How do you pronounce things?

Iselle

There's probably a lot of variation out there (which is a function of most written mediums), so I'm curious as to how everyone pronounces different things in the game! I.e. character names, organizations, lore stuff, etc. I think there was a thread about this before, but it's super old.

I'll start!

Iselle - eye-ZELLE, with a similar "s" as the one in "Isadora" or "Isabelle"

Bahir'an - buh-HERE-rahn
Nebre'seir - NEH-bruh-seer
Ve'kahi - vuh-KAH-hee
D'baen - duh-behn (Frenchish way)

Abhorash - AB-hor-rash
Chakrasul - ends up chack-russell in my head, which I can't stop now

Indorani - in-DORE-ran-nee
Sentaari - sen-TAR-ree

Grecht - grekt
Tsol'aa - tuh-SOLE-lah (I am positive this is wrong, like the "T" is silent or something, but I can't help it)

Iviofiyiedu - no idea
Hlugnic Labyrinth - hewg-nick?
Djeir - duh-jeer?
Iernian Fracture - eye-er-nee-an

Players whose names I am sure I am butchering in my head:

@Asaraii - az-ZAR-rai
@Eztli - ehz-tuh-lee
@Zhuli - not sure how to present it phonetically, but I can't unsee the mandarin pronunciation
@Zsadist - ...zee-sadist (sorry)

Dristin

..lol...Chack Russell..

Iselle

I wish my brain could stop it.

Jensen

Nah brei sea year
Ab whore rash
Asari (like mass effect)
Ra shart

Zsadist

Actually, its

Zsadist - zay-dist (The s is silent)


Bahir'an - ba-he-ron
Nebre'seir - ne-bruh-sare
@Trikal - truh-call (Or Triks for short)

Iselle

Yeah, I was almost certain that wasn't what you intended, haha. That's good to know!

Aishia

Areka

Organizations:
Bahir'an - bah-HEER-un, but one of those slightly flicky Rs, not a full roll.
Nebre'seir - neh-breh-SEAR
Ve'kahi - Veh-KA-hee, short hee.
D'baen - di-BAEN (idk how to describe that subtlety, like bean sidhe, not bean the vegetable).

Enorian: eh-NORE-yan (soft a)
Duiran: DUR-ran (rolly R emphasis)

Places:
Iviofiyiedu - ivy-OH-Few-*sneeze*, ivy-OH-few-yay-doo?
Hlugnic Labyrinth - HLUGNICK (not really), (exhale emphasis)HLOO-nick?
Djeir - DEH-jeer
Iernian Fracture - YEARN-yan (soft a)

People:
Areka - a-WRECK-a, get it, because she's a Troll. Literally my train of thought.
Abhorash - AB-ore-ash (as in wash)
Chakrasul - SHACK-rah-sool
Ethne - ETH-ney
Iosyne - YEO-seen
Maghak - Ma-hack (phlegmey bit in there),
Omei - Oh-may
Slyphe - Sly-ffffffff

Other:
ylem - llem
Grecht - greh'kt

*Amending as other folk post things!

Aldric

Huh, never knew that about Zsadist. I've always straight up just said z-sadist. That... changes things. Slightly.

As for Grecht, I speak German rather decently, so I've always said that as a super German word. Gr-echt (with extra phlegm and hate).

Iosyne - eye-oh-seen
Abhorash - Ab-whore-ash ( sorry it's not a bad word if it's in a pronunciation clearly!)
Asaraii - Az-arr-eye
Chakrasul - Chahk-ruh-sool
Areka - Uh-reek-uh
Rashar - Ru-shar (rhymes with star sound)
Xiuhcoatl - No.


Ylem - Yem. Yuh-lem? I switch, I can't decide howtf I want to say it. Pls halp

Indorani - In-door-ah-knee
Sentaari - Sent-arr-eee

Ve'kahi - Vay-kah-hee

Aishia

Chack Russel Terrier.

