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[bluedragondreaming]

Fire Emblem - Ike and Ranulf

[imberlae]

[sirdarkhourglass]

Hey look I am not gone! Gonna try to post here more often! Starting now!

[docidoci]

Tellius: How to accidentally mess up the lore by making "better" localised names

Here's a separate small post so the topic doesn't get lost mid-chapter. I will imply certain "writer's intent", but it is, of course, my opinion of the intent.

Appearing in the lore and, well, prominently in the games, there are two sets of three-fold "concepts" on Tellius.

First, the goddesses. Ashera, Yune and Ashunera. The first one is a name everyone will recognize as a real historical goddess name from our myths, the second one at least sounds like a name. The third one — the most important one — is more like "well… a choice was made". The combined name bears no particular meaning aside from containing the letters.

There is a reason for that. This highly legitimate reason is that neither Yune, nor Ashunera was mentioned by name in Path of Radiance. And that someone on the localisation team of Path of Radiance decided that one historical goddess is just as good as another, or maybe better.

Let's look at the original names: Astarte, Yune (Yunnu), and — Astartyune. Makes sense now? Yep, literally "a star tune". You know. The galdrar. Which are sort of important to the plot and all that.

The second set of named entities are Beorc, Laguz and Zunanma, which have much the same relationship as the first set. One side, the other side, the combination. I have no "legitimate" explanation for whatever happened to them, because they all get a mention in PoR.

So what are the names meant to be? Berkana, Laguz, Mannaz. Those are the names of certain runes: ᛒ , ᛚ and ᛗ. The first two were pretty obviously chosen to visually combine into the third one.

Imagine, someone even recognized the jp spelling of "Laguz" as the real word they should use, but then went literal with the "Beorc" spelling for some reason and deliberately mangled "Mannaz". I have zero ideas on what the goal was.

Please don't take all of the meta series as me purely shit-talking the PoR localisation. I'm sure they had, uhhh, their constraints. They even had little funny ideas. But at times, it's only possible to read the translated script like this:

[hildshall]

Rune a Day Project - Day 11 - November 11, 2021 - Bernako

Day 11 of my rune a day project. Today I drew Berkano, meaning "birch". It represents birth, new beginnings, new ideas, growth, family, regeneration, earth, creativity, recovery, healing & atonement, enjoyment of sexual relationships, sanctuary, secrecy and silence in service of protection and listening, liberation, true home.

Reverse means stagnation, obstacles to something new, troubles with conception or pregnancy, sterility, interference in growth, the abusive parent or guardian, problems with female reproductive system, anxiety.

A couple of years back, I woke up with this rune literally in my vision, and its name ringing in my ears. I still don't have an idea of why that was, but for that reason, this rune has been one I've learned a lot about, and one that I feel very close to. Since I grew my hair long, I wear this rune in my hair a lot.

Whether it has a deeper significance other than it's a "favorite" of mine is debatable, obviously. It could be like having a favorite color or a "lucky" number - it's just something that I like, and it doesn't have to have any more significance to it than that. Or it means more, and I don't quite understand that yet.

As I've progressed through this project, "new ideas" are absolutely a big part of the process, and so it's appropriate I drew Berkano at this stage. Yesterday, in particular, had a couple of really Big New Ideas (at least to me) that I'm still chewing on.

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Commission done for @sirdarkhourglass

[nikodavisflores]

Icon Commission for Darkhourglass Beorc making a difficult time for Niall

[ulisesbarreiro]

Las runas y su poder mágico....

Veamos a lo largo de unos poemas como por muchos actores de la historia se refirieron a las runas y sus poderes mágicos. Casi todos a favor excepto los que utilizaban el marco cristiano en su marco conceptual de vida.  El poeta de Andreas, que es un poema inglés antiguo, nos da una visión más colorida sobre las runas y el poder de su magia.

Echando las suertes son ellas quienes juzgan.

Quien muere antes como cebo para el resto.

Con diabólico actos y bárbaros ritos.

Echan las suertes y quedan vencidos. 

Era un escritor cristiano cuyo máximo empeño era mermar la reputación que tenían las runas entre los sujetos que las practicaban, ellos les denominaban paganos a las personas que utilizaban la magia de la runa. Pero es nada más como dato histórico ver el poema, de como un cristiano vió el poder de las runas en ese momento histórico. 

También vemos a un poema de runas, que se utilizaba para romper cadenas o romper ataduras. Este es un poema utilizado por Odín en labios del autor Havamal:

Conozco un hechizo que presto me libera 

si los enemigos raudos me ataran

 un cántico se que rompe grilletes 

y desgarra cadenas.

Este tipo de magia en manos de personas diestras podían hacer que ocurrieran ciertas cosas.... Las runas se grababan a ambos lados de las armas con un pigmento de hilo de oro o color colorado. Se las nombraba a las armas pero esos nombres tenían funciones mágicas. 

Se podría escribir mucho más sobre el poder mágico de las runas y la cantidad por miles de poemas de la antiguedad que así lo manifiesta. Es tan solo esta nota un disparador para que los lectores se metan a investigar y leer más al respecto si les interesa. 

                                               Ulises Barreiro