1. We pick four historical/geographical settings that aren't

>>50181311
Australian Aboriginals, with fuckloads of mystic ass magic and shapeshifting.

>>50181311
Moche Indians

Jewish Khazars

>>50181311
There's a reason these cultures aren't appearing often, you know.

Simply put, they are boring shit. Players won't be willing to learn about them, because if someone was, they would be more popular. But they are not. Making a setting with them would result in GM masturbating over his TOTALLY UNIQUE AND AMAZING CULTURES while bored players play with their phones.

Just give me my not!europe, not!japan and maybe not!middle east or not!russia as bad guys. Everyone is familliar with them. Everyone likes them or likes to beat them up. Nobody gives two shits about your fufhu-mundi or topperwopper islanders from bumfuckistan islands.

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90s New York Jews

>>50181311
Filipino Princes, split into two smaller factions monotheistic, early renaissance era technocrats and hordes of pagan barbarians.

>>50181326
>>50181344
COMBINE THOSE TWO
Horseriding, slave-driving, mystical lawyers. Steppe-conquering nagging mothers. Fortress building accountants. A school of magic based on a combination of spirit chanting and chicken soup.

>>50181353
>led by the dread warlord, Genghis Kohen

>>50181337

What a fun contribution to the thread

what about aztecs vs indians (from india) vs greeks vs bedoiun

>>50181311
medieval knights! ... not funny I know

South American culture (Maya, Inka, Aztecs take your pick, I'm too bad to substantually tell them apart)
take jungle, massive cities, Priest caste worshipping the sun god or some other prick they sacrifice people to
animal style warriors with weird wood/obsidian weapons, little to no iron
and a shit load of psychadelic drugs

Rise of Legends went with steampunk Italians, magical Arabs and Chariots of the Gods style Mayans. Rumor has it that at various points in development plans were made for a Finnish and/or Mongolian shamanistic faction, and IIRC something about Korean cyberpunk aliens? (I could be remembering something from a fan thread back when there were forums, though)

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>>50181390
I am occasionally possessed by the quantum ghosts of warriors in the Finno-Korean Hyper War and forced to live out the final moments before the activation of the Giza mass-autism array.

>>50181373
You know i'm right.

Just look at the absolute shit that are replies to this thread.

>>50181326
I know you're trolling, but this actually isn't a bad idea. The Khazar kingdom was a fairly interesting historical anomaly. They were somewhere on the borderline between a culture of steppe nomads (with all the raiding and pillaging that entailed) and an established culture of farmers, city builders and merchants who were actually quite successful for their time, and who drew influences from Byzantium and the Islamic world. The fact that their ruling elite mass converted to Judaism at one point in history is practically a footnote in comparison. The trade city of Atil and the routes leading to it through the taiga could certainly be an interesting setting for adventures.

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Vietnam fucking shits

So, are we picking four of those, or what?

>>50181311
Oh, shit. Haida. AKA The Vikings of the Pacific Northwest. AKA cannon canoes and treebark armor.

>>50181437
Khazars are obviously in, and I'd second Aboriginals, as long as we get the full variety. Australia's a big place, and you can go from the Botany Bay aboriginals who maintained their land like a gentleman's estate to the West Australian nutjobs who stuck stringray barbs through their penises and bit off their foreskins at manhood.

>>50181437
I think that we are devolving into muh favorite obscure culture posting. Not that I have any problems with that.

>>50181353
Why chicken soup? Apart of veggies soup must be the most common one in the world.

>>50181485
Why not crab bisque then?

>>50181485
A specific type of chicken soup (appetizingly named "yoikh") is strongly associated with Ashkenazi Jews. It's pretty much the core of their cuisine. Everything else they eat either goes in the soup, after it, or with it.

>>50181319

and a city-sized snake that carves canyons as it moves

>>50181569
I dunno, Chicken soup can be found from Mexico to the South east asia, it's even more universal than meat and potatoes. But I'm nitpicking and I never met a jew face to face so I dunno if it's something sacred to them or why anyone thinks it's some sort of Jewish food.

