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I know Tevene isn’t ‘real’, but largely based in Latin,  so I tried to guesstimate what perrepatae means and based on Latin roots I came up with:

per - re - pat - ae

- per = thoroughly, as in “perfection” or “persistent”

- re = again, as in “repeated”

- pat = endurance, suffering, as in “patience”

- ae = suffix to make it refer to a group or class of thing

Which is used to describe that the perrepatae’s greatest assets are their repeated, unshakeable endurance, patience, and resilience, even when faced with incredible torment and suffering.

It also is functionally similar to incaesor, which literally means “dangerous substance”, describing the qualities of the slave instead of their literal identifier (as mage-killer or magical slave). It also likely is functional in the same way in that it specifically refers to a thing, explicitly a non-person.

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i thought the faction logos would make cool fabric, but ive never made a pattern before and im pretty sure these would not print very well

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teehee new companion lucanis :)

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Why is Lucanis The "Mage Killer"?

Mage Killer means something SPECIFIC in Dragon Age. This is like having a prison warden companion called "The Warden."

We had an entire comic series literally called Magekiller (one word, à la Dread Wolf vs Dreadwolf I guess) about one.

It's not just "anyone specialized in killing mages". It's a very specific person. Marius is sometimes just called perrepatae, or just "the Mage-Killer", because that's who he is.

Or, to put it in Marius' own words...

It ain't just a title you slap onto anyone. Unless Lucanis trained with a perrepatae, then we have some talking to do.

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