Phanatons & Isle of Dread

[Haldir]

Just curious but is there a official name that the Phanatons give the Isle in their language?

thanks
RM

[James Jacobs]

Haldir wrote:

Just curious but is there a official name that the Phanatons give the Isle in their language?

thanks
RM

There's not an official name for the Isle in Phanaton. I'd love to hear some suggestions though!

[Steve Greer]

How about Mahnahmanah? ;) (add a couple of clicking sounds after it and there you go)

[Tatterdemalion]

I have it on good authority that the most common phanaton name for the Isle of Dread is

patpawatsab-po-ke-a-keabwa-se wawawasa-batetaswopa-sapapattethwa-bab,

which means 'stinky place.'

[Curaigh]

Good question and one I had not thought of, but it might be relevant if you had a phanaton character from the isle itself. I might suggest Squeakity squeak squeak, but that is not a literal translation O:)

[tumbler]

Home? I doubt most of the phanatons would even know it is an island. I play them as pretty insular, but they do know of the outside world because crimson fleet pirates have captured some of them.

[carborundum]

I'll have to dig out Return of the Jedi for inspiration ;)

[Curaigh]

You could use a derivative of the word Phanaton. This is the second most common name source for groups in our world. Anglo/England, gaelic/Gaul Tongan/Tonga, Erin/Erynland. So Phanaton could be a person of Phanos or even Phanoland. A mispronunciation likely get thrown in there also (Nippon/Japan). More likely phanaton is a derivative of their word for 'people' or 'us'. The dictionary lists several names close enough to be a base root you could use.

IMHO I think phanaton could mean 'forest people' so here is my fake etymology: fffano-forest, ton-of the; lan-land. Fffonalan Land of Forests, with the long 'fff' sounding like the hissing of a squirrel. To someone speaking common (olman?) it would be written as ph. Or course pha could be like mac (of the) and then the IoD would be called Naton.

[Steve Greer]

Steve Greer wrote:

How about Mahnahmanah? ;) (add a couple of clicking sounds after it and there you go)

Dammit! Nobody seems to have gotten this joke.

Spoiler:

Or it just wasn't funny. Time to go put my head in my toaster. :(

[Heathansson]

I was thinking Sodor.

[carborundum]

Steve Greer wrote:

Steve Greer wrote:

How about Mahnahmanah? ;) (add a couple of clicking sounds after it and there you go)

Dammit! Nobody seems to have gotten this joke.

Got the joke, couldn't think of a witty retort or escalation quickly enough, didn't give you any credit for making the joke. One thousand humble apologies, master :)

Mind you, imagine the group talking to the phanatons about the island, and every time ANYone says "Mahnahmanah" a group of giant pink fluffy beasts pop up from behind a bush going "doot doo doot doo doo".

Now that's comic relief after Olangru!

[mwbeeler]

Steve Greer wrote:

Nobody seems to have gotten this joke.

Psst.

Spoiler:

You're old.

Then again,

Spoiler:

so am I for getting the Muppet Show reference. I bet the pups might recognize it from the Dr. Pepper commercial.

If there are Thunderbirds, I vote for the "Island of Chandelier."

[Orcwart]

Heathansson wrote:

I was thinking Sodor.

ROTFL

Thomas the Phanaton. Excellent.

[Steve Greer]

Huh? Wha?
::Head firmly wedged inside toaster that shouldn't possibly be able to accommodate a human head::

[vikingson]

Steve Greer wrote:

Huh? Wha?

::Head firmly wedged inside toaster that shouldn't possibly be able to accommodate a human head::

Just stay in the toaster Steve, it wasn't all that good a joke anyway - and then one only for those advanced in years.... :evil:

[Haldir]

Phanos

I like that one, might use that & add a bit of sounds like Cha' or something similar.

After the battle with the Rhagodessa in the hold of the Blue Nixie, the party stumbled onto a Phanaton in one of the cages. More or less to foreshadow the Isle of Dread.

All the Phanaton knew was that he crosses the great water when he was chatting with the the half-elf that freed him from the cage.

[Steve Greer]

vikingson wrote:

Steve Greer wrote:

Huh? Wha?

::Head firmly wedged inside toaster that shouldn't possibly be able to accommodate a human head::

Just stay in the toaster Steve, it wasn't all that good a joke anyway - and then one only for those advanced in years.... :evil:

Good advice.

Er, I mean, how dare you, sir?!

Spoiler:

Just kidding. By the way, I thought the end of the muppets clip from the peanut gallery said it all: "The question is: Who really cares?"

[carborundum]

Is that Waldorf and Staedler? Was that called the peanut gallery? Why why why?

Ah, I'll google it tomorrow - it's almost 3am.