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RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - sanguineFenrir - 08-22-2013

"The seventh hell" seems to be the hell analogue for Eorzea.

Kevaraan does swear, albeit relatively rarely, which makes it quite effective when he does. He does use "bloody" though.

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Asyria - 08-22-2013

Fun fact: In Quebec, we silly people swear through religion.

Swear word -Actual word in French- in English- what it is
Tabarnak - Tabernacle - Tabernacle - box containing the consecrated wine and host
Calice - Calice - Chalice - "wine" cup
Criss - Christ - Christ - Jeezus

Yeah.. so French and English is pretty much the same, just pronounced a bit different. Tongue

Anyways, I wonder some Elezen subculture might use swear words related to the worship of the Twelve or something...

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Bloodwillow - 08-22-2013

For some reason I just got a mental image of Balthier saying all those cuss words in his own way.

Yeesh.

I was quite suprised by the cussing in game and I loved it!  It's not over the top and sure isn't offensive .. course I started in Limsa Lominsa heh.

Cactuar

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - lady2beetle - 08-22-2013

Personally, when Adriel is in awe, she tends to say "Sweet Twelve!" Which is kinda the same level as "Holy sh**!"

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Cato - 08-22-2013

I was pleasantly surprised by the presence of profanity as well, it doesn't feel out of place either since it compliments the style of NPC dialogue quite well. I grinned like a fool when I stumbled across an NPC telling someone to 'bugger off' in a tavern in Gridania. It certainly added quite a bit of atmosphere and depicted the typical mercenary/tavern patron rather nicely. Incidentally, a lot of the NPC dialogue reminds me of FFXII's and Vagrant Story's style, which is brilliant since they're two of my favourite RPG's in existence.

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Zyrusticae - 08-22-2013

(08-22-2013, 02:04 PM)lady2beetle Wrote: Personally, when Adriel is in awe, she tends to say "Sweet Twelve!" Which is kinda the same level as "Holy sh**!"
"Bloody hells!" works too, or alternatively "Bloody bells!" if you want to be funny.

I don't expect to be all that sweary with my characters, but if I do, this thread will be useful for sure.

"Damn you to the seventh hell!"
"By Althyk's good grace!"
"Feck that gobshite!"
"By the Navigator!"
"May the Fury take you, you godsdamned swindler!"

I can do this all day!

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Fystrael Abylstyrwyn - 08-22-2013

(08-22-2013, 08:27 AM)Jove Wrote: I love what some of the NPCs have come out with, I mean of course you have your "shite" and "arse" but I still can't get over "colder than a dead whore's crotch", I mean in a game as lovely as XIV, you don't expect to hear such things. Or maybe it's only if you start out in Limsa Lominsa? They definitely got the cussing like a sailor part for atmosphere. I think in this instance the NPCs could be more foul mouthed than us.

So personally I think you can easily make lore friendly versions of well known light cussing, for example, changing God to Gods (BSG did this quite well), so you have your "oh my Gods", "Gods almighty" and "Godsdamnit". I also think "feck" would fit perfectly well considering "arse" and "shite" are already spoken by a lot of NPCs, also "bastard" and "piss" too if I recall correctly?

So of course now I just imagine Limsa Lominsa in an Irish accent.

By the way does anyone know what the Hydaelyn version of hell is in Eorzea? For the "go to ...!", "what in ... was that!?" and "what the ...!?", although for the "what in ... was that!?" you could easily do "what in the Twelve was that!?" or "what on Hydaelyn was that!?".

You could certainly take a lot of inspiration from other games, books, films and tv shows set in ye olde times and just add a bit of XIV flavour to it. Or maybe even research into real old world profanity that's either a bit obscure or silly by today's standards, although a lot of our current swear words are actually quite old.

I don't think these would be out of place.
  • Blimey
  • Bloody
  • Bugger
  • Blast
  • Scallywag
  • Strumpet
  • Guttersnipe
  • Coxcomb
  • Sugar
I now feel incredibly English.

But swearing can be really fun, especailly if it doesn't really make much sense when you think about it. "You'd have more chance of extracting aetheryte outta a Chocobo's arse".

Strumpet. Heart Haven't heard that one since my grans passed. 

I'd think plenty cursing will involve primals and their body parts too.

"By Ifrit's fiery arsehole, get that dodo-brained guttersnipe out me tavern 'fore I loose me foot in both o' yer shite-ends."


Ah, Limsa Lominsa.  Where more than the air is salty...

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Noble_Einherjar - 08-22-2013

(08-22-2013, 08:27 AM)Jove Wrote: I love what some of the NPCs have come out with, I mean of course you have your "shite" and "arse" but I still can't get over "colder than a dead whore's crotch", I mean in a game as lovely as XIV, you don't expect to hear such things...

