Oan Accents and Dialects -- Meta

Because this game is playing out primarily by audio and I’m thereby deprived of my usual mannerisms and expressions to convey character, it seemed to make sense to at least provide you all with a rough guide to the accents that I will struggle helplessly to flail at for the duration to suggest nationality and/or place of origin.

• Aildeans: Russian
• "Barbarians" (Portavian hill tribes): Serbian
• Corrans: General American English (GAE). Dialects include Maulden (Staten Island/New Jersey-ish), military (Goombah), provincial (Italian)
• Denizens of Pandaemonium: Southern drawl
• Dwarves: Scottish
• Fey/Wood Elves: Reedy, languorous GAE with soft consonants
• Gnomes: Up a fifth, nasal GAE
• Halflings: Over-the-top Lucky Charms Irish
• Hobgoblin: GAE with a little grit, not that far off a Corran accent
• Kindly Ones: GAE, but as students of language they're great at matching local pronunciations if they want to fit in
• Marsher: French
• Orcs: Gravel and grit GAE
• Portavian Nations: Vary, but south of the hills it's generally Continental: Brutalized Italian, Spanish, etc.
• Potentates of Hell: Breathy, sharp inhales before speaking in thin, barely voiced whispers (Shinigami often forget to breathe because their native tongue is purely percussive and they have no need for oxygen)
• Shorefolk: With deep apologies, some mixture of Newfoundland, Irish, and Welsh
• Tenths: English RP

My specific voice notes to date (for people you've met, at least):

• Azas: Mississippi twang, serial killer energy
• Adalberto Veno: Slight gravel, dismissive tone, no military accent, Odo busting Quark
• "Bob": Nasal Kelsey Grammer up an octave-plus
• Minnie: Singsong Irish, growing up sandwiched between Shorefolk and Hobbits
• Peaseblossom: High, breathy, short phrases interspersed with inhales due to small lungs
• Reghyxesh: Sharp consonants, extended fricatives with a balloon of air behind them, throaty growl
• Roger Carminieri: Frequent pauses, tilt chin way up, he is never in a rush and has a sinus condition
• Torwall's Patron: Slower than Azas, what if you found a hung-over Sam Elliott behind a dumpster

Some other key characters don't have distinguishing voice features and just speak in the generic accents of their people, like Mote, General Kuzoh, Violet Verihendrion Miller and Sister Janet. You'll have noticed that Decima Overmere, Thalia Overmere and Carrie Quattrociocchi, being natives of the capital region of Maulden, all sound roughly the same. Correhal is... an experience, if you ever go there.

Disclaimer

Am I aware that accents do not at all work like this? And how!
Is it remotely possible that you could have such a stark demarcation in the expression of the same language dictated entirely by shifting and arbitrary political borders rather than culturally, historically and geographically determined patterns of speech and daily communication, particularly over the less-than-1000 years Common had to flourish across the entire continent as a replacement for the spoken Yishanim language? Oh Lord, how it is to laugh!
Is it nevertheless possible that in an auditory medium signifiers of difference communicated through language can be a rough stand-in for all the conventional demarcations of identity that cannot be readily communicated, like hairstyle, fashion, mannerism and physical appearance from which your character is entitled to benefit? Now we're talking.
Common, quite frankly, should not exist in this reality. Who knows, maybe Sylvanas felt bad and did a reverse Tower of Babel.