vita! mortis! ... and then what?

EBTO · Post by **EBTO** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 5:09 am

just a trivial question, but i am interested in what is being vocalized when mages/clerics use spells.

for example, when healing they say something like "Vita! Mortis! <??>"

another often heard phrase, "Skio!...."

do they mean anything and what language is it?

Mirakai Starnight · Post by **Mirakai Starnight** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 7:31 am

If i'm not mistaken it is latin.
Vita Mortis Cario Ventum. I think that's how it goes. My latin is rusty. Vita is life, Mortis is death, and i forget what the other two are.
Skio dedici peto is the other one i believe. As for what they mean, you should check a latin dictionary.

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 8:18 am

Rigor mortis > Stiffening of the body after death sets in.
It's a medical term.

Living la vita loca > Living a (the?) crazy life.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 9:25 am

Cario is rotten Ventum is either blow or fan or come(Stomach)
Life Death rotten come/blow/stommach

So a gangreen belly?
Skio=understand(knowledge) dedici=Dedicate or give peto=to ask for or to go to

Understanding you need to look for something, dedicated?
Giving Knowledge some one asked for?
So Skio dedici peto is Divination i guestimate and Nercomany is the other (obviosly)

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 1:01 pm

Don't forget "Incantus polka imperium" (I know I'm misspelling it.

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Craig · Post by **Craig** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 2:23 pm

Incassum=In vain Polka= either strong or toe(hmm) imperium=Command

In vain strong command?

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 10:13 pm

That reminds me of the time...

Dont go pulling a Jan on us..

craig, no offense buddy, but given how you rarely manage to spell your topic headings right, and can't help but wonder where this scholorly, almost fable like personna has come from....

Littiz · Post by **Littiz** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 2:32 am

This tread should have been posted long ago!!!
First of all, THIS IS LATIN. (What's that turmish???
Oh, I get it, you were kidding Uncle!

).
I used to know it well, years ago...
You know, it's the language of my ancestors!
Yet it is only studied here, not really spoken, so you cannot
learn it as you can learn english!

Problem is, the words are spoken with a strong foreign
accent (for me).
For instance, "imperium" is read literally "impIrium", while
it should be read exactly "impErium".
This word is easy to understand nonetheless, but the others?
Add this: in latin a word appears differently in different
contexts (for "life" you'll find "vita", "vitae", "vitam",
it is the semantic value that changes), so it would be important
to know the exact spelling...
Although I suspect they're used in the "standard" form here
(as if I used all verbs in the form "to+infinitive" while speaking
english), so it's difficult to understand something...
Someone could manage to do an exact spelling?

Anyway there's a meaning (intended), for sure.
When I cast True sight I hear:
"Veritas...." and something.
Veritas = Verità in italian = Truth in english!!!

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 10:31 am

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