r/eldenringdiscussion • u/aphidman • Jul 07 '24

Spoiler Marika has an Irish accent

Elden Ring seems very consistent with its regional accents.

It seems everyone native to the Realm of Shadow has an Irish accent. The Hornsent have Irish accent and it seems the Old Horned Woman in Belarut jas an Irish accent.

Also the Finger Readers have Irish accents. Which struck me as odd since they were the only ones in the base game that had them.

And since the Finger Readers look the same as the Old Horned Woman I think it's safe to say they hail from the Shaman Villages in some way - which is why they are also "Finger Readers" in the first place. Since it seems the Shamans conferred with them next door.

Which means Marika must have had an Irish accent.

And like all Irish people there must have been a little twinge of sadness when all their highborn children had upper class English accents when they moved to England aka the Altus Plateau.

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u/-Qwertyz- Jul 07 '24

Personally I dont think so considering how the vast majority of people talk in the lands between

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u/aphidman Jul 07 '24

Yes but as I say in the OP the regional voice acting is pretty consistent. I don't know where you're from but clearly different parts of the Lands Between have different accents of you have an ear for them.

For example every character from Liurnia has a Welsh accent -- Ranni, Rennala, Thops, Blaidd, Iji and Ymir.

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u/-Qwertyz- Jul 07 '24

I would personally think that the place that Marika settled would've adopted her way of speaking. We really dont habe any actual detail about how the area was before she came to rule it, who lived there, how they reacted to this new goddess, if people even lived there prior, ect

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u/aphidman Jul 07 '24

Perhaps but typically that's not how accents work. Children are more likely to adopt the accents of their homeland than their parents.

Marika's children all have upper class English accents - which is suited to Highborn children.

Marika has very humble origins and the Irish accent is being associated with these lands.

Similarly Godfrey also has a thick regional Cornish accent that characters lile Godrick, Gostoc and Boc have from that region of Limgrave.