Translating Questions

Felicity in English can also mean "Skill at a certain task - particularly in the arts" or similar. It can also mean happiness or good fortune.
Here's what the Oxford Dictionary has to say:
Definition of felicity in English:
noun (plural felicities)
[mass noun]
1Intense happiness: domestic felicity
2The ability to find appropriate expression for one’s thoughts: he exposed the kernel of the matter with his customary elegance and felicity
2.1 [count noun] A particularly effective feature of a work of literature or art: a book full of minor felicities

I have bought yesterday on ebay a package, consisting of Cadwallon RPG, Secrets 1 + 2, GM-Screen, and Livre univers (rag.narok) all in French, for 55 + 10(shipping) EUR. Only because i wanted the Secrets 2 and the Livre Universe (rag.narok). Allthough I don't speak french. But hey I am a collector. When it is there I can look it up.

So I looked it up in the French Version of the Playersbook. They are called Héraut de la Fèlicitè.

But the solution can be found many pages later, at the Litanies of Felicity. "To the heralds of Felicity, Cadwallon is a divinity of its own (Felicity), and represent it."
So for them Cadwallon = Felicity(a god).

So in german/english dictionary felicity = felicity/Glückseligkeit or luck/Glück but in french/german dictionary Fèlicitè = felicity/Glückseligkeit
So I will translate it with Glückseligkeit, for now.
But I will have a close look at it, when I deal with the names of the gods. Because the names of the gods translated in german, sound so uncool. But that's a different thing I can ask later.


This shows one of the problems of the Cadwallon Playersbook, informations about one thing are seperated in many different parts of the book.


I have begun to translate the Secrets 2, altough I don't speak french at all. But google translate and dictionaries are my friends. So I can roughly translate and understand what is meant in the text. The tenses may be wrong, but I don't care.

I read the review of Xenon_Wulf about Cadwallon Secrets Vol. 2. here: forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?387958-Cadwallon-Secrets-1-2
And I didn't took it serious, until I translated and read the first pages of Secrets 2 myself. This book REALLY REALLY REALLY shows what is going on behind the curtains in the fiefs. Very imprortant for a game master.

I thought there was a segment in Secrets 2 about the Voyagers. Is that covered in the first part?

Ok here I am with another translation question from Cadwallon RPG page 63., as you know I want to translate the book into german:

It is from the Ogrokh Slang:

english: To Spanner: To Barter endlessly
french: Lempanner : Marchander interminablement.

Spanner can be a: wrench,
or Spanner can be: an retard, idiot,
or to throw a spanner in sth., to throw a spanner in the works
Span can be the distance between fingers

in french I did not found many: but I think empanner can mean to jibe (nautical word, has to do with sailing)

Normally this Slang words, relate to the district. But I can't find a good connection. Since the district has nothing to do with sailing, I don't think it is the nautical expression. There is a district in Ogrokh which is called the Span. Is this helpfull?

And there are Blacksmiths, Goblin Naphta inventors, and dwarf steam inventors, so perhaps it has to do something with the tool spanner, wrench. Which makes me tend more to: to throw a spanner in the works.

So can a english speaking guy please confirm, that in this case to spanner is the short form for to throw a spanner in the works?

Maybe I answered my question by myself, because if     to spanner = to throw a spanner in the works,         this could be translated into german as:     querschiessen  =  to shoot transversely or to shoot diagonaly or to shoot crosswise.

And this would relate perfectly whith the Shooting Range which is situated in the fief of Ogrokh. So this translation would make more sense in german as in english or french(or means Lempanner something with shooting in french???)

The Slang-section in the Cadwallon RPG book is like a dictionary. And each fief has his own section with some slang expressions, which relate to the fief.

for example:
Fief:  Kraken (the fief of Kraken is the harbor of Cadwallon)
No more wind in his sail = To die  (so this relates totally with the fief, because sailing and harbor, goes hand in hand)
Fief: Rampart
I’d bet my fief! = Used when one is positive about something  (this relates totally with the fief, because the peer of the fief, gambled his fief in a cardgame, and he lost it.)


and my question which I am not understanding is:

Ogrokh Slang(this is the fief where the Ogres are living, it is famous for Ogres, dwarfen inventors(steam), goblin inventors(naphta) and the shooting range where they shoot with big canons on the rampart)
english: To Spanner = To Barter endlessly
french: Lempanner = Marchander interminablement.

but I dont think that the sailing term goes well with this one, because fief has nothing to do with sailing.