Diogen

Though written as "Dhar", it is actually canonically pronounced "soo-per aw-sum dood"

Dristin

Diogen said:

Though written as "Dhar", it is actually canonically pronounced "soo-per aw-sum dood"

No.

Zsadist

Because I feel like being a little more long winded this time..... here we go:

Gods/Admin (sorry if I missed a few of you or didnt list you, some of your names are straight forward):
Razmael - Raz-mail
Damariel - Duh-mar-e-el
Iosyne - eye-o-sin
Dhar - Dar (Like dark, only without the k)
Chakrasul - chock-ra-zul
Ethne - eth-knee
Avareti -a-vu-ret-ee
Ivoln - eye-voln
Auresae (She ded now) - or-eh-say
Slyphe - slif
Omei - oh-may
Haern - hayrn
Maghak -maa-gak (Short a on first syllable)
Severn - Seh-vern
Dristin - Dris-ten-your awesomeness knows no bounds
Hadrak - Hay-drack
Keroc - kee-rock
Trigru - gloop gloop mother fucker...... Trig-roo

Orgs/Places:

Bloodloch - blood-lock
Enorian - uh-nor-ean
Duiran - dur-ean (I know I dont pronounce it the way its spelled, but thats how I say it)
Spinesreach - Spines-reach (Pretty simple and straight forward)
Indorani - indoor-ah-knee
Teradrim - tear-uh-drym
Syssin - sis-in
Sentaari - sen-tar-ree
Iernian Fracture - eye-eer-knee-in Fracture
Albedos - al-bey-dos
Xaanhal - zuh-nol
Huanazedha - hu-ahna-zey-dah

People (Just for shits and giggles... sorry if I destroy your names):

Rashar - Ruh-shar
Xuihcoatl -ze-you-coat-el
Asaraii - azz-uh-rye
Phendegwen - fen-deh-gwin
Xenia - zen-ee-uh
Mephistoles - mehfist-oh-leez
Aithene - eye-theen
Valingar - val-in-jer
Aishia - eye-eesh-uh
Aarbrok - pokemon

If you want to know how I say your name, Just ask

Carivah

I said Bahir'an as buh-HERE-ran until I hung out with Erzsebet in person and heard her say BAH-hur-on out loud. That made sense to me, so I started pronouncing it like that until I heard Callidora pronounce it buh-HERE-ron over Skype. Since Callidora's house leader, I figured that trumped. It's still not quite how I used to say it anyways.

Chakrasul has got to be a "chock" sound to me, because that's the same way I pronounce chakra.

For myself, I used to say my own name as kuh-REE-vuh, but without any prompting I found out multiple other people were saying KAR-i-vah. Since it seemed pretty unanimous, I'm willing to say I was wrong about pronouncing my own name, and now I say it the second way out of habit.

Hearing things aloud for the first time is always bizarre, every time.


(On that note, pulling from Zsadist's list, I don't now how Xuihcoatl is intended to be pronounced, but the "coatl" part makes me want to read the X as a ch sound.)

Iselle

Zsadist said:

Aarbrok - pokemon

Agreed.

Also:

Sarita

I've always said Bahir'an as BAH-here-ahn since I know Zoharim's player kind of ripped a lot of his word/names off of Hebrew names/words. Zohar and Bahir both come from Kabbalistic stuff, and Bahir (From the Sefer Ha'Bahir, or Book of Brightness, which makes absolutely no sense for a vampire house that's supposed to be all darkness and stuff) is pronounced BAH-here there, so I just kind flip the 'ahn' on at the end.

Aryanne

This is fun.


Razmael - RAZ-mee-elle
Iosyne - eye-oh-ZEEN
Chakrasul - chack-ra-sool
Omei - OH-mee
Maghak -mag-HACK (Short a on first syllable)

Bloodloch - blood-lock
Enorian - Eh-nore-ee-an
Duiran - Dware-in (like sticking a 'd' before 'where'
Xaanhal - Zan-hall
Huanazedha - I don't.
Grecht - grekt
Tsol'aa -TZohl-ah
Iviofiyiedu - ihv-ee-o-f...eeeckthis
Hlugnic Labyrinth - HLGNIK
Djeir - Duh-zjheer (english doesn't really have A LETTER for that sound)
Iernian Fracture - "that thing that I think means yuh-lem is happening, maybe?"

