omgFIREBALLS Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 (edited) Traditionally plural in English is created by adding an s. One warrior, two warriors. There are some exceptions however, such as sheep. I also feel eoten should be an exception. To me it sounds better to say one eoten, two eoten, rather than two eotens. My opinion, of course, is objective truth. I'm merely giving y'all a rare opportunity to openly agree with such a fantastic being as yours truly. Edited February 8, 2018 by omgFIREBALLS My Deadfire mods Out With The Good: The mod for tidying up your Deadfire combat tooltip. Waukeen's Berth: Make all your basic purchases at Queen's Berth. Carrying Voice: Wider chanter invocations. Nemnok's Congregation: Lets all priests express their true faith. Deadfire skill check catalogue right here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boeroer Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/eotens#English [smarty-pants on] It's not a word made up by fantasy literature, so there's a rule already. [pants off!] 8 Deadfire Community Patch: Nexus Mods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omgFIREBALLS Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Pants on. A basic level of decorum is expected of you. I will disregard your entire argument on this basis. I could have sworn eoten was some lame semi-homophone of ettin like fampyr is of vampire. Anyway, it still sounds bad. The revolution begins here. My Deadfire mods Out With The Good: The mod for tidying up your Deadfire combat tooltip. Waukeen's Berth: Make all your basic purchases at Queen's Berth. Carrying Voice: Wider chanter invocations. Nemnok's Congregation: Lets all priests express their true faith. Deadfire skill check catalogue right here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messier-31 Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Eoteni 2 It would be of small avail to talk of magic in the air... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boeroer Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 My little eoten needs freedom... Deadfire Community Patch: Nexus Mods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CottonWolf Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Didn't your mother teach you never to take your Eoten out in public? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boeroer Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Who said anything about public you little undiagnosed perv? 1 Deadfire Community Patch: Nexus Mods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omgFIREBALLS Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 If you have nicknamed yours after a two-headed monster, I don't think you should be tossing the word "undiagnosed" around 1 My Deadfire mods Out With The Good: The mod for tidying up your Deadfire combat tooltip. Waukeen's Berth: Make all your basic purchases at Queen's Berth. Carrying Voice: Wider chanter invocations. Nemnok's Congregation: Lets all priests express their true faith. Deadfire skill check catalogue right here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boeroer Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 What? It's like Twin Elms basically. Surrounded by Elmshore. And there's Celestial Sapling as well... I just realize how salacious PoE was. Josh, you old lecher! Deadfire Community Patch: Nexus Mods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedrefilos Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Since this is a made-up word and not English, I propose tag it "Eoran" and have plurals end with -rngrzts. So, plural of Eoten is Eotenrngrzts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messier-31 Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 (edited) https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/eotens#English [smarty-pants on] It's not a word made up by fantasy literature, so there's a rule already. [pants off!] Did some digging and it turns out that "ettin" is in: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ettin#English Edited February 8, 2018 by Messier-31 It would be of small avail to talk of magic in the air... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndiraLightfoot Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Eoten may be inspired by Scandinavian words for "Giant", like "jotun". In that case, it's one jotun, two jotnar. So, the plural form may very well be Eotnar. 1 *** "The words of someone who feels ever more the ent among saplings when playing CRPGs" *** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boeroer Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 (edited) https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/eoten#Old_English It's old english and not made up. Since it's old english the plural eotens is correct (as shown in my first link). The suggested connection to jotun by IndiraLightfoot seems to make perfect sense though. Edited February 8, 2018 by Boeroer 2 Deadfire Community Patch: Nexus Mods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoch Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 "Eotens" is already used in a Pillars 1 item description. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethics Gradient Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Honestly, does it really matter what the plural is? The most important thing that I learned from that Bestiary twitter post is that Eotens throw the absolute best dungeon parties. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndiraLightfoot Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 (edited) What's been seen can't be unseen. Edited February 8, 2018 by IndiraLightfoot 1 *** "The words of someone who feels ever more the ent among saplings when playing CRPGs" *** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aarik D Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Love the use of Psy!!! 2 Obsidian Discord || Grounded Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madscientist Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Sorry, but what is an eoten anyway? - An avatar of eothas - A follower of eothas - An inhabitant of the world eora ( and do they call creatures from outer space or other dimensions extra-eorians?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 It's a Pillars Ettin Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madscientist Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Eoteni This is it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Plurale tantum "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumbogumshoe Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 It's not a made up word, it's Old English, and the plural seems to be Eotens. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eoten I've voted for Eoten as plural though. Old English is much closer to other Germanic languages than modern English and -en is a perfectly fine Germanic plural ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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