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#is ''blau blitz'' the origin of ''azure lightning''?
renisfan · 1 year
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I saw the post about greek-inspired Argathans speaking Russian, and while that is funny, I think nowhere in Fodlan is more chaotic than Faerghus!
It's a country that:
Has cold weather and a militant atmosphere and people have slavic names and like distilled alcohol, like Russia.
But its culture put emphasis on chivalry and their food is terrible, like Britain.
While also having Celtic origin for the names of their cities, relics, and their very country name (and the king's surname too).
Greek mythology reference is also present in some names like Galatea and Charon.
But no matter where the names are from, they always write them in French spelling (and a good number of people have pure French name like Sylvain), and Fhirdiad has a history like medieval Paris.
Yet, like everywhere else in Fodlan, they speak German.
Thinking of this I guess Greeks speaking Russian is only normal :P
*The last point may be a bit hard to get since the English version localized everything to be English. But in the jp version, that's how they pronounce the three houses' names (Adler Klasse, Löwen Klasse, Hirsche Klasse) and their technique names in this video. Take the barbarians as example, the English version goes:
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In jp, they say:
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It's kanji with German pronunciations that reads "Blau Blitz", "Einsam Bogen" and "Strudel Speer" (lol at EN!Felix saying "lone" twice like a true edgelord). The same goes for everyone else too:
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Ferdie's one says "Roter Drache" and I can recognize Hilda's starts with "Blühen" and Balthus's is "Mach Axt [something]" but the rest are a bit too difficult for me to decipher :P
Is it just me or the barbarians' naming sense is visibly poorer than the others
Considering that Adrestia has the heaviest German motif (yay Schwartz Adler Wehr), maybe it's the impact it left from the time it ruled over all Fodlan. Even if Faerghus later said f u and rejected their way of naming and spelling, they still speak their language? Further proof they're just part of Adrestia, MAGA!
And considering that Seiros (kind of) built Adrestia, did the lizards also speak German?
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