>>50181569
Technically, it's a consomme. Usually fatty (using duck fat, for Kosher purposes), with a deep gold color. Fitting with the Jewish philosophy of "you never know when all your food will be stolen by cossacks, so squeeze the most out of it", it's cooked for days in a sealed pot until every last single tiny bit of flavor has been drained from the ingredients, leaving it thick and delicious. It is then spiced as generously as possible and into it are dumped noodles, dumplings, or vegetables as desired.

Alongside brisket, steamed carrots and/or potatoes, fish balls and chala (a kind of fluffy bread so sweet it's practically a cake), they make the heart of Jewish cuisine.

For best effect, drink with Jewish Ashkenazi wine, known as "Hammer Wine" (Yyne Patishi), for how your head will feel the morning after.

Sadly, Jews suck at desserts. The best they can normally manage is "take dough, good? Now shove everything sweet you can think of into it. Good? Now bake it. Eat the result."

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>>50181620

I like the idea of using the Haida as the setting's resident "naval culture", instead of the more stereotypical vikings or Spaniards. Either that, or maybe something from Southeast Asia. Vietnamese pirates were a thing back in the day.

>>50181709
Looks even duller than the typical Slav fare. No offense.
>>50181755
Spaniards? Not-Venice or Not-England are a lot more likely for what I seen. Also for Pirates, the Malay are still the greatest pirates than exist, and have a long tradition about it.

>>50181795
>Looks even duller than the typical Slav fare. No offense.

No shit. It's an entire class of cuisine based on:

1. Extreme poverty
2. Having to feed large families with basically nothing
3. Adhering to religious dietary restrictions which appear tailor made to prohibiting the cheapest, most satisfying foods

It's a miracle that they have anything like "cuisine" at all.

>>50181426
>The fact that their ruling elite mass converted to Judaism at one point in history is practically a footnote in comparison.
As if that's far and away the craziest thing about them, I'm pretty sure that's the only time in history that's ever happened, can you cite any other examples? Really weird when you consider the whole lost tribes of israel angle and then BAM huge numbers of new jews with absolutely no genetic connection to israel whatsoever. How is that just a footnote?

>>50181866
The Khazar kingdom was the only instance in history of a mass conversion to Judaism.

>>50181818
>be a semitic nomad and hate coastal city building tribes
>ban all foods that they eat but you can't because unlike them you're a stupid nomadic fuck who molest goats
>centuries later your descendants suffer thanks to your sour grapes

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>>50181311
Add in a headhunting tribe that is a mix of Dayak and Naga. If we're throwing the Aztecs/Maya in, they could fit into a sub-faction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayak_people

>>50181881
Any idea why they did it? Where they just being hipsters?

>You guys are converting to ISLAM? pff I'ma go be a jew

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Could we have Indians who have almost all of their cities and architecture as rock-cut?

A while ago I had this idea of a polynesian culture based naval empire but I got distracted by other things. Their boats are too small anyway, I'd have to figure out a way they would modify their traditional vessels to be able to carry more manpower/cargo

>>50181818
It also prohibits food most likely to fuck you up if you go wrong with it though, and the mad restrictions on cleanliness and preparation should ensure it won't be made by non-Jews who might fuck with it, or make you want to marry outside the religion

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>>50181927
Throw in some Anasazi too.

>>50181889
There are theories, but not enough historical records to be ever able to say for sure. It seems to have had something to do with a reformation of the government system around the 8th century AD, which resulted (for some reason) with the nobility rapidly converting to Judaism over the course of less than a hundred years. And it's not like they did it just for fashion, mind you: for a period, official documents within the Khazar kingdom were written in Hebrew, and Jewish symbols appear prominently on artifacts from the era, particularly tombs and gravestones.

Basically, SOMETHING happened around the 8th century that made Judaism the hottest shit to the Khazar nobles.

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>>50181936
The aforementioned Haida lucked out on existing long enough to be influenced by Europe, and modified their traditional raiding canoes to carry cannons. No reason the Polynesians couldn't have if they'd lived long enough.

