What would the Shoanti say?


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In the next game I am in I will play a Shoanti Ranger.
I searched the web and found a site name The Shattering of Darkmoon Vale

At the bottom was a small list of Shoanti Sayings

I suppose I could just think of things on my own using Indian terms after watching too much old Loan Ranger episodes or other B&W shows,

But I wanted to see what the forum dreamed up.

here is the short list:

“Our thunder rolls across the Storval Plateau.” (The Shoanti defend the Storval Plateau as the last expanse of their traditional homeland still under their control.)

“Be welcome, my cousin!” (A common greeting between Shoanti of the same quah. May be extended to outsiders who have earned great trust.)

“Be received…stranger.” (A colder, more formalized greeting for outsiders.)

“Until our skulls are gathered.” (We fight until our death.)

“By blood it is sworn.” (An iron-clad vow. May be accompanied by a ceremonial blood pact.)

“May your spirit guide you.” (Can mean “farewell,” “good fortune to you,” or both.)

“My blood ignites!” (You have offended me)

“Every stone, a totem.” (A reminder that all the land is holy, and any natural object could be a hidden source of power.)

Sczarni

I love the Shoanti. If you can, try to get your hands on;

1) Inner Sea World Guide
2) Varisia: Birthplace of Legends
3) AP #10: CotCT "A History of Ashes"

There is lots of good stuff in there that expand on Shoanti rituals etc. For example, before a member of the Lyrune Quah can be considered full fledged members of the Quah, they must perform "The dark walk"... Each Quah has it's own unique trials which can help provide inspiration for why your (or mine) Character took up adventuring...


I have enough text that I found from three sites including the Pathfinder Wiki. One site called Ohiorunelords_Shoanti has sections about Rites of passage.

I have no idea about the different books. The wiki does point to several books for its information. I suspect my GM will be ok with the stuff that I have found on the web. We are not running a Society game.

What I suspected is that the books are not going to have things that a Shoanti would say. Even if they did, there would be "well a Chief so-n-so says this when the party encounters his shaman and 3 of his braves. etc, etc, etc "

What I was REALLY looking for was suggestions that didn't come from the books.

Besides, there have been list threads before and I thought this could be one of them too. :)

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder PF Special Edition, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
Krodjin wrote:

I love the Shoanti. If you can, try to get your hands on;

1) Inner Sea World Guide
2) Varisia: Birthplace of Legends
3) AP #10: CotCT "A History of Ashes"

There is lots of good stuff in there that expand on Shoanti rituals etc. For example, before a member of the Lyrune Quah can be considered full fledged members of the Quah, they must perform "The dark walk"... Each Quah has it's own unique trials which can help provide inspiration for why your (or mine) Character took up adventuring...

I believe also that Wayfinder has an "Ask A Shoanti" advice column.


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

This thread looks like a job for Ask a Shoanti.


Soluzar wrote:
This thread looks like a job for Ask a Shoanti.

What is this 'Wayfinder' and 'Ask a Shoanti'. I suspect it isn't what I was looking for.

Today as I was thinking about posting, I was thinking that my thread was in the wrong location. Perhaps it should have been in General Discussion or Gamer Talk.

Anyway, no one has linked to the first part, so I have tried doing a search for Wayfinder, Ask a Shoanti and Wayfinder Ask a Shoanti but came up with nothing. (or at least noting that looked like anything.

...Ok, after searching google, I find that Wayfinder is some PDF that I buy.

So I got it right in that I shouldn't have posted in the Advice forum.

Is there a way to get this thread moved to General Discussion? I don't want to know what books to buy. I wanted Player input, perhaps roleplaying a Shoanti.

If I can't have the thread moved I will just repost and I don't know people feel about that.


ngc7293 wrote:


I suppose I could just think of things on my own using Indian terms after watching too much old Loan Ranger episodes or other B&W shows,

A tee hee

Random person: "Oh Loan Ranger how can we repay you?"
Loan Ranger: "With Interest."

Jokes aside, the Wayfinder PDFs are free aren't they?


Sah wrote:
ngc7293 wrote:


I suppose I could just think of things on my own using Indian terms after watching too much old Loan Ranger episodes or other B&W shows,

A tee hee

Random person: "Oh Loan Ranger how can we repay you?"
Loan Ranger: "With Interest."

Jokes aside, the Wayfinder PDFs are free aren't they?

yes, they are. They're free downloads from the paizo site


So downloading the Wayfinder was a joke. I keep looking for roleplayers suggestions, not books I should buy. Maybe I will post this on another board and see what happens.

Sczarni

Alright. Let's see what I can do. I'll be the Shoanti, you ask me what you want me to say and we'll go from there.


I don't think that is what I am looking for.
As in the OP, I found a list of Shoanti "translations"
'My spirit guides you' = 'Farewell'
'My blood ignites!' = 'you have offended me'
and so on

Since there isn't a Common -> Shoanti, Shoanti -> Common dictionary, perhaps people could use there imaginations to come up with a non existant shoanti phrase = something.

Having a conversation with a fictitious shoanti is just going to create confusion.


I am nearing the end of creating my Skoan-Quah Spirit Totem Barbarian and been hunting around as well to see how much people have put into Shoanti sayings or terms that do not exist within the books and found myself to quite disappointed. So what I did was look through the names of the runes and found a small handful of words in Shoanti, and then decided to create some of my own sayings. So here we go:
"Vand loc graxt."-Shoanti "Unto you eternity."-Common
This has a double meaning, one of honor in the sense that he will watch and guide ones soul to eternity, the second meaning that death has come for you so watch out.
"Eiril, Droma, Vust."-Shoanti "Duty, Honor, Strength."-Common
This is the direct tranlation in common, but to him it means something more like: "Through duty and honor I gain strength." Or really any sort of reworking/rewording of that idea.
"Fa droma kul sosmo."-Shoanti "We honor the(those) forever dead."-Common
There is really no double meaning here even though I really like the idea of the Shoanti having sayings which are double edged.
One the last "little" things I want to do is translate some of the sayings from "The Sattering of Darkmoon Vale" into my version of Shoanti, but starting only with the ones that he would use. And feedback go!

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