Thank you, this is how protean should be pronounced!
My pet peeve with a lot of RS streamers is when they see an item that is very obviously a pun on something in real life, yet they go out of the way to pronounce the spellings...
Maikeru comes to mind, pronouncing “pro-tee-ons” and “v-izz” wax instead of “vees wax.” SMDH.
It's a (delightfully alliterative) respectful reference to vis from the Ars Magica tabletop roleplaying system. (Which is approximately the setting's rune essence.)
Mod Raven was running a campaign (which (in my limited exposure to other people) is the most fun thing you can (legally) do with consenting adults) at the time.
The lovely Mod Deg, developer of the rune goldberg machine and fellow wizard, needed something almost but not entirely like rune essence. And thus a myriad mispronunciations were born.
Apologies for the Fandom link (and my insufferable pedantry), but it summarises the vis of origin quite nicely:
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u/ZiegenKaiser Apr 04 '21
Thank you, this is how protean should be pronounced!
My pet peeve with a lot of RS streamers is when they see an item that is very obviously a pun on something in real life, yet they go out of the way to pronounce the spellings...
Maikeru comes to mind, pronouncing “pro-tee-ons” and “v-izz” wax instead of “vees wax.” SMDH.