Etymology of Angel Names in DF

[wizard nelson]

Wait, Raistlin was the hero?  I just remember him being sickly, dragons getting stabbed with lances, and Tifa owning a bar.

Anyway, should be enough, thanks.

read the time of the twins trilogy(or maybe the test of the twins) it shows him being the BAMF anti-hero best. lol is the tifa thing a joke?

[Phariah]

read the time of the twins trilogy(or maybe the test of the twins) it shows him being the BAMF anti-hero best. lol is the tifa thing a joke?

I actually prefer Soulfire and Brothers in Arms. it was a 2 book set. was pretty awesome tbh. talks about the adventure before they all went off on their own and the second book about the time Raist an Cam trained together as mercenaries.

[Quantus]

What are we talking about again?

[Serack]

Oooooooh, someone's using the tr (insert table) command!

Very impressive.

[Serack]

WRT Urumviel: "he had a lot of muscle and a ridge of leathery plates running down his spine."

When I read this, I imagined a ridge of overlapping plates running down his spine kind of like in biker armor.

But some of Saurus references here make me think maybe I had the wrong mental image, and it was more like the plates on the back of a Stegosaurus. 

[Tami Seven]

Someone is going to have to ask JB what the name of Deidre's Fallen is/was. Until then, I still nominate my original suggestion, Urumiel

Did we ever find out the name of Deirdre's Fallen? Her angel in the coin? If not, I'd like someone to ask JB about it if they get ever the chance.

I do have a suggestion for a name, "Urumiel" taken from the name of this sword, the Urumi, which resembled her hair:

[Serack]

Someone is going to have to ask JB what the name of Deidre's Fallen is/was. Until then, I still nominate my original suggestion, Urumiel

That's really chill Tami.  I just cached it in the DFRC theory index. as a WAG.

[Tami Seven]

That's really chill Tami.  I just cached it in the DFRC theory index. as a WAG.

That made my day. Thanks.   

[Dina]

Perhaps Anduriel is just a mix of Andariel and Duriel, from Diablo games 

[megarows]

Oooooooh, someone's using the tr (insert table) command!

Very impressive.

Fair warning on that, as I found out the hard way: there doesn't appear to be a way to control any table/tr/td attributes or styles, especially nowrap, or style="white-space: nowrap" in HTML5, and   didn't seem possible either.

So, for long lines of text, they'll cause the first label column to have decreased width, wrap, and look inconsistent.  I had to manually linebreak and flow them.  It's not quite 100% on an iPad in portrait now, but it's close.

Done deal now, but something to keep in mind if you want to convert a list to a table.

edit: on a completely unrelated sidenote, a strategy/TD game on my iPad (Kingdom Rush: Origins) got an update with a new hero character, a fallen angel.  Named Lilith.  "Noooooooo!"

edit2: added Deirdre's coin with Tami's theory and Dina's etymology to Anduriel.

[Serack]

Fair warning on that, as I found out the hard way: there doesn't appear to be a way to control any table/tr/td attributes or styles, especially nowrap, or style="white-space: nowrap" in HTML5, and   didn't seem possible either.

So, for long lines of text, they'll cause the first label column to have decreased width, wrap, and look inconsistent.  I had to manually linebreak and flow them.  It's not quite 100% on an iPad in portrait now, but it's close.

Done deal now, but something to keep in mind if you want to convert a list to a table.

edit: on a completely unrelated sidenote, a strategy/TD game on my iPad (Kingdom Rush: Origins) got an update with a new hero character, a fallen angel.  Named Lilith.  "Noooooooo!"

edit2: added Deirdre's coin with Tami's theory and Dina's etymology to Anduriel.

I especially like how you used colors and alignment.  Here's one of my attempts at using tables.

Jim's Author/book recommendations

The only formatting I might have done differently is that since the list is so long, compartmentalize each numbered section into a spoiler code so that they can  be expanded or compressed individually.

[megarows]

I especially like how you used colors and alignment.  Here's one of my attempts at using tables.

Jim's Author/book recommendations

The only formatting I might have done differently is that since the list is so long, compartmentalize each numbered section into a spoiler code so that they can  be expanded or compressed individually.

Did that for the intro but need to reflow everything for the rest because the spoiler tags add horizontal padding.

FYI, I found the Unicode non-breaking space will prevent wrapping in these tables.  It is the character " " instead of " ".

[megarows]

@Serack: Done (spoiler tags / text reflow).  As yet another caveat, the Unicode nbsps revert to plain spaces when you edit and have to be reinserted, so I'd recommend saving in an external text editor if you ever go that route.

[Serack]

Thanks for the info, I've archived it in my own personal "sandbox" (literally I have it labeled that) where I hash out stuff like that for forum posts.

I would save it in my official forum advice topic, except you are the only other person I have ever seen that was interested in tables, and that topic is an "FAQ"

[Quantus]

Thanks for the info, I've archived it in my own personal "sandbox" (literally I have it labeled that) where I hash out stuff like that for forum posts.

I would save it in my official forum advice topic, except you are the only other person I have ever seen that was interested in tables, and that topic is an "FAQ"

Im interested, just have so far been too incompetent to make them work properly