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#1 radnovius May 29, 2006 0:02:04	A house rule I have is that there are languages for the paraelemental planes. I used latin roots as they did for the other languages (except Auran which actually comes from gold rather than air {aer-}). I require clerics to take the language of their plane of worship as one of their initial languages. Magma = Volcan (derived from Vulcan) Silt = Pulvan (derived from pulvis meaning dust/powder) Rain = Imbran (derived from imbrium meaning of rain) Sun = Solan (derived from sol meaning sun)
#2 eric_anondson May 29, 2006 0:48:35	Very appropriate I think. Of course, for me, I have completely elevated the "paraelements" to full fledged "elemental" status, ditching the "para-" prefix.
#3 Pennarin May 29, 2006 2:15:36	I too like the names. Volcan is a bit childish though, but that's perhaps due to popular culture and what it teaches to youngsters. Btw, volcan is volcano in french. Of course, for me, I have completely elevated the "paraelements" to full fledged "elemental" status, ditching the "para-" prefix. I thought they already were. I thought that the language quirks - elemental, para-elemental - were just that, quirks, and not indicative of some kind of cosmic rank. As if...the word positive could only be written using the word negative...say, nepositive. Heh, did you get my meaning Eric?
#4 radnovius May 29, 2006 2:25:40	I tried to find a better term for the magma language, but I couldn't come up with anything Latin that was better. I thought about Vulcan, but I envisioned a bunch of magma clerics saying, "Live long and prosper." Je peux parler francais, mais pas courament. :P
#5 Pennarin May 29, 2006 2:34:08	Yeah, if it weren't for Star Trek vulcan would be perfect. Have you communicated with NytCrawlr? He's in Indianapolis too. C'est un bon gars! ;)
#6 mystictheurge May 29, 2006 8:33:20	You could just use Magman or Magmatan in place of Volcan. You could also go back to greek where Hephaestus was the equivalent god to Vulcan.