[Quest Pack] [14 Quests] - Rise of the Chaos God

[knightkrawler]

A small note about quest 9:
It's either Spirit Valley (the valley's name), or Spirit's Valley (if there is just one spirit haunting the valley). (Or Valley of the Spirits). Spirits Valley seems wrong.

I have to disagree. It's "Spirits Valley" because I think the idea is that the valley could be full of spirits. Of course, another appropriate wording would have been "Valley of Spirits" but there were already too many Quests called "X of Y" so I just went with the more direct "YX" to break up the monotony a bit.

Spirit Valley does denote that it's a valley full of spirits. The determiner doesn't have to be plural.
Spirits Valley sounds and reads awkward if not flat out wrong. I'm definitely with Sjeng there.

Spirits' Valley would mean that there's a set number of never changing or otherwise specific spirits (say, 4 spirits of 4 dead heroes or something). Wrong choice.
Spirit's Valley would be analogous to that, but with only one spirit, so wrong choice there, too.
Valley of Spirits would be a good choice, but I agree with you on the formulaic nature of the -of-Genitive.

[Sjeng]

That's exactly my thought, I just couldn't formulate it as well. And I'm using my tablet, and typing on it is awkward.

[knightkrawler]

That's exactly my though, I just couldn't formulate it as well.

Having studied linguistics (along with literary and cultural studies) does have its perks sometimes.
If I didn't have uses within my hobby for it it would be completely useless for me.

[bastianbux]

Spirit Valley does denote that it's a valley full of spirits. The determiner doesn't have to be plural.
Spirits Valley sounds and reads awkward if not flat out wrong. I'm definitely with Sjeng there.

It's true that "Spirit Valley" can mean that there are multiple spirits in that valley. However, it can also mean that it is a valley inhabited by only one spirit. For instance, if you lived in a town and the rumor was that there was a witch living in the woods to your west, you might call that place "Witch Woods" and it would be understood that there was only one witch living in those woods. It can go either way by using the singular, so to avoid confusion, I used the plural.

It really is the more appropriate of the two options. Really, the best option might be to simply call it the "Valley of Spirits" but... I was trying to avoid that.

[Sjeng]

That's a very good point. Updated.

And here are the European format cards as well! yay!

Sjengs Japanese Artefact Cards v1.0.pdf

[bastianbux]

Awesome! Unfortunately, you might have to update that EU Artifacts sheet. There was an Artifact mentioned in one of the later quests that I didn't know about when creating those, so I will be updating the Artifact cards with that new Artifact in a couple days.

[Sjeng]

NP, I'll update it later as well then

[Goblin-King]

Sjeng lives for these moments

[Sjeng]

Sjeng lives for these moments

[chaoticprime]

A small note about quest 9:
It's either Spirit Valley (the valley's name), or Spirit's Valley (if there is just one spirit haunting the valley). (Or Valley of the Spirits). Spirits Valley seems wrong.

I have to disagree. It's "Spirits Valley" because I think the idea is that the valley could be full of spirits. Of course, another appropriate wording would have been "Valley of Spirits" but there were already too many Quests called "X of Y" so I just went with the more direct "YX" to break up the monotony a bit.

Spirit Valley does denote that it's a valley full of spirits. The determiner doesn't have to be plural.
Spirits Valley sounds and reads awkward if not flat out wrong. I'm definitely with Sjeng there.

Spirits' Valley would mean that there's a set number of never changing or otherwise specific spirits (say, 4 spirits of 4 dead heroes or something). Wrong choice.
Spirit's Valley would be analogous to that, but with only one spirit, so wrong choice there, too.
Valley of Spirits would be a good choice, but I agree with you on the formulaic nature of the -of-Genitive.

I know a guy named Alexander O. Smith who does professional Japanese-to-English localization. He translated a bunch of games like Final Fantasy X and XII, and many more. I might could ask him what he would use, if you just want another opinion on it. I would need the original Japanese, of course.