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So this is gonna sound really dumb but does anyone know an NPC that actually says the word "Chaurus" out loud? Here's the thing: I was thinking about the unintuitive pronunciation of chitin* and that got me thinking, "What if I've been saying Chaurus wrong as well?" Random I know but it just struck me while playing.

*It starts with a hard "c" sound and rhymes with "my tin."
 
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Friendly Primarina said:
So this is gonna sound really dumb but does anyone know an NPC that actually says the word "Chaurus" out loud? Here's the thing: I was thinking about the unintuitive pronunciation of chitin* and that got me thinking, "What if I've been saying Chaurus wrong as well?" Random I know but it just struck me while playing.

*It starts with a hard "c" sound and rhymes with "my tin."
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After doing some research, no NPC says that word. Making it worse, a lot of things in Elder Scrolls are pronounced different than in English, which to take another ch- example, the word Chimer is pronounced ki-mer instead of chee-mer to fit the rest of elf pronunciations or chime-er like it would be in English.

That said, I always pronounced it with a very soft ch- sound, where if somebody didn't know the context they'd think I was mispronouncing chorus.
 
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Super Hans said:
After doing some research, no NPC says that word. Making it worse, a lot of things in Elder Scrolls are pronounced different than in English, which to take another ch- example, the word Chimer is pronounced ki-mer instead of chee-mer to fit the rest of elf pronunciations or chime-er like it would be in English.

That said, I always pronounced it with a very soft ch- sound, where if somebody didn't know the context they'd think I was mispronouncing chorus.
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I mean "Chimera" is pronouned ki-maira in normal English (Greek-derived word) speech.
 
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Friendly Primarina said:
So this is gonna sound really dumb but does anyone know an NPC that actually says the word "Chaurus" out loud? Here's the thing: I was thinking about the unintuitive pronunciation of chitin* and that got me thinking, "What if I've been saying Chaurus wrong as well?" Random I know but it just struck me while playing.

*It starts with a hard "c" sound and rhymes with "my tin."
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I say Char-Us

But I'd bet good money it's supposed to be pronounced "Car-Us"

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Neo-Holstien said:
The only good orc is a dead orc, the Bretons have it right
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>be the favorite sex slaves of the High Rock Altmer
>so fine, they breed themselves out of existence
>spend most of your history killing each other
>a part of your race splinters off and forms the savage reachmen, who just won't fucking die
>produce Hjalti Earlybeard, Tiber Septim himself and eventually Talos
>Breton Godking lets the Nords think he's Wulfarth, making them worship him as a god for the rest of their history and dying for it like the idiots they are
>Imperials are eternally subservient to the point Arctus doesn't realize what Hjalti is planning until it's too late
>Last Septim Emperor is a Breton, like almost the rest of their line.
>Effectively unchanged and undamaged in the 4th era out of all provinces/peoples
Bretons are always right.
 
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This is really autistic but I hate how the Reachmen are portrayed in Skyrim. The reach men are aware of and can seamlessly blend and hide in "modern" culture and the lore states that when they took over Markarth they were great administrators and fair rulers, possibly better than Nords, yet they roam the hills in skins and use stone tools like they are cavemen. Why don't they wear scavenged and/or modified guard armor? They have really sympathetic lore but are reduced to bandits: ugna bunga edition. Perhaps I'm biased because I really like Celtic mythology and aesthetics and the current Reachmen seem like a waste.

I hope that they retcon the Forsworn to be some kinda of anarcho-primitivists that aren't representative of Reachmen as a whole.

Skyrim belongs to the Nords but the Reach belongs to the Reachmen
 
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Kingu Cinnamon said:
This is really autistic but I hate how the Reachmen are portrayed in Skyrim. The reach men are aware of and can seamlessly blend and hide in "modern" culture and the lore states that when they took over Markarth they were great administrators and fair rulers, possibly better than Nords, yet they roam the hills in skins and use stone tools like they are cavemen. Why don't they wear scavenged and/or modified guard armor? They have really sympathetic lore but are reduced to bandits: ugna bunga edition. Perhaps I'm biased because I really like Celtic mythology and aesthetics and the current Reachmen seem like a waste.

