Italian / Latin, because of the comparison to Ancient Rome.
There have been other threads about this topic before, I reccomend checking them out.
I agree with Italian - Parts of Westcrown are practically Venice.
That would be Brevoy, if you ask me.
Guess I'll update my accent list in that case.
But Brevoy will keep the accent as well, because it's clearly Medieval Russia in Golarion.
I had my list on the thread I linked here.
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As for your list Icyshadow, I'd argue that the Garundi being what they are, their accent would be Moorish, so a subtle mixture of Spanish and north african, with a smattering of Arabic.
I'd personally argue that Chelish accents would likely be a mashup of Irish, Welsh, Latin, Italian, and English, so basically, what England would be, if it were part of the continent, rather than the only dirt it shares with France being that found in the Chunnel.
At least, that's what I think now that I've read it.
Ve hav vays ov makink you talk.
As for your list Icyshadow, I'd argue that the Garundi being what they are, their accent would be Moorish, so a subtle mixture of Spanish and north african, with a smattering of Arabic.
I'd personally argue that Chelish accents would likely be a mashup of Irish, Welsh, Latin, Italian, and English, so basically, what England would be, if it were part of the continent, rather than the only dirt it shares with France being that found in the Chunnel.
At least, that's what I think now that I've read it.
Thank you for the information, I'll have to keep that little mention on Garundi in mind.
As for the thing about Chelish, there just seems to be no place analogous to Ireland in Golarion, aside from some places more or less filled to the brim with greenery and fey (both friendly and hostile) as well as mystical warriors (mostly of the Ranger and Barbarian varieties) and druids...
...wait, did I just describe Nirmathas, some of the River Kingdoms or both?
...blackblood, I curse your name :D
I just imagined female drow speaking German while holding whips and wearing some leather.
Which Golarion accent would best resemble a German accent.
I was thinking a Darklands accent, but I am unsure.
Ustulav is definitely East European. I was thinking more realm of the Mammoth Lords for German.
I am from Germany and I'm pretty sure the Mammoth Lords are scandinavian rather than german.
I agree with Kalridian, even though Finland is not officialy a part of Scandinavia.
Chelaxian sounds canadian.
Nah, the Ulfen are Scandinavian.
No, no... they're all LE villains in Cheliax!
They speak the Queen's English, just like all imperial officers
Common soldiers speak like stormtroopers (usually involving screaming and dying noises)
Don't be silly, Taldor (fading Empire in Decline) is British. Just because British actors play the villains in Hollywood movies does not mean all Brits are evil.
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Let's see...
Cheliax NOW is essentially Soviet Russia meats East Germany, meets Nazi Germany.
To answer the question of germanic peoples, I'd sa, perhaps Molthune? Any number of locations where the Taldans met with slavic like peoples, since Germanic tribes arose of slavic peoples being conquered by the Romans.
Cheliax as it was established is both very English (at the height of their imperialism, something they share very strongly with Taldor, which, from what I can tell is a mashup of Imperial France with Imperial England. And well, Taldane is the source of the Common language.) and very Italian, at least in temperament, if nothing else, and most certainly in design (though Egorian architecture shows strong Germanic influence as well.)
So in short, it seems we're left with a high unholy clusterf#*~ of different cultures here. Is there a Tolkein Scholar and or linguist in the house?
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Cheliax is evil. They have a french accent. Everybody knows that the source of all the worlds evil is france.
Dude, no way. France is 150% Andoran. Everything about that place screams post-bastille-france
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Galt is the France of Golarion, gone horribly wrong.
Doctor Who is British. Right?
Unequivocally old boy. One of the BBC's best exports in fact.
Cheliax is evil. They have a french accent. Everybody knows that the source of all the worlds evil is france.
Don't be silly, Galt is France. Cheliax is Italian, or possibly Spanish ("Nobody expects the Chelaxian Inquisition!").
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Dude, no way. France is 150% Andoran. Everything about that place screams post-bastille-france
No! Andoran is the USA - in a very idealised way.
I would have better expressed my thoughts on your post, Geek, but they only let me favorite it once.
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Molthune = German accent. It's XVIII century Prussia after all.
Cheliax = Italian
Irrisen = old East Slavic
Brevoy = Russian/Polish
Andoran = whatever accent revolutionary Americans spoke
Taldor = Byzantine accent, substituted for French if nobody knows how the former sounded like
No! Andoran is the USA - in a very idealised way.As an American, I often wonder how people from other countries try to impersonate an "American" accent. I suspect most default to the "hillbilly" or "West Coast surfer guy" dialects... but I might be wrong.
It varies, I think, with how much you know about US accents.
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I find the sheer variety and extreme opinions on this subject highly amusing.
Galt IS France, revolutionary France, under Robespierre, Andoran is an idealized mixture of France, in the sense of the ideal of what the revolution was attempting to achive, and Colonial America, post Revolution.
As I see it, many of the cultures on Golarion have their unique flavor, courtesy of the mashup of MANY things, like the Carrion Crown Adventure path, as a for instance, which I explain to players as "Dracula meets Frankenstein meets Shadow Over Innsmouth."