>>50181943
some moria shit right there
>>50181963
That's cool. So we've got Haida, Khazars and Aboriginals? One more I guess

So for the time being, we seem to have agreed on at least the Khazar stand-ins and the Australian Aboriginal stand-ins.

How would those two cultures interact?

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>>50181977
I imagine there would be a lot of Monotheism/Henotheism vs Polytheism/Pantheism religious conflict.

I also like the Haida/Polynesian and Maurya/Rock-Cut Indian stuff.

>>50181755
>european naval civ
>it is always muh viking, spain or england
>shit like hansa, venice or even fucking netherlands never get any love

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Khazar noble warrior, circa 9th century AD. Note that by this point in time, Khazar warrior culture was basically a fashion statement - they were thoroughly a mercantile and business power. The first time they got into a serious military conflict, the Kievan Rus roflstomped them so hard they turned into the Ashekanzi Jews we know today from Brooklyn.

>>50182017
i mean isnt the standard merchant guild approach that is used by almost everyone these days basically the hansa? And how are the netherlands significantly different from england?

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Indian large centralized empire in the rocky valleys and highlands.

Khazar traders and decentralized city states in the lowlands and steppes.

Haida naval raiders along the coast with some moderately sized cities.

Aborigines where?


Also, suggestion, prehistoric mammals alongside more modern fair. Indricotheres, chalicotheres, hyenadon, that sort of thing. Maybe Australian marsupial megafauna as well? I just really like pre-ice age mammal megafauna.

>>50182032
Another interesting fact: despite long being thought to have been a nomadic culture of yurt dwelling shepherds (you know, like everyone else in that geographic region), ruins of their capital city of Atil were found near the Volga delta and revealed to have not only included extensive stone fortifications, but also palaces and government buildings crafted in the Byzantine and Turkish styles of the time.

The Khazars were pretty much the real life, Siberian version of the Vesten from 7th Sea. After centuries of being shepherds and raiders, someone just figured one day "wait a moment, we have tens of thousands of slaves trailing after our caravans and our kingdom stretches throughout Asia, I bet there's money to be made here." So all the slaves were put to agriculture and construction and the former warrior class turned into adventurer-merchants who brought exotic goods from far-off Asia to obscenely rich Byzantine nobles. And because their kingdom stretched far enough, that could include anything from silk, tea and porcelain from China to gold, silver and rare animal pelts from Siberia (they basically had a monopoly on sable at one point).

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>>50182065
Also, have more Maurya era Indian architecture.

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>>50182065
>local birds took a different evolutionary path

>>50182065
In terms of magic, if it exists, I'm sensing a very strong shamanistic theme here. Three of the four civilizations you're describing have their routes in animist cultures (Pacific Northwest, Australian Aboriginal and Turko-Mongolian). Indian structure is curiously lacking in tales of magicians and witchcraft, but their gods are fucking everywhere.

>>50182093
Khazar stand-ins have practiced shamanism for thousands of years, but in the past two centuries have embraced a new system of scholarly magic to go alongside their general modernization that focuses on outright commanding the spirits using a scientific knowledge of their true names, magical mathematics and and an encyclopedic knowledge of the cosmos.

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>>50182115
Yeah, the world as a whole would probably follow relatively pantheistic ideas. Spirits live everywhere, but they manifest in different ways and people interact with them differently.

Not sure how to fit that into Vedic ideas of a creator god and his subdivisions though.

This really begs the question of how the Australian Aboriginal folks have actually survived being on the same continent as real civilizations, some of which may have gunpowder, horses, metal armor or some combination thereof.

>>50182166
By living in shitholes that no one else wants to have?

>>50181337
What an asshole, fuck off man

>>50182166
Being tougher than any civilisation that needs nails.
And magic cunt.

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>>50182166
By living somewhere so shit no one really bothers to conquer it and because they're not really bothering anyone. Also maybe strong shamanic magic.

Sometimes people go to the outback and trade. Uncut opals, weird animal skins, dyes. Maybe buy a bunyip or two as pack animals.

