Raineh Daze

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What about centaurs? They could resemble the Tatars and the Mongols with some Turk influence in terms of culture.

@Blubaron45

Er, someone else already mentioned having an idea. Would be nice to hear them out first.

... plus you've basically just said 'centaurs as steppe nomads', given where all those ethnic groups started.

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So, the high elves with the disciplined, professional heavy infantry-focused army, and then the humans with much less discipline (and far less lifespan to gather experience) improving on what they managed to learn by making up for it with, say, horses? And of course the nice armour.

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I think we should have multiple human civilizations. Because I like the standard "medieval western European" thing, but it also means we can have other ones.

@VitaVitaAR

But that makes humans too vague and everywhere. As illogical from a historical viewpoint as it would be to have one human realm, it at least pins them to having a specific role in the world rather than 'be everything'.

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For carnivorous, are we going full-on obligate carnivores (they can't actually eat vegetable matter), or just cultural reasons because there's no plants around for them to eat?

For humans, to get away from the whole 'pastiche of Medieval France and England' thing that tends to dominate, we could always look at the Mediterranean. If high elves were Roman for some reason or other, then that could imply cultural spread or association in the past, should humans derive more from late-medieval to Renaissance Italy, or the ERE. Though it could also be interesting to borrow from the Middle East, since that's a lot of medieval history that's rarely remarked upon... or, hell, go further east.

And now I'm wondering if we should borrow from steppe nomads. HORSEPEOPLE. Or sheep. Majestic battle-sheep.

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Magic: High

Tech: Medium. By which I assume there is, in fact, room to have some technology SOMEWHERE.

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Commie dwarves sound interesting. Trying to reinvent several hundred years of economic thought on what exactly currency is supposed to represent might be a bit distracting from the important part of, say, how they're actually organised.

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Gods are fun.

Anything based off me and subject to influence by other people would make me deeply uncomfortable, so I'm also against that idea.

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Pertus sounds cooler. Isn't Marduk that named after a Mesopotamian Religion/God or something?

@Blubaron45

It's named after a brand of bacon.

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Marduk. I'm a sucker for mugging religions for names.