My wife and I are avid fans of the Obsidian-verse (so much so that we both recommended the first trilogy to each other by summary when we first started dating and only realized it when we brought the first books to exchange).
My questions are all super geeky about linguistics: Do you use any system for proper names? I am fascinated with naming conventions and I am (perhaps unhealthily) obsessed with the meanings behind names and even the meaning behind the "sound" of a name.
Some of the names in the Obsidian Mountain universe are so complex (and all praise to Kate Rudd for doing such an amazing job pronouncing them! Sometimes I find myself reciting names and places like a song or poem that gets stuck in my head). From elven, to Aramethalian human and wild land human, to Otherfolk, and even to Endarkened. They all seem to have their own tone and character. You've hinted at ancient meanings behind elven names, do you have languages sketched out for different races or is it more based on specific words that relate to the names of specific people and places?
So, this might be outside the scope and long past the close date of the post, but...
So what is a Winter Running Dance? it was referred to so many times, and yet, all we got as "a dance...in the snow...probably swift-paced". Is there any more detail than that?
Also, Flower Wars. The impression was it revolved around Jousting And Other Tourneys, in which one might lose symbols of knighthood, but, is there more to this than Knight's Tale would suggest? (Costume decisions aside).
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(Anonymous) 2019-11-17 02:58 am (UTC)(link)Which reminds me - what happened to Annobeunna? Did she survive the 10 years?
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(Anonymous) - 2019-12-29 09:19 (UTC) - ExpandThe names of things
(Anonymous) 2019-12-23 01:16 am (UTC)(link)My questions are all super geeky about linguistics:
Do you use any system for proper names? I am fascinated with naming conventions and I am (perhaps unhealthily) obsessed with the meanings behind names and even the meaning behind the "sound" of a name.
Some of the names in the Obsidian Mountain universe are so complex (and all praise to Kate Rudd for doing such an amazing job pronouncing them! Sometimes I find myself reciting names and places like a song or poem that gets stuck in my head). From elven, to Aramethalian human and wild land human, to Otherfolk, and even to Endarkened. They all seem to have their own tone and character. You've hinted at ancient meanings behind elven names, do you have languages sketched out for different races or is it more based on specific words that relate to the names of specific people and places?
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So what is a Winter Running Dance? it was referred to so many times, and yet, all we got as "a dance...in the snow...probably swift-paced". Is there any more detail than that?
Also, Flower Wars. The impression was it revolved around Jousting And Other Tourneys, in which one might lose symbols of knighthood, but, is there more to this than Knight's Tale would suggest? (Costume decisions aside).
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