>>50182166
Make them abnormally tall giants, in comparison to other races?

>>50182166
A powerful form of magic based on huffing gasoline fumes and wandering into nuclear testing sites.

>>50182238
>a race of gasoline addicted hulks

How terrifying.

>>50182166
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>>50182198
Do like in that fantasy alternate history series:

Give them dragons. Feathered, firebreathing, immortal dragons who plague the outback and make it an impassible death desert, but which the Aboriginal types have learned to coexist, train and ride to battle over the millennia.

Make it so their blood is also psychedelic, and the abbo magicians go to Dreamtime by drinking it.

>>50182251
>Gasoline
>Comes from prehistoric plants and dinosaurs that chemically changed after many centuries

I GOT IT! The Aborigines' shamans traverse deep into the earth to gather from a tar-like font of magical liquid that is guarded by necromantic, sentient, prehistoric fauna and flora

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>>50182166

Give them guns, duh.

We're not literally dumping the actual civilisations next to each other, it's a fantasy setting.

>>50182337
can we not go full retard. i like the blood idea though

>>50182365
>Skiping leg day.

>>50182453
I dunno, it sounds pretty cool to me. I like feathered dragons, not nearly enough settings have them.

>>50182337
Wait, we can modify this somehow.
There exists gigantic snakes that roam the Outback of the setting, large enough for entire villages to live upon. Their blood is very potent in magic, especially if huffed.
They're actually biomechanical trains with magic gasoline blood, and was the only remnant of the once-technologically-advanced past of the Aborigines

>>50182728
I think, if anything, that's going a little bit gonzo. I'm with dragonanon on this one: it's a nice twist on the familiar fantasy cliche, but without, you know, actually going for the complete "abbos huff petrol" joke.

Oh, look. Another thread ruined by /pol/ jokes.

>>50182093
Indians see not a divide but a series of steps between mystics and gods.

>>50182794
Flying feathered serpent, then? I'm cool with that.

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>>50182949
Basically think this, but huge, spits fire and gives hallucinogenic visions. Or hell, it actually just spits hallucinogenic venom, and the idea that it "breathes fire" is the result of bad trips from people who encountered them. This also explains the blood thing.

Give a whole new meaning to "Rainbow Serpent".

The way I see it, setting has four kinds of "magic":

* Animism: communion, bargaining, and/or voluntarily possession by and the enslavement of local spirits. Most common type of magic, practiced by members of all cultures. Basically the "default".

* Truename Magic: Scientific magic adopted by the Merchant States (Khazar stand-ins) several centuries ago from a culture beyond the continent, during the series of social upheavals which reshaped their civilization. Essentially a form of "industrialized" animism, it uses precision mystical science and the power of numbers and letters to forcibly enslave spirits, skipping the "bargaining" and "diplomacy" parts.

* Yoga: not true magic at all but a method of attaining superhuman powers practiced by the Mountain Kingdom (India stand-in). Individual powers developed through this method are called siddhis, and mostly include physical and mental perfection.

* Bush Medicine: another form of pseudo-magic, this one practiced elusively by the Outback people. Involves the ritual consumption of toxins and venoms extracted from the ludicrously deadly environment (including dragon's blood) to achieve magical effects, most of which involve dreams (dream projections, prophetic dreams, etc.). The most "iconic" Bush Medicine power uses dragon's blood to forge a bond between a warrior and a dragon, allowing him to ride the dragon into battle.

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Instead of ever giving these civilizations names, what if we just gave them radical symbols and just called them by generic terms, like the merchant-states, sea-raiders and paint-huffers?

>>50183369
You design those symbols?

>>50183449
They're from Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. Not theirs.

>>50183459
Huh, they're weirdly appropriate. Except for the vaguely Christian crown one.

>>50183078
Makes sense to me. I feel like the Haida need something though. Blood magic? I don't know a whole lot about them other than being a bunch of stone cold badasses.

