So, I was reading through "Seven Days to the Grave" today in preparation for tomorrow's gaming session, and noticed this in the list of empty cages and crates in the Hospice, which bear the names and origins of the creatures they once held: "Rat Monkey-- S. Island."
Sounds like someone had seen Peter Jackson's Dead-Alive recently. Korvosa might be due to suffer a zombie infestation...
Anyone find any others they want to share?
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So, I was reading through "Seven Days to the Grave" today in preparation for tomorrow's gaming session, and noticed this in the list of empty cages and crates in the Hospice, which bear the names and origins of the creatures they once held: "Rat Monkey-- S. Island."
Sounds like someone had seen Peter Jackson's Dead-Alive recently. Korvosa might be due to suffer a zombie infestation...
Anyone find any others they want to share?
You don't have to have seen Dead Alive recently for rat monkeys to remain large in the mind, of course!
And yes... there are a few more obscure easter eggs in Pathfinder. Some of them are probably TOO obscure, of course...
Oh come on James. You cant leave it like that. Give us a few hints!
And yes... there are a few more obscure easter eggs in Pathfinder. Some of them are probably TOO obscure, of course...So, I was reading through "Seven Days to the Grave" today in preparation for tomorrow's gaming session, and noticed this in the list of empty cages and crates in the Hospice, which bear the names and origins of the creatures they once held: "Rat Monkey-- S. Island."
Sounds like someone had seen Peter Jackson's Dead-Alive recently. Korvosa might be due to suffer a zombie infestation...
Anyone find any others they want to share?
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Im not sure how easter egg that is or a bizzare coincindience
But "Grau Soldado" means something like Soldier Rank in portuguese ;)
And Trina Sabor, "Sabor" means flavour or taste in portuguese
Dont get me started on fiction names in portuguese... Star Wars is filled with it... Amidala, Panaka, Doku...
Im not sure how easter egg that is or a bizzare coincindience
But "Grau Soldado" means something like Soldier Rank in portuguese ;)And Trina Sabor, "Sabor" means flavour or taste in portuguese
Dont get me started on fiction names in portuguese... Star Wars is filled with it... Amidala, Panaka, Doku...
Ahh.
So Portuguese is the secret root of 'fantasy sounding names'. That kind of does not surprise me that much. One wants something that sounds kind of like it could exist in a western language but is clearly not English. I suspect a lot of 'fantasy' names mean something in various other European languages.
In the end I suspect this sort of thing is coincidence more then anything. There are only so many combinations of letters in the 5-8 letter range that one can use and there are requirements for vowels and only so many ways that the word actually sounds like it could be a name.
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Im not sure how easter egg that is or a bizzare coincindience
But "Grau Soldado" means something like Soldier Rank in portuguese ;)And Trina Sabor, "Sabor" means flavour or taste in portuguese
Dont get me started on fiction names in portuguese... Star Wars is filled with it... Amidala, Panaka, Doku...
it happens a lot.
Im brazilian and when DMing for my group, often I have to change the names of the npcs, so that they dont get too bizarre.by the way, Panaka and Amidala are my favorite names in Star Wars =P
I'm spanish and I have the same problem.
Trina is a spanish orange drink, and "Sabor" means taste. I can hear the laughs of my players.
And yes, "soldado" means soldier in spanish, too.
I'm spanish and I have the same problem.
Trina is a spanish orange drink, and "Sabor" means taste. I can hear the laughs of my players.
And yes, "soldado" means soldier in spanish, too.
Yes, I can see how that would be a problem. If I'd introduced her to my party as "Tasty Orange Drink, the assassin who killed the king," I don't think they'd have been very impressed.
Maybe they should have named her Fizzy Bubula?
I do remember Brisa Santos from the Savage Tide jumped out at me as a real world Latina name.
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How 'bout Verik Vancaskerkin's bro in Riddleport? Is that a reference to either "RotRL" or the upcoming "Second Darkness" campaings?
Hahaha! Tasty Orange Drink FTW!
There are Vancaskerkin elements in all three APs so far, actually. Second Darkness has the largest Vancaskerkin stuff going on of the 3, so really, Orik and Verik are both easter eggs for "Shadow in the Sky."
Here's a pretty obvious one, and it's a corruption, but I'll call it out: Jolistina's last name.
That easter egg will make more sense to readers who have seen Dario Argento movies and know how crazy over-the-top they are in the weird art direction and color and grotesqueness, of course... ;-)
I still remember being shocked and chilled as a kid by the trailer for Suspiria, back in the 70's.
The lady brushing her hair caught me off-guard. I thought it was a shampoo commercial.
Ah, Dr Davaulus is Nicholas Cage ;)
And Cabaggehead is Meg Ryan...
Not really an Easter egg, but I figured I'd mention that Grau coming from Sandpoint caused terrible digression in my game, due to the fact that Sandpoint, Idaho is just a few hours drive from here.
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Not really an Easter egg, but I figured I'd mention that Grau coming from Sandpoint caused terrible digression in my game, due to the fact that Sandpoint, Idaho is just a few hours drive from here.
Pshaw. I can beat that! I'm running Rise of the Runelords, which takes place in Sand Point, while living in the Sandpoint neighborhood of Seattle.
And yes... there are a few more obscure easter eggs in Pathfinder. Some of them are probably TOO obscure, of course...Yeah, I love dropping in obscure Easter Eggs throughout the stuff I write. And since none of mine have been called out yet, I guess they are suitably obscure. ^_^
Those aren't easter eggs, it's "no one else knows what the heck McArtor was smoking that day".
All of the artists (Salvator Scream, etc) mentioned in Escape from Old Korvosa.
References to China Mieville/Bas-Lag in Emperor of Old Korvosa encounter.
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Those aren't easter eggs, it's "no one else knows what the heck McArtor was smoking that day".And yes... there are a few more obscure easter eggs in Pathfinder. Some of them are probably TOO obscure, of course...Yeah, I love dropping in obscure Easter Eggs throughout the stuff I write. And since none of mine have been called out yet, I guess they are suitably obscure. ^_^
That's fair. ^_^
Good thing you weren't playing RotR.
Our group's other DM already has one of the issues from that AP, so I figured I'd let him run that one... He was in the middle of a new high seas campaign when I preempted it to playtest the Pathfinder Alpha, so maybe instead of RotRL I'll just buy him some more of Nick's Savage Tide stuff so I can get out from behind the screen and run my shanty-man.