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Okay, wow. I didn’t think Arcadia’s single-paragraph description could wow me (though I was thrilled to see it there, as someone rooting hard for Arcadia Gazetteer!), but...
...THERE’S A NATION THAT CRAFTS SPECIAL MACHINES OUT OF SKYMETAL??? I’m losing my MIND over how cool this is! Would absolutely be over the moon to see this (and the Star Titan’s Grave, in Tian Xia, which I believe is similar) get revisited someday soon, because oh my god. Numeria is my favorite part of the world, and being unafraid to mash that gonzo weirdness up with cultures from more diverse inspirations is awesome!
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It's pretty cool! I think Adam Daigle has some awesome ideas planned for if and when we make it out to Arcadia again.
Let whoever needs to know know that I would be over the moon for an Arcadia book, whatever shape that took.
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I'm really fascinated by the idea that Numeria isn't the only place that has skymetal and technology. It basically means that alien tech and meteor crash sites are now a THING in Golarion, an actual part of the setting's identity, rather than just confined to a single adventure path.
Also, the region being named Land of the Northern Lakes makes me wonder if their culture would be based on Algonquin and Objibwe nations. Super curious about what that would look like.
I'm really fascinated by the idea that Numeria isn't the only place that has skymetal and technology. It basically means that alien tech and meteor crash sites are now a THING in Golarion, an actual part of the setting's identity, rather than just confined to a single adventure path.
Also, the region being named Land of the Northern Lakes makes me wonder if their culture would be based on Algonquin and Objibwe nations. Super curious about what that would look like.
By my count, this is the /fourth/ crashed spaceship on Golarion.
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By my count, this is the /fourth/ crashed spaceship on Golarion.I'm really fascinated by the idea that Numeria isn't the only place that has skymetal and technology. It basically means that alien tech and meteor crash sites are now a THING in Golarion, an actual part of the setting's identity, rather than just confined to a single adventure path.
Also, the region being named Land of the Northern Lakes makes me wonder if their culture would be based on Algonquin and Objibwe nations. Super curious about what that would look like.
I'm wondering if the immense popularity of Horizon: Zero Dawn has anything to do with expanding the trope of medieval/tribal groups that play around with advanced technology.
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I'm wondering if the immense popularity of Horizon: Zero Dawn has anything to do with expanding the trope of medieval/tribal groups that play around with advanced technology.By my count, this is the /fourth/ crashed spaceship on Golarion.I'm really fascinated by the idea that Numeria isn't the only place that has skymetal and technology. It basically means that alien tech and meteor crash sites are now a THING in Golarion, an actual part of the setting's identity, rather than just confined to a single adventure path.
Also, the region being named Land of the Northern Lakes makes me wonder if their culture would be based on Algonquin and Objibwe nations. Super curious about what that would look like.
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks predates it by a fair bit.
And it’s not like we know the Northern Lakes people are medieval or “tribal.” The only thing we know about them is that they build cool machines. For all we know, they might be in glittering cities.
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Most of the starmetals that are found in Arcadia landed there during Earthfall as debris and other stuff rained down with the fall of the meteorite containing the Starstone. Not to say there can't be tech in Arcadia, it just came about in a different manner than in Numeria.
Also, for the Horizon: Zero Dawn feel, you should check out the automatons (who make an appearance in the Impossible Lands) from the Construct Handbook. It's more of an appearance thing than anything else, but they sure look cool!
I'm wondering if the immense popularity of Horizon: Zero Dawn has anything to do with expanding the trope of medieval/tribal groups that play around with advanced technology.By my count, this is the /fourth/ crashed spaceship on Golarion.I'm really fascinated by the idea that Numeria isn't the only place that has skymetal and technology. It basically means that alien tech and meteor crash sites are now a THING in Golarion, an actual part of the setting's identity, rather than just confined to a single adventure path.
Also, the region being named Land of the Northern Lakes makes me wonder if their culture would be based on Algonquin and Objibwe nations. Super curious about what that would look like.
I've always maintained that any genre is improved by adding sci-fi.
But, I know a lot of people disagree with me.
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Most of the starmetals that are found in Arcadia landed there during Earthfall as debris and other stuff rained down with the fall of the meteorite containing the Starstone. Not to say there can't be tech in Arcadia, it just came about in a different manner than in Numeria.
Also, for the Horizon: Zero Dawn feel, you should check out the automatons (who make an appearance in the Impossible Lands) from the Construct Handbook. It's more of an appearance thing than anything else, but they sure look cool!
Ah, good to know! [erases one off the “canonical crashed spaceships of Golarion” board]
I really am curious to see tech of all sorts in Arcadia (and am so pleased to see firearms there), given how Native stuff can easily skew into gross views that indigenous folks are somehow more ‘primitive’ than Europeans. Not just guns and hypothetical robots, but metalworking and the awesome plumbing and terraforming that Mesoamerican cultures did. I loved that we saw people wearing glasses in Xopatl, for instance.
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Expedition to the Barrier Peaks predates it by a fair bit.
And it’s not like we know the Northern Lakes people are medieval or “tribal.” The only thing we know about them is that they build cool machines. For all we know, they might be in glittering cities.
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks isn't really about medieval cultures that had access to advanced technology though.
And I was referring to the cultures in Horizon by medieval and tribal. I assume nothing of what northern Arcadia looks like. The one city in Distant Shores was pre-industrial but that's probably not indicative of other places.
Most of the starmetals that are found in Arcadia landed there during Earthfall as debris and other stuff rained down with the fall of the meteorite containing the Starstone. Not to say there can't be tech in Arcadia, it just came about in a different manner than in Numeria.
Also, for the Horizon: Zero Dawn feel, you should check out the automatons (who make an appearance in the Impossible Lands) from the Construct Handbook. It's more of an appearance thing than anything else, but they sure look cool!
That's super cool. I wonder if Arcadians have different names for skymetals too, since the 1e names like Adamantine are based on European folklore.