>>50183497
They just get animism, like everyone. Not all the cultures have to get something special to them. The Haida may be the setting's gunpowder specialists (I can see them, the Khazars and the Indians all making use of it to some degree, but the Haida would really be the local gun nuts).

>>50182547

dude look at his fucking leg

massive scar and the messed up shin

something awful happened to that dude and all they had was probably Boer War era medicine

He probably couldn't walk

>>50183534
That would actually be interesting. Them as the relative industrialists.

>>50183549
Not industrialists, gun nuts. Maori Musket Wars style (an apt comparison). Or rather, maybe more like the Japanese, in a sense. They don't have an "industry" and their craftsmanship is pretty primitive (except when it comes to boats and wooden armor), it just happens that someone's taught them how to make guns and cannons and they REALLY took to it.

>>50183548
No exceptions.

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Armenia.

Siam/Thailand.

Maori.(Interesting culture, not missing links like the Abbos)

Ethiopia/Aksum would be an interesting basis for an African setting. Maybe mix in some elements from less developed civilization, IE ritual combat and trading trading of the Masai people.

For some reason I've always thoughts Elves would be cool as North African Berber(Amazigh) people.

>>50181943
That really doesn't look anasazi, I don't think it is. I've been to a few of their dwellings, they don't really have that kind of intracate carvings and geometric surfaces like that.

>>50181881
>>50181866
>>50181889
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himyarite_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnei_Menashe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel
Also some Pashtun tribes claim to have followed judaism before becoming muslim.
Also, in the Hellenistic era of the Greek world it was quite popular to adopt Judaism just as people were adopting Egyptian or other Levantine religions. Those people never amounted to a nation though.

>>50181889
They bordered the Byzantines and the Abbasids. They could convert to either one or the other, and make one superpower a friend, and the other a mortal enemy. They chose neither.
Also, the trade routes of the Jewish Radhanite merchants went through their country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhanite
Also, the traditional Turkic religion required the sacrifice of the khagan if the state was in trouble. The rulers were obviously interested in changing that.

>>50184018
>They could convert to either one or the other, and make one superpower a friend, and the other a mortal enemy. They chose neither.
>guys what if converting to a religion that will piss one of them off we'll convert to one that will piss both of them off
>fucking genius

>>50184030
It didn't work that way back then. Especially Muslims were pretty bro with Jews initially.
One Byzantine emperor even married a Khazar princess, so it must have worked out for them.

>>50184018
What's it with obscure exotic cultures and being mysteriously Jewish?

>>50184691
>Haida
>Jewish

Oh shit, I recently read a novel called 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union' where Alaska is a Jewish state. One of the main characters is a Jewish Indian.

Spooky.

>>50182065
Aboriginals should be on the coast/magroves, using orca as hunting dogs.

>>50181709

"Times in history you NEARLY, but didn't QUITE go extinct"

stealing, stolen, stole

>>50185139
Why would you like to steal Jewish holidays?

>>50185752
Why did the Grinch want to steal Christmas?

>>50181353
I actually really like this idea, they treat everything from raiding, to slaughter, to slavery, to conquest as a business transaction.
>Okay, according to my numbers this town killed 750 of our soldiers while resisting conquest and wounded another 300
>Calculating the average worth of these people as slaves we have the following calculations on the fate of the town
>2500 men will be put to death for the resistance of the town
>200 additional men will be sold into slavery
>500 women will be given to high ranking officers as personal slaves for their contributions
>1000 additional women will be sold into slavery
>800 children will be sold into slavery
>The army will be allowed 24 hours of looting and religious buildings are to be spared so their wealth my enrich the treasury

>>50186924
I'm getting flashbacks of the Man Eater from Mad Max: Fury Road.

>>50187391
>man eater from mad max:fury road.
Huh? I don't remember anything about this

>>50181337
>Just give me my not!europe, not!japan and maybe not!middle east or not!russia as bad guys.

You sound like a plebeian.

>>50181362
I laughed aloud.

