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I was looking up some info about some gods lately, and one of the entries had a phonetic spelling of a god and it floored me. I had no idea it was pronounced in such an asinine manner, so naturally I figured plenty of others would enjoy seeing the correct pronunciations as much as I did. I'm only doing coded gods, for my ease, though many more are found in FR campaign setting (i'm using straight 3rd). And unfortunately it looks like whoever did the appropriate phonetics didn't really use the official standards - so just roll with it.


Bane: Bain (Bane like Cane)
Beshaba: be-SHAH-ba
Chauntea: chawn-TEE-ah (i had a big fat TAY in the middle)
Corellon: M.I.A.
Cyric: SEER-ick (I have been using SY-ric)
Garl: M.I.A.
Gond: GAHND
Helm: as the item
Ilmater: ill-MAY-ter (i was using ILL-mah-tar)
Kelemvor: KELL-em-vor
Lathander: lah-THAN-der
Lloth: LOALTH
Loviatar: loh-VEE-a-tar (i stressed 1st)
Malar: MAHL-arr
Mask: per item
Mielikki: my-LEE-kee (i licked it)
Moradin: M.I.A.
Mystra: MISS-trah (guaranteed this is the most often mispronounced)
Oghma: OGG-mah
Selune: Seh-LOON-ay
Shar: SHAHR
Sune: SOO-nee (Tempus must be SHEE-ite)
Talona: tah-LOW-nah
Talos: TAAHL-ose
Tempus: TEM-pus
Torm: TORM
Tymora: tie-MORE-ah
Tyr: TEER
Umberlee: uhm-ber-LEE
Waukeen: wah-KEEN
Yondalla: yon-DAH-lah

Horace wrote: Corellon: M.I.A.

I've always pronounced that one "core-el-on." However, I have heard it pronounced as "core-eh-lon" in Temple of Elemental Evil on PC.

Hope that helps!

wow, i always pronounced a couple like this.....mind you i dont know how your suppost to write this stuff, but ill try to convey my point.
cyric - sy-rick ...SAI-rick?
mystra - MY-stra
Selune - say-loon
loviator - low-vee-a-tor

funny

SEER-ick? I would never have guessed, SAI-rick just sounds so much more ostentatious and fitting for the one true god

Sune and Selune are the ones that threw me when I first noticed the pronunciations in Faiths & Avatars. I was ending both in "oon". "Soon" and "Say-loon".

Isolrem wrote:SEER-ick? I would never have guessed, SAI-rick just sounds so much more ostentatious and fitting for the one true god

I totally agree, sia-rick will always be cyric to me, i dont care what they say....seer-ick sounds rediculis

Urival wrote:I totally agree, sia-rick will always be cyric to me, i dont care what they say....seer-ick sounds rediculis

Hush now

Though in your defense, I used to call him SIRR-ick, way back in the dark depths of time. You'll come around eventually!

I've always thought of it as... Cyric like Cyril, not Cyric like Cyrus

Chauntea has always given me trouble. I want to pronounce the 'ch' as a 'sh' sound to make something along the lines of 'shornTAY' or 'shornTAYyuh'

And I would never pronounce Gond as "GAHND " because of the big round south-east-of-England o sounds my mouth makes.

I knew a girl called Sune once. Her name was pronounced 'SOOnay,' so that's how I read it.

You can't go far wrong with Oghma, luckily for me...