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The meanings of spell chants?

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The meanings of spell chants?

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do they really mean anything? are they based on a pre-specified language from a DnD campaign?

the only one i can make sense of is the healing one
Vita Mortis Kaya (Gaya?)
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Most of 'em, at least, don't make any sense, and you'll even find the same words being used on occasion for entirely different spells.
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Post by Galmar »

I wonder how many people have sat there flailing their arms around saying the words to invisibility....
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Post by Nippy »

Originally posted by Galmar
I wonder how many people have sat there flailing their arms around saying the words to invisibility....


*Puts hands down and shuts up* :D ;)

I think that they have based them on real world words, but muddled them and changed them. They don't sound real to me.
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Post by XazaX »

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I think it is Vita Mortis Gaya...Gaya is all life.
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Post by Spirit Crusher »

Haha, you native english speakers sure are funny :p
The healing spells go "vita mortis cario" or "life death flesh".
Divination spells go "scio didici ecco" most of the time and mean "I know, I divine (as in guess), I see". All the words are (derived from) ancient Latin.
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