New races.
Submitted by Cyril Blackheart on August 17, 2008 - 1:35am
What y'all think of the idea on having an asian race?.... Also the swedish vikings and the Vanir as a playable race?
1. I LOVE the Vanir lore and happen to like how they are the Irish.
2. I happen to have Irish blood in me and i'm damn proud of it.
3. Who wouldn't love being a drunken war hungry vanir brute? ;p
I actually posted about the
I actually posted about the race/country thing on AOC-RP.com some time ago.
If they were smart, they'd expand Hyboria and include other countries and playable races. And considering where the three starter races are...
They should make Asgard, Vanaheim, Nemedia, and Kush.
Asgard - Playable Aesir.
Vanaheim - Endgame Area - NO PLAYABLE VANIR (it would be hellish justifying Vanir adventuring with other races due to their non bargaining nature)
Nemedia - Playable with a special script that in adventuring areas with Nemedian mobs, Nemedians are not hostile to Nemedian Mobs, and so that they are hostile to Aquilonia
Kush - Playable Kushites
I think countries like Hyrkania and Khitani should be put in much later
I always considered Vanaheim
I always considered Vanaheim and Aesgaard to be Nordic, roughly Sweden and Norway, with CImmeria being kind of a confluence of the UK, in particular Irish and Scottish.
The Aesir and the Vanir (and Asgaard and Vanaheim) are clans of gods in Norse myth. They are lifted directly from Norse sources.
Agree with ya Fort
I saw this map in the front of the Conan paperbacks that Lin Carter and L. Sprague De Camp put out, some using Howard's stories about Conan, some editting and adapting his other works to have Conan as the protagonist instead of say Solomon Kane, some was their own work too, I believe.
http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/original.gif
Its essentially the Hyborian Age overlaid on modern Europe and its sorta consistent with the way he borrowed from things like the Norse and Eqyptian cultures in his world. I always saw the Vanir as roughly the Norwegian style vikings who tended to be a little more prone to want to wipe and colonize (i.e. like they DID on the coasts of Ireland/England and Scotland) than their Danish/Swedish counterparts.
In terms of playable races, I don't know if Nemedia is a great choice with a way the politcs/quest lines are set up, as well as culturally its so similar to Aquilonia. If we look at a western country I think Zingara offers more variety/possibility or a more eastern flavour like Zamora which is more Byzantine in the way I pictured it. I would also say a persian-style culture like Turan would be a more interesting choice than another nordic barbarian race like the Aesir: we have one, do we need another already? And Kushites/the black coast offers the African barbarian style as well for some variety.
Wulfran
Guardian of Invicta
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i think Khitai would offer
i think Khitai would offer an interesting cultural addition...