February 8, 20187 yr 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, 20187 yr by omgFIREBALLS My Deadfire mods: Out With The Good | Waukeen's Berth | Carrying Voice | Nemnok's Congregation Other Deadfire work: Deadfire skill check catalogue Avowed skill calculator
February 8, 20187 yr 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!] Deadfire Community Patch: Nexus Mods
February 8, 20187 yr Author 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 | Waukeen's Berth | Carrying Voice | Nemnok's Congregation Other Deadfire work: Deadfire skill check catalogue Avowed skill calculator
February 8, 20187 yr Who said anything about public you little undiagnosed perv? Deadfire Community Patch: Nexus Mods
February 8, 20187 yr Author If you have nicknamed yours after a two-headed monster, I don't think you should be tossing the word "undiagnosed" around My Deadfire mods: Out With The Good | Waukeen's Berth | Carrying Voice | Nemnok's Congregation Other Deadfire work: Deadfire skill check catalogue Avowed skill calculator
February 8, 20187 yr 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
February 8, 20187 yr 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.
February 8, 20187 yr 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, 20187 yr by Messier-31 It would be of small avail to talk of magic in the air...
February 8, 20187 yr 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. *** "The words of someone who feels ever more the ent among saplings when playing CRPGs" ***
February 8, 20187 yr 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, 20187 yr by Boeroer Deadfire Community Patch: Nexus Mods
February 8, 20187 yr 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.
February 8, 20187 yr What's been seen can't be unseen. Edited February 8, 20187 yr by IndiraLightfoot *** "The words of someone who feels ever more the ent among saplings when playing CRPGs" ***
February 8, 20187 yr 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?)
February 8, 20187 yr Plurale tantum "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
February 10, 20187 yr 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.
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