actually in thinking about this, one of my players commented on the spoken lyricism that a certain group of ifrit/fire genasi npcs have in our game. and their speech patterns haven't been 100% conscious choices on my part, but it stems from two things. one (that i realized in the moment during the game) is obvious: this is a society mostly made up of bards, specifically storytelling bards. oration and poetry and saying beautiful things all come naturally to them and i try to embody that. but the other part that's not as obvious is that primordial in my world is based on arabic (ignan is specifically egyptian arabic). and so i lean on the lyricism and turns of phrase etc etc that is distinctly arabic. again, not super consciously, and i don't know arabic very well so it's not to say i do it as well as a fluent speaker might. but i do think that plays into it in terms of their speech patterns. anyway language is neat, dnd is neat, books are neat, I'm having a good time.
