DHE World Guidance Translations, for people who Japan not good Options

[Walrus]

Since PPA's been PPA, we now have access to the World Guidance book and will be working on translating passages of interest. They'll be posted here(in later posts, since keeping them together won't fit).

THE BOOK LIKES TO USE A BUNCH OF WORDS THAT MEAN THE SAME THINGS AS OTHER WORDS AND I'M MORE SURE NOW ABOUT WHAT WORDS I SHOULD BE USING BUT I'M LEAVING THIS SECTION HERE JUST IN CASE ANYONE HAS ANY COMMENTS:

神々-'the gods.' We all know who they are, but for whatever reason, everyone in the games talks about them like they're still alive, even though they died back in Ragnarok(every game takes place after it). If "the gods" shows up in something talking about stuff after Ragnarok, it probably just means the Magi. If it shows up when talking about the people that made the surface worlds and stuff, it's the gods. They're apparently computers.

守護天使-'guardian angel.' The Heaven's Gate entry thinks this is "Archangel," but Kitten used the term once(supposedly).

地上-'above ground,' the plane of existence that the surface worlds(地上世界) exist in, so it's the surface. You could think of it as a big ring/shell that wraps around the underworld(which is infinite...maybe it actually wraps around the heavens :U), with Asgard on the other side.

冥府-directly translates as 'hades' or 'realm of the dead.' By now it's obvious that the games use "the underworld" as its meaning, but it apparently doesn't describe the entire place.

魔界-'demonworld', this is the whole place, but it's rarely spoken about. I'm pretty sure Zolgonark/Hades just owns most of it, so a lot of it falls under his name. I'M GOING TO CALL IT UTGARD BECAUSE IT'S THE OPPOSITE OF SHINKAI/ASGARD

魔神-'demon gods'. The book calls Zorgy one, but I don't think they have a proper title yet in the localized games. I don't think any others have appeared in the series yet.

魔物-'demonthings', seems to fit with what everyone calls "demons." It even mentions Slimes and Skeletons. THOSE ARE TOTALLY DEMONS. This looks like the term they use when referring to tangible ones.

魔族-'demontribes,' shows up when they talk about demons as a species/race/whatever.

Japan loves adding title and whatnot to their names, but English takes up way more space, so the localizations usually drop them unless they're being silly and using extra words. Some of the localized titles are slightly different from what Japan used, but I think I left everything as their English equivalents.

For whatever reason Japan can't stick to just quotations or brackets or parentheses, so I'll be copying whatever they do for the appropriate words/phrases in the translations. Omittableyetstillkindofimportantwords will go in [] brackets inside the sentences, and stuff in parentheses past the period are just my notes on how silly sounding or confusing the passage/sentence was.

[Walrus]

This post be for the bits at the top of certain pages from 80-92. The stuff in the beginning is all pretty much in the Tome of Lost Souls, as well as the artist/designer comments. 57's is just about Kiyudzuki or whatever, and 100 on is Before Crisis junk. ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS LESS "DIRECT AND HISTORICAL STATEMENTS" AND MORE "I MADE THE GAMES AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED".

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King of the Underworld summoned by the Unwritten Law (不文律により召喚されし冥府の王)

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禁断の「不文律」の知識を入手したケイプホーンの部下イェルマが、冥府より召喚した魔神。
ピスチェを魔物に変えたり、守護天使すら手玉に取るあたりに、自らを「冥王」を称するだけの実力を持っていることが容易に想像できる。
しかし、このような魔神であっても、恐れる存在がいる。
それが「調停者」……つまりウィリムガルド王だ。

Demon god summoned from Hell by Yelma(Capehorn's subordinate), after obtaining(knowledge of?) the forbidden Unwritten Law.
He transformed Piche into a demon and conned the Archangel, so it's easy to see why he's called the "King of the Underworld".(had some bit about his power backing his title, but it sounded stupid and we all know he's dapowah)
However, there's something even this demon god is afraid of.
The "Arbitrator"...that is, King Wilmgard.

Mysterious Armor Clad Girl (鎧を纏いし謎の乙女)

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ウィリムガリドの魂を古城より盗み出し、朽ちた教会にて彼を解放した謎の乙女。
その正体は、冥王ゾルゴナークにより「光」と「闇」に分離させられた、守護天使マリエッタである。
物語のなかで、彼女が「聖杖アンカルジア」を取り戻すことができるか否かによって、ストーリーの結末が大きく変化する。

Mysterious girl who stole Wilmgard's soul and released it in the abandoned church.
Her true form is the Archangel Marietta, whom Zolgonark divided into "Light" and "Dark".
Depending on whether or not you find her staff, "Ancardia", the ending can change considerably.

Messenger from heaven who sought forbidden power (禁断の力を欲した天からの使者)

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地上世界を取り巻く不穏な空気を感じ、下界へと降りてきたマリエッタが見たもの……。
それは天に届かんばかりにそびえ立つ巨大な塔と、冥府より召喚されたゾルゴナークだった。
己の監督能力のなさを喚いた彼女は、力を求めるあまり冥王との契約交渉に応じてしまう。
すべては、ここから始まったのだ。

After wandering the surface worlds restlessly, Marietta descended to look for something...
After leaving the heavens due to a report of an enormous tower(looming over the surroundings), Zolgonark was summoned from the Underworld.
She complained about her lack of self-supervision, and made a contract with the king of the Underworld to grant the power she was searching for.
Everything begins from here.

The Finally Realized "Nightmare" (ついに具現化した「悪夢」)

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力が欲しい。
かつて守護天使と呼ばれたその者は、「調停者」により討たれた冥王ゾルゴナークの亡骸を取り込み、さらなる進化……いや、「変異」を遂げることになる。
神々により生み出され、本来自我を持たないはずの存在が、今まさに究極の暴走を始めた。

The power she desired.
Formerly the Archangel, she absorbed Zolgonark's corpse after he was destroyed by "The Arbitrator" and evolved into...no, "mutated" into this.
A being created by the gods that has lost its original purpose, now the final battle begins.
(this whole thing was stupid, but I think I got most of the meaning down)

Surface Monitoring Agent of the Gods (地上を監視する神々の代理者)

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数多に存在する「地上世界」を統括している神界。
ここで紹介するキャラクターたちは特定のエンディングでのみ登場する。
ヘクターは今回の件について、どのように受け止めているのだろうか。
そして、彼が水面下で行なっている告死天使の人造実験の行方とは？
すべての謎が明らかになるのは、まだまだ先の話かもしれない……。

Asgard supervises the many "Surface Worlds".
The characters introduced here only appear in a specific ending.
I wonder what Hector is reacting to this time.
And then, what is that artificial Grim Angel doing behind the scenes?
For all of these mysteries to become clear, there is still more backstory that needs telling...

This post has been edited by Walrus: Sep 4 2011, 07:39 PM