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Post by David on Mar 5, 2009 16:41:36 GMT -5
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Post by David on Aug 30, 2010 15:26:06 GMT -5
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Ghost of Bob
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Post by Ghost of Bob on Sept 6, 2010 13:01:31 GMT -5
Under Rhenee you reference 'Flan' as a language (as opposed to a dessert), but there is no listed language called Flan. Which language should we be looking at? Common?
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Post by David on Sept 9, 2010 13:37:39 GMT -5
Ah, sorry, that's a Dnd convention...
In the OFFICIAL Greyhawk universe, all of the Flan speak one language. Now as any who's studied the Amerind/Native Americans/First Nations can tell you (chime in, Ray!), other than sub-Saharan Africa, the "Indians" showed more linguistic and cultural diversity than just about any other group of peoples on the planet. I thought that this should be reflected, as well as that there are four (major) distinctly different subsistence patterns and ecological niches for Amerind.
You have the Lakota (read: Sioux for our world) who live on the (Great) plains, ride horses, hunt buffalo, live in teepees, and fight pretty damn fiercely (including against the orcs of Iuz).
You have the Huron (read: Iroquois for our world) who live in the forests and mountains (like New England), have long houses, count coup, have elaborate trade, play with democracy, and unite in times of need.
You have the Salish (read: like our Salish cuz we never came up with another name) who are coastal, use canoes, carve totem poles, have potlatch celebrations, and are pretty peaceful.
And you have the Inuit (ditto) who live on the ice, hunt seal and walrus, have 13 words for snow, revere the Northern Lights, live in igloos, and are generally isolated.
Any of these four languages are basically "Flan" as they share a common heritage (in Dnd ONLY -- in the real world, Amerind languages are QUITE diverse!). So someone who speaks Huron at a 3 could understand Lakota at a 1 cuz they share lots of roots (or have affected one another's development -- I'm not attached to either model). There is, however, no written form for any of the four Flan languages.
You can argue that the Mazticans (read: Aztecs) should also be included, but they have a written language and build elaborate stone cities with unique, complex religious rites, so I'm drawing a line based on material culture and cultural structure, much as archeologists do.
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