Incantations (latin)

Frattscendent1 · Post by **Frattscendent1** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:26 am

What are they saying when casting spells? (Seperate for female and male.)

Curry · Post by **Curry** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:16 am

Veni vidi vici? Seriously, I don't know if it's even latin they're speaking. Maybe [url="http://www.gamewyrd.com/archives/latin.php"]this will help you.[/url]

wise grimwald · Post by **wise grimwald** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:45 am

Are the words of the spells written down anywhere?
If they are I could have a go at translating them, though I must admit, I only studied it for a year.

AvatarOfLight · Post by **AvatarOfLight** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:24 am

Don't have the answers, but would like to remark that the chanting in Sacrifice and Dungeon Keeper stand for something. No doubt Baldur's Gates' does as well.

Did find this quote:
"In the Baldur's Gate series, whenever a spell is cast, the caster will chant a distinctive, seemingly nonsensical, phrase that varies depending on the type of spell. Only, they're actually saying a combination of 3 Latin words that are somewhat related to the type of magic being cast. Saying Incertus, pulcher, imperior, which roughly translates to: "unpredictable, beautiful, power", fits quite well when you're about to sling a fireball into a horde of enemies. "

Which works with what I recall. The chanting differs per spellschool, not per spell.
And we all recall those 3 words right? That's definitely BG.

Thrar · Post by **Thrar** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:31 pm

Turns out that someone has just posted them on the Bioware forums a month ago.

Thanks for the "Incertus..." part or I wouldn't have found them.

Frattscendent1 · Post by **Frattscendent1** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:47 am

that's from BG2, not "1". (most bg1 is perhaps gibberish. Like NWNs spells.)

wise grimwald · Post by **wise grimwald** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:43 pm

It's good that they took the trouble to use latin words that make sense.
I suppose that the reason why developers don't bother with such things is that most players nowadays don't even have a rudimentary knowledge of latin.
I know that my school stopped teaching it very shortly after I left and that was a LONG time ago.

SupaCat · Post by **SupaCat** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:58 am

Isn't one of the spells 'vita, mortis, (and then something I don't understand)'. That would simply mean 'live, from death' (mortis is genetif).
Can't really recal the other spells, but I remember thinking at that moment that most were gibberish.

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Wulf · Post by **Wulf** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:13 am

As far as I understood that particular incantation, it sounded like 'vitam mortes cariunt' which might or might not be Pig Latin meaning 'the dead bring life' which may be nonsense but this would figure with Necromancy which is the school that incantation is used for.

Okay, okay, I'll go and hide.

Spoiler

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