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Mass Effect: Borealis

Here, as a token of appreciation for the writing I've been seeing from you lot, have an awesome picture.



HMS King George V firing at her nemesis, the Bismarck. If only there were any decent 1930s-1940s NRPs around... :D

The Prophecy

A note to those people working with Iridiel and Domhnall; I will be focusing my posting energies on a post that is set before Aemoten and his party arrive and find Iridiel and her little group. It breaks the flow slightly, but it will explain why Iridiel is so recalcitrant currently.

A Gilded Throne- The Shadow Looms (Recruiting)

*pokes, interested*

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Roll call?

Lurker here, reporting for duty!

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"Contact!"

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We're getting more 'splosions than a Michael Bay movie.

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I only have a couple of characters with tragic/really horrible back stories. But to be honest, you kinda have to make the character based around that backstory because it will affect every aspect of their life, be it through fear, bitterness, hatred or other base emotions, jealousy etc. One of my favourite characters (sadly ineligible to be played here, though if custom races were allowed, I'd be on it like a shot XD) was exiled unjustly in the subterranean realms of her race and has grown to hate those who exiled her and everything connected to them, it's formed the backbone of that character's view on life - fatalistic, black, forever the pessimist (or realist, as she calls herself) and fuelled by anger, rage and a desire to revenge herself on everyone responsible for her exile. But then, she's also not completely one-sided. She has a soft side, and when someone she cared about asked her 'What will you do after you'd indulged yourself in your little orgy of bloodshed?', that character did almost like a double-take. What *does* someone do after they've had their revenge? Does it give them inner peace? Or is it nothing more than a hollow victory, like Achilles' killing of Hector in the Iliad? When the motivation disappears, when you do finally hear the last pained gurgles as your scimitar plunges through your hated enemy's neck, what happens now? Is it over? Or is it just the beginning?

Every character is multi-faceted. If you fail to take that into account, or simply fail to understand that, then perhaps it's something you need to work on.

Just my £0.02 on the matter.

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Getting me started on torture might be the last topic you want to ask with me. XD @Sundered Echo has seen me do... many, many nasty things to my PCs. I even have a technical check list for Vellios though revealing that would be spoilers. >_>

@Fallenreaper

Isn't that what we're supposed to do to our characters? Make their lives utter hell and make them suffer as much as possible?

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*rips off your shirt and sees that you lied!* How dare you Dervish!

@Fallenreaper

The Prophecy

I did miss that, apparently... hmm... but since Olan hasn't heard either of them speaking in their own language yet, I suppose that he would address Iridiel in the dialect native to the highlanders, if such a thing exists. Failing that - if the dialects of their language aren't determined from that - he's liable to speak with no dialect at all, but rather... hmm... English fails me? I have no idea how to describe this in English. The variant of a language one learns in school, the kind of which is exaggeratedly correct and essentially impersonal?

@Dark Jack

There are several different dialects of the Eireannach language, each of them with their own particular sound and sometimes even their own wordings and spellings.

The primary dialect is known as Urban Eireann. To us on Earth, it would sound very similar to a Dubliner's accent, with all of the typical 'th' sounds as 't' and so on. Urban Eireann is very much more of a nobleman's accent than anything else, the commoners in and around Ath Cliath, Cill Chainnigh and several others in the very heart of the Contaetha speak Urban Eireann, and it's considered to be a sort of 'Received Pronunciation' for Eireann itself as a language (perhaps what you were trying to articulate in this post). A relevant offshoot of Urban Eireann is Garmanic, and Garmanic is what Iridiel speaks in - hence why it's the only regional dialect I'll bring up. Garmanic is centralised around the town of Loch Garman - Iridiel's home town - and the eastern edge of the Contaetha proper, including the regions of Lonfoirt and Chill Mhantáin. Garmanic is a smooth, rich-sounding dialect with much emphasis on the vowels, perhaps best described as a mixture between Welsh and southern Irish.

The second major dialect is Albhain, also known as the Forestfolk Tongue. Albhain is a harsher, more guttural dialect that sounds rougher on the ears and is much faster-paced than Eireann or Garmanic - to an inexperienced listener, a conversation between two eireannach speaking Albhain is almost incomprehensible. Every sentence is full of contractions where they can be fit in. An example sentence could be "Wha'hae y'be'lassie, ye've be'go'a'lon'tiim!" "Ach, I'sor'fatha, I'd be busy gatherin'th'sheep." Perhaps not difficult to understand when typed out like that, but in a conversation combined with the thick accents that Albhain speakers are notorious for, it's hard to keep up when spoken aloud. The best "Earth" dialect that I can relate to Albhain is a mixture of Highland Scots and Glaswegian. Domhnall is a speaker of Albhain, though I don't think his accent's quite as bad as perhaps a man from Inbhair Nes or Innse Gall would be (both towns are very deep into Albhain territory).

The third major dialect is Cymric. Cymric is a horrible dialect for outsiders to try and learn, and all I need say is: it's Welsh. If that alone doesn't make you want nothing to do with Cymric, then I don't know what will. It's a southerner's dialect, and it's quite uncommon with the encroachment of Eireann into the old Cymric lands. It's not hugely relevant to the topic at hand, so I'll keep this one brief.

Any questions, don't hesitate to ask. I'm back on the Guild after extended period of hiatus.