Torment What was Ravel's name supposed to mean?

[rusty_shackleford]

When discussing Ravel recently with someone I realized we had opposite interpretations of her name. I don't mean in a literary interpretation way, the word itself is its own antonym.
https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Ravel

2. To clarify by separating the aspects of.
3. To tangle or complicate.

Was this intended?

 

[Nano]

Remember that this is the 21st century. You can just ask the writer on Twitter.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Remember that this is the 21st century. You can just ask the writer on Twitter.

1. I don't have a twitter account.
2. I don't like the idea of writers explaining in-universe things outside of it.

 

[Nano]

I don't like the idea of writers explaining in-universe things outside of it.

And how the hell is anyone else supposed to know if something was intended or not? If you don't care about what the writers have to say then the only correct answer would be that it's up to your interpretation.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I don't like the idea of writers explaining in-universe things outside of it.

And how the hell is anyone else supposed to know if something was intended or not? If you don't care about what the writers have to say then the only correct answer would be that it's up to your interpretation.

Maybe they could congregate into an area created to discuss such topics and discuss it amongst themselves.

 

[Arbiter]

I don't like the idea of writers explaining in-universe things outside of it.

What can change the nature of a man?

 

[Grunker]

I’m pretty sure it’s intended. Her surname is literally Puzzlewell and she talks a lot about threads (which are what ravels/unravels)

 

[Falksi]

I think it was a spin on the confectionary popular in the era of incline......

 

[Grunker]

#sorrynotsorry, as the kids say

 

[laclongquan]

I dont understand Rusty's puzzle well. It's obviously Ravel separating aspect of a man, and like to play puzzle. And breaking into components, becoming tangled etc... Nearly all meanings of the word Ravel.

There is no coincidence. Not. SEVERAL. Time.

What's so hard to express admiration toward a well-pun play? Just because we can not do it doesnt mean others can not.

Remember: it's freaking Torment! All time number one!

 

[Zarniwoop]

Puzzlewell by name, puzlle very vell by reputation.

 

[Humbaba]

Her name is basically Riddlebeth Mysteryspeaker but only slightly less on the nose. Don't need to ask the man himself to get an idea why she's called that.

 

[Divine Blessing]

due to bad spelling, cuz Maurice was french, Rainbow was misspelled into Ravel. but lets just not mention Debussy.

and again - even 100 years later they r still en vogue. unlike Josh Saywer, Jeff Vogelmann and Brian Fargo, names no one will remember 100 years in - if there is any - the future...

 

[Tyranicon]

When discussing Ravel recently with someone I realized we had opposite interpretations of her name. I don't mean in a literary interpretation way, the word itself is its own antonym.
https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Ravel

2. To clarify by separating the aspects of.
3. To tangle or complicate.

Was this intended?

From the game itself:

"I? Ravel am I, a maker and breaker of puzzles, a solver of what *cannot* be solved, a mind raveling and unraveling until the threads of thought are tied up like knots in a drunken man's hair." Ravel picked at one of her jagged gray hairs, wrapping it around her finger. "It is enough, enough it is."

/thread

 

[King Crispy]

This definition seems the most appropriate in this case.

 

[Chippy]

This definition seems the most appropriate in this case.

Like a castoff?. Or a certain game I was a gold backer for?.

I think the in-game interpretation was (big spoiler)

Spoiler

due to her wanting to free the Lady of Pain as she saw her as a prisoner and wanted to unmake her prison. In the sense that she saw everything as a puzzle and that was the second most important one to her

that's how I remember it anyway.

 

[Humbaba]

This definition seems the most appropriate in this case.

Like a castoff?. Or a certain game I was a gold backer for?.

I think the in-game interpretation was (big spoiler)

Spoiler

due to her wanting to free the Lady of Pain as she saw her as a prisoner and wanted to unmake her prison. In the sense that she saw everything as a puzzle and that was the second most important one to her

that's how I remember it anyway.

Basically yeah. I remember reading somewhere that Avellone said something like that Ravel at her core is about changing what can't be changed, for better or for worse. It's a theme he then continued to explore with that grandma from the star wars game, or so it is said, I never played that one.

 

[deuxhero]

Puzzle+Well. It's pretty obvious to me.

 

[Ulfhednar]

Hey, did ya know Nordom is backwards... Modron! Ninth Circle of Zerthimon... BALANCE in *ALL* things... you *know* what I’m saying...

 

[Black Angel]

Yurete yuganda sekai ni dandan boku wa