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Who is your favorite Hero?

Arkun-Sha! Bringing down the chieftan was so badass I almost forgot it was scripted.
- 6 (31.6%)
Alca-un. She's the most badass, of course!
- 5 (26.3%)
Ulla-Sha. Going on a century didn't stop her from whooping ass.
- 7 (36.8%)
Amma-ah, she's so caring and kind, how could you not like her?
- 1 (5.3%)

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Author Topic: The Starborn [Xenofiction?]  (Read 77793 times)

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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #315 on: December 07, 2012, 04:58:51 am »

-Khet means warrior. It's neutral, but generally more positive than negative. It implies honor, strength, and a slight lack of self control.

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"What happened to Raun-che*?"

"Vanished." Says the Champion. "He ran off into the woods and we can't find the little bugger."

"I hope he's alright..." says Amma, bless her heart.

"I hope he's dead." Says Ulla. All the blessing in the world couldn't save that heart.

"He's most likely joined another tribe. There are some small ones to the west that'll take in fugitives from ours. If he has, we might mount another war. Depends on what happens with that fallen star."

"And Alca-un?"

"Getting ready for your naming ceremony. Why?" Says the Champion.

"She did kill three separate goblins." You say.

"I hadn't noticed." Says Ulla, a little twinkle in her eye. The two behind her nod. "You must have hit your head worse than we thought. They triped and fell. on their spears. Several times. There may have been rocks involved."

"I'm pretty sure there were no rocks in-" You start.

"Shut up. Next question."

You sigh. "What are we going to do after we look at the Fallen star?" Ulla shakes her head.

"We don't have the slightest clue. Most likely nothing interesting'll happen and we'll have a new artifact from the Stars to piss off the other tribes. Worst case scenario you die."

"That sounds pretty bad to me!" you say.

"I don't want the poor boy to die either!" says Amma concernedly.

The Champion just looks sadly at you like you're already dead. Ulla looks proud, for some reason. Everyone's acting like you've been pronounced deceased already. "What the hell is wrong with you people?!"

Ulla smacks you in the back of the head. "Don't talk to your elders that way, boy! Were you raised in a cave?"

"...mostly- OW." You're developing a sore spot. "Fine. You said I'm getting named?"

"Yes!" says Amma happily, apparently forgetting she thought you were dead. "You're old enough that you can pick a name now. You'll get your title too. You can be a -Sha like Ulla-sha!" She shakes Ulla's shoulders playfully. Ulla doesn't look as happy.

"Wonderful."

It's time to pick a name!

*-cha is a contextual suffix usually used for the disgusting but somewhat respected job of Gong Cleaners in old Goblin Tribes (now a full word used to mean toilet). Gong cleaners are respected as a profession as someone who does what's necessary, no matter how gross. However, in the right contexts, calling someone this is comparable to calling them disgusting, ruthless, or both. Traitors and vermin garner this appellation, whereas actual Cleaners bear the title with some amount of dignity. It's recommended humans simply avoid the term entirely, to avoid accidental offense
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #316 on: December 07, 2012, 07:02:21 am »

-Khet means warrior. It's neutral, but generally more positive than negative. It implies honor, strength, and a slight lack of self control.
Guessable. Besides the honor bit I think he deserve it fully.

I like the Amma/Ulla dichotomy. And Ulla humor.  :D

"They triped and fell. on their spears. Several times. There may have been rocks involved."
Nice. I see what you did there. :P


By the way, for the names... I don't have DF language database available, but picking from goblin language can be nice.
I have no idea of what to pick...
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #317 on: December 07, 2012, 07:32:24 am »

Pick something that would more or less sound as close to roman as the goblin language allows.  Or Hannibal Lecter.
Also, we must declare war on this 'Coca-Cola'.  Odd, he/she/it has a name with two two syllable words in it.
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #318 on: December 07, 2012, 07:37:15 am »

Instead of Roman, pick something that sounds celtic.

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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #319 on: December 07, 2012, 07:38:15 am »

Maybe Khet-In?
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #320 on: December 07, 2012, 01:39:57 pm »

Rhom-In?  :P
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #321 on: December 07, 2012, 02:08:40 pm »

Rhoom-Ba?
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #322 on: December 07, 2012, 03:39:46 pm »

... Alca-un?  Is there something she's not telling us?
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #323 on: December 07, 2012, 03:45:25 pm »

I'll pick in my personnal generic-fantasy-names pool...

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Arkai? The title is not up to us if I understood well. We will be -sha anyway.

Arkai-sha.

Sounds good enough.


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... Alca-un?  Is there something she's not telling us?
She's just a tomboy. She get the male suffix because she act very not womanly.
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #324 on: December 07, 2012, 03:47:58 pm »

Tebun-Kai.
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #325 on: December 07, 2012, 04:28:28 pm »

I thought we were a boy, hence why I said...
Autocorrect, we meet again.
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #326 on: December 07, 2012, 09:17:26 pm »

I'll pick in my personnal generic-fantasy-names pool...

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Arkai? The title is not up to us if I understood well. We will be -sha anyway.

Arkai-sha.

Sounds good enough.


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... Alca-un?  Is there something she's not telling us?
She's just a tomboy. She get the male suffix because she act very not womanly.
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #327 on: December 07, 2012, 09:21:26 pm »

No one wants to be named after a vacuum?
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #328 on: December 07, 2012, 09:31:29 pm »

No.
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Re: Hatchling [Xenofiction]
« Reply #329 on: December 07, 2012, 11:55:57 pm »

Vacuums are lame..
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