That gave me quite a start, too. But it was a pleasant surprise, and I was glad to see the writers unafraid to go to such shocking places/imagery. Overall I like that pirates in FF XIV aren't quite so romanticized as they are in other media.

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Yuria - 08-22-2013

(08-22-2013, 01:12 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: I've seen NPCs drop "Thal's bloody balls!" (shortened to "Thal's balls!") and "Sweet Nophica's tits!" -- which is rather appropriate if you've seen the concept art for Nophica (on the concept art card for the Twin Adders).

I suspect you could use the same construction to come up with all kinds of profanities on the Twelve, from the tame ("Thaliak's beard!") to the most foul ("Nymeia's <insert lewd body part here>!").
"Sweet Nophica's tits!" Indeed *cheers*

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Tarot - 08-22-2013

Awesome ideas, thank you!

I am going to start a list of NPC swearing/insults. Yeah, I'm easily amused.

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Annaveil - 08-22-2013

(08-22-2013, 08:27 AM)Jove Wrote: I love what some of the NPCs have come out with, I mean of course you have your "shite" and "arse" but I still can't get over "colder than a dead whore's crotch", I mean in a game as lovely as XIV, you don't expect to hear such things. Or maybe it's only if you start out in Limsa Lominsa? They definitely got the cussing like a sailor part for atmosphere. I think in this instance the NPCs could be more foul mouthed than us.

So personally I think you can easily make lore friendly versions of well known light cussing, for example, changing God to Gods (BSG did this quite well), so you have your "oh my Gods", "Gods almighty" and "Godsdamnit". I also think "feck" would fit perfectly well considering "arse" and "shite" are already spoken by a lot of NPCs, also "bastard" and "piss" too if I recall correctly?

So of course now I just imagine Limsa Lominsa in an Irish accent.

By the way does anyone know what the Hydaelyn version of hell is in Eorzea? For the "go to ...!", "what in ... was that!?" and "what the ...!?", although for the "what in ... was that!?" you could easily do "what in the Twelve was that!?" or "what on Hydaelyn was that!?".

You could certainly take a lot of inspiration from other games, books, films and tv shows set in ye olde times and just add a bit of XIV flavour to it. Or maybe even research into real old world profanity that's either a bit obscure or silly by today's standards, although a lot of our current swear words are actually quite old.

I don't think these would be out of place.
  • Blimey
  • Bloody
  • Bugger
  • Blast
  • Scallywag
  • Strumpet
  • Guttersnipe
  • Coxcomb
  • Sugar
I now feel incredibly English.

But swearing can be really fun, especailly if it doesn't really make much sense when you think about it. "You'd have more chance of extracting aetheryte outta a Chocobo's arse".

Oh my god. That is frikkin' hilarious. I'm going to go ahead and validate my using "hotter than a jalapeno's coochie" now.

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Dubs - 08-22-2013

Now I'm going to have to bookmark this page to go out into the world in search of Eorzean profanity to update this colorful lexicon.

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Adolar - 08-22-2013

This is an amusing thread. I think I learned much more about this subject than I wanted to.

RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Jove - 08-23-2013

(08-22-2013, 09:47 PM)Annaveil Wrote: Oh my god. That is frikkin' hilarious. I'm going to go ahead and validate my using "hotter than a jalapeno's coochie" now.

I seriously died when I read it, and then again when I reread it, like damn Square, you can't just say things like that
but I'm so glad you did. I tried so desperately hard to take a screenshot, but it just wouldn't work. Alas, it's said by one of the quest givers by the huge bloody ship in the "something something drydocks" by Lominsa. I goddamn love Lominsa.

Also I may have just cringed several times with the mental imagery a jalapeno coochie conjures up Cactuar

(08-22-2013, 01:12 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: "Sweet Nophica's tits!" -- which is rather appropriate if you've seen the concept art for Nophica (on the concept art card for the Twin Adders).

Considering Nophica is my diety, I feel completely obliged to drop this on occasion, I might even have to make a macro Laugh

Some of the things you guys have put down in this thread have made my morning by the way Moogle

Also this deserves to be quoted:
(08-22-2013, 02:51 PM)penniless1 Wrote: "By Ifrit's fiery arsehole, get that dodo-brained guttersnipe out me tavern 'fore I loose me foot in both o' yer shite-ends."


Ah, Limsa Lominsa.  Where more than the air is salty...


RE: Lore-Appropriate (Non)Profanity - Eve Malusion - 08-29-2013

Seen "Squirrel Shite" and "Whoresons" on multiple occasions, though those are very much actual profanity rather than nonprofanity.

There were some others I tried to take note of but I forgot unfortunately.