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Title: What language would Grevane use for his magic?
Post by: Joelok314 on February 02, 2015, 07:14:16 PM

I'm running a 1920's campaign and I'm going with a story that Grevane (after his master was killed in World War I) is trying to build up his forces to take his master's place. Was it ever mentioned what language Grevane used for his magic? If not, what do you think it would be? German after his master's native language?

Title: Re: What language would Grevane use for his magic?
Post by: Mith on February 02, 2015, 10:07:33 PM

Grevane is not coming up as a name, so that's not any help.  I think you could use Old German.

Title: Re: What language would Grevane use for his magic?
Post by: Quantus on February 03, 2015, 02:35:42 PM

In DB it was just described as a language Harry didnt recognize.  He was a Kemmler apprentice, but that doesnt mean he has to have european heritage, especially in his magic.  He's described as having a Cultured accent, so paint him educated and he could reasonably have studied most any dead language, or even have bargained with something inhuman and learned magic in some non-human dialect, you know The Language of Blood (or somethign less cheezy :P).  Id decide what flavor you plan to run with, and give him some obscure dead language from that region.  Maybe he has a lot of aztec blood magic in his repitior, so he uses the language of the court shamen or some such. 

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