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2016-06-02, 04:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2010
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2016-06-03, 11:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
I'm guessing that they might have changed the spelling of warg/worg out of an abundance of caution. They had to change a bunch of other names anyway, so why not sprinkle a few extra spelling changes in there, just in case? Apparently they changed enough that they got away with it, even though they pulled stuff like having a light-but-strong, silvery metal "mithral" not to be confused with the light-but-strong, silvery metal "mithril" from LotR.
I wonder what would happen if Greyview were transformed into humanoid form, granting him the ability to obtain treats without assistance...
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2016-06-05, 11:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2015
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2016-06-08, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2015
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2016-06-08, 09:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2013
Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
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"Like a tenacious child we were born, born to be wild ...
we're gonna climb so high we're never gonna die" - Steppenwolf
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2016-06-09, 08:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2006
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- The sticks
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2016-06-21, 10:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2016
Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
Greyview (descriptive name anyone?) is now my favorite character, or perhaps second to Malack.
I would love to see some subtle reference to Nihilist Arby's thrown in :D
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2016-06-25, 10:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2015
Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
So Greyview's food choices are:
A) Treats
B) "Bitter fruit of eternal despair"
That's why he nods!
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2016-06-28, 08:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2011
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2016-06-28, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2011
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- Minnesota
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Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
Gestures at signature. Gets treat.
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Nod, get treat.
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2016-06-28, 04:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2016
Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
Awww, shucks. Until I re-read the introduction of Greyview I thought for sure she was a quirky pun on the Dire Wolf... a "fearsome dog" (Canis dirus) for sure, but also a wolf with a very dire outlook on life.
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2016-06-29, 08:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2009
Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
Reading through his quotes he may be an example of a Neutral Evil character pushing the Nihilistic attitude that is sometimes associated with that alignment for comedic affect.
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2016-07-23, 10:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2015
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- An igloo near you
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2016-08-18, 04:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2016
Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
I loved the first 2 appearances of greyveiw, but after that he started to get a little too nihilist for me. He seems to take any opportunity to spread miserable feelings
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2016-08-24, 09:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2016
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2016-08-24, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2011
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- Clockwork Nirvana
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Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
almost right. gives lesser-quality treat
"Worg" was not something that got changed at the same time as things like "hobbit" and "balrog." Its also very clearly not Tolkien's intellectual property.
Whether the spelling choice was chosen out of fear of litigation or out of some other desire is unclear: it could be branding, it could be an error in editing, it could be trying to call back to the fact that the original Norse word they are based on meant both "wolf" and "criminal." It could even be a lawyer or editor running scared from the Tolken lawsuit, but it could not be a situation where that lawyer or editor's concerns were actually merited.
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2016-08-24, 05:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2004
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- In the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
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2016-08-24, 05:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2014
Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
Last edited by AvatarVecna; 2016-08-24 at 05:06 PM.
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2016-08-24, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-24, 10:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2014
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- A Michigan Far, Far Away
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Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
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2016-08-25, 06:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2011
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- Clockwork Nirvana
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Re: The Philosophy of Greyview the Warg
If you go back to the proto-germanic *wargaz and examine where the wolf/criminal meanings split off reliably, a substantial number of the terms still in use that mean criminal end up deriving through *wurgijaną. Those terms often end up with into "u" and "o" spellings in German, Low German, Dutch, and English (with German tending to "U" and English tending to "O" and the others being a mix, but all of them moving back and forth liberally until spelling standardization). Examples include "worgen", "wurgen", "worry."
In contrast, where the "wolf" meaning persists in modern usage "a" is more common ("Varg" - Swedish, "Vargur" - icelandic, "warg" - Tokien-ish).
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All things considered I think it more likely they were running scared from a lawsuit, but it wasn't a change made at the same time as the infamous "hobbit" change and (considering "warg" is how a significant number of people would transliterate the Swedish word that literally means "wolf") that lawsuit would have been utterly without merit: it certainly wasn't a reasoned and precise legal decision on how close they could get without infringing, since the answer to such a question would have been that they could use the exact same spelling.