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Freelance Berzerker · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:31 am Post subject: Names of Artifact Weapons

It just occurred to me that the name of Thor's hammer is Mjolnir, which sounds kind of like Mjolak.

Given the languages which the devs are fluent, the names of each artifact weapon probably mean something.

Anyone know what Vermis means in Finnish? (I'm just grasping at straws here. I don't know if the weapon names are given in Finnish or not.)

Somagu · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:33 am Post subject:

Vermis is a part of the brain.

As for the others, I'm afraid I have no idea.
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Freelance Berzerker · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:45 am Post subject:

You know a bit of Finnish then?

dalboz · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject:

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/vermis

yes, it's part of the brain. it also governs motor functions. including teleportation...?
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Freelance Berzerker · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject:

Have you googled anything about IVAN in Chinese?

I got this after searching for the meaning of "Mjolak":

【バナナ】イヴァンスレ【バナナ】
今、雪山で Mjolak っつーハルバード拾ったんだが、直後にいきなり UGHAaaa っつー叫び声聞いて死んだよ。 ... Mjolakと壊れたMjolak手に入れて、手元にrepairスクロールあったけど使うとなんか、まずいことになりそうな気がして、使わなかった実際、 ...
jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi/game/9358/1135000932/-100 - 43k -

Love reading about kewl games in other languages.

EDIT: Of course I realize that the above is in Japanese. Just wondering if you had read anything about the game in Chinese.

dalboz · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject:

"Turok" (Turox) is a series of games that involves you killing hordes of mutated dinosaurs.
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Z · wolf Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 336

We could also think about the names of monsters and gods. Lobh-Se and Inlux (previously called Xunil) are anagrams.
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Freelance Berzerker · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject:

Linguistic easter eggs, eh?