I like dwarves but hate the fact that they are always portrayed as having a cheesy Scottish accent. I've decided that next dwarf I play will have a thick Spanish accent.
Do you all have any suggestions for a Golarian background for Señor Pedro Piedro, El Hacho Negro del las Minas del Sur?
(Loosely translated Peter Stone, the Black Axe of the Mines of the South)
Where is he from?
How can he even be a dwarf and not have a terrible Scottish accent?
I see him as an axe-wielding ranger - any suggestions on how that should look mechanically?
If your dwarf is born in a remote Dwarven mine only speaking Dwarf and not common. The dwarf's introduction to common is through a Spaniard (Cheliaxian?), thus he speaks with a Spanish accent, not knowing (until he's thoroughly learned the language)that he is pronunciating it with an accent at all.
I always thoughed that Cheliaxian have a very British accent.
Maybe Taldor is a better place.
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1) Become a Cleric of Cayden Cailean.
2) Grab the Love domain.
3) Find a cap with a feather, wear a cape, get some boots and wield a rapier.
4) Now take off your hat and STARE WITH GOOEY EYES at anyone that attacks you.
5) Congrats your Dwarf is now a Puss in Boots wanna-be and would go great with a Spanish accent. :D
Now just remember to leave a dozen lovers in each town in your wake as you travel the word.
Will he be a dwarfish dwarf with an accent? Go for he learned common from a spaniard..
Wille he be a spaniard dwarf? Make him grow up a spaniard and build against strreotype Bard? Rapier Duelist? Mariachi gunslinger ? Go wild...
"You want know why im called ze Black Axe?" Whips out his guitar...
Why axes? Why ranger?
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I like dwarves but hate the fact that they are always portrayed as having a cheesy Scottish accent. I've decided that next dwarf I play will have a thick Spanish accent.
Do you all have any suggestions for a Golarian background for Señor Pedro Piedro, El Hacho Negro del las Minas del Sur?
Some assistance with the name:
-The title would be Don Pedro (Señor only goes with the last name, so it would be either Don Pedro or Señor Piedro). As for the secondary title, it should be "El Hacha Negra de las Minas del Sur", "Axe" being feminine in Spanish (but since it begins with a silent H followed by an A, has to be preceeded by "El" rather than "La").
-Piedro doesn't actually mean anything in Spanish, though it clearly conveys the meaning of stone, so it's alright. Other suggestions from actual last-names involving stones might be Pedreros ("Of the Stones" or "Stonner"), Pedral/Pedrales ("Stone Field"), Pétreo ("Stony"), Rocal ("Place with Rocks"), Pedregal ("Place with Loose Stones"), Pedroza/Pedrosa ("Pink Stone"), and Pedrón ("Large Stone").
-For some made-up dwarvish-themed names in Spanish relating to stones, you could use stuff like Piedranegra ("Blackstone"), Rocatronante ("Thundering Rock"), Forjarrocosa ("Rocky Forge"), Guijarroaudaz ("Bold Pebble"), Rompelosas ("Slab Breaker"), Barberrueco ("Granite-Slab Beard"), or Cantofuerte ("Strong Stone").
-For extra style, you can create names using the traditional Spanish naming system: Title + Forename + Family Name + Father's Last Name (which can also be composite) + Mother's Last Name (which can also be composite), so you'll end up with something like Don Pedro Augusto Rocatrueno del Pedregal y Hachanegra de Forjafuerte (roughly translated into Sir Peter August Thunderock of Stonefield and Blackaxe of Strongforge).
-As for looks, there is one particularly famous Spanish figure, The Count-Duke of Olivares (at one point the most powerful man in the whole world) who looks a lot like what I would imagine as a Spanish Dwarf.
Last time I rolled a Dwarf he was beligerently French.
Dwarf Tetori Monk named El Santo
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Clearly, he is from Osirion.
"I'm not Spanish, I'm Egyptian!*"
*must be said in a thick Scottish brogue or you get no cookies
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Everytime i think to a Spanish-accented dwarf, I think to Terry Pratchett's Giamo Casanunda, the Second Greatest Lover on Discworld and Licensed Liar. XD He's essentially a Rogue or Bard with a great stone face and love for every breathing woman of any race and age.
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I agree with others that if your DM knows of a human nation that is portrayed in his game as Spain like, have him learn his common from there or from a human from there (As a ranger, maybe he rescued said human and got language lessons in payment). It makes sense. :)
I must admit though, my first thought upon reading the original post was something like:
He has been called the most interesting dwarf in the world...
"I do not always kill ENTIRE armies, but when I do, I prefer to wipe out orc tribes... stay blood thirsty, my friends."
Talk with your GM, pick a country you think would have a Spanish accent (think coastal and Mediterranean), your dwarf is from there.
1) Become a Cleric of Cayden Cailean.
2) Grab the Love domain.
3) Find a cap with a feather, wear a cape, get some boots and wield a rapier.
4) Now take off your hat and STARE WITH GOOEY EYES at anyone that attacks you.
5) Congrats your Dwarf is now a Puss in Boots wanna-be and would go great with a Spanish accent. :D
Now just remember to leave a dozen lovers in each town in your wake as you travel the word.
Maybe more a Caydenite Inquisitor with the Love domain XD. This way he can have an high Stealth and be more roguish.