>>50181311
Inca
Sun worshipping commies, that are extremely proficient in converting mountains into whatever terrain suits them (andenes or steps for agriculture, moonscapes for battlefields) and have Chasquis (inca messengers that would run as fast as humanly possible for miles on an intricate road system that goes through mounatins, jungles and deserts without the use of maps) as a playable class

>>50183740
>For some reason I've always thoughts Elves would be cool as North African Berber(Amazigh) people.

Actually you should read Herodotus' take on Ethiopians. The was he described them is incredibly similar to how Tolkien describes elves.

>>50181311
Native America?

>>50190794
Very specific there champ

>>50181963
>no reason the polynesians couldn't have if they'd lived long enough
Except they did, you baboon. King Kamehameha I had dedicated war canoes that could carry over 100 warriors, and several of them mounted cannon.

>>50181976
Polynesians, preferably Hawai'ians (they were the only ones who could field large armies, and even had organized skirmishers, pikemen, marines who fought with their canoe oars, musketeers when they met Europeans, and special forces troops).

>>50191352
Also had sleds made of banana-wood trunks that he used to drag them across land. Had entire crews dedicated to doing it proper. Even had makeshift grape-shot using lava rock.

>>50182065
Khazars keep to themselves, and don't generally go to war unless they have to, and rarely fight abroad unless it's to force an end to a war. Traders are all taught to be decent fighters, but are by no means elite, and prefer to keep retinues that, along with small, professional companies kept on by the cities princes form the back bone of the cities armies. When one of the city states is in danger, though, the others will rally to its defense, and in times of great danger all the people will abandon their work and take up even the simplest of arms to keep their lands free. So far this has kept the cities free of the Highland Empire, and wars with it remain rare. It's an exhausting form of defense, and some wonder if a untied kingdom could defend them all better, but such things are abandoned in peace times when squabbles return.

The coastal raiders are harder to deal with, as they are an ever present danger for the merchants. The Highland Empire is less harmed by them, possessing a stronger, more unified navy that can repel the raiders.

Abos aren't worth messing around with. They have nothing besides their land, and their magics are too dangerous for the Empire to risk its armies, for the merchants to subdue. Greater beasts, more fearsome than any bear, more hungry than any wolf, more stalwart than ox, fleeter than any deer share the land with the Abos. Only the raiders take on the Abos, stealing lone men, women and children in the night. Their favorite targets are the shamans who they force to perform magic rituals for them, but only a few secrets have ever been forced out of them. Perhaps their magic relies upon their homeland?

>>50191352
Hey, I remember that guy from Civilization.

>>50181311
The original fedoras?

>>50181311
Mesopotamian civilizations

Manchurians

Koreans

Proto-Norse civilizations

Carthaginians

Nomad Aryans (I forget their name, they killed the Assyrian or Persian guy, I think they are the source of the Amazon myth)

Indo-Aryans

The "archaic" forms of recognizable groups like the Greeks, Latins, Slavs, Germans, and Chinese are all very interesting as well.

>>50192547
Isn't Korean culture basically Japanese lite?

>>50181311
>spoiler
What about the Romance Of The Three Kingdoms?

>>50181337
You sound extremely boring.

Good GMing can get the players interested in anything.

>>50181311
Mesopotamian culture, just learn a bit about it

no PJ will know anything, they will discover a great culture

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>>50181431

>SIkh Indians
>Australian Aboriginals
>Cossacks
>Gambian kingdom

>>50186090
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz_W6BOgEXg

>>50194008
That's surprisingly close to what the guys up came up with

>>50192893
This angers the Korean

No really, it infuriates the Koreans if people suggest that to them.

On the snake thing: what if the feathered serpent forces you into dreamtime just by being near it? Like, the whole region is tripping balls. The abbos lived there so long they're (mostly) ok with it and count on invaders becoming gibbering messes as they near settled areas at the core.

Their greatest shamans can look at the snake without dying, and worship it to send good dreams.

>>50194369
The relationship is pretty hilariously one-sided. The Koreans hate the Japanese with a burning, terrible passion. Like, "Palestinians hate the Israelis" kinda passion. It practically drives their culture.

