Talk:Zwei

Germans in Netheril!
I have noticed a number of German words or names cropping up in Netheril: Empire of Magic: Zwei, Zahn, Macht, Bodensee, Weimar, ... Maybe that's meant as a nod towards old English, which is closely related to German dialects?

Just to expand more, "Zwei" does mean "two" in German, while "hausen" would be "houses" in an old form of German, which is still very common in placenames. I jumped the gun there a bit, it is not stated that "Zwei" means "two" in the source, its only strong circumstantial evidence :-). Actually, the source also does not make it clear if the name "Zweihausen" is Netherese or in the language of the inhabitants of the building, predating Netheril: "The inhabitants were supposedly single-eyed humanoids whose eyesight was better than a hawk and who could hear better than all the mammals in the forest." Daranios (talk) 14:18, October 22, 2016 (UTC)


 * Ah, right, the plural is hause in modern German, isn't it? (I only know a little bit of German.)


 * There are indeed a lot of odd names (from and FR point of view) in that sourcebook. All this makes me curious about what was intended.


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 16:48, October 22, 2016 (UTC)


 * Modern plural would be "Häuser" - it is a very special case :-).

I wonder if s/he was named "Two" to indicate that s/he was of both genders. This would fit with him being a variator perhaps. just a fun thought ~ Lhynard (talk) 20:56, February 16, 2017 (UTC)


 * Interesting idea... Another fun thought: Was it a joke by the designers that the first spells to be developed in Netheril were the extensions? They would have been of very limited use as they could only be applied to very few spells! And invented by the alphabetically last arcanist at that. Daranios (talk) 21:07, February 16, 2017 (UTC)