Titles and catchphrases
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ladyofastolatI used to collect interesting titles (i.e. noble titles, names of offices etc.) that I found in history books, but I've long since lost my list. I do remember deciding that "Lord of the Isles" was a wonderful title to have, back when I was about 10. On holiday in Skye last year, visiting the traditional home of the Lords of the Isles, I was delighted to read about their interactions with the King of Man. I also remember that the Ottomans have some pretty great titles. "Margrave of the Horizons" was one I particularly liked.
Today, though, I heard a quote from the "Shadow Immigration Secretary", and I think this is the best of all. I just love the idea of him standing there at the ports, making sure we don't end up with more shadows in Britain than we ought to have. "One man, one shadow!" is the rallying cry. Let too many in, and all our decent British shadows will be out of work, floating in limbo without a body to attach themselves to. And what about those poor people back in Poland, etc., whose shadows have all flooded here? They have rights, too.
Which leads me onto Baldur's Gate, by something that really is a sequitur, honest. ("Shadows! Aren't they those things in BG that say...? No. That's doppelgangers. Er... I think...") I was trying the other day to remember all the BG baddy catch-phrases, and find that I've forgotten most of them. I know a few people on my Friends list have played it as obsessively as I have in the past, so any help...?
I remember "I kicked him in the head until he was dead - ha ha!" (bandits.) Someone (hobgoblins?) say "Forward march!" Depressed miners say "Get me out of this hell-hole!", which is very quotable and often apt. I used to swear blind that doppelgangers said "Time to f-lay some flesssh!" and "Your time has come, primates", and "This time is our time!" but I seem to remember that most of these were proved wrong on a replay.
Today, though, I heard a quote from the "Shadow Immigration Secretary", and I think this is the best of all. I just love the idea of him standing there at the ports, making sure we don't end up with more shadows in Britain than we ought to have. "One man, one shadow!" is the rallying cry. Let too many in, and all our decent British shadows will be out of work, floating in limbo without a body to attach themselves to. And what about those poor people back in Poland, etc., whose shadows have all flooded here? They have rights, too.
Which leads me onto Baldur's Gate, by something that really is a sequitur, honest. ("Shadows! Aren't they those things in BG that say...? No. That's doppelgangers. Er... I think...") I was trying the other day to remember all the BG baddy catch-phrases, and find that I've forgotten most of them. I know a few people on my Friends list have played it as obsessively as I have in the past, so any help...?
I remember "I kicked him in the head until he was dead - ha ha!" (bandits.) Someone (hobgoblins?) say "Forward march!" Depressed miners say "Get me out of this hell-hole!", which is very quotable and often apt. I used to swear blind that doppelgangers said "Time to f-lay some flesssh!" and "Your time has come, primates", and "This time is our time!" but I seem to remember that most of these were proved wrong on a replay.
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Date: 2008-02-20 02:27 pm (UTC)I think that the king of Spain or the king of Portugal was monarch 'of unknown lands beyond the western sea', which is ambitiously expansive.