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What do you imagine the city accents to sound like?
I've seen a couple people running about whose accents are described as, for instance, Eleusian or Mhaldorian. What do you think they sound like?
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Eleusian = South African
Targossas = Cockney
Mhaldor = American
Cyrene = Russian
Hashan = Edgelordian
I tend to think of surrounding regions as much softer versions of the accents for instance Vashnari or Ithmian etc.
Also Hashan hasn't actually been relevant to my existence long enough for me to have an accent for it but the meme is real.
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Cyrene is Canada.
Mhaldor is English as portrayed in US TV shows (eg, not like anyone in Britain actually speaks).
Mhaldor would be German
Eleusis = Irish
Mhaldor = Russian or Japanese
Ashtan = American southern for the plebs and Northeast Atlantic accent for the established folks.
Hashan = Cockney.
Cyrene = Sweden or Minnesota
(The Targossian Academy): Halos says, "Go on! I need to feel the wind in my hair!"
Cyrenians have the old Transatlantic accent when speaking common, but more of a Quebecois thing when speaking Cyrenian.
Ashtani are definitely Americans speaking Englishtani and butchering other languages, in this case common.
Mhaldorians are Berliners speaking Mhaldorian, but sound like someone from Berlin who has lived in England for years when it comes to common.
Targossas is either Haitian Creole or Italian. I'mma say Creole.
Hashani seems kind of Hebrew to me? I don't know why. Common sounds like an Israeli-American speaking English.
Cyrene - all sound like Martha Stewart. Even the guys. "So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic", except a Cyrenian would never admit they care so deeply about pie. It is a history of shame and desire. But still.
Hashan - ???!
Mhaldor - Alan Rickman (too soon?)
Targossas - I don't watch any anime except for the clips people in these games always make you watch. But Targossas is the plucky anime heroine when she is all cute and angry and stabs you to death because YOU'RE cute. Or. Princess Kenny. Which I am pretty sure is the same thing.
- With sharp, crackling tones, Kyrra tells you, "The ladies must love you immensely."
- (Eleusian Ranger Techs): Savira says, "Most of the hard stuff seem to have this built in code like: If adventurer_hitting_me = "Sarathai" then send("terminate and selfdestruct")."
- Makarios says, "Serve well and perish."
- Xaden says, "Xaden confirmed scrub 2017."
Always imagined mhaldor as Slavic, ashtan as American and shallam as French. I never think much about either hashan or 'loosis so I dunno what they'd be. Targossas uses Arabic, or maybe urdu, to better represent their jihadi genes
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Eleusis - As badass as I think all the Forestal stuff is, the shouts/people I've met have (unfortunately?) associated it with the stereotypical hippy kind of accent. Sorry
Targossas - Everything I've read about Shallam and even a lot of the Targossian family names makes me think Arabic (@Atalkez always pops up in my head for this). Since I don't know exactly what that sounds like, I snap default to like the Assassin's Creed 1/2 Arabic.
Hashan - Every Hashanite I've met is really quirky, and with all the darkness vibes and every other room having some ghostygoo screaming at you, I think punk/metalhead British. Like mosh pit British, but still with the tea.
Mhaldor - Aggressive German (*fans*), I really like the public posts I've read from Mhaldorians. But then @Aegoth will shout something and I get a Wayne's World vibe. If you add ", dude!" to the end of everything it fits really well.
Ashtan - Feels playful, proud, and kind of silly. @Jinsun tried to steal from me once, and when it didn't work he just smiled, bowed, and left. So now they're all assorted accents a la Pirates of the Caribbean in my head (*double fans*) - less yarr, but every Ashtani I've interacted with has been quite well-spoken, and fits a lot of the flowery speech from the movies. @Dunn's pro-Babel shouts during the splinters and stuff, I've mentally heard as Barbossa >_>
Very pleasant things to hear all around, but might be biased to mostly all the accents I like (except the hippy one. Sorry, 'loosis.)
You all know the war is over and not every german is an aggresive dictator, right?
I normally can't imagine most Mhaldorians speaking with the former because of how grandiose or statement-oriented the text tends to be. That being said, @Kiet and @Helewys I've interacted with 1 on 1 and those I imagined as much more of a serene sound.
Those languages are so pretty.
Eleusis I always kinda pictured as Pictish or Gaelic or something kinda old-timey British Isles-y. Blue painted druids and all that.
Ashtani I always pictured to be Latin, given how many of their public office and City rank titles are just repurposed Roman government/class terms.
To be honest, I always imagined Mhaldorian being some made-up language. Never really thought about it tons, but Black Speech from LoTR, or something like that is probably what I was closest to in my head.
Hashan and Cyrene never really made enough of a cultural impression to think of them as anything other than boring American
I suppose, though, that given their city titles which are very reminiscent of Rennaissance/Victorian English social classes and their love for Greek loanwords, Cyrenians could just be high-class English public school kids (in the land of the backwards, where public school is super fancy and prestigious
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