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Varun Srinivasan
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One thing that Elden Ring gets right is Naming Things. Fantasy names often feel fake or forced. Real world names feel right even if you're hearing one for the first time. Maybe its because of some shared proto-indo-european roots that we subconsciously grok. Crumbling Farum Azula though, hits right.
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Varun Srinivasan
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Tolkien also has a similar characteristic. Perhaps because of how much time he spent building the linguistic world behind LotR.
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The whole LotR book series, Silmarillion and such was written to explain the history behind the languages he constructed. It was language then had to have a people to speak it, who needed history for their world to explain his viewpoint that the world was ever declining (he fought in WW1, understandable view)
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