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As mentioned in another thread, I have an idea for a halfling cleric of "Lady Luck" (Desna). He's pretty much a leprechaun wannabe, who exists to "spread the luck around" (Luck domain, Lucky Halfling, and other, more typical, cleric buffs). I was considering having him wear green and speak with an Irish accent. Ok, I'll probably skip the green clothing, but I really do want to go with the Irish accent, if I can pull it off.
So I was searching the forums, looking for an excuse to give him an Irish accent and wondering where geographically in Golarian he'd be from.
So is the halfling with the Irish accent just a bad stereotype, or should I go with it? And where in Golarian would be an appropriate homeland? I was thinking of maybe just saying he's from an obscure backwoods region of Taldor or something like that.
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Top o the mornin to y', t' be sure, t' be sure.
Why, us plucky oirish fellas are too busy drinkin and havin the craic to be offended boi any stereotype that shows us as greedy, conniving, short, fast-talking mischief makers.
So, ave yourself another point of tha black stuff fu' me and I'm sure the missus can sort you out with a bit of clover and a sprig of lavender before you can say potato famine.
*Tugs forelock*
I'd put this in the River Kingdoms somewhere spitting distance from Kyonin, the kingdom of the elves, so you'd have lots of actual leprechauns hopping over the river. Make it some combination of the Shire from Tolkien and the stereotypical village from Darby O'Gill and the Little People, and if you really want to go with the leprechaun schtick, steal a page from Elf and instead of having him be a human raised by Santa's elves, have him be a halfling raised by leprechauns who was of course greatly traumatized to find out that he was adopted and he now has to go live with the "big folk," the "big folk" here being halflings.
Since Ireland doesn't exist in Golarion, but leprechauns do, he obviously has a leprechaun accent.
If you really want to traumatize him with sterotypes, have his parents raise him with stories about how he should be good or horrible gigantic human children would come to steal his lucky charms.
There's another thread on a very similar subject....
http://paizo.com/forums/dmtz4bmf?Irish-Witch-in-Golarion
That thread leaned toward Verduran Forest being the best place for an Ireland analog, though my own suggestion was for some isolated and restive corner of Cheliax.