So, I've an ongoing project where I've been taking real-world shanties and tweaking them to make them fit the Realms. Most recently "A Sailor's Consolation" came up while I had my large music collection on shuffle and I decided to do that one next. What I'm stuck on is the concept of the "Nor'Wester" mentioned in the song. It seems to refer to two different types of weather phenomena: a type of wind pattern in New Zealand and a type of storm that apparently takes place in the spring in India and Bangladesh. Is there anything analogous to this in the Realms that I could use?
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HighOne
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 22 Apr 2023 : 16:48:10
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I think you were misled by Wikipedia's disambiguation page. "Nor'wester" literally just means a wind blowing from the northwest (just as a "nor'easter" is a wind blowing from the northeast).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nor%27wester
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nor%27easter
You'll find both words used in countless books and novels set in the Age of Sail, usually in the mouths of pirates and sailors as they chart a ship's course. I'm sure I've seen it used in Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, etc.
Since Faerun is above the equator, a nor'wester would most likely be a cold wind, since it's blowing down from the north pole and possibly across the Great Glacier. |
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Celephais
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 22 Apr 2023 : 17:52:51
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Originally posted by HighOne
I think you were misled by Wikipedia's disambiguation page. "Nor'wester" literally just means a wind blowing from the northwest (just as a "nor'easter" is a wind blowing from the northeast).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nor%27wester
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nor%27easter
You'll find both words used in countless books and novels set in the Age of Sail, usually in the mouths of pirates and sailors as they chart a ship's course. I'm sure I've seen it used in Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, etc.
Since Faerun is above the equator, a nor'wester would most likely be a cold wind, since it's blowing down from the north pole and possibly across the Great Glacier.
Yeah I kinda figured, I was just trying to see if there was anything more Realms-y out there as Nor'Wester sounds kinda generic. I'm just being curious and picky, I suppose. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 22 Apr 2023 : 18:38:55
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| Depending on whether you want to play the "very cold wind" angle or the "powerful storm" angle, you could make up a term referencing either Auril or Talos. |
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