#I know comparing the fantasy regions to the real ones is weird and futile but they sort-of asked for it with Orlais and Ferelden | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thunderboltfire · 5 months ago

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I don't know the broader context, but it's somewhat funny to mention Nevarra in the same breath as Eastern European feel, when the first name that comes to my mind when I think of it is Navarra - a historical kingdom and currently a region in Spain. Anyway, I have a hard time trying to find a geographical name in Thedas that sound distincly Eastern European. Are there some?

The funniest thing BioWare can do is make it so Cassandra is the only person in Thedas with her accent and Emmrich is just some English bloke

#dragon age #I'm not too good when it comes to accent so I'm curious - does she *sound* Eastern European to the English native speakers?#I mean by what I'm reading on the wiki in Nevarra they have oranges and something close to meat wraps so maybe closer to the Balkans?#Or Greece?#It does sound a bit similar to Varna now that I think of it #but the name similarity to Navarra is closer #I know comparing the fantasy regions to the real ones is weird and futile but they sort-of asked for it with Orlais and Ferelden #which both have pretty clear irl inspirations #(being a caricatural depictions if we're talking about Orlais)#it makes me wonder why the heck Orlesians have bards and not trubadours #I've always thought the name of Nevarra is somewhat weird though #it's like naming a fantasy region Angland XD

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