Lauri Sadko
Lauri Sadko asked Stina Leicht:

Where did you get the Finnish names for Cold Iron? I started reading it a few days ago, and since I'm fluent in Finnish I found it intriguing. Some of the place names are not quite right, but that is probably due to a difference in Eledorian spelling. As a matter of interest, some hundreds of years ago Swedes believed Finns to be shamans... Lauri Sadko

Stina Leicht I cheated. I used Google translate. I thought since it wasn't supposed to be Finnish for real, it'd be okay. But I also wanted to show that 'Eledorean' was a living language. Names change over time. They become influenced by other languages or letters get dropped...so on. Nothing stays the same. So, I purposely messed some of the words up. I figured that someone who actually speaks Finnish might get a little fun out of it. People who don't wouldn't, but they wouldn't miss anything vital.

I didn't know that about the Swedes and Finns. Thanks for that.

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