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    M'leineya Leoh
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    Phoenix
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    Red Mage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
    They thought it out just fine. They're named using an archaic Germanic-themed word list. Like all the races are each named based on a different archaic real world language or culture.

    If you take into account vowel shifts you can can even parse some of the names for their meanings without looking at the dictionary:

    Ahldskyf .... ahld=old, skyf=ship
    Rostnsthal .... rostn=rusty, sthal=steel
    Bloefhis .... bloe=blue, fhis=fish
    Rammbroes .... ramm=ram, broes=chest (via breast)
    I thought it came across slightly Welsh, especially when my surname was Ubylwyrnwyn. xD

    Despite this the problem is too many people are ignorant of the lore and judge based on what they've known, and having known a lot of RMT bot names using random characters they immediately assume someone sporting a name that's difficult to pronounce must be a bot or an RMT. It's made playing my roe very unpleasant for me since I wanted an official roe name and when I came across that one and what it translated as I thought it was very amusing only to then be put down by randoms who don't know any better, and those randoms outnumbered the players who knew what it meant.
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    Last edited by geekgirl101; 09-29-2021 at 01:35 PM.
    Gaius van Baelsar: Nor is this unknown to your masters. Which prompts the question: what came first, the chicken or the egg?