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To add that I really like the word pillar. It's somehow really a beautiful word, soundwise and letterwise. :)

 

Shame this title sounds a little bit weird in Polish though  :huh:

 

Oh well, whatever.

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On my monitor an update tapping, something to wake me from my troubled napping.

And so I did hie to my study and lock the door.

Pillars of Eternity Mister Urquhart thundered, and in my mind on the new name I wondered.

It shall be called Poe, forevermore.

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pillars of eternity sounds like an awesome geographical feature.

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Shame this title sounds a little bit weird in Polish though  :huh:

 

Oh well, whatever.

(Sztywne) Pale Eternitu? :p

 

I believe that any translation will sound awkward until you get used to it. I get this a lot while working on my book and setting, nothing sounds natural until I get used to it.

 

On a more serious note, since there's little to go on, I'd wager construction-related words could be used in lieu of filar (if Filary Wieczności doesn't sound marketable enough). Kolumny, Podpory, Fundamenty, Stemple, Dźwigary etc. don't really sound more outrageous than Wrota Baldura or Okres Połowicznego Rozpadu Pierwiastków Radioaktywnych. :p

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(Sztywne) Pale Eternitu? :p

 

I believe that any translation will sound awkward until you get used to it. I get this a lot while working on my book and setting, nothing sounds natural until I get used to it.

 

On a more serious note, since there's little to go on, I'd wager construction-related words could be used in lieu of filar (if Filary Wieczności doesn't sound marketable enough). Kolumny, Podpory, Fundamenty, Stemple, Dźwigary etc. don't really sound more outrageous than Wrota Baldura or Okres Połowicznego Rozpadu Pierwiastków Radioaktywnych. :p

 

I concur. Same goes for Dolina Lodowego Wichru and Opad radioaktywny ;)

 

 

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Pilaren der Eeuwigheid actually has a nice ring to it, but I'll be playing in English.

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Shame this title sounds a little bit weird in Polish though  :huh:

 

Oh well, whatever.

(Sztywne) Pale Eternitu? :p

 

I believe that any translation will sound awkward until you get used to it. I get this a lot while working on my book and setting, nothing sounds natural until I get used to it.

 

On a more serious note, since there's little to go on, I'd wager construction-related words could be used in lieu of filar (if Filary Wieczności doesn't sound marketable enough). Kolumny, Podpory, Fundamenty, Stemple, Dźwigary etc. don't really sound more outrageous than Wrota Baldura or Okres Połowicznego Rozpadu Pierwiastków Radioaktywnych. :p

 

I think Filary Wiecznośći sounds fine, but Kolumny Wiecznośći sounds better.

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....for a second, I read it as "Pillows of Eternity" and I was all "wha?" :disguise: 

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I concur. Same goes for Dolina Lodowego Wichru and Opad radioaktywny ;)

 

 

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;"

The first always sounded damn cool to me, better than the original title. Hmm, maybe I have an obsession with the word wicher and related ones that sound so... hard and edgy.

 

Fallout doesn't translate as well, as you point. However, I warmed up to translating Half-Life as Rozpad. Holy crap, I really love words with z's, r's, and w's. Is that a symptom of something? D:

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Swiss german: Süüle vo dä Ewigkeit

 

The sheer amount of umlauts makes that a cool looking title.

 

 

If you like umlauts we could also name it "Stützä vo dä Ewigkeit"

You should really come to Zurich. In Züri redät jedä so, ich findä das pärsönlich zum chotzä.

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Pilaren der Eeuwigheid actually has a nice ring to it, but I'll be playing in English.

 

Säulen der Ewigkeit for german.

 

Swiss german: Süüle vo dä Ewigkeit

 

you're right, zuilen der eeuwigheid, not pilaren der eeuwigheid.

 

well that sounds a lot lamer :p

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It's been a while, and when I get back to these great forums for a peek, what do I see, yet another hilarious thread! :D

 

Well, Pillars of Eternity. it's a decent name, and for a special site in-game it's great.

But I somehow thinks it lends itself to Piles of Eternity, a dread for many avid gamers.

It also has a suicidal proxy name: Pills of Eternity.

 

And I think it would be bad if it gets the same abbreviation as Path of Exile. I'd love to save PE, but not as an acronym.

 

How about Phases of Eternity? That would be cryptic enough.

 

EDIT: Hang on, that contradicts my sticking to PE. Perhaps Phase Eternity, instead?

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Perhaps the backers can be known as the "pillars of eternity", as we supported the project?

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Perhaps the backers can be known as the "pillars of eternity", as we supported the project?

 

This might be true.

 

Though I remember the campaign referring to the backers as "Pillars of Eternity" and these are screenshots of the backer portal, so... It would be a nice touch nevertheless and a friendly nod towards us backers. To add that I really like the word pillar. It's somehow really a beautiful word, soundwise and letterwise. :)

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