Oh the dwarfs would certainly die, but I'm not sure the Lizardmen would win. You can't really kill throngs with earthquakes and enough armies with nothing to lose can kill Slann, we know that because Skaven killed several. I think the only ultimate victor would be Chaos, but just being able to rationally acknowledged that fact and not start a war with the frogs who caused the single most destructive event in the history of the Karaz Ankor shows wisdom.
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Oh the dwarfs would certainly die, but I'm not sure the Lizardmen would win. You can't really kill throngs with earthquakes and enough armies with nothing to lose can kill Slann, we know that because Skaven killed several. I think the only ultimate victor would be Chaos, but just being able to rationally acknowledged that fact and not start a war with the frogs who caused the single most destructive event in the history of the Karaz Ankor shows wisdom.
- Location
- somewhere over there.
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- They/It
I'd imagine it shows patience, instead. It it ever became plausible for dwarves to take revenge without dining their society, I think that information might be shared.
Gods I want a lustria expedition.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Cathay expedition!
I wonder if Cathay has any notable dwarven population? I imagine the odd dwarf has wandered out that way with a caravan at one point or another.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
I believe there's been a mention of a small population. Nothing on the scale of even the MoM holds, I expect.
- Location
- Utrecht
I wonder if there are Dragonblooded Dwarfs.
None of the dragon children appear to take anything but human form and their natural draconic shape so I think not.
Dynamesmouse
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I just found out that Mathilde might not be pronounced as Math-ill-day but instead as similar to mat-eel'd.
And I gotta say, it really bothers me now.
And I gotta say, it really bothers me now.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
I always went with 'Math-ill'd'
Math? with the θ sound? absolutely barbaric.
E: beacuse I may be too harsh. Why would you pronounce it differrently than Matilda? Barring the final vowel.
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Dynamesmouse
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"Th" almost always go together to form a "thuh" sound.
Hi-uld or heel'd sound off.
This, Math-ill-day is really the only pronunciation that feels natural.
Mathilde
"Th" almost always go together to form a "thuh" sound.
Hi-uld or heel'd sound off.
This, Math-ill-day is really the only pronunciation that feels natural.
People applying the English insanity around th to any name/loanword h that happens to follow a t is so cursed.
(Though some dialects influenced by French would probably also default to silencing the e at the end)
Since tilde is an actual word where English and German pronunciation matches you could simplify it to Ma~
(Though some dialects influenced by French would probably also default to silencing the e at the end)
I say it like the name Matilde in Italian.
- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
Well, someone must have been involved in creating those dragon-horse things.
There is no th sound in German. I don't think there is one in Dutch either. Or even in the slavic ones that can stand in for Sylvanian dialects. The name is more akin to Mat-hill-de if pronounced the way anyone in the equivalent region of Europe would pronounce it. Though in much of the south and the east (i.e. not Germany) the name would be both written and pronounced as Mathilda.
Pretty much, yeah. Maybe a tiny bit less silence on the h. Though I didn't even know the Italians had a version with an -e ending.
The whole thesis is that the standard narratives are wrong and that there were hidden motives underneath that directly led to disaster. The Karag Dum theory disagrees with parts of the standard narrative for the Chaos Dwarves, too. It's not the airtight, fully formed, and perfectly delivered version of the thesis, because it's being delivered by the last remnant of a dead society who is fresh from choosing to die rather than live with what replaced it.
Maa-till-deh
The modern German pronunciation approximated with english
I mean we did find a horned something on Tylosi coins, that sure doesn't sound like 'a guy showed up last year and built a tower that went bad'.
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- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Yep.
This is kind of tipping my hand early, but for the library purchase round this turn, since we're not in need of anything in particular I wanted to advocate for doing a Barak Varr for Tylos/Strygos/something, because I actually am really interested in doing the Tylosian coin book and seeing what we can learn about the Warden who became the Horned Rat.
In Italian there is a version of basicaly any German and English name.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
I want Gork & Mork if we can.
They could just be a magical creature native to Cathay.
As one more German speaker in the thread, absolutely baffled by the concept of pronouncing a "th" in a German name as anything other than a "t" sound.
Currently trying to resist my morbid curiosity demanding I find clips of English speakers mentioning "Goethe".
Anyway, "th" in German names is basically always pronounced like a normal "t", because we got rid of the "th" sound, but kept the spelling of proper names and Greek loanwords the same.
Everywhere else we pretty much adjusted the spelling as well.
Currently trying to resist my morbid curiosity demanding I find clips of English speakers mentioning "Goethe".
Anyway, "th" in German names is basically always pronounced like a normal "t", because we got rid of the "th" sound, but kept the spelling of proper names and Greek loanwords the same.
Everywhere else we pretty much adjusted the spelling as well.
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