Guild Wars 2

lordkrall.7241:

Einlanzer.1627:

This is a silly conversation. The Norn are a fantasy race inspired by Nordic culture. Their naming conventions don’t have to match the real world any more than Arenanet wants them to.

I’m more bothered by the persistent mispronunciation of the word “golem”. It’s supposed to be “goh-lem”, not “Gollum” like the LotR character.

The OP kind of just sounds like a whiny chauvinist.

Isn’t this rather silly though?
You claim that ArenaNet can do whatever they want with the lore, and yet you are bothered by them having a specific pronunciation of a certain word?

Really? Do you honestly not see a difference between making up an in-game culture and bad grammar/pronunciation? We have to have some basis of real-life language here, or else the game would become a mess of gibberish and a puzzle just to figure out what’s going on.

Let’s have everyone in cutscenes say “teh” when they are using the word “the” and see how long before we have a meltdown in the forums.

What about this npc name:

Kristyna Sohnstag
“Take heed! I haven’t taken leave of my sense. I’ve seen creatures of metal and steam!”

Yeah, we all know this npc in Hoelbrak, but her name makes NO SENSE! Sohn, means “son”, and Tag means “day”. Sonsday? This is the sort of nonsensical names you end up with, when you don’t understand the naming convention, and just combine a few words that sound nice.

For the record, my own character name DOES make sense. :P

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

What about this npc name:

Kristyna Sohnstag
“Take heed! I haven’t taken leave of my sense. I’ve seen creatures of metal and steam!”

Yeah, we all know this npc in Hoelbrak, but her name makes NO SENSE! Sohn, means “son”, and Tag means “day”. Sonsday? This is the sort of nonsensical names you end up with, when you don’t understand the naming convention, and just combine a few words that sound nice.

For the record, my own character name DOES make sense. :P

Maybe it’s a typo and they meant to name her Sonntag. That’s the sort of error I can see someone make who is writing Sonntag from memory and doesn’t double check the spelling.

Wow, I didn’t suspected that this topic would be alive for so long :P

I still haven’t changed my opinion, that Braham’s surname doesn’t fit. If Eir was accomplished dragon slayer when Braham was born that would be natural. Son would be named after more famous of parents despite any likes or dislikes, but as I remember she was “only” well renown sculptor in that time, as opposed to legendary status of Braham’s father( Borje the Sun Chaser). True that Eir’s legend vastly overshadowed Borje’s, but it was after many years.

When did he get his last name?