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Title: Nice little spell helper
Post by: ironchicken on July 28, 2010, 08:03:02 PM

Found this and i thought I would share...

http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/index.php (http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/index.php)

I find this really handy for coming up with chants or trigger words for spells. Look down the list there are some unusual and handy languages to use

Old English
Old Frisian
Cornish
Sanskrit
Latin
Hebrew
Gothic
Old Norse
Zulu
etc

Title: Re: Nice little spell helper
Post by: greycouncilmember on July 28, 2010, 08:07:15 PM

Quote from: ironchicken on July 28, 2010, 08:03:02 PM

Found this and i thought I would share...

http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/index.php (http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/index.php)

I find this really handy for coming up with chants or trigger words for spells. Look down the list there are some unusual and handy languages to use

Old English
Old Frisian
Cornish
Sanskrit
Latin
Hebrew
Gothic
Old Norse
Zulu
etc

Thanks for posting this, it's very helpful! 

I have a character with close ties to the fae but I'm having difficulty deciding on a language to cast my spells in.  If you had to pick a language close to the language of the fae, what would it be?  Since the word Sidhe and some of the myths around it seem to be Gaelic, I think I'm leaning in that direction for my character.  Thoughts?

Title: Re: Nice little spell helper
Post by: ironchicken on July 28, 2010, 08:24:42 PM

Cornish, one of the Gaelics or Welsh. Perhaps Old English which is what i intend to use for my druid.

Alternatively a quick search on Google threw up a few LotR elf translators.

I don't think it matters as long as it sounds right to you.

Title: Re: Nice little spell helper
Post by: GruffAndTumble on July 28, 2010, 09:10:13 PM

A rather huge dictionary of Old Norse I have bookmarked:

http://www.northvegr.org/zoega/index002.php

Title: Re: Nice little spell helper
Post by: Tsunami on July 28, 2010, 09:42:02 PM

Quote from: greycouncilmember on July 28, 2010, 08:07:15 PM

Thanks for posting this, it's very helpful! 

I have a character with close ties to the fae but I'm having difficulty deciding on a language to cast my spells in.  If you had to pick a language close to the language of the fae, what would it be?  Since the word Sidhe and some of the myths around it seem to be Gaelic, I think I'm leaning in that direction for my character.  Thoughts?

my Wizard is using Irish-Gaelic... me being a student of celtic studies that was a must :P

For Gaelic there is really only one Dictionary:
http://dil.ie/ - Dictionary of the Irish language, very detailed and likely to complex for simple RP translations... but hey, i had to link it.

For the simple stuff: *g*
http://www.irishdictionary.ie/home - Modern Irish Dictionary, limited vocabulary.

For Welsh, i know of these two:

http://www.geiriadur.net/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/

Title: Re: Nice little spell helper
Post by: toturi on July 29, 2010, 08:16:19 AM

Mandarin. Specifically wuxia martial arts moves.

Japanese. Specifically from Streetfighter. Hadouken! seems appropriate for a kinetic attack spell.