From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Thu 14 Apr 1994 - 10:03:37 EEST
David Dunham in X-RQ-ID: 3619
> Michael O'Brien (who should talk, naming people after Earthly geography) said
>> However, we don't (or shouldn't) just assume Lunar = Roman, Kralorelan >> = Chinese etc., nor are such bald assumptions ever spelled out in RQ >> publications. >> I just don't think specific terrestrial >> locations should be mentioned in RQ publications.
> True. But I plan to use pictures of Celtic "cone-houses" and hill forts to
> show the players in my not-yet-started Ralios campaign where they live. If
> I didn't know the Orlanthi had Celtic attributes, I couldn't do this. The
> geographic equivalencies are also handy. It's possible to get photos, and
> it can give you an idea of what kind of vegetation and wildlife you'd find.
> Even if this is wrong, it's better to have a definite idea than to say "I
> don't know."
I could contend that the Orlanthi are a lot like the northwestern Slavs, only the number of heads they put on a god is lower. This doesn't change either housing, nor riding, nor chariot habits...
Especially with regard to daily life and everyday habits I don't see a chance to get rid of Real Earth parallels. Fantasy writers and players might show ingenuity with regard to weapons, fighting styles, clothing, gouvernment, names; but I fail to see any fantastic description of everyday affairs on a different tech-level which did not lean heavily on real earth examples. (Apart from total spoof, which diesn't help in a game trying to get about atmosphere or suspense.)
> What's the difference between the Stygian Heresy and the Henotheistic
> Church in Ralios? They're the same thing, depending on who's doing the
> naming, right?
Wrong. At least, if you take a closer look.
Outsiders' names, including God Learner taxonomics, for cultures rarely justify the nature of the culture they describe. Stygian Heresy is a derisive term, much like Krjalki in western use of the word (including anything humanoid but not (western) human, but not stopping there).
Seriously, if there was a church of St. Ehilm in Galin (pushing a pet idea here), to call it Stygian, which is Greek for Dark, is a joke. Not a good one.
Also, the so-called Stygian Heresy is about as internally united as
is the Malkioni Church as a whole. The Otkorion Henotheist Church seems
to be the single largest "Stygian" organisation, extending its influence
over large parts of Ralios, the same way the Loskalmi Hrestoli church
influences most of Fronela.
In Fronela, however, there is mention of the Jonating Church, subservient
to Southpoint, but essentially a "Stygian" sect of Malkionism. The 2nd Age
Carmanians were another Stygian sect (here the name applies to about 50% :-)
which must have been in the see of Southpoint before the Return to
Rightness crusaders arrived here, spreading the Empire of the Middle Seas.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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