Guide to English Accents in Elden Ring - 3 -Welsh
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(Fun fact - the only Liurnian character not played by a natively Welsh actor is Latenna! Her actress, Jennifer English, is actually from Shropshire - an English county which directly borders Wales. It's usually considered part of the "Welsh Marshes")
(The Kalé are a Romani subgroup from Wales. His name isn't a coincidence - if the coding of the nomadic merchants with the importance they place on caravans isn't enough, they're literally called ジプシー (Gypsy) in the game files)
(Miyazaki does mention choosing Welsh for the Liurnians in the interview with Famitsu we looked at in the introduction. The other group he explicitly mentions by name is the West Country (Cornish) group, who we'll explore later).
(I actually have no idea where the fantasy trope of "Welsh = magic user" even comes from, but it's definitely a thing in Japanese video-game localisations. If you'd like a more in-depth academic exploration of this phenomenon, there's a university paper here, though the author doesn't seem to have actually played Elden Ring lol)