Got a quick question. What are some of insults, slang, or names that people of the Ten Towns would use to describe southerners that are vacationing (adventuring) in Icewind Dale? 1)
As aforementioned, “warmskins” is the polite term across the region north of the Spine of the World from people who come from the south.
“Trophy-kissers” is a less polite term for people who come to hunt, but don’t want to…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020
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…endure cold, direct danger from beasts and the land (crevasses, snowstorms, exposure, falling through ice into frigid waters, etc.) so much as they want a huge pelt, rack of antlers, set of tusks, monster skull, or other… 3)
…trophy to take home so they can brag about their bravery in hunting and personally slaying the trophy source, and so are likely to either rely on paid guides to do all the dirty work of a hunt, or just buy a trophy outright..#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020
5)
…sale than some of them will earn in two or three seasons of hard daily work!).
“Soupbrains” is an even less polite word for idiot southerners (if you don’t just want to say “idiot southerners”), and refers to the local belief… 6)
…that living in too warm surroundings melts your brains to soup, so you do inane things, all the time.
“Ironlicker” is about the same level of open contempt for idiocy, referring to southerners who don’t know that human tongues…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020
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…freeze to cold metal.
And then things start to get linguistically ruder, fast, from “Doesn’t know enough to cover his backside in a blizzard” through “Thinks every goat’s an ice dragon” to “Can’t outthink a frozen-stiff corpse” 8)
…and “So spineless and stupid as to be just waiting to be killed by the gods.”
The Ten Towns equivalent of “f**khead” is the word “raddank,” which means “dangerous, reckless, unkind-to-others shit-for-brains.”
And if someone…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020
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…makes you REALLY angry, and you hail from one of the Ten Towns, you’re likely to refer to that person as a “dragonf**ker.” Because only an utter mad bastard would seek sexual congress with a dragon.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020