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Postby rklenseth » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:19 pm

Anyone interested?

I tried getting people interested about perhaps a year ago after the Drow Language experiment of mine was ended with the death of Falkirk Corla and the massacres of Drojf by Maynard Leeward. But there was a lack of interest then. I have been led to believe that there are a good number of people, experienced players, that might be interested. If so then we might be able to get a language area or spawning location created for Drow.

You will not need to know Drow in order to play. There is a really good translator online that will translate Drow from English and English from Drow. A lot of the Drow language is still incomplete so it also might be fun to play with an underdeveloped langauge and sort of develop it over times in Cantr.

If you are interested then post below. :D
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Postby Dust14 » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:24 pm

Now what the hell is Drow :?

edit: i just searched for it and see that is some sort of language.
anyone who knows how people came up with this 'language'?
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Postby griogal » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:26 pm

I have no clue what Drow is, but it does sound like fun. Is it some kind of "fantasy" language?
Anyhow, I'm interested.
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Postby west » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:28 pm

It's the poor man's Quenya, basically.

It's a made-up dark elf language --for R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms books, I believe--without all the back-story and linguistic awesome of Tolkien's Elvish.
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Postby Anthony Roberts » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:36 pm

The Driow language was invented far before R. A. Salvatores books (I read them all! Almost all of them, anyway) - interesting language.

I must admit, it WOULD be interesting to find a place with their OWN created language, but not really one that already exists. Although I guess Drow could count for this, since it's not a "real" language humans use.

...Anyway, if Drow gets put in, someone better put in Klingon too...
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Postby trage » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:44 pm

Shut up with your Klingon, Anthony :P. Anyways yes I would be interested in a drow language group and I had already asked Sammigurl, Nitefyre and NVN about this. They all said they would enjoy a Drow language group if one was made. So you have 4 more people RKL.

Oh and yes R.A. Salvatore is a bitchin writer and quite a few good games were based off of his books like Icewind Dales and Baulders Gate. Right now I am reading the Silent Blade series (forgot actual name).
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Postby griogal » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:45 pm

Usstan tlun Dwalc Kal'daka, l' Noamuth.
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Postby trage » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:48 pm

Yes and you all said it would not be. Now look upon yourselves fools for it has spread like wildfire through out your people and your lands. You mortals shall surely perish.

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Postby nitefyre » Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:00 pm

trage wrote:Yes and you all said it would not be. Now look upon yourselves fools for it has spread like wildfire through out your people and your lands. You mortals shall surely perish.

@Grigol Siyo, zhaunus dos ph' Grigol.



YESH, Drow rocks! Put in my vote.
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Postby west » Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:03 pm

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Usstan orn cal l'quortek d'waelin Trage.

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Postby trage » Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:10 pm

Ditronw al dos lle'warinil llar wiles ust tir, lu' nau Usstan talinth Quenya zhah natha yeunn xanalress. Dos ph' fridj naak'e nindel lodias l'amith Ilythiiri mzild taga Quenya.
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Postby rklenseth » Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:23 pm

trage wrote:Shut up with your Klingon, Anthony. Anyways yes I would be interested in a drow language group and I had already asked Sammigurl, Nitefyre and NVN about this. They all said they would enjoy a Drow language group if one was made. So you have 4 more people RKL.

Oh and yes R.A. Salvatore is a bitchin writer and quite a few good games were based off of his books like Icewind Dales and Baulders Gate. Right now I am reading the Silent Blade series (forgot actual name).


Actually, the games are based off the Forgotten Realm Campaign Setting for AD&D when it was under TSR. TSR then turned it into a book series which contain the Drizzt Do'Urden series. After Wizards of the Coast bought TSR they did away with AD&D but kept the book series of the campaign settings like Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance (my personal favorite) which have always and still are a success.

Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate, and now Neverwinter Nights are based off the original campaign settings for the Forgotten Realms in 2nd Edition AD&D and original concept. R. A. Salvatore's books of Drizzt Do'Urden (I believe he did another Forgotten Realm trilogy that wasn't a Drizzt one)were just based in the already created campaign setting. And Drow was created long before he wrote those books. The only thing that is really original from Salvatore are the characters and the story. The world and about everything else was alredy there. There are also a good 20 authors who write in that series but in my opinion R. A. Salvatore is the best.

Now I really like Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and their groundbreaking Dragonlance novels which if it wasn't for them then we wouldn't be reading about Drizzt and his companions.

I am hoping someday Drizzt finds his way to Krynn. Supposedly the AD&D worlds were connected by portals. Some say that Tasslehoff Burrfoots has been to the Forgotten Realms. God, I love kender.
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Postby griogal » Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:29 pm

What's the best translator?
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Postby trage » Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:29 pm

Damn someone actually knew that :(. Oh well I was hoping people were fools, and the only thing R.A. Salvatore created was Drizzit. He has even been copy writed for creating drizzit =\.
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Postby trage » Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:30 pm

Can't tell you ;). Just kidding I will get it for you in a sec.

Edit: Here you go http://www.grey-company.org/Maerdyn/res ... &lang=Drow
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