>I know your True Name, that means you have to do whatever I say!
How does your character respond without sounding mad?
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>I know your True Name, that means you have to do whatever I say!
Yeah, well, you know, uh, that's fine with me. I don't care. In fact, I let you know my True Name on purpose, as a joke.
>making the enchanter feel uncomfortable due to your mind control fetish
>“Stop moaning every time I order you to do something and stop being hard!”
>Nuh-uhhhh!
Feigned subservience while devising a plan to have them murdered?
>"You have to do whatever I say!
>[You have to do] [whatever I say]
>[You have to do whatever], [I say!]
I do whatever and turn her into a goldfish and toss her into a pond before looting the residence. This is why you don't play games with the Fair Folk, kids.
>Dost thou indeed? Pray, give thy command and know the truth of it.
>Nah, i'll win.
My character isn't a demon or faerie or some other kind of outsider, so they wouldn't be subject to "true name" susceptibility. Then again, they have been getting uncomfortably close to some Devils, so they'd probably react with horror at finding out that they've become diabolical in nature themselves.
Everything has a true name, not just outsiders. Don't forget that Outsiders can change into non-Outsiders and vice-versa, but retain their true names.
Otherwise, Outsiders would just takes steps to incarnate into non-Outsiders the moment they learned that someone discovered their True Name, murder that someone, and then reincarnate back into an Outsider.
Outsiders can change their form and mimic a planar "native", but they are ultimately foreign in origin.
The corollary to this would be the True Names DO work on "natives", but only if they go to other planes themselves, where *they* are the outsiders.
I'm not talking about just something like Polymorph, but full-on incarnation as a mortal, the kind that isn't even available in any form aside from custom rituals or a Wish spell, the sort of stuff that exists in the lore but is supposed to be extremely rare. It's extreme, but considering the alternative would be "Be a total slave to someone forever", it's a no-brainer.
Mortals becoming outsiders is far more common, since a good amount of mortals become outsiders just by dying, but Outsider-to-Mortal incarnation isn't absent from the lore, including an event in Faerun where almost all the Deities were incarnated in various mortal forms.
>>I know your True Name
Do you now?
>I just introduced myself, so guess I'm glad you were listening. Why do I need to do what you say though? Sounds weird.
>without sounding mad
My character would get mad and not bother to pretend otherwise.
"Yes Daddy"
Gotta make it weird
"Aw nice! That's my fetish."
Has the right strategy. This just became asymmetric psychological warfare.
>You could have just asked, I'm hireable to do just about anything at this point.
My character seems to already be doing what daddy DM wants him to, so I leave the table and go play an actual game.
Uh, right... ten credits says she's nuts, any of you ladies care to bet that's an actual superstition on this rock?
You don't need to know my name for me to do whatever you say, I was born to serve cute m'ladies like you. What are your commands, dommy mommy?
She cute, let's hear her out first. I might be down to do what she says. Especially if she puts on some heels and garters.
>Legalism
Anti-fairy and anti-devil linguistic interpretation battle go.
>Realism
Which name is True? The given one? The Chosen one? The Social Security Number? All of them are true, go find my watpad and fanfic.net IDs you fricker.
>Akashic Record ID
Immediately think of past trauma to facilitate a paradigm shift and alter it beyond their current pronunciation.
>They're within melee range.
stick my hand down their throat and keep pushing.
>I will obey your command to the best of my ability within the tenants of my oaths. I am bound by a higher cause beyond to which my name and self have been subsumed and cannot be compelled to act against them except by a conscious choice of my own divine will.
>How can I serve you with my Devotion?
>I'm not even a fair folk you dumbass
Say it and see where that gets you.
“I saw your nudes. I’m good thanks.”
Really. You're sure of that?
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz?
Yes Satan, Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz, Chrząszczyżewoszyce, Powiat Łękołody. I mean really, the best defense against any non polish mage trying to do the whole true name revelation shit on you is just to be a Polack.
