Talk:Heket

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I don't think the frogmen in GW:EN are heket. Toads and frogs are different species. So the toadlike heket and froglike frogmen are probably not. --Heelz 06:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes and in RL spiders aren't insects, but in the world of GW they are. Don't put too much logic into things like this.  :) --Rainith 06:11, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually, there are many animals called 'toads' that are 'frogs' and 'frogs' called 'toads'. What is true is that all of them are batrachians. So you could say that all todas are frogs, but not all frogs are toads, just like 'cat' is usually used for all felines: all 'cats' are felines, but not all felines are 'cats'. What it seems is that the generic name for the family would be 'frogmen' not 'heket', only the Nightfall frogmen are heket. MithranArkanere 14:30, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually, if you have the quest from Bone Palace , that requires you too kill some hekets, then go to EoTN and kill frogpeople , blam the shiny quest item drops :), oh and i've actually had the Beast Masters spawn with Bows, even tho most of them are shiny meeler's (necrroo-ing here?)Panthor 20:26, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Contents 1 language? 2 Tarnished Coast heket names 3 picture from Anet page 4 Oooh, Nahuatl! 5 Name origins 6 Hugz n xoxos 7 armor resistance 8 GW:4

[edit] language?

"heket appear to speak common" when did the language become "common" that's a d&D thing, ive never heard or seen that anywhere in the game as being referred to as common--Vhalantru 04:58, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps, just like in movies that contain "foreign" people, everyone just magically speaks the same language so the user doesn't have to do any translations, or read sub-titles. This of course would mean that they don't ACTUALLY speak "common", just that A.net didn't feel like making up a frog/toad language :) --68.104.205.160 05:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm guessing that "common" is actually the language of the Forgotten. -- Gordon Ecker 08:16, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tarnished Coast heket names

Do these names translate to anything? -- Gordon Ecker 08:16, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Damn...that's some really cool trivia. -AyaStowar

[edit] picture from Anet page

I don't know how to tag this one, so but couldn't we add this one to the page? —ZerphaThe Improver 16:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Pictures from the official website get tagged with the {{arenanet image}} tag according to the image policy if that's what you mean Zerpha. --Kakarot 16:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

ok, thanks. :) I thought these need a special tag, as i most often saw them with that "fansite kit" tag, though this one isn't part of it. (btw, funny to know Anet calls them "bushtoads", according to the image name [1] —ZerphaThe Improver 16:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Maybe the original name that got changed before release? --Kakarot 16:43, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Possibly. Maybe we can add this as Trivia in the article. And uhm well, how should i name the image? Image:Heket Warrior.jpg should be used for the ingame appearance. The Margonite images does not seem to follow a specific rule, but i'd like to give it a reasonable name... —ZerphaThe Improver 16:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Maybe just Image:Heket.jpg? Although for the ingame appearance the warrior is called Stoneaxe Heket so Image:Heket Warrior.jpg should also be acceptable. --Kakarot 16:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Excuse me, i noticed your answer too late. I uploaded it as Image:Heket (Arenanet image).jpg. If you think File:Heket warrior (Arenanet image).jpg suits better, i'll change it. Though i added a decription on the page for this pic now, until we get a second arenanet heket images, theres maybe no urgent need for an image name change. —ZerphaThe Improver 17:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The name you uploaded it as is fine, maybe if we did get a second image it might need to be changed but as you said at the moment there isn't really an urgent need for a name change. --Kakarot 17:17, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oooh, Nahuatl!

I <3 Nahuatl. That is all. Kokuou 17:07, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Name origins

I found a possible name origin for Agari, but I haven't been able to find anything for Gokir, Hylek or Ophil. -- Gordon Ecker 08:30, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I found Agari, Ofil (Ophil) and Hylek as proper names used as part of company names. Agari and Ofil seem to be from Chile. Hylek seems to be a surname of European origin. MithTalk 11:32, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I disagree with the trivia on Japanese. "Agari" can mean many, many things in Japanese, but they have no apparent relation to these Heket. Linguistically speaking, the shorter a word is, the more likely it is to exist in multiple languages. I'm sure we could find "agari" in several different languages, but it's kind of pointless to list them all. Besides, we know the theme was supposed to be close to that of Utopia, so why would they stick a Nahuatl word with Japanese? I think we should delete it for now. Kokuou 11:47, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

The south american origin seems more likely, as the GW:EN heket profession titles are derived from Nahuatl. Does anyone know if agari can be used as a colour adjective in Japanese? -- Gordon Ecker 21:33, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, I confused the blue agari with the green hylek, the line has been removed. Anyway, I've brought this up at RFC. -- Gordon Ecker 00:05, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I did a quick google search on agari, and came across a page saying aragi was greek or latin for toadstool or mushroom. [2] Yukiko 02:15, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

(Reset indent) This is an easy one - Agari = Atari (frogger?), Gokir = Goku (right....), Hylek = not sure, Ophil = Oprah + Phil -elviondale (tahlk) 04:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Or... they could be completely made-up names. -- ab.er.rant 05:53, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

They very well could be, Aberrant. Although, I like Yukiko's finding, considering they look like frogs and all. Frogs, toads, toadstools... </onlyhalfserious> Kokuou 07:24, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I like Elviondales one for Agari. Gordon, by name origin do you mean like trivia? — ク Eloc 貢 15:17, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm with Aber here, you're just wasting your time trying to find trivias where there's only made-up names by Anet devs on something.reanor 06:40, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hugz n xoxos

Heket's Rampage GJ on the icon. Ninjas In The Sky 18:02, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] armor resistance

extra vs. fire anyone? vanquishing that one place on the easternmost side of elona...lemme pull it up, barbarous shore, keeps effin up my assassin's promise build because the wars have extra armor >:(--Ʀєʟʟɑ 18:38, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GW:4

utopia- was placed around aztek themes,might they have been named in the making of that game(and moved to EOTN when it was cancled?--Neil2250 20:04, 3 November 2009 (UTC)