Title: Fuff info
Description: also debate
Dark Angel - February 11, 2007 07:43 PM (GMT)
i've been absent for awhile but plese list here all the angel's Cannon fluff so i can see what we have, also we can work out the fluff using this topic
p.s. by cannon i dont mean those one time stories that i wrote or stories like the one GS wrote with lucifer.
Angel of Algebra - February 11, 2007 08:37 PM (GMT)
Well, AFAIK, all the fluff which is still regarded as canon is in the PDF, with the exception of the information on the Angelic language. I'm unsure of the status of this fluff in the list, and whether or not it has been outdated, but I have dug it out from my archives regardless, with spelling and punctuation edited slightly. Note that some of Prince's comments are still included.
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Angelic language - also known as the "Gilded Tongue" by the few who have heard it (namely Elves and Lizardmen).
The language itself is much like the Chaos language; there is a system of root words, such as "Narath", meaning key. Words can be stringed together to make the object more descriptive, such as "Narath'nama", or "Key of the Old Ones". Prefixes and suffixes can be added on to change the word as well. For instance, "Naar" means "repent". However, if you add the prefix "Sha", which is used to change a verb to a noun, you get "Shanaar", meaning "repentance" (the action of repenting).
There is a major differences the Gilded Tongue has from the Dark Tongue. Firstly, the language's meaning cannot change. Each word has a set, exact meaning, and cannot be altered to mean something else. In the English language - run can mean either to go really fast using your legs, or to operate a machine, plus other meanings. In the Gilded Tongue, there'd be a verb for each that could not be interchanged. The Angels have done this to ensure order in their language, and seeing as they've had eons to learn it, so the amount of words in the language is no problem (though there are a lot).
Most interesting of all is that the Gilded Tongue is also spoken in a set verse. The Angels, upon creating their language, wanted even their speech to be a praise and testament to the Old One's order and great plans, and as such speak beautifully (or think, if they're telepathic). Every line has 12 syllables, as 12 is the holy number to the angelic armies (we can change the number, I don't want it to be 7- too religious), and a total thought of an angel must be conveyed in 12 lines, resulting in 144 syllables total. the rhyming order is arranged as follows:
A
A
B
B
C
C
C
C
B
B
A
A
While such a feat would be complicated for any mortal to do in casual situations, or more importantly in the heat of battle, Angels have had eons to perfect their language, and as such can create poetry without even thinking about it. Their language is created to have plenty of words that rhyme, whether they be the base words or the suffixes that match them up. |
Otherwise, have a look through the PDF. Under each unit and character entry is their own fluff, there is the description of the creation of the Host and the first battles against Chaos, descriptions of Angelic weaponry, and you can piece together one page of the Celestial Tome of Sephiroth.
AoAlgebra :lol:
Thragka - February 12, 2007 08:30 PM (GMT)
Oh. Wow.
Can we have a sort of vernacular tongue as well, even if just for in the midst of battle? Because if they want to say something like "Charge!" or "Retreat!" in the hint of battle, what are they going to say?
Cherub A:
"The world we know is torn in twain by evil so
Hellish that it requires guardians to let it grow.
Who will stop the Damnable from ruining this world lent?
Who now are the guardians safeguarding this world rent?
The angels are the only ones to take this task,
And never shall they hide from what of them's been ask'd.
And now they fly to war 'gainst evil subtly mask'd.
And we angels know that in glory we shall bask!
We, the last defenders of gods whose might is spent!
We, who have never slumbered with Chaos present!
For whom Sephiroth died millenia ago,
And verily do descend now to crush our foe!"
Cherub B: "Up and at 'em, lads!"
Cherub A is killed mid-speech by goblin.
Cherub B saves the day.
And that took a while to compose, so take note!
Angel of Algebra - February 12, 2007 09:12 PM (GMT)
Firstly, WOW!! :o Great poetry there.
I would imagine if a Cherub wishes to make an order, he would make a single line statement. "Soar upon the foe!", "Crush them with your blades!" or something to that effect, and it would fit in within a sequence of 8 lines in the rhyming scheme. Basically, he would give 8 one-line orders throughout a certain period of time, and all 8 of those lines would be in the pattern. His memory is so vast that he remembers exactly what the last line he spoke was, and knows how to fit his next one into his speech pattern. Note I give no rhyming examples because I am mince at poetry.
Just how I imagine it.
AoAlgebra :lol:
Grand Seraphim - February 13, 2007 12:16 PM (GMT)
Hahahaha. Fantastic poetry, i actually laughed outloud when i saw Cherub B though. I largley agree with what AoA said about how a Cherub would like just say one line to command. Then again it is more likely that the Cherub would tell the Princedom what to say... I dont know, i just envision it like that.
On the note of fluff, it is still open to debate but most things in the PDF (i have to go through it with a fine tooth comb) stand.
GS
Thragka - February 14, 2007 09:14 PM (GMT)
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| Basically, he would give 8 one-line orders throughout a certain period of time, and all 8 of those lines would be in the pattern. |
I like that idea. But it's twelve lines, not eight.
Thanks for the compliments :D
Ther's not that much in the PDF - just the basics and then some stuff about different styles of weapons which I'd never seen before.