Accents?

[KakkarotYaBoi]

Hello there! Debuting my forum presence with this post . I'm wondering why southern accents and northern ones aren't broken up more specifically (Red Storm and Allanak having the same, just like Luirs and Tuluk). Also every desert elf tribe has the same accent too. Don't you think they would sound different?  Just something I've been thinking about.

[mansa]

That's a good question.

As far as I remember, when accents got introduced in the game, the major focus was to distinguish between "Tuluk" spies vs "Allanak" spies, and that's it.



Everything else was just, 'sure, why not?' from a design point of view.

"Should people from the Labyrinth have a specific accent?"
"...sure, why not?"

[Fredd]

I've always wondered why red storm doesn't have a "stormy accent" or something.

[Tuannon]

Aside from the 'canned' accents, some people who are not me also do "in say" accents. I tend to err on the side of readability, myself.

[Riev]

Hello there! Debuting my forum presence with this post . I'm wondering why southern accents and northern ones aren't broken up more specifically (Red Storm and Allanak having the same, just like Luirs and Tuluk). Also every desert elf tribe has the same accent too. Don't you think they would sound different?  Just something I've been thinking about.

Similar to American accents, if you're from the South you might know the difference between Southern Alabama Belle vs Lousiana Cajun.
As a Yank? Its all Southern to me.

Red Storm and Allanak have a "similar" sounding accent compared to northern, or tribal, or staccato, or legato or whatever else is out there.

While you have a "Southern" accent, you can (as suggested here) alter it through says. "Well, ain't that some shit" vs "Well, that IS a problem" vs "Fuckin' le''s git whi' tha gettin's goo'!" can all be Southern.