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Pre-Islamic Arabian Mythology (appropriate for Legacy of Fire)
How a dinner is served in Morocco
Music by Cheb Khaled (Algerian Rai, very appropriate for an NPC bard and both of these are awesome albums in their own right)
Khaled
N'Ssi N'Ssi
Classic Arabian Oil Paintings (perfect for NPC images)
Bayt al-Kritliyya
This link needs some explanation. In Cairo, there is a classical Egyptian house called the Bayt al-Kritliyya (Cretan House). It's been restored so that tourists can see what Egyptian homes were like in the classical (1600s) period. If you download the PDF available from this link, you'll see the restoration work as well as the layout of the house, which you could use for an important NPC. You'll also get a sense of the woodwork (which was expensive) prevalent in upper class houses.
Religious Architecture
From this link, for a nice mosque layout, try the "Sultan Faraj Ibn Barquq, The Khanqah and Mausoleum of - Cairo" link
I'll try and keep this updated as I find more stuff.
Groovy Stuff
Thanks Veector!
Didn't we have a thread like this already going? Did something happen to it?
Groovy StuffThanks Veector!
Didn't we have a thread like this already going? Did something happen to it?
I thought that was a book/feel of the campaign setting thread. Oh well, I'm happy to combine anything from there.
OK, here is the other thread: Reading Material. You're right, it was supposed to be written material, but it branched out. (Look who one of the main offenders was... :D)
OK, here is the other thread: Reading Material. You're right, it was supposed to be written material, but it branched out. (Look who one of the main offenders was... :D)
You know I don't read! ;) I watch Ray Harryhausen movies for my history lessons!
What do you mean, movies? RH was the greatest documentary film maker of the past! Without him, our knowledge of the Ancient Near East and Greece would be utterly bereft!
What do you mean, movies? RH was the greatest documentary film maker of the past! Without him, our knowledge of the Ancient Near East and Greece would be utterly bereft!
Not to mention how civilization began, illegal alien prejudice in the 1950s, and our intimate knowledge of ocean exploration.
Hey Mairkurion, since we don't have private messaging for this board, could you send me an email? It's me {at} tahsin {dot} com
I like your style and ideas and am always looking for someone who isn't one of my players to bounce ideas off of.
OK, I must be doing something wrong since it bounced back as undeliverable. Try
theoderic underscore rex at hotmail dot com
For folks pondering the Khopesh.
More fuel for the... ummm Legacy of... Fire.
Moroccan Imports catalog, good for images of items.
Ok.. while searching I found this site. I was originally thinking of NPC images, but... apparently, there's only 1 NPC on this site.
Wow... I actually found a good site for female NPC images. Most of the sites don't like to show women modeling clothing because it's considered immoral.
Ok, these people aren't in Arab clothing, but they're Arab if you have to have Arabic-looking NPCs or would like some ideas for Arabic names (or do a search for Arabic baby names). And... weird, it's all women.
Normally when looking for NPC images, I'll do an image search in google or look for web sites with images of models. There's a site called Jurgita.com. Be careful there, it does contain some stuff that is NSFW.
Just to throw a few more links at the readership:
Kingdom of Aksum
Kingdom of Kush
Land of Punt
While I think Morocco is a great place to draw influence from, my reading of Katapesh is also influenced by ancient Sudan and Ethiopia, based partly on information concerning the makeup of the citizenry (Garundi and Kelish decent) as well as the physical location on the map of Avistan (south of Osirion).
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For those not owning the new (4E) Manual of the Planes or, for that matter, 3E's Planar Handbook - these sources contain WotC's most recent take on the City of Brass (identical in both items). Luckily for you, you don't have to own the product. It's all freely available here. Especially the cartography is awesome, though (for once) the digital version doesn't do justice to the print in the book.
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This is a minor music resource, suitable for perhaps the dinner entertainment at the Cliffside Tavern in Katapesh (place of illicit trysts, IIRC): Naxos's "Sephardic Romances: Traditional Jewish Music From Spain."
I took my cue from the chupacabras (LoF 19) and the nephilim (LoF 23) to look towards southern Spain for my inspiration, and although this isn't street music, it is atmospheric and medieval-sounding without sounding too "European." Plus, some very beautiful melodies.
Thanks, Zeugma. I was listening to the Eberron soundtrack, and was surprised to hear some tracks that sounded appropriate to LoF.
THIS online reference work is a cool resource. I was reading an article about Iranian palace architecture, and it had lots of links to explanatory images.
Bumping so it can be found.