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Hey, ever since the publishing of Pathfinder: Player Companion - Varisia, Birthplace of Legends, I've been fasinated by the Varisian sayings on p.8 - I wish there had been more. So I started making up my own! :)
I was curious has anyone else found or coined any new ones as well?
Here are the few I've made...
'The mother she-bear cradles her young close... but she does the same to her prey as well!'
{ Keep your loved ones close, and your foes even closer.}
'The Road is long and weary, but the heart never wanders.'
{Basically a heartfelt farewell. "No matter how far you travel or what you endure, I'm thinking of you and hoping for your safety."}
Has anyone come up with more?
"Heavy rains, wet path." - you're stating the obvious.
Nice! :) I'll use that! :)
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There's a great thread over on Fraternity of Shadows about folk sayings. They're all tied to Ravenloft, but especially the Vistani related would be worth a look.
Dot!
"Follow the Butterflies." - Listen to Desna.
Dot.
I found this, which is a list of Gaelic sayings, but some can definitely be applied or at the least, modified, to fit into Varisia.
Some good ones I picked out:
"Where the stream is shallowest, it is noisiest."
"Nothing can get into a closed fist."
"Grass does not grow on the high road."
"The grass that grows in March disappears in April."
"It’s no health if the glass is not emptied."
"Never trust a Gnome in the dark"
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General Varisian proverbs:
"Treat your luck well and it will never leave you."- Do not be brash or believe that your good fortune is limitless. Always plan for the worst.
"After bad luck comes good fortune, and after good fortune comes bad luck."- Be hopeful but guarded.
"Stay where there are songs."- Stay amongst your people (i.e., the Varisians), who you can trust.
"Bad people don't sing."- Do not trust someone who will not break bread with you, and more importantly, someone who will not share songs with you.
"If you cannot give bread give a good word."- Even the poorest Varisian can give comfort to the bereaved in song and simple kind gestures.
"Burn your enemies caravan and you burn you future."- Varisians depend on their caravans for their nomadic lifestyle, and to destroy a caravan completely is considered an act most heinous. Varisians who engage in such acts are ostracized from their clans. It is an admonition to never take one's vendettas too far.
"There are such things as false truths and honest lies."- Not everything is black and white.
"We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams."- This is not necessarily a Varisian proverb, but an excerpt from the Eight Scrolls of Desna. However, it is commonly repeated by Varisian wanderers and followers of Desna.
Sczarni Sayings:
"Credit is better than money."- Amongst the Sczarni, a highly-regarded reputation that one can bank off of is more valuable than any measure of money.
"He who is late may gnaw the bones."- Don't let a good mark get away, lest another better Sczarni beat you to the prize.
"It is easier to milk a cow that stands still."- Do not let your mark know that he/she is a target for robbery. The best thefts are the ones in which the mark does not know they were ever robbed at all.
"The patient thief is as a tree whose root runs deep as he waits for the sweet fruit."
"The winter will ask what we did all summer."
"You don't kill a Sczarni by cutting him in ten pieces -- you only make ten more Sczarni."
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"Never trust a Gnome in the dark"
Also, my favorite Dio song.
Better a Hellknight in town than ten following your caravan.
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Assorted Romani sayings that seem to fit;
That rabbit which has only one hole soon is caught. (Don't bind yourself to one place. Always have more than one way out.)
It is in the water that one learns to swim. (Without risk / adversity, you cannot learn to overcome it.)
One madman makes many madmen, and many madmen make madness. (Don't ignore what seems to be a single small problem, lest it grow.)
He who feeds the pig also holds the knife over it when it is fattened. (Nothing is free. Accepting charity is accepting chains.)
The darker the berry, the sweeter it is. (Those pasty faced Chels are bad news.)
Stolen wood burns better for being stolen. (An interesting twist on the 'free food tastes better' meme...)
You cannot walk straight when the road is bent. (The world isn't fair or just, swallow your idealism and learn to adapt.)
Acid corrodes it's own container. (Anger and hate is poison. Empty yourself of such things.)
Choose your daughter-in-law with your ears, not your eyes. (Judge someone by their reputation (or their words), not by how pretty they are.)
Like crabs in a bucket. (Put one crab in a bucket, it will clamber out. Put two crabs in a bucket, and the lowest one will always grab the higher one and pull it back down, so that neither can escape. Used to refer to people who compete, instead of cooperate, and end up sabotaging each other, so that neither can truly succeed.)
Don't try to jump over your own shadow. (Don't try to rollerskate uphill or piss into the wind or do other stubborn / silly things.)
You can't sit on two horses with only one behind. (What use are things you can't use? Don't be greedy.)