Wræclast means "the Exile's Path." But what do the natives call it?

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THEHORNEDRAT wrote:

We also must take into consideration what type of society Oriath is like. My impression is that it is also brutal, dictatorial and authoritarian.

Looking at how the exiles we can choose, there is alot of mistrust, betrayal, a vastly stratified society of powerful wealthy elite (who are hostile factions towards each other with torture and assassinations) and the poverty stricken everybody else. Discrimination, intolerance, corruption and injustice. Step on the wrong toe, and the next thing is to be thrown overboard to swim to the shores of Wraeclast.

Sounds like a normal day in my office lmao :)

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I live on Prince Edward Island in Canda. Before that, it was Isle St-Jacques, because it was owned by the french. But its native name is Abegweit, which means Cradle of the Waves.

Anyways, you remoinded me of my home's history.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

It's not so much the meaning that I'm particularly concerned with; it's the fact that it means what it means in a language of a people well known for their colonisation history.

The Anglo-Saxons were hardly colonizers. They were a Germanic tribe of raiders and conquerors that invaded England around 500AD from forcefully relocated the existing Celtic tribes to Whales and Scotland. These were the people that spoke Old English which was a Germanic/Norse dialect.

With the Norman invasion in 1066, French became the dominant lingual influence and in the centuries that followed created what is known today as Middle English of which Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a prime example. During this time period, England was engaged in a variety of wars in mainland Europe (mostly the Hundred Years War) as well as wars in Scotland and Ireland and even the civil war known as the War of the Roses.

Of course it was the War of the Roses and the ascension of the house of Tudor that historians use to mark the transition from Middle English to Early Modern English. This period marked the standardization of many of the grammatical rules still in use today and Shakespeare is the primary example. This also marks the point at which a typical person can read and understand historic English without too much trouble.

The age of Exploration began around 1400. Portuguese ships reached India and Brazil. Spain would soon begin financing voyages to the Caribbean. England would send explorers and discover the lands of North America and eventually establish their first colony in 1607.

True Modern English took shape around 1700 with the Industrial Revolution. This was also a period of rapid British colonization in the Americas. Wars with France and Spain substantially increased Britain's holdings. Britain's true colonial empire didn't come into form until the late 1800s with the conquest of huge portions of Southeast Asia (including India) and Africa.

Anyway. My ultimate point being that the Old English spoken by the Anglo-Saxons had nothing to do with the British Empire and colonization that came a millennium after.

Back on topic: Yes, there are living natives in Wraeclast, and no, we still don't know what they call their land.

Yeena, Silk and Greust are natives. You can tell that they're different from you and the bandits by the way they speak in broken english, like it was a second language. Eramir tells you he lives with natives, and that the cataclysm destroyed their civilisation and culture to the point where they went back to living like savages. The three NPCs never name the continent in their dialogue, so as it is we can't tell what they call it, if they even have a name for it.

I'm not sure about the civilization in Oriath, but there is certainly assassination business going on, and a religion that doesn't tolerate dissent. The characters in the game seem to find it preferable to Wraeclast, though, so I'd conjecture that it is not completely an evil, dystopian society.

great post charan, very interesting to read.

Didn't the Vaal live there? I mean, there's a massive ruin with whatever the hell the Vaal oversoul is... Their mechanical guardians still stand, their soldiers have been reanimated by necros, and we have at least 3 quotes pertaining to them (rathpith glove, atziri's mirror, and vaults of atziri). They're indicated as a once powerful people, yet there's none of them around anymore. Right?

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The_Butcherbird_Theory wrote:

Didn't the Vaal live there? I mean, there's a massive ruin with whatever the hell the Vaal oversoul is... Their mechanical guardians still stand, their soldiers have been reanimated by necros, and we have at least 3 quotes pertaining to them (rathpith glove, atziri's mirror, and vaults of atziri). They're indicated as a once powerful people, yet there's none of them around anymore. Right?

uh.. i just checked the post dates.. seems i necro`d this thread from oblivion of once powerful people, yet there`s none of them around anymore.