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Post by olegrand on Dec 9, 2022 17:34:44 GMT
Hello everyone
In Lady Penelope's next adventure, she will encounter a psychic variant of the Vashta Nerada - a living darkness which devours sanity and thoughts (as opposed to flesh and tissues). And I'd really like to give it a name resembling that of the Vashta Nerada (say, the "Vastha Something"), to convey the fact that the two species are probably related. Does anyone have a cool, creepy-sounding alternative to "Nerada"?
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Post by grinch on Dec 9, 2022 17:53:56 GMT
How about Vashta Cerebrae? Considering it tends to prey on the mind than it does the flesh.
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Post by olegrand on Dec 9, 2022 18:10:20 GMT
How about Vashta Cerebrae? Considering it tends to prey on the mind than it does the flesh. Mmmh... a bit too Latin sounding; I think I'd prefer something more pseudo-Veddic sounding... |
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Post by soultaker666212 on Dec 9, 2022 18:10:47 GMT
Ultimately you could come up with a lot of things even new words, the translation of the Vashta Nerada means "The Shadows that melt the flesh" so you could have a variant that may be "The shadows that melt the brain" say Vashta Neurada or Vashta Psychada?
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Post by olegrand on Dec 9, 2022 18:33:02 GMT
Ultimately you could come up with a lot of things even new words, the translation of the Vashta Nerada means "The Shadows that melt the flesh" so you could have a variant that may be "The shadows that melt the brain" say Vashta Neurada or Vashta Psychada? Yeah that's what I'm aiming for - but "psychada" or "neurada" are obvious Greek derivations, while "nerada" is not (and that's the kind of thing I'm looking for). |
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Post by misterharry on Dec 9, 2022 20:58:41 GMT
Using Sanskrit, the language of the Veda, Vashta Mastiska means something like inhabitant of the brain, or Vashta Manyu means inhabitant of the mind. I;m just using online translation tools, so the results may not be exact.
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Post by olegrand on Dec 10, 2022 10:21:38 GMT
Using Sanskrit, the language of the Veda, Vashta Mastiska means something like inhabitant of the brain, or Vashta Manyu means inhabitant of the mind. I;m just using online translation tools, so the results may not be exact. Ah, that's a great idea! I'm not looking for something exact so translation tools should work OK - thanks for the suggestion! |
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