Drukh-Eltharin Langage?

[Zuula]

Hello everyone, i'm new here, first post, and english is not my native langage so please be cool. :p

I doubt there will be an answer to my question, but here we go:

One thing that i really liked in "the game that has not to be named" is the ability of some races to have his own language. (Night elves, dwarfs, daemonic and so..) It was really usefull for roleplay and ambiance. Yeah i roleplayed on that game... :rolleyes:

Is this planned for WAR within one side, for Dark elves/Orks/Chaos? (I know each sides won't be able to communicate at all, except with emotes).

[Mogdin Wrathammer]

Dunno.

Dwarfs speak Khazalid.... I know that much. I'm also pretty sure Orcs have a language composed of the word Waagh!, although each Waagh! changes with tone and length, so you can kinda of tell it's a language. Example:

WAAAAGHHHH Waaaghhh waaagh WAAAAAggghhh wwaaAGGGHHH!!

[Ilairon]

Well, I've no idea whether that sort of feature will be in game or not. I would kind of hope so too, but then again I haven't played any of Mythic's other games so who knows. The Empire speaks Reikspiel, the High Elves speak Eltharin (also known as Tar-Eltharin), the Dark Elves write Drukh-Eltharin and speak Druhir and Eltharin. The Dwarfs speak Khazalid. The Greenskins - to my understanding - speak perverted versions of Reikspiel and Khazalid, but I could be incorrect there. And depending on tribe and location, the forces of Chaos speak varying dialects of the Dark Tongue (I believe) as well as any native tongue.

[Athenys]

DE speak 'Druhir', a language derived from the original sub-dialect of Tar-Eltharin once used in Nagarythe. It is supposed to be noticeably distinct from HE speak; I'd wager it's at least as different as Portuguese is from Castilian (Standard Spanish). You can readily understand 80% of what the other is saying, but only if they speak slowly. There is an extensive Druhir lexicon in the back of the first Malus Darkblade book.

[Zuula]

Ok, but will it be possible to switch from common langage to D-E langage in game, so other races won't be able to understand when speaking in Druhir? :confused:

I hope so.

[Thoden Firehammer]

Ok, but will it be possible to switch from common langage to D-E langage in game, so other races won't be able to understand when speaking in Druhir? :confused:

I hope so.

I hope they allow language switching in general but ususaly one race gets shafted becuase their language ususaly becomes the "common" language, and I can see this happening to the Empire and same for Chaos.

[Xurré]

Somehow I doubt that we’ll get some ingame language switch (I get the sense that Mythic isn’t really that interested in promoting roleplaying and is more interested in making a fun themepark).

However, if you’re interested in the language then Druchii.net (http://www.druchii.net) has a reference in their January 2004 webzine (http://www.druchii.net/monthly/issues/Jan04_2.pdf).

Speak in that and you’ll be sure that none of the other races can understand you (though likely most of your own can’t either, that’s the price one has to pay ;)).


- Xurré

[Dawi]

I hope they allow language switching in general but ususaly one race gets shafted becuase their language ususaly becomes the "common" language, and I can see this happening to the Empire and same for Chaos.

ya, but Dwarfs aren't supposed to speak their language in front of other races, even allies, because they fear that they will pick up on some of it.

or maybe they don't want humans to get mad that "poor craftsmanship" is 'Umgak' and humans are 'Umgi' humans are actually the base of the word for poorly made.
This thread is umgak.

and i'm almost positive there won't be an ingame switch capability just because they would have to actually TRANSLATE, where <the game not to be named> was just jumbles of letters and had all the vowels = a or something. Cause you could say two different words and get the same word out of them, they had a series of letters equal another letter just so that it would be impossible to reconstruct. (ex: when horde saw something in common, that had the letter "A" in it, that "A" could be one of like 6 other letters in the original text"

[PlagueLord]

i find it very amusing how all the non human races have one thing in common, they think humans are stupid unworthy primates.:D