What other human ''races'' to make

[Mar'c]

I felt that Humans of Golarion needed more pages. My players are not fans of dwarves and elves, either they are monsters and aliens or humans with long ears. They don't like the half-races, dhampirs excepted. There are historically inspired versions of Egyptians, Indians, Romans, Arabs and so on. That makes the GM's job of descriptions a lot easier, but having them is only half-satisfying, it feels there's a hole between. What of the others, the Greeks, Hittites, Franks, Turks, English and many more. I think with magic you can balance out the technological differences, the older a culture is, or make copper, bone or stone more malleable or acceptable to magic than iron.

I wonder what other interesting civilizations you would like to have in Golarion and where would they best fit on the map? Or what kind of feats, traits and unique spells would they have?

[Jukkaimaru]

Assuming there isn't one already, now that we have Maori weapons from Ultimate Combat I'd like to see a Polynesian-influenced ethnicity.

[lastgrasp]

The Ninshabur from Casmaron sounds like the greeks.
-Pantheon of gods based on fickle emotions
-Phalanx warriors in fortress city-states
-In the past their empire went as far as Osirion ala Alexander the Great

From the information provided it sounds like the ethic group has been wiped out. Not sure if their exist pocket civilizations of them in casmaron, but it would be cool to play a golarion spartan!

[Jeff de luna]

lastgrasp wrote:

The Ninshabur from Casmaron sounds like the greeks.

-Pantheon of gods based on fickle emotions
-Phalanx warriors in fortress city-states
-In the past their empire went as far as Osirion ala Alexander the Great

From the information provided it sounds like the ethic group has been wiped out. Not sure if their exist pocket civilizations of them in casmaron, but it would be cool to play a golarion spartan!

As I understand it, the people of Iblydos (who are still extant) are the pseudo-Greeks. Ninshabur is more or less Sumeria/Babylonia. There are always some cultural differences, however, since Golarion is not identical to Earth.

[Mar'c]

Oh yeah Iblydos, forgot about them cause it's so far away. Maybe they had a war with Azlant, like in Critias. I'd like Troy more than Athens tough.

[Numerian]

Not exactly historical, something similar to the Anuireans, Brecht and Vos from Birthright.

Or the Tibetan analogy, I hope there will be a mention of them in the Jade Regent.

[Jeff de luna]

Mar'c wrote:

Oh yeah Iblydos, forgot about them cause it's so far away. Maybe they had a war with Azlant, like in Critias. I'd like Troy more than Athens tough.

Some scholars have linked the Atlantis account to a re-interpretation of the Trojan War. (cf. The Flood from Heaven by Zangger).

[Mar'c]

There's so many theories, I didn't know about that one. You mean it's connected to the Sea Peoples invasion?

[Knoq Nixoy]

My world is Golarion mixed with history and mythology so there are dozens of other human types. From Golarion I changed a few origins, Chelaxians are post-Etruscan (started with Dispater and Orcus conflicts). Taldor is as if the Western Roman Empire survived plus Franks. Garundi Nubians, Brevoy-Mendev is Western Slavic, Ustalav Transylvania-Wallachia, Ninshabur Assyria. The map is different.

Not of Golarion there are humans inspired by Phoenicians, Thracians, Minoans, Myceneans, Macedonians, Persians, Medes, Greco-Bactrians, Elamite, Hurrians, Amorites, Chaldeans, Scythians, Hettites, Phrygians, Lydians, Jews, Khazars, Avars, Turks, Finns, Magyars, Slavs, Celts, Brits, Illyrians, Germans, Iberians, Balts, Medieval Sicilians, Hansa, Byzant, Colchis ...

Also some from fictional worlds, Lemurians (gone like Azlant), Suel, Netherese, Ur-Flan, Turanians, Shemites, Scylvendi, Punt