Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Ranger_ORB 06-11-07, 12:07 AM	Does anyone know of a site that you could find a translator for Celstial/English? I would be very thankful to anyone who could supply this because a few players in my campaign like to try to speak the languages that their characters speak. It usually ends up with everyone having a good time, and this is one of the only translators i cannot find for the life of me. Is anyone able to help?
Nom 06-11-07, 02:41 AM	Can you just make something up? To the best of my knowledge, official D&D has never had a normative alphabet or language for any of the non-common languages, nor even mandated that common = English. That said, Tolkein did extensive work in making up fantasy languages, and most of the "translators" are probably translating between one of his works. As a suggestion, use a Tolkeinien low-elvish to represent elvish and a high elvish to represent Celestial.
calronmoonflower 06-11-07, 02:50 AM	Use Latin.
Phaseroth 06-11-07, 03:07 AM	No, no, no! To speak Celestial, you need a large choir so that the words sound properly impressive. :D
penchant 06-12-07, 08:52 AM	no no no. Celestials sound like Christopher Walken. In a bad mood.
Astron the Wizard 06-12-07, 09:00 AM	I thought it was like a song with the words melting together like honey and molten rainbows. I read that somewhere.
phoen777 06-12-07, 10:35 AM	Ah, if only! I've always thought it would be cool to learn the other languages of D&D, just so that we could establish ourselves as equals in the geek community with all those Trekkies that speak Klingon. ;) Imagine a bunch of people, sitting around in some public setting, (the food court of a mall, a library, etc.) playing D&D and conducting the entire session in Celestial, or Dwarven, or something REALLY obscure like Kenku! :cloud9: Ahhh... that, my friends, is when you know you have reached Nerdvana!
lint trap 06-12-07, 11:17 AM	Interestingly, Celestial sounds very much like Roper. So all you need to do is find a Roper to English translator. And by the way, just what languages are your characters speaking now? Common? Draconic? Where the hell are you getting these from?
Cthulhu3125 06-12-07, 12:04 PM	Celestials should be speaking Enochian, anyway.
_Jayne_Cobb_ 06-12-07, 12:38 PM	Imagine a bunch of people, sitting around in some public setting, (the food court of a mall, a library, etc.) playing D&D and conducting the entire session in Celestial, or Dwarven, or something REALLY obscure like Kenku! :cloud9: Ahhh... that, my friends, is when you know you have reached Nerdvana! No, that would be when I realized I had reached the end of my tenure as a worthwhile human and the only recourse was to eat a bullet.
Sajek 06-12-07, 02:18 PM	Do any of your players know a real language? If so, just use it as a starting point and modify that to sound like the language you want. For example, I have always thought that Russian, when spoken high pitched and breathily, would sound like Celestial. Or maybe Aquan.
Rania 06-12-07, 03:52 PM	Latin's actually a good idea. I remember reading in a -- I think it was Dennis M McKiernan or something -- that he used Latin to represent the language of "good" magic, and Greek for the language of "bad" magic. I think the Latin=good connection might come from the Church having used Latin for a heck-long time. You could say it's part of the collective Western unconscious.
Jshock_75 06-12-07, 05:59 PM	Latin's not bad, but I think ancient Hebrew/Enochian fits better. The trick is to sing it.
fiendish_platypus 06-12-07, 06:33 PM	They have draconic stuff in Races of the Dragon and Draconomicon...