➳ HISTORICAL
Jan. 16th, 2015 05:10 pm- For my own sanity, I've decided that Agron's specific origin is Cimbri and thus his native language is Elbe Germanic (Irminonic)***, though it's worth noting that as of 71 BC that was mutually intelligible with Istvaeonic and Ingvaeonic, but not North Germanic or East Germanic. Basically, if you're from around where modern Germany or Denmark is, he'll be able to understand you. If you're from closer to modern Poland or Sweden, he won't.
- ***, meaning "history isn't 100% positive that the Cimbri spoke a Germanic language because Roman historians cannot be assed to properly separate foreign ethnic groups". But, the most popular theory is that it was indeed Germanic, so I'm going with that, considering that Agron canonically speaks a Germanic language and Cimbri makes too much sense as an origin for him for me to pick a different tribe.
- However, he'll be using Vulgar Latin for all threads unless otherwise specified and magical bullshit translation will operate off that.
- I'll be using the reconstructed Proto-Germanic names for his gods (Wōdanaz, Frijjō, Teiwaz, Þunraz, etc). While it's technically inaccurate because Proto-Germanic was never a real language and also because if it was it would have been well before Agron's time, but it's more accurate than using the Old High German names.
- A link to Tacitus' Germania, also for my own sanity.
- Disclaimer: I'm lousy at history and new to RPing from historical fiction. I'm trying here.