I hope that they retcon the Forsworn to be some kinda of anarcho-primitivists that aren't representative of Reachmen as a whole.

Skyrim belongs to the Nords but the Reach belongs to the Reachmen
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The Dwemer dwelled in caves too and the Nords still wear skins as far as I can see. It's a cultural thing. The Reachmen already rule the Reach. For fuck's sake, the Nords are being bled to death in Markarth and everywhere else in the hold. Every shopkeep you talk to keeps saying how their shit is being taken regularly and there's nothing they can do to stop it.

Reman and Tiber couldn't keep them down. The Nords there are already their subjects, and it's more or less fully their's if you let Madanach out to unite the tribes. Under actual united rulership, the Reach might be a legitimate force to be reckoned with, especially in Skyrim where there are no wizards because the Nords are retarded.
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Nah, might is right
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In the end, this decides everything. The funny thing is it always took a foreigner's might to beat back the Reachmen. The Nords and Bretons never could quell them for long.
 
God of Nothing said:
The Dwemer dwelled in caves too and the Nords still wear skins as far as I can see. It's a cultural thing. The Reachmen already rule the Reach. For fuck's sake, the Nords are being bled to death in Markarth and everywhere else in the hold. Every shopkeep you talk to keeps saying how their shit is being taken regularly and there's nothing they can do to stop it.

Reman and Tiber couldn't keep them down. The Nords there are already their subjects, and it's more or less fully their's if you let Madanach out to unite the tribes. Under actual united rulership, the Reach might be a legitimate force to be reckoned with, especially in Skyrim where there are no wizards because the Nords are retarded.
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When I say skins, what I mean is that the Forsworn are wearing ragged pelts that are less sophisticated than the basic fur armor that the lowest bandits use. If we use guards as the standard measure of Nord equipment then Nords make use of chainmail, scalemail, steel, and worked leather with Iron/Steel weapons, whereas the Forsworn are wearing bearly worked pelts with weapons made from sticks, bones, and fucking flint.

I think that it makes the Forsworn look like retards when they are trying to fight a war semi-naked with rock axes and it makes it hard to take them seriously. I think it would have been cool to see the forsworn wear Imperial/Stormcloak/Markarth guard armor that they have dyed, added embellishments, or carved, with the occasional higher-level unit wearing metal Forsworn armor. I think it would really make the Forsworn feel like guerilla fighters, fighting a war of attrition in the mountains rather than smooth-brained weirdos ruing around in loincloths.
 
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They were going for an aesthetic with the Forsworn though. The whole thing is them using old magics and working with Hagravens and shit. They're not looting/scavenging bandits.
 
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Kingu Cinnamon said:
When I say skins, what I mean is that the Forsworn are wearing ragged pelts that are less sophisticated than the basic fur armor that the lowest bandits use. If we use guards as the standard measure of Nord equipment then Nords make use of chainmail, scalemail, steel, and worked leather with Iron/Steel weapons, whereas the Forsworn are wearing bearly worked pelts with weapons made from sticks, bones, and fucking flint.

I think that it makes the Forsworn look like retards when they are trying to fight a war semi-naked with rock axes and it makes it hard to take them seriously. I think it would have been cool to see the forsworn wear Imperial/Stormcloak/Markarth guard armor that they have dyed, added embellishments, or carved, with the occasional higher-level unit wearing metal Forsworn armor. I think it would really make the Forsworn feel like guerilla fighters, fighting a war of attrition in the mountains rather than smooth-brained weirdos ruing around in loincloths.
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Power of the old gods and the Reach blood, man.
besides, those ravagers can cut through plate with serrated saber teeth swords, they don't give a fuck
 
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