The Japanese, meanwhile, barely realize that Korea exists on most days.

>>50192893
No, both cultures are just Chinese lite ;^)

>>50189939
The fat deformed fuck with the Mercedes Benz oil truck and the suit with nipple ring holes?

>>50195693
That's the one

>>50183805
It's another Indian one.

>>50181311
Mediterranean/New World setting?
>Failing Byzantine like Empire
>Venice like trade Republics
>North African inspired kingdoms
>Native American inspired kingdoms and Tribes
>Group of Hospitaller Knights and Battle Nuns that fight pirates chilling on Island in between the the two lands
>cross roads of different cultures
>(Early)Renaissance like era with some age of sail influence.

>>50181344
>picture of Elaine
>Jerry was the only Jew in the group

>>50196134
She's still a fairly iconic Seinfeld character

In order to canalize the thread's energy, I propose that Doubles decide which 4 civilizations get to get into the game.

I start: XVIII century russia

>>50196134
Jason Alexander is jewish

>>50196617
Navajo

>>50196617
So you'd rather this be a "rolling" thread?

>>50196617
>>50196617
Modern Inuit.

>>50196617
Cherokee, and
>>50197964
yes

>>50196617
Hawaii

>>50196617
Mayflower pilgrims. In case we don't get any christian civilization to be their former land, their former civilization was sunken into the sea.

>>50196617
Crimean Gothic

>>50196617
s.XX south africa

>>50196617
Modern Israelis, to complete the circle of obnoxious Jews

>>50196617
You mean the one to get dubs would decide which of the four that were already mentioned would be it, or that each one who does will choose one?

>>50181311
One question:
How long those people are on single continent?

Because you must be aware cultures interact and change, so just throwing them on the new piece of land makes a huge difference between them co-habiting it for last millenium or so.

Ancient persia/india/greece/egypt with a Dio/Rainbow metal style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXy1OhaERY

>>50196617
Those Khazars

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>>50196617
Mods and rockers

>>50196617
Filipino

>>50199645
Settings don't always have to focus on that, though. Besides, consider places like North America. Across a lot of it, no interaction happened with people from other continents over millennia at a time.

>>50196617
Imperial Brazilians

>>50196617
Meli Empire

>>50196617
Maʻdān Marsh Arabs

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>>50196617
Iberians.

>>50181755
Indonesian pirates are a thing today.

>>50205622
But look at those Haida war canoes. That's some awesome craftsmanship, but what was basically a Native American tribe of semi-nomadic fishermen.

>>50207033
Like most Northwest Pacific tribes, the Haida never developed agriculture on any but the most rudimentary scale (e.g. small backyard gardens for herbs and such), and thus any of the societal developments that would've accompanied it, because they *didn't need to*. Tlingit actually has a saying that basically translates to "A hungry man who lives near a river is an idiot." They lived in an environment so ridiculously rich much of the time THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO FISH, just WALKING alongside the riverbanks would've garnered more fish than they could possibly eat. With nature abundantly providing for every necessity (they could imagine, being primitive tribes) they never really got the motivation to try much else. Their greatest technological advancements had to do with war, because each other were pretty much the only truly deadly dangers.

>>50183740
>Armenia.
ive always been fascinated by the Casucasus in general.
there are like 100 ethnic peoples in armenia,georgia, cau.russia and azerbaijan yet they all seem to have a pretty similar culture of masculinity

>>50181390
>Korean cyberpunk aliens
Pretty sure that was a coke fueled daydream you had.

They were planning the Skald, a Scandinavian/Inuit inspired faction with aurora Borealis powers, and some nomadic beast taming tribe called the Kahan. All I can remember about the nomads was their cities were build on the backs of giant animals.

>>50181390
>>50208792
Actually, after double checking, the Skald were mongorians. The Kahan have ogres and their warriors have stupid hair, but they seem to have been scrapped early on, fused with the Skald, then scrapped entirely.

>>50208792
Only place I saw mention of cyberpunk aliens in RoL was on /tg/, so I'm assuming it was a fan thing.