Hello I'm in need of some fantasy insults, I need some and I have no idea what to use. Google isn't yeilding results and I need a good insult. Thanks!
You need to tell more. Insults use to hint to something that is or might be very personal and is or might be agains values and/or cognitive structures of insulted character and his/her/it's peers. [negative personal content/associations] + [negative cultural content/associations] ==> insult But if you want to build psychologically constant fantasy culture and different ways people behave there, then Mary Douglas: Purity and Danger might help you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_and_Danger
Well we have had our colorful words for a long time, so technically you could use them and be historically accurate. https://newrepublic.com/article/116713/swear-word-history-where-your-favorite-curses-came
Consider highlights of your culture. What does your society value? Today's culture in America has drifted away from attacks on parentage with a de-emphasis on family ("Your mother wears army boots" insulted the mother as lying down with soldiers). Likewise, more cultural diversity has made racial and ethnic slurs less popular, reflecting more on the person throwing the insult rather than the target. Scatological insults ("You piece of shit") haven't changed much, but religion-based insults hold less power for some, more power for others ("godless heathen", or "infidel dog"). Attitudes toward sex determine how much power to insult some insults carry ("fucking whore"), and others combine more than one value set ("bastard" or "son of a bitch" are both a sexual judgement and a parental attack).
I agree with Cogito that it's necessary to consider the values of your fantasy society in order to devise the best curses. I once wrote a society that was very sex-positive and had no real religion, and it was hard to come up with swearwords that weren't either sex-shaming or sacrilegious! What would insult the characters in your world?
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