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[Ebon]

Yep you might have noticed that the spellcasters in BG2 do speak something -- maybe in Latin. Clerics and mages are likely the same, same for sexes. In BG1 however clerics and mages are REALLY the same, but different for each gender.

And here's what.
In BG2, they sound like enriched HPotter spell chants. Necro-spells sound like 'vita mortis' or something like that; Illusio have something like 'credo' (which means believe, think.) I'd appreciate if someone with keen ears knows what they actually say.
And as for BG1 they might as well be existent spellchants, but who knows... Could just be random magic 'garbage' like my own sig (FYI, that was made by me and a friend when we were 7.) Orr nott?

[BallOfFire]

I also noticed that it is either Latin or some perversion thereof.  In listening to the Irenicus "Redeem This Mix" literally over 1000 times, I definitely heard one of the spell school spells sound like "omni potentus.. hah!"  The hah part I probably misheard, but omni potentus definitely sounds like something they would use for a spell, since omni means all and potentus means power or powerful.  I think this is the invocation spell school but I could be wrong.

[K. Lou of Combs]

"Vita mortis careo"

vita: life
mortis: death.
careo/cario: if it's careo, then it's "be without, be deprived of, lack, want"; if it's cario, it's probaby a perversion of "caries", which means "rotten".
life, death, decay

"Scio didicti hecta"

Scio: to know
didicti: either an alteration of "didico" (to be told) or "dicto" (to say often), or even a bizarre combination of the two.
hecta: might be weird form of "aequitas", which means "justice, fairness"
to know, to be told, justice

"Incantus pulcher imperium"

incantus: Non-existant form of "incanto", which means "to enchant"
pulcher: beauty
imperium: power to command, authority
enchant, beauty, authority

Eh... I don't remember any others...

Edited by K. Lou of Combs, 20 September 2005 - 09:08 PM.

[Ismail]

"Veritas credo something" is another. Veritas=Truth, credo=belief, more or less.

[Archmage Silver]

When casting a fireball, the following is spoken: Incantus vulcanus

incantus: Made up form, real word: incanto, meaning "enchant"

vulcanus: Slightly altered from volcanus, it might even be volcanus but it isn't so clear. Volcanus, "fire", "fire-god".

[K. Lou of Combs]

"Veritas credo something" is another. Veritas=Truth, credo=belief, more or less.

I'm pretty sure the last word is "oculus", which means "eye".

[NiGHTMARE]

My take on them:

1) Veritas Credo Oculus
Truth/honesty, trust/believe/confide/suppose, eye

2) Manus Potentis Paro (could be Par)
Hand/fist/team, strong/powerful/capable, prepare (or equal/like)

3) (Mage) Vultur Fere
Vulture, almost/not quite

(Priest) Facio Farci Fere
Create, stuff, almost/not quite

4) Scio Didico Peto
Know, to be told, attack/aim

5) Cupio Virtus Licet
To desire/wish for, excellence/worth/courage, lawful/allowed/permitted

6) (Mage) Incautus Pulcher Imperium
Incautious/unprotected, noble/beautiful/pretty, command/authority/supreme power

(Priest) Insitus Pulcher Imperium
Inserted/attached/innate, noble/beautiful/pretty, command/authority/supreme power

7) Vita Mortis Cario/careo
Life, death, deprived of/lack/lose

Praeses Alea (could be Alia) Verax/Vero (could be Vereor)
Protector/guardian/defender, chance/venture/risk (or different way/route), truthful (or reverse/respect/fear/dread)


I'm guessing that the different versions of 3) and 6) are probably the actors screwing their lines up, and that the priest versions are the correct ones.

Obviously they respond to the eight schools, and my guess would be that 1 = divination, 2 = transmutation, 3 = illusion, 4 = invocation/evocation, 5 = conjuration, 6 = enchantment 7 = necromancy, and 8 = abjuration.

Edited by NiGHTMARE, 21 September 2005 - 10:54 AM.

[Ebon]

Wow, that's darn good!

Just to remind, Nick, the schools are:
1-illusion;
2-abjuration;
3-conjuration;
4-divination;
5-charming;
6-invokation;
7-life&death
8-last, definitely not least, transmutation.

BTW, cleric chants have an American accent; wizard spells do not. Why "vultur" sounds as 'vulture', I think it's a goof.

Edited by Ebon, 22 September 2005 - 08:34 AM.

[Tempest]

Don't necropost. Closing thread.