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Who is the guy with an English accent in the cell at Demonreach?
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Quantus on August 01, 2018, 02:23:13 PM ---Have you ever actually /heard/ any middle-English? It's not even close to the modern language; hell, I find /latin/ easier to decipher and that's just from having exposure to science vocabulary. My high school English teacher made us memorize some of the Canterbury tales in the original Middle English and it's almost entirely incomprehensible. There's no way at all that that accent and/or turn of phrase is from Hastings era.
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It is more understandable than some current English dialects, you probably can get used to it with some exposure.
https://youtu.be/B5QAV6lOCnQ
Old English without the French influences though is completely incomprehensible:
https://youtu.be/_K13GJkGvDw
Old Brittisch, the original merlins tongue, is a Celtic language and only distantly related.
morriswalters:
While this is all good clean fun, the dialog is modern English. Obviously JB is setting something up. I take it to mean that the character comes from the UK. I would assume that if any character survived to a modern age, he would speak a modern language. And if JB decides to introduce some denizen of the UK who has been around long enough to have known at least a couple of wardens from his cell in the well, he will speak in a understandable language.
Jcarlson171:
It could also be Jim stretching out into different mythology. Arthur isnt the only brittish legend(though he is the most popular)
Personally i think it would be most interesting if the prisoner was cu chulainn who may or may not have fought the armies of winter already depending on how you interpret his legend. If Jim takes the story that way he could do a lot of fun things with Mabs reaction.
Arjan:
The prisoner would speak the language he spoke just before he was locked up. He told us he had to be locked up so that reeks like a Lea scenario. Infected, able to fight it but not able to keep it under control all the time. Knew about demonreach and decided to have himself locked up.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Arjan on August 02, 2018, 09:25:03 AM ---The prisoner would speak the language he spoke just before he was locked up. He told us he had to be locked up so that reeks like a Lea scenario. Infected, able to fight it but not able to keep it under control all the time. Knew about demonreach and decided to have himself locked up.
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Agreed, i too got the sense of a voluntary committal more than a traditional imprisonment. Im leaning toward it being a former Warden that used too much Black Magic but is cognizant of the fact that he is Tainted and untrustworthy.
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