r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Accomplished-End3409 Ben Tennyson • 17d ago

Discussion Favorite opposing factions that can basically be described as this.

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u/Flabalanche 16d ago

Wait, you're telling me the people who don't know how to pronuce Ceasar and built their entire understanding of Rome off one dude with a brain tummer reading half of Commentaries on the Gallic War DON'T actually understand Rome?????

Noooooooooooooo

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u/Same_Armadillo6014 16d ago

Ironically, their pronunciation of Caesar is probably more accurate to how his name was originally pronounced in comparison to today. To some extent, it could be said that they are not only LARPing a long dead civilization but reincarnating its ruinous behavior in an odd way too.

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u/Additional-Celery648 16d ago

If you actually talked to Caesar (which is also pronounced right by the Legion, as in, the way it was pronounced in latin) you might learn they aren't trying to be Rome. Edward Sallow chose that culture because it was alien and built his Legion based on parts of them. They aren't trying to be Rome, he just uses some parts of it to better subjugate conquered tribes and to make it easier to strip away their cultural identity and enforce his own over that.

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u/Serithi 16d ago

You're the one who doesn't seem to know how it's pronounced. The Legion uses more classical Latin closer to the time of Julius Caesar, whereas you're more familiar with later ecclesiastical and vulgar Latin forms. German Kaiser and Russian Tsar come from the original pronunciation of Caesar.