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Author Topic: Dwarven Translations make me laugh  (Read 3228 times)

quinnr

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Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« on: December 02, 2009, 05:31:35 pm »

My first pocket-world was named "The Everlasting Universe" perhaps it means the everlasting generation?

It also has an ocean named The Oceans of Ooze.

What funny names do you have in your fort/world?
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2009, 05:34:38 pm »

I once had a tundra named the Molten Blizzards.

Go figure.
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2009, 05:52:01 pm »

I once had a tundra named the Molten Blizzards.

Epic.

I had a dwarf named twin racks. I suspect he was ridiculed all his life for it.
Kobold names are always awesome. The mighty Dulubufreelgus leads the kobolds to victory! (or more likely to their dooms)
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2009, 06:54:08 pm »

 A fort I created just to play with the HFS somehow random-rolled the name Sealblood.  Which was about right: the Dorfs breached the seal, and there was blood.  Oh my was there a lot of blood...

 Taking a look around that world, there's a smorgasboard of amusing names.  The humans have named one of their main thoroughfares "The Buttery Way", the world's main ocean is called "The Mean Ocean" (presumably because it's all deemed Terrifying), and there's a brook called The Peaceful Strife.
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2009, 12:00:37 pm »

One of my recent forts had to most epic, Dwarfy random names ever:

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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2009, 01:05:14 pm »

One of my recent forts had to most epic, Dwarfy random names ever:

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 :o that is awsome
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2009, 05:14:54 pm »

I once had a tundra named the Molten Blizzards.

Go figure.

Is there magma anywhere in that tundra?  If so, a prophet named it for the day Dwarves settle there.
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2009, 05:25:02 pm »

I had an adventurer settle in a place called "Paintown".  :D
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2009, 11:15:54 pm »

I had an adventurer settle in a place called "Paintown".  :D

Is that Pain Town or Paint Own?
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2009, 12:43:35 am »

One of my recent forts had to most epic, Dwarfy random names ever:

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Sums up dwarf fortress pretty well.
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2009, 02:06:51 am »

This map has a brook...it's name is pure, unedited awesome:
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2009, 11:57:58 pm »

Looking one of my worlds, I'm coming across several *interesting* location names:

-The Desert of Owning
-The Icy Dunes: (a HOT sand desert)
-The Perplexing Hill of Blocking
-The Icy Hill (TEMPERATE/WARM shrubland)
-The Spike of Subtlety
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2009, 04:28:08 am »

My adventurer looks for a job in Squareroots. :)
Also, there was this whachamacallit a giant destroyed that was called "The Barrels of Wine."
Forgot what those things were called. :\

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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2009, 08:33:32 am »

Once had a 1-tile mountain called 'the finger of pregnancy'.

The good-alinged mountains actualy sound more disturbing than the evil-alinged ones.
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Re: Dwarven Translations make me laugh
« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2009, 08:43:31 am »

Once had a 1-tile mountain called 'the finger of pregnancy'.

The good-alinged mountains actualy sound more disturbing than the evil-alinged ones.
This might take the cake as the dirtiest vanilla DF name.
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