Imagine knowing the Polack mage's true name but it still doesn't work because you have no idea how to fricking pronounce it
its not that hard, the cz is a ch, the y is ee, the sz is a sh, the tail on the e means there is a hidden n there, the w is a v
>brzen cheesh chee key ev ich
more or less, speech impediment isn't my native language
bs*eng chish chi kie vich (s* is the s in words like pleasure and measure) is more like it
still, substituting cz/sz as the English ch/sh is a bit of a trap because they're also the closest thing to ć/ś, which are recognised as completely different sounds no native speaker would ever confuse, and as such no pronunciation of a true name that makes no distinction between them should be accepted
>substituting cz/sz as the English ch/sh is a bit of a trap because they're also the closest thing to ć/ś, which are recognised as completely different sounds no native speaker would ever confuse
the same applies to the s* sound as rz/ż (same thing) in contrast to ź, kind of forgot about it
this isn't anywhere as complicated as my unorganized autistic ramblings make it seem, at least we don't have a dozen possible pronunciations for the fricking a letter
A player named his character (human fighter) this in my campaign. We call him Greg.
>You've got to pronounce it correctly, in Dutch, or you have no power to command.
Jokes on you
I wonder who could be behind this post.
I skipped Circe's event. In what context does Odysseus of Homer's Odyssey call himself a nobody?
He tells the Cyclops his name is Nobody, so when the Cyclops complains of his blindness, he can only blame Nobody
Call the bluff, she won't want to shout "Black personhomosexual" in public.
Well played
>You may know my true name, but I already have yours.
Pretend to play along and then mating press. I'm not a fairy or a demon.
everything has a true name
cringe
>everything has a true name
Not everything is subject to control via its true name.
Yeah, uh, that's - that's not my name.
"I've been searching my whole life for my true name. If you truly know it, then tell me, and I will forfeit my everything to you."
Dicks
The rite of Christening makes one immune to any name related magic. I'm good.
>Why would it mean that?
Genuine bafflement, since that isn't a thing in the setting.
"That's cute, sweetie. Do your vocal cords have the ability to pronounce it? If not, well, how can you command me with it."
Luckily, we both have the same name, so you have do what I say as well!
How do I get my parrot to stop saying my brother's truename?
My name is Jeff
I am a series of statistics and calculation written on a piece of a4 paper, animated by the whims and desires of a being from a reality more robust and complex than ours. You can not control my will through my true name, because I do not have a will to control. Whatever name you call me is a fiction created by this greater mind.
Nah
I have no fricking name,so unless you can utter nothingness' name itself, good pluck, woman.
My character is Lawful Neutral so he'd probably concede. Dem's the rules.
My character stabs them in the throat.
>Yeah, it's Gil. Now die, consorter.
And then I hit her with a hammer.
Oh no, don't make me lick your toes haha
>tfw I changed my name to I Suck Dick to prepare for this scenario
>"Inquisitor, we've found the Lord of Change's current true name sir, but there's a problem"
>"What is it?"
>"The words translate to 'My True Name Is Known By Homos'."
>"But we're not!"
>"Yes, sir, that's just what it translates to"
>"But we can't use that truename to banish the Daemon! Everyone will think we're...well"
>"Sir, this Daemon is laying waste to entire populations. It would be negligent to not use its true name"
>"I know, I know. But just to be clear. When we banish this Daemon-"
>"My True Name is Known By Homos'"
>"y-yes, that Daemon, we'll just be using its true name as a convenience. It doesn't mean anything. Now what's its lieutenant's true name?"
>"'Really, We're All Gay And This Is Just Our Way of Testing The Waters, Even If We Say Otherwise'."
>"Damn theeeeeem"
The real reason why the Ordo Malleus kills or mindwipes everybody who witnesses them banish Daemons
>cha'mone motherfricker, hehe
I also know my true name, so now you have to do what I say too!
True name? What's that, is this a troony thing? Like dead name.
Shit literally happened in the Egyptian Mythology. You're just obsessed moron.