NWNThayPW / ThayPublicSuggestions

Public suggestion repo for the NWN:EE server Thay and the Underdark
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Change race name from "halfling" to "hin" in character creation and on character sheet #51

Open Ed1nSm opened 1 year ago

Ed1nSm commented 1 year ago

This is an incredibly minor thing and not at all important, I just think it would help with making "halflings" seem more interesting and actually hearken to Forgotten Realms lore. Halfling is an exonym (and probably at least a tiny bit derogatory when you think about what it actually means) whilst "Hin" is what they call themselves in the FR (see the monk order of the Hin Fist for example). File this under "incredibly minor flavor changes" and don't consider it important at all, just thought I'd mention it.

flightlessavian commented 1 year ago

I tend to agree. Halfling is a tiny bit derogatory exonym, wherein I recall somewhere using "sweep" as a proper slur specifically native to Thay since the practice of using hin slaves for chimney and other such aperture cleaning.

Although of course, that does make me personally wonder whether "drow" shouldn't be changed as well as the local demonym tends to be ilythiiri (although at least a part of them traces their lineage to Miyeritar instead), not the least since the elven word it derives from is also rather unpleasant. (and of course, you don't have a "darthiir" racial option)

Which is to say that once we start taking this into account, there's going to be a snowball of changes...