Edit to add: I've always said it zay-dist.

Sarita

Ok, since I chimed in above, I'll add a few.

The way I've heard Sarita's name in my name has kind of changed over the years, in part because she's had an evolving accent and has actually started pronouncing it differently herself. Originally, to reflect the fact that she didn't grow up in a single place or with a single group of people, she had a kind of unique accent that was borderline singing rather than talking (she also spent most of the time between ages 11-18 alone with wolves.)
Original: ser-Reet-uh
Now: Sah-Ree-tah (flipped T, syllables are designed to flow well into her version of Bahir'an with a duh Duh duh Duh duh etc. sort of emphasis)

Abhorash - Ab-oh-rash (silent h)
Zsarachnor - Zzz-sar-ach-nore
Iosyne - Eye-oh-seen
Chakrasul - Chahk-rahs-uul
Slyphe - Sly-fee
Omei - Oh-may
Oleis - Oh-lee-is
Razmael - Raaaaz

Duiran - Doo-ear-ehn
Iviofiyiedu - Eye-vee-oh-place in the shamtotas
Bihrkaen - Brrrr-kay-ehn
Hlugnic Labyrinth - I don't really know my way around there either.

Pachacacha - Puh-cha-ka-cha. I also do it to the beat of invisible maracas. Ole!

Mariena

Oh man, I love pronouncing things and making people do the same. Mariena has had several iterations over the years. Originally, it was supposed to be Mah-ree-na, but I flipped back and forth between that and Mare-ee-enna and a weird time that it was Mahr-e-ahna. Most the time, 'Mare-ee' is everyone's shortened version of it, so 'Mare-ee-enna' won out as the long version of the name.


Now, in no particular order:

Slyphe- Slife (like life)

Omei - Oh-my or Oh-may

Iosyne - Eye-oh-sign

Duiran - Dur-e-ann (said kinda fast)

Esterport - Est-er-port (that one was easy!)

Mamashi - Mam-ash-ee

Itzatl - Its-at all

Saluria - Sal-oor-ree-a

Abhorash - Ab-or -rash

Aryanne - Air-ree-anne

Shaman - Sham-wow

Sentaari - Sent-ar-ee

Indorani - Indoor-on-ee

Aetolia - A-Toll-ee-ah

Albedos - Al-beh-dose

Praadi- Prahd-ee

Rajamala - Raj-ah-mah-la

Tsol'aa- tzole-ah

Carivah

Xuihcoatl should be chu'ik-ko-WAT-ul, since I was still thinking about it.

Aarbrok

Carivah said:

Xuihcoatl should be chu'ik-ko-WAT-ul, since I was still thinking about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl

Thats all I can think about.

Teani

Here's my contribution. I thought, as a non-native English speaker, I'd have a lot different pronunciation than most, but it seems fairly similar. Swedish allows a bit more mashing together of certain sounds though.

Organizations:
Bahir'an - bah-HEER-un
Nebre'seir - neh-breh-SEAR
Ve'kahi - Veh-KA-hee, short hee.
D'baen - di-BYE-n

Places:
Enorian: eh-NOR-yan
Duiran: DUi-ran (with the "a" as a mix between a and u)
Iviofiyiedu - Eve-yo-FIE-du
Hlugnic Labyrinth - HLUNG-nick
Djeir - D-jeir
Iernian - Ee-EARN-yan
Huanazedha - WHO-ah-nah-ZED-ah

People:
Teani - Tee-ah-nee
Areka - a-REEK-a,
Abhorash - AB-ore-ash (as in wash)
Asaraii - Az-arr-eye
Xiucoatl - Shoe-coat-l
Zsadist - Zay-dist

Divine:
Chakrasul - SHACK-rah-sool
Iosyne - Eye-oh-sin
Maghak - Mag-hack
Omei - Oh-may
Slyphe - Slyff
Severn - Sev-EARN
Ethne - Eth-ney
Dhar - Daar

Areka

New I should have spelled it Awrecka. But then there's 'Awr' and that doesn't suit her.

