Illidan Stormrage-Yeeees? (This is The Litch King right?)
Same universe as the Lich King - WarCraft (specifically WC3 but also WoW). The Lich King's the leader of the Undead Scourge, appointed by WarCraft's resident demon faction the Burning Legion and in cahoots with them. The original Lich King ordered the invasion of Warcraft's human kingdom and manipulated a certain human prince - Arthas - causing his downfall. He did this by subtly making Arthas go the Anakin Skywalker route of "The Ends justify the means" and additionally think an icy "Excalibur" in the proverbial North Pole was the only way to beat back the Undead invasion. Whoopsie daisy the "Excalibur" - Frostmourne - was cursed and converted Arthas to the undead cause of skeletons, zombies and spidery gothic architecture (long story). After W3's and the expansion Frozen Throne's campaigns - and a lot of shenaningas - the Lich King fused with the now-death-knight Arthas.
Illidan's a Night Elf Demon Hunter who quarrelled with other Night Elves over the methods of repelling the Burning Legion in the ancient past and chose to go his own path essentially. One of WC's edgelords in essence, he tried all kinds of methods during WC3's story to wreck the un-living **** out of the Lich King. Magical rituals that would have destroyed the North Pole, allying with seemingly random factions and paying a visit to the Lich King in the North Pole to murder him personally.
Illidan's "visit" caused the Lich King to freak the **** out and call out for Arthas assistance - leading to a climatic duel and Illidan taking a cursed sword right
between the legs. ... It was not the smartest move to jump there Illidan. It's after this that the Lich King and Arthas fuse, by having Arthas put on the Lich King's snazzy helmet.
But he apparently got better in time for a certain WoW expansion. Huh.
StarCraft. Terran - Human - spy (the technical term is Ghost, referring to their specific psychic training, ability to go invisible and their ability to signal Nuke drops onto opponents) who got caught by the Zerg - basically Tyranids / Starship Troopers aliens in design - and infested. The Zerg Overmind sensed a lot of potential in Kerrigan though, and chose to turn her into one of his lieutenants.
After the Overmind got blown up while invading the Protoss homeworld Aiur (taking a ****ing flying aircraft carrier to the eye will do that to you) so the remaining Zerg lieutenants squabbled and the Zerg splintered during the early stages of the Brood War expansion. Kerrigan took that as her chance, exploiting the fact that the other StarCraft characters made some truly idiotic decisions - like trusting her more than they trust their established allies / friends - to reunite the Zerg, destroy a lot of her foes and proceed to retake a lot of ground they had lost in the interim.
And that set the stage for StarCraft II, where things get even wilder.
I've played Octopath Traveler (not for too long because the screen keeps flashing and I can't figure out why), so I do know H'aanit, and I think she's cool, but I do cringe a little every time I hear things like "Leten the hunt beginen". It sounds kinda dumb and feels like they just threw unnecessary syllables rather than create an actual dialect. Props to the voice actors for being able to say it without stumbling through all their words though.
While I do agree it's dumb that they're just adding syllables to sound old rather than be authentic, I kinda suspect that happens because... well, look at
English in the Middle Ages:
Ye knowe eek , that in forme of speche is chaunge
With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem ; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes , sondry been usages.
—
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Troilus and Criseyde, Book II (roughly, "You know that language changes over a thousand years, and words that were then in use now seem strange to us; but they really did talk that way, and they spoke as eloquently about love as anyone did in any age or country.")
That's just text - any attempt to pronounce how they talked in say the 1600s and earlier is neccessarily guesswork since there was no standard "Pronounciation Guide" and heavily region-dependent. It's one thing institutionalized schooling changed.
So they probably do that just to be simple (or because they're relying on stereotypical "Old English" like
Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe).
