@SPArcheon-onstrike ...how the hell did anyone think a region named Natlan was going to be African

That's like the most blatantly Nahuatl flavored fantasy name I've ever heard

(still very much a ??? how pale the Aztec and Mayan characters are but yeah)

@UnrelatedString Err.... I think I'm going to have to read some Nahuatl flavoured fantasy... as "Natlan" is mostly nonsense to me unless the sentence is "I'm going to NAT the LAN to the WAN"... Perhaps I'm uncultured or something

@Peilonrayz I'm guessing the name was itself patterned on "Nahuatl" and "Aztlan" (if for no other reason than that I can't find any roots that start with "nat" or "natl" in a dictionary that would then take the "-tlan" locative :P)

Considering IIRC at least one of the characters also has a really blatantly Mayan name (like a name element that's really common with Mayan rulers, want to say it was like K'inich), it could be that the "na" is from a Mayan root, actually?

...embarrassed I can't remember any of the dictionaries we used when that one class I took three years ago was working with Mayan hieroglyphs, but it seems like there's a classical root "nah" that can mean "house" or "first" as well as "-nak-" meaning "conquer", and in modern Yucatec "nan" for "mother" apparently evolved into "na'"

So it's proooobably all Nahuatl but yeah

Still, would not be the first time they've mixed languages--in the Chinese and Japanese script---s--- for HSR, Belobog is actually "Beloburg". Which would kinda be a cool "this isn't actually Fantasy Russia, we just want it to have a lot of Russian flavor but it's more broadly Cold and European" signal if it weren't so obvious that they got the Germanic "-burg" from Saint Petersburg LMAO

(Turns out I was mistaken about the Chinese--despite what Google Translate claims, there's no rhotic in 伯格, and "-burg" in place names seems to very regularly be rendered as 堡. So it's actually the Japanese translators who innovated and fucked it up :P)

I've never felt so uncultured before... so many words I don't know... Thanks yeah makes sense :)

:P

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