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July 19, 2006, 03:14:11 PM Last Edit: July 24, 2006, 02:35:16 AM by Phoenix Knight
After an extended hiatus, Sûl is coming back.

Right before I took a break on it, I was considering a name change.  I plan to impliment this.  Everything will now be expanded upon.  As an additional change, the entire system of religion will be altered.  It is for the better.

limetom

#1
July 19, 2006, 03:49:44 PM
Here is the original Sûl thread from the WotC boards.

So-Keher

#2
July 20, 2006, 08:53:50 AM
*aghast* Removal of elves? Why?

Sorry about the rant but elves are my fav. I can't wait for the mythology/history that is my favorite part of settings, and it helps clear things up like your anti-elfness. I actually went anti-halfling in astraea but i guess i didn't like that so the Chronicles are decidedly different.
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Raelifin

#3
July 20, 2006, 06:38:56 PM
Wooo! Down with elves! Cast off yon plagiaristic coils and embrace the strength of a wholly unique world! Hallelujah!

Okay, enough of that.

I take it that you're dropping the racial list to just humans? That'll be fun.

Are there any maps of Sul? I can't find any.

I can't wait for a nice refined version (I'm having a hard time with the WotC one...) of your vision to start populating the thread.
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Ishmayl-Retired

#4
July 20, 2006, 06:55:34 PM
Elves seem to generally be a dividing point in a lot of world-creators... I don't particularly like them, but then again, my race, the Sydhi, have a very fey-like, slightly elven influence to them.  It's odd how some people stand so strongly against elves, and some love them and can't live without.  I wonder if this would make a good discussion thread...
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limetom

#5
July 20, 2006, 08:26:01 PM
Rae:
Here is Estiril.  And here is Indûl.

I'm going to re-do the maps at some point.

Ishmayl:
I have nothing against elves, mind you.  

When I first created Sûl, I thought (wrongly) that I couldn't do a setting with just humans.  Now, however...

limetom

#6
July 24, 2006, 02:32:08 AM
So I'm done renaming the countries themselves.  Here's the table:

[table=Name Changes][tr][th]Old Name:[/th][/th][th]New Name:[/th][th]Language:[/th][/tr]
[tr][td]Sûl[/td][td]Ari[/td][td]Proto-Indo-European[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Estiril[/td][td]Ausu[/td][td]Proto-Indo-European[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Indûl[/td][td]Wesoi[/td][td]Proto-Indo-European[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Arakhâl[/td][td]Dzimtene[/td][td]Latvian[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ardûn[/td][td]Heimat[/td][td]German[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Úndil[/td][td]Dhúchais[/td][td]Irish[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Southern Alliance[/td][td]Altricis[/td][td]Latin[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Abradî[/td][td]Am'yazar[/td][td]Farsi[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Inûnærubôz[/td][td]Qar'ra[/td][td]Farsi[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Abrinâth[/td][td]Straná[/td][td]Russian[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Pharun[/td][td]Yer[/td][td]Turkish[/td][/tr]
[/table]

All the names are either "place" or "homeland" in their respective languages, with the exception of Am'yazar, which is Fasri for "wasteland," Ausu, which is PIE for "East" (plural), and Wesoi, which is PIE for "West" (plural).

Ishmayl-Retired

#7
July 24, 2006, 04:28:21 PM
So, just for curiosity's sake, what's the purpose in the name change?  Is it to help give you a fresh start, or is there some other reason?
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limetom

#8
July 24, 2006, 04:40:11 PM
Firstly, they're easier to spell.  Secondly, a fresh start.

Ishmayl-Retired

#9
July 24, 2006, 04:42:50 PM
Good deal, both are excellent reasons :)
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CYMRO

#10
July 24, 2006, 04:52:37 PM
I am glad to see the end of the ûÚâîô madness.  It seemed too Tolkienoid to me, whether you wanted it to be that or not.  

Ishmayl-Retired

#11
July 24, 2006, 04:53:50 PM
Yeah, I've actually recently changed a lot of names in Shadowfell to get rid of that nonsense; it look pretty on paper (sometimes), but it's a hassle to type, especially with html.
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Lmns Crn

#12
July 24, 2006, 04:57:53 PM
I confine myself to á (alt+0225) and é (alt+0223), so that I don't have to remember very many Alt codes. It's where I betray my terrible secret: all I learned about language-building, I learned from high school Spanish classes.

I'm glad to see some of those changes, though. I can't even begin to imagine how one would pronounce "Inûnærubôz".
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#13
July 24, 2006, 04:59:01 PM
Yeah, that one gave me a headache just looking at it :)
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#14
July 24, 2006, 05:38:27 PM
Hmm...  Though I don't know what it's called and I don't know the Alt code for it, I've always been partial to the "u" with the "^" on top. It's a much cooler way to spell something with an /oon/ sound than with "oon" or "une."

That being said, I agree with previous posts that the name change is a good thing.  Besides, Qar'ra is definately a much prettier name than Inûnær-fragalistic-expialadocious or what-not.

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