Why? All other Demacians don't have any perceptible accent. Fiora having an accent seems like an arbitrary decision that is not consistent with the rest of the (excellent) work of the Foundation team.
(And as a French person myself, I need to say that this accent sounds ridiculous ^^')
kile1477 voteskile1472 votesThe real reason people want Fiora nerfed... https://45.media.tumblr.com/f720e7482fbc89c94753c3f2c382226c/tumblr_mvd99lqHCB1s3f4mgo2_400.gif
RookPusher3 votesWhy? All other Demacians don't have any perceptible accent. And as a French person myself, I need to say that this accent sounds ridiculous ^^'
Because it's made by English speakers. I'm sure the American accents in France sound off to us.
2nd Fiddle3 votesThe Demacian noble houses are: Lightshield, Crownguard, Spiritmight, Laurent, Buvelle, and Vayne.
You'll notice the names Lightshield, Crownguard, and Spiritmight all follow a similar naming convention, implying that the noble families came from the same place, and the other three do not follow it, implying they come from somewhere else.
Most likely Demacia was founded as an alliance between two groups of people, and House Laurent keeps the old accent. It appears stubborn pride runs in the family.
rand0mredneck3 votesViktor doesn't have any reason to sound Easter-European. Xin doesn't have any reason to sound Asian. Corki doesn't have any reason to sound Southern.
It's a game. Quit thinking too hard about accents.
DeathBurst1 votesWell, from the game perspective, I don't care about accent. But from the lore perspective, Riot is actually trying to shape a real world, with it's different states, languages, etc. So this kind of details really stands out as not consistent.
Sharjo2 votesProbably to embellish the whole "fencer" fantasy since france and fencing have close ties with each other historically.
In the lore though there's several instances of french words so if you want to just embrace it you can say the in game "french" is an old language from northern Valoran or something. I like that idea personally, but that's just me.
DeathBurst1 votesOh, I did miss that. What are these French words in the lore?
Sharjo2 votesLeBlanc, which means "The White", Katarina and Cassiopeia's last name Du Couteau, which means "Of the blade", Jhin says avant-garde, which is like saying your an innovator. Those are the main ones that come to mind.
DeathBurst1 votesWell, I didn't need the translations ^^'
But thanks for the occurrences, I did forget that Katarina last name was Du Couteau. For avant-garde, though, it's of common use in English. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/fr/definition/anglais/avant-garde
Sharjo2 votesWell you say that about avant-garde but I've never heard it in my life as a british man.
It probably doesn't mean anything, but I'm a guy who likes the fine details, so it doesn't really matter to me.
Gunpoint2 votesIt's just part of the character, Caitlyn has a British accent when nobody else (that I know of) has a British accent from Piltover.
