Talk:Lia Fail

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Excuse my newbie-ness to the wiki. I just don't know if you wanted to change the R:2 portion according to this screen shot yet, or not...What do you guys think? Amaethon 13:17, 2 September, 2006

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v114/GiroMech/928400_20060901_screen137.jpg


 * Kuukai, can whatever the heck Cross is in Japanese be translated as Cloth? Kulaguy 21:08, 2 September 2006 (UTC)


 * It was just phonetic, "kurosu", so unfortunately, yes. On the other hand, the name I've heard for the Cathedral doesn't sound anything like it did in the original, and it was phonetic too.  They translated it from freaking Russian or something to German (and at this point, misspelled German) for the English version for no apparent reason at all.  It's not like they're making anything make more sense either.  None of the other new lost grounds really have German names, they're Celtic (unless they change them all), and all the Root Towns besides this one have Celtic names (the one in Vol.2 is Dul Dauna).  Somehow Lumina Cloth doesn't sound Celtic, unless someone can set me straight on this... - Kuukai2 22:28, 2 September 2006 (UTC)


 * What are the names you've heard for the Lost Grounds? Heck, where have you been finding any of this stuff? Anyway, I don't think Lumina Cloth sounds very Celtic either, but I can ask Pazuzu the next time I see him, since he is an Irish native and he knows the language. - Amaethon 00:05, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Really? Pazuzu is my new best friend! I had no idea anyone in all of .hack's fandom had that kind of background...  I've done painstaking amounts of research in Japanese (since it's hard as hell to convert the spelling until I know what the names are actually a reference too).  Coiste-Bodhar is the place with the pillars, and you can look up what that means anywhere (it's like a coach of death from Irish mythology).  Dul Dauna is the next Root Town, mentioned on the website, and it's the god Lugh's childhood name.  The rest of them aren't quite specific references, but they're made up of Celtic words (I think, I'm no expert.  I'll have to talk to one) like Airdi Lugh.  The main problem is that they're combinations of things that have never been combined before, and they're deliberately mispelled in the Japanese phonetic alphabet (as in, if you had a Japanese book on Celtic mythology and mangled the official spellings, you'd get these), so you can't just Google them.  I will talk to Pazuzu. - Kuukai2 01:35, 3 September 2006 (UTC)