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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #45 on: July 02, 2015, 02:26:55 PM »
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?

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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #46 on: July 02, 2015, 02:41:22 PM »
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.
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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #47 on: July 02, 2015, 03:16:55 PM »
What are we talking about again?
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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #48 on: July 02, 2015, 05:33:26 PM »
Oooooooh, someone's using the tr (insert table) command!

Very impressive.
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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #49 on: July 02, 2015, 06:34:10 PM »
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. 
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« Reply #50 on: July 02, 2015, 07:22:14 PM »
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

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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:


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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #51 on: July 03, 2015, 05:46:55 PM »
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.
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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #52 on: July 03, 2015, 07:20:34 PM »
That's really chill Tami.  I just cached it in the DFRC theory index. as a WAG.

That made my day. Thanks.   :)
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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #53 on: July 03, 2015, 08:30:09 PM »
Perhaps Anduriel is just a mix of Andariel and Duriel, from Diablo games  :D
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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #54 on: July 03, 2015, 11:39:04 PM »
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 &nbsp; 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.
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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #55 on: July 04, 2015, 04:09:38 PM »
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 &nbsp; 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.

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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.
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« Reply #56 on: July 04, 2015, 11:36:51 PM »
I especially like how you used colors and alignment.  Here's one of my attempts at using tables.

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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 " ".

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« Reply #57 on: July 05, 2015, 08:50:50 AM »
@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.

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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #58 on: July 06, 2015, 12:00:22 AM »
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"
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Re: Etymology of Angel Names in DF
« Reply #59 on: July 06, 2015, 02:02:59 PM »
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 
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