what's the meaning of "skyrim"?
"Sky-rim" or "Sky-hrim"?
and , is Khajiit a kind of TIGER-man or CAT-man ?
who knows ?
what's the meaning of "skyrim"?
"Sky-rim" or "Sky-hrim"?
and , is Khajiit a kind of TIGER-man or CAT-man ?
who knows ?
I'm not a native speaker ( I'm from Shanghai). So this description is full of quotes.
我的意思是,Skyrim这个游戏名称,在英语里究竟是什么意思?是把 Sky 和 rim 拼合而成,表示“天空的边际”,或者是 Sky 和 hrim 的拼合,表示“天上的冰霜”?当然,我也听说 hrim 并非英语,而其中的 h 可能是被省略了。
另外,Khajiit这个种族,究竟是一种虎人,或猫人?
希望这里有懂中文的朋友。呵呵
Skyrim is the name of the province of Tamriel where the events of the game take place. The Khajiit are a race of feline humanoids from the province of Elsweyr on Tamriel. I don't think the words themselves have any meaning beyond just being labels assigned by the game developers when they were creating the lore for the series.
Tiānjì shì yīgè míngzì, bù rènwéi zhè yǒu shé me tèbié de yìyì, yīnwèi tā shì yóu kāifā rényuán chuàngjiàn de, jù wǒ suǒ zhī. Hǔ rén quèshí shì shànggǔ juànzhóu shìjiè de māo rén zhǒngzú.
Google translate...
Skyrim is a name, don't think it has any special meaning, since it was created by the developers as far as I know. Khajiit are indeed a cat-man race of the Elder Scrolls world.
"Khajiit" comes from the in-game language of the cat-men, it can translate to "Desert Walker" or "of the desert" or something like that and it's how they refer to themselves.
Skyrim is made of two words: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/sky and http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-french/rim.
Skyrim is called such because it is one of the most mountainous regions in Tamriel. It is the "Rim of the Sky", so to speak. Nord mythology says the Throat of The World, now the tallest mountain in Tamriel (second tallest before Red Mountain blew up), is where Kyne, the goddess of the sky (modern cyrodiilic counterpart: Kynareth), breathed the world into existence as part of Shor's plan to create the Mundus, or Mortal Plane.
Hmm... just a quick question for a lore buff... In Daggerfall and Arena the Khajiit seemed to be humans, but from Morrowind onwards they seem to be beasts... what is that all about? The OP got me thinking about it that's all.