Is there an equivalent land or regions?
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I've always considered the region of Iobaria (off the map to the east of Brevoy and the River Kingdoms) to be the closest equivalent, based on what little we've seen. For reference, a picture of an Iobarian, from Inner Sea Races, and a map of Iobaria, from Kingmaker. ^_^
Kellids are the celtic equivalent with nirmthas and the river kingdoms more like medieval equivalent.
Hope it helps.
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Since Gimli, at least, aren't dwarves often portrayed as being culturally similar to Scots? No kilts or bagpipes, obviously, but in many ways. Similarly, there's often a distinct Celtic flavor to the culture of elves and/or halflings.
There isn't really an "Irish or Scottish" analog in Golarion.
The closest equivalent to a "Celtic" region might be Iobaria (with centaurs, instead of chariots), as stated. You might make a case for parts of the Land of the Linnorm Kings resembling the Northern Islands of Scotland. Nirmathas could also be considered to somewhat resemble Ireland and/or Wales.
The Kellids are more proto-Celts (i.e., Robert Howard's Cimmerians) than actual Celts.
Since Gimli, at least, aren't dwarves often portrayed as being culturally similar to Scots? No kilts or bagpipes, obviously, but in many ways.
The kilt was actually a fairly late development in Scotland (1500s or 1600s). The bagpipes were adopted from the Romans (who adopted them from Egypt) and traditionally only played before the clan leader.
Tolkien actually based his dwarves, especially linguistically, on the Hebrew tribes from the Bible, as well as on the Norse Eddas.
Personally, I've tended to identify the dwarves as closer to the Swiss Cantons.
Thanks! Iobaria,huh? Cool, I'm campaigning in Redstone on the Isle of Dawn in Mystara. I was looking for some fluff and a take on how the classes would be in such a setting. The weather and things like that.
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Kellids are the celtic equivalent with nirmthas and the river kingdoms more like medieval equivalent.
Good point for Nirmathas, more British/Scottish/Gaulish in opposition to the Romans, than Irish.
The Kellids are more proto-Celts (i.e., Robert Howard's Cimmerians) than actual Celts.
That's OK. Conan is really an Irish name and Howard's Turlogh O'Brien and Bran mak Morn stories are explicitly Celtic.
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Isger feels a lot like 16th century Ireland to Cheliax's England IMHO. It's pretty rural and undeveloped, and is ruled by a forign govern,ent that most certainly does not have it's best intrests at heart.
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Wes Schneider has said that pre-Christian Ireland was one of the inspiration for Sarkoris, the domain the Worldwound destroyed. It was a land of clans, painted barbarians and rules by a circle of powerful druids. While that's all gone now, there's still a sizeable population of Kellids in Mendev descended from Sarkorian refugees that make up part of Mendev's underclass, treated with suspicion by the crusaders and witch hunters because they still cling to the Green Faith and some have been mutated by the power of Chaos in the Worldwound.
My own Wrath of the Righteous PC is one such Kellid!
I gave my kineticist from Brevoy a sort of weird Scots-Irish combination accent.
And in a Jade Regent game my partner ran, he gave a winter wolf the party recruited a Scottish accent. One of the players described it as "the wolf that ate Sean Connery."
Brevoy felt Russian inspired to me.
Doh??? :(
Brevoy felt Russian inspired to me.
Doh??? :(
I always got more of a Russia feel from Irrisen, folklore-wise anyway. Though one of the things I like about the Golarion universe is that there aren't straight real-world analogues for the countries. You can usually tell what their influences are, but there aren't too many I can think of that are clearly "Fantasy [country]."
So I'm not nuts. Good to know. :)
Cool! As far as monsters, I've got Firbolgs, those dog people, some Fey, Badgers, ghosts, vermin, and some occult and psionics. Any suggestions?
Yeah, got a few haunts to go with the fog. Unfettered phantoms too!
Mostly Drake's, River and forest. Boggards and kobolds. Black dragons and a few Esoterics.
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So I'm not nuts. Good to know. :)
Nah, you're not nuts, everyone gets different impressions of things. :-)
(My Brevoy impression was pretty much Westeros, but I can see the Russian thing now that you bring it up.)
Kellids are "The people being fought against in the beginning of the Gladiator movie."
Nice catch. I didn't pay attention to details such as race for humans till Pathfinder and yet, I love historical fiction.