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Coping with your BFS H.A.C.K.S addiction, the Heymilt Help page.
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03-19-2018, 01:39 AM
Monte Williams
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I don't know if "Asperity Steeds" is an established name, but I dig it, and wouldn't change it. Or maybe I'd change it to Steeds of Asperity. But probably not.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
heymilt
While I grant you "Evil Skeletons" is not the most exciting name, I also don't know that they need a specific name.
But if they do: I imagine that there are just legions and legions of them, and (ignoring the fact that they don't have vocal chords... 'cause it's not like they have ligaments or sinew to keep their bones together!), I like to think that they produce an eerie scream in battle.
I would have people refer to them only in plural form, as...
The Shrika Koruak
(Shrika = Swedish for "scream"; Koruak =Basque for "chorus")
Once upon a time I would hesitate to be so reckless with the use of other languages, for fear I'd produce an embarrassing anachronism or some other stupid mistake, like putting the words in the wrong order or something (not that I'm suggesting you should use these names
as
translations of the words or phrases in question; I'm just suggesting names that I think
sound
cool).
But I recently revisited all four Indiana Jones movies through Amazon's streaming service, which offers pop-up trivia notes... and holy crap, there are dozens and dozens of geographical and cultural mistakes in those movies. So now I say "Screw it".
...and if you don't like the notion that they scream, one of my favorite Slayer tracks is "
Silent
Scream", and so you can add another language's word for "silent". I recommend either "Dawel" (Welsh) or Siekta (Maltese).
So that leaves you with the following options:
The Shrika Koruak
The Dawel Shrika
The Shrika Siekta
These are just my weird-ass suggestions while I hack up a lung and pretend I don't have work tomorrow, ya understand.
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