Teani

@Areka If you'd just done a ck, that would have changed my pronunciation to what you intended. Single "k" usually has a long vowel in front of it. If there's a short vowel, we spell it with "ck" instead.

Areka

Ah, yeah, the ck just didn't seem very Trollish, c's always seem to soften things, not necessarily by sound, but just how it presents.

Carivah

If it makes you feel better, @Areka, I've been reading your name the same way you do.

Ishin

I read it Areh-kuh. Same with Erica or Erika or whatever.

Areka

Kind of, but the emphasis is in the REH/middle syllable.

Adali

Enorian: eh-NORI- un (like the nori used in sushi)
Duiran: DO-ee-run
Khauskin: COW-skin
Raugol: ROW-gull (like cow with an R)

Adali: Ah-DAW-lee
Areka: sometimes A-recka and sometimes A-reek-a, both just sound right
Aborash: ABO-rush

Chakrasul: SHACK-rah-sul
Iosyne: EYE-oh-sin
Maghak: Mag-hack
Omei: Oh-may
Slyphe: Sly-f
Ethne: Eth-neh
Dhar: Daar
Severn: SEV-earn
Razmael: RAZ-my-el
Oleis: o-LAY-is
Haern: hairn

Toz

 Razmael - Raz-mail
Damariel - Duh-mar-e-el
Iosyne - eye-o-sine
Dhar - Dar
Chakrasul - Chack-rah-sul 
Ethne - eth-knee
Avareti -a-ver-etti
 Ivoln - eye-voln
Auresae - aura-say
Slyphe - sly-ff
Omei - oh-me
 Haern - hay-urn
 Maghak - mag-hack
 Severn - Sevurn
Dristin - Driz-ten
 Hadrak - Had-rack
Keroc - kuh-rock
Trigru - Trig-roo

 Orgs/Places:
 Bloodloch - blood-lock
Enorian - in-or-ean
Duiran - dwee-run
 Spinesreach - Spines-reach
Indorani - indoor-ah-knee
Teradrim - tear-uh-drym
 Syssin - sis-in
Sentaari - sen-tar-ree
Iernian Fracture - I-earn-ian Fracture Albedos - al-beh-dos
Xaanhal - zayn-hall
Huanazedha - I don't say this word.

 People:
 Rashar - Rash-ar
Xuihcoatl -zwee-coat-el
 Asaraii - as-sar-ee
 Phendegwen - fen-deh-gwin
Xenia - zen-ee-uh
Mephistoles - mehfist-oh-lees
Aithene - eye-theen
Valingar - val-in-gar
 Aishia - ayy-shuh
Aarbrok -  Arr-brock
Zsadist - zee-sadist
Areka - Erica

Misc:
Ylem - lem
Khepri - Capri
Riluo - rill-lu-oh
Abhorash - ab-whore-rash
Raeche - ray-shh
Trikal - trick-all (subtle!)
Kelliara - kelly-aura

The tl;dr of 'how do you pronounce' is 'poorly', I always get told 'spell it?' when I talk about game stuff.

Lleminara

Yeras... Your-azz (Add a thick redneck accent on the 'your', replace z's with s's)
Wylliam... Will-I-Am (sorry :P)
Ishin... Ai-chin
Phendegwen... Fen-dee-gwen
Coribhell... Koh-reef-ul
Tirria... Tear-eye-ah

Iosyne... Eeh-yo-sign
Slyphe... Slaifu (friend ruined this, sorry Father)
Belakai... Bee-lah-kah-ee
Severn... Sea-fern


Scidve... Skit-vee
Iviofiyiedu... Lost City -,-
Mannaseh... Mennessee
Kalydian... Kah-lee-dee-ahn
Djeir... Geh-ihr