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11 months ago ::
Jul 17, 2012 - 6:59AM
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If you were to look at Odric, and you assigned him to a real life Earth nation, would you make him a Serbian?
As such, would Odric's name be pronounced as "Odrich", and not "Odrick"?
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11 months ago ::
Jul 17, 2012 - 7:41AM
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I feel that trying to pidgeonhole major characters into real world ethnic groups misses a lot of the point of high fantasy.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 17, 2012 - 8:47AM
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I pronounce his name with the hard "ck" sound, not the "ch" sound. He's thraban(is this the right word?) in the fluff, so...
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11 months ago ::
Jul 17, 2012 - 8:47AM
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I feel that trying to pidgeonhole major characters into real world ethnic groups misses a lot of the point of high fantasy.
But c'mon man, who doesn't want to pronounce odric's name like Stojakovic, Kristic, or Milanovic?
You know what? I'm going to call Odric, Beno. You know, Beno Odric.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 17, 2012 - 9:46AM
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I pronounce his name like "Godric" from True Blood, minus the "G." Godric was from Gaul circa first century B.C. so there might be a point of naming origin for you to work with.
I'm with HairlessThoctar on this though. It seems silly to be trying to force fantasy personalities into real-world locations.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 17, 2012 - 12:12PM
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I will admit, I like to imagine that Krenko sounds like a Russian mafiya boss. :P And to be fair, Serbia is in the part of the world that Innistrad draws its real world origins from, so if you need Odric to be a Serb to make your life complete; more power to ya.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 17, 2012 - 1:09PM
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I will admit, I like to imagine that Krenko sounds like a Russian mafiya boss. :P
And to be fair, Serbia is in the part of the world that Innistrad draws its real world origins from, so if you need Odric to be a Serb to make your life complete; more power to ya.
As long as Odric is Eastern European, I can pronounce his name as Odric, the same way you pronounce Beno Udrih's name.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 17, 2012 - 1:29PM
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Innistrad is based on northern and eastern Europe, IIRC. The northern elements are present in some of the names (Nephalia instead of Westphalia, Gavony instead of Saxony) and some word cells (graf, geist), while a lot of Hollywood horror was set in Romania.
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