mail-mi Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Hrathen's name is very easily misspelled as Heathen. Which Hrathen is definitely not. Wierd 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peng the Just Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 I wonder if this is intentional or not. I bet it got mispelled a bunch in early drafts as the keys are right next to each other. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawToast225 Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 That would be interesting if it was intentional. He ended up being an infidel in the end, technically. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mail-mi Posted December 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 That would be interesting if it was intentional. He ended up being an infidel in the end, technically. That would be really cool, actually. Like Raoden's name was kind of a prophecy for the (since it's the Elantris forum I don't have to put things in spoilers, right?) ending with Elantris being a giant Aon Rao, Hrathen's name was kind of a prophecy for him going heathen at the end of the book. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 Huh. It would be interesting as a coincidence; if it were intentional, it'd be downright brilliant. Can anyone name any ways in which Sarene can be said to be serene? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjustice99 Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Huh. It would be interesting as a coincidence; if it were intentional, it'd be downright brilliant. Can anyone name any ways in which Sarene can be said to be serene? I can't think of anything that makes her serene but I always found it funny that queen and Sarene rhyme and she becomes queen of Arelon in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I can't think of anything that makes her serene but I always found it funny that queen and Sarene rhyme and she becomes queen of Arelon in the end. Actually Sarene and queen don't rhyme, in-world it would be pronounced "sar-EE-NEE" (or sar-AY-NAY, but that is more an artifact of the fact that her name used to be Sarana, based of Aon Ana instead of Aon Ene). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawToast225 Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Actually, they do rhyme. The audio book clearly says Sarene is pronounced like serene. Which reminded me of Serenity and I marveled at how amazing that movie was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Actually, they do rhyme. The audio book clearly says Sarene is pronounced like serene. Which reminded me of Serenity and I marveled at how amazing that movie was. That doesn't mean the audiobook reader is saying it correctly. Author's sometimes give a pronunciation guide but there is no guarantee that reader will follow it. H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Aye, Elantris probably has the most strict rules or specific guidelines about how names should be pronounced. Brandon had a blog on his old website about it, but if I recall correctly: Arelish names are derived from one Aon each (e.g. Raoden, Sarene, Eventeo, etc.) The first vowel of the syllable with the Aon is stressed (e.g. REI-o-den, not rei-O-den or rei-o-DEN) The Aon's vowels are pronounced as long sounds (e.g. sar-EE-nee, not sar-EEN) Pronunciation geeks, don't murder me for butchering your proper rules, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oudeis Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I was at a signing once where he told us there was one irregular rule.. that the letter E in an Aon could be pronounced as either the hard E sound or the hard A sound. The example he gave was that technically Sarene is "sar-AY-nay". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 The first vowel of the syllable with the Aon is stressed (e.g. REI-o-den, not rei-O-den or rei-o-DEN) Actually both syllables of the Aon are stressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Yeah, multiple stressed syllables don't work for me. In my head one of the vowels is always more stressed - in Raoden's case, it's RAY-OH-den. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Yeah, multiple stressed syllables don't work for me. In my head one of the vowels is always more stressed - in Raoden's case, it's RAY-OH-den. Damnation language doesn't have vowel stress that makes sense I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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