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9/17/2022 12:34:36 AM
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Does Variks canonically have a speech impediment?

Spider speaks normal Eido speaks normal Mithrax speaks normal Variks clicks his tongue and speaks strange. Why does Variks sound so weird? Any lore nerds care to explain this?
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  • He says something about this somewhere in Beyond Light, I think. I think it was somewhere after he delivers that perfectly fluent BOMB against Eramis. I think it went something like he speaks in that typical Eliksni broken English to seem small and weak and “different” so that his enemies underestimate him.

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  • Who knows for sure. Normally when he talks he sounds a little strange. But when he yells at Eramis in the Beyond Light Campaign, he talks pretty much normally. One thing I know for sure, I hate that clicking he does.

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    My initial assumption was that Misraaks et al used some sort of voice changer/instant translator where as Variks spoke our dialect organically, learning through extended contact with the inhabitants of the reef. There definitely has been mention of a voice changer before but I can’t remember where. Spider also comments that Variks intentionally augments his voice to sound less fluent - this is a nice touch and one that happens irl; in Japan for example, there is a well known distrust/uneasiness when foreigners speak Japanese fluently. In fact, you could absolutely butcher just about any Japanese phrase and be met with a chirpy “your Japanese is very good” but if your Japanese is truly authentic, you will get something to the nature of “where did you learn Japanese?” in a much more suspicious tone. The real answer is probably that the above reasoning is likely a retcon and they simply didn’t intend to include so many Eliksni allies, intending Variks to be the only capable of human speech. If I remember correctly, Taniks and Skolas just made noises and Variks translates for us, this would have been way too irritating to listen to in direct conversation with allies.

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  • Why does Amanda have a southern accent?

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  • He puts the accent in to make guardians feel more comfortable around him

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    • Edited by Eliksni Gunslinger: 9/18/2022 6:23:19 AM
      The real question is why isnt he in this season? In the lightkin armor he tells Missrax that he has to stay on Europa to keep an eye on Eramis, but Eramis comes back and he is nowhere to be found, did she kill him offscreen ?

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      • Edited by Shockwave 989: 9/17/2022 2:22:26 PM
        Spider states that Variks is perfectly capable of speaking English fluently, he simply put on the broken English act to appear less threatening so that he would be underestimated. Which given his angrier moments in Beyond Light when Eramis goaded him, seems to be the case. Given that Spider and Variks both served under the House of Wolves and that Variks was likely involved in any dealings that Mara Sov had with Spider before the Battle of Saturn, I think we can trust him on this.

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        • He is on an ice moon. He is cold.... Same as how we shiver he clacks his mandibles.

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          • Could be due to his Old Age as the old Eliksni Dialect. In the Lore, Eliksni hatchlings and children adopted human Speech and Culture. Spider, Mithrax, Edio we're all after the Whirlwind. And coming to Earth, Mithrax, and Spider would have adopted Human Dialect over Eliksni Speech. I'm trying to say is like when a Spanish Speaking person is learning English...when they speak it...it's off. Mithrax and Spider...age wise are still young, and been around humans more and adopted to human Speech easier probably.

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          • *insect like chattering*

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          • Edited by ShadowheartMC: 9/18/2022 9:15:26 PM
            Hi, Variks’s wife here! As far as we know, he does not have a speech impediment. If you listen closely you will be able to tell Misraaks speaks similar as well, and so do other eliksni in the lore. This could be due to the fact that each House has an accent. Variks lived with House Wolves and so did Misraaks, so they have a House Wolves accent. Hope this helped! (Side note, The clicking part is never explained, and the wheezing is probably from when Phylaks crushed Variks’s throat in the lore.) Edit: The people mentioning Spider’s line about Variks faking an accent: this is pretty much a lie. Variks dulled himself down a bit in the Reef in D1 but he does not fake any accent. Spider is just inflammatory and unfortunately, the community decided to trust his claim.

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          • I have to mute it. I hate it... reminds me of this sweaty, smelly man I work with. He does that.

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            • He can speak our language fluently, but actively choose not to to appear inferior. This is mentioned by Spider somewhere but I don't remember the source.

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            • Because they didn’t stay true to the OG storyline. They thought they could do better. They were wrong.

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              • Probably

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