Listen to the NPCs around where the boss occurs. They pronounce it a few times, especially when Tequatl rises.
Teh (soft e, not hard e like OP)-Kuah-Tell
And as Quartktastic said, the hylek names are based off mesoamerican (not just Mayan, but Incan and Aztec too) naming systems. Tequatl as well.
Fun fact: Tequatl in hylek means “One in the Darkness” iirc; “the Sunless” is the hylek name for Risen. In other words his name basically means “Risen One in the Darkness”
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Fun fact: Tequatl in hylek means “One in the Darkness” iirc; “the Sunless” is the hylek name for Risen. In other words his name basically means “Risen One in the Darkness”
Hm… what’s more risen than risen? Maybe he’s fermenting or something in this update.
Listen to the NPCs around where the boss occurs. They pronounce it a few times, especially when Tequatl rises.
Teh (soft e, not hard e like OP)-Kuah-Tell
And as Quartktastic said, the hylek names are based off mesoamerican (not just Mayan, but Incan and Aztec too) naming systems. Tequatl as well.
Fun fact: Tequatl in hylek means “One in the Darkness” iirc; “the Sunless” is the hylek name for Risen. In other words his name basically means “Risen One in the Darkness”
The only problem with that is that it doesn’t make sense given how mesoamerican words are pronounced.
It oughta be Te-kah-tull so far as I understand, for the same reason you wouldn’t say Kweh-tzull-kwah-tull for Quetzacoatl.
It sounds to me like they inspired in old aztec (or mayans as someone said, i am not that expert) language and names. Use its pronounce.
I dont know what is your native language and if its english (i suppose from how you showed us your pronouncing) it is hard to write becouse english is absolutely diferent.
For example E is totaly different then in english alphabet.
Like some said word tequila could help to get a picture :-D
,,Te.." is same, but without that hard english T. English natives always use too strong emphasis on T, D, G, K…as first letter, when prenouncing words they dont know.
Edit:
I found video where you can hear it many times. Good prenounce, but that english TTTTTT…:-D
Edit 2: Yes found video but forgot to pass link here…:-D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWBHmeAJhT0
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Listen to the NPCs around where the boss occurs. They pronounce it a few times, especially when Tequatl rises.
Teh (soft e, not hard e like OP)-Kuah-Tell
And as Quartktastic said, the hylek names are based off mesoamerican (not just Mayan, but Incan and Aztec too) naming systems. Tequatl as well.
Fun fact: Tequatl in hylek means “One in the Darkness” iirc; “the Sunless” is the hylek name for Risen. In other words his name basically means “Risen One in the Darkness”
The only problem with that is that it doesn’t make sense given how mesoamerican words are pronounced.
It oughta be Te-kah-tull so far as I understand, for the same reason you wouldn’t say Kweh-tzull-kwah-tull for Quetzacoatl.
The Hylek names are Mesoamerican inspired, but not actually Mesoamerican. Therefore, Hylek names may not necessarily have the same pronunciation as Mesoamerican words.
The pronunciation in the game (Teh-quah-tul) is the intended pronunciation of the name by the devs and is therefore the proper pronunciation of the name.
It’s kind of like what you saw with Avatar: The Last Airbender. While the names were Asian inspired, they did not necessarily have the same pronunciations as Asian names/words because they were not actually Asian. This was intentional by the creators and the names in the series are the proper pronunciations of the names. Then when someone like M. Night Shyamalan comes in and changes up how the names are pronounced in “The Last Airbender” movie because “that’s how Asian names are actually pronounced,” the fans threw a fit because the names in the movie were NOT the names of the well-loved characters (It’s pronounced “Ayng,” not “Ahng” Shyamalan!).
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Its supposed to be some pseudo nahuatl from central mexico. Te means someone and cuatl is a misspelling of coatl which means snake, so its pretty much untranslatable, as for pronunciation, it would be two syllables: Te and Coatl, pronounce Te as in tequila or tecate, and coatl as ko???t?l
Ree pronounced it with a p (despite it not being there) before the game was released. I assume he wasn’t called Teqpuatl at some point, but maybe he was.
I dunno, considering it’s a Hylek word, there’s no way it’s pronounced the way you’re all saying.
Not a chance the Hylek are making those hard T and K sounds with those big frog mouths. It might be spelled that way, but phonetically it’s -gotta- sound different.
There’s a definite space between the TE and the QUATL, and it should be acknowledged as such. The TL has an invisible “O” sound made with your mouth as you pronounce them together to get the “tole” that I’d mentioned above without it really being there.
In our guild we just call those 3 dragons: shaq, frog, ice
I dont know why Tequilla is frog, but somehow it sound just right for us. And those are translations, in czech it sounds more different
