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>>50787042
bump

>>50787042
Ive got a few examples from the setting I like to go back to every once in a while.

Dwarves keeping time via a recitation of a 721 day epic poem.

Elves only being allowed to hold territory they can see from within their homes, resulting in "high elves" building massive towers to extend their dominion.

Depends on what kinds of cultural artifacts you want? Are we talking handycrafts? Social stigmas and customs? Festivals? Traditions of warfare?

>>50787042

The kitchen sink asian country I have in mind is particular about it's rivers and the mountain that feeds it.

Regardless of the various ethnicities that exist they are all joined by a belief that the tallest moutain in the setting is the "gate" to the celestial realm where the Black Emperor resides over the Court of Stars. He blessed 5 of his sons with dominion of the land and they came down to the world. One decided to stay at the base of the moutain and build a shrine in thanks to their father, while the other 4 walked the land and formed the 4 great rivers named after them and founded the four main ethnicities (which essentially mirror Chinese, Japanese, SE asian, and some other random flavor of asian). The 5 royal families are decedents of these 5 deities and the Emperor lives at the base of the mountain which is both a holy city and acts as a neutral meeting ground between all the various factions.

>>50787396
OP here. These are some neat ideas.
I'm looking for RL exemples, but anything and everything is appreciated.
>>50787414
Sounds like the emperor has to deal with a lot of bullshit.

>>50787459
Ah, well from slavitage, I bring you Fexts: military commanders or lower-level bureaucrats who can only be killed by glass bullets. Also, something to include in your games is the idea that royalty are somehow literally impossible to kill without being blown apart. That features prominently as early as 200 years ago in eastern European countries.

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>>50787483
>can only be killed by glass bullets
How the fuck did somebody found out about this? Where they imortal before the invention of gunpowder or a glass arrow would work just fine? Does obsidian count as glass? Wouldn't the bullet just shatter when fired? Why glass?
There are way too many questions.

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>>50787042
I'm not certain I can help you, because I'm from Hue-hue Land as well.
A não ser que queira algo sobre gaúchos.

That said, FOLKLORE SITES!

https://abookofcreatures.com/

https://hague6185.wordpress.com/russia-the-simple-life/russian-humor-and-anecdotes/russian-proverbs-and-sayings/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/legends-what-actually-lived-no-mans-land-between-world-war-i-trenches-180952513/?utm_source=twitter.com&no-ist

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/legends-what-actually-lived-no-mans-land-between-world-war-i-trenches-180952513/?utm_source=twitter.com&no-ist

https://japanesemythology.wordpress.com/ama-women-divers-the-probable-origin-of-mermaid-tales/

https://mikemonaco.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/werestuff-part-1-weres-en-masse/

>african witches
https://warosu.org/tg/thread/30685000

https://www.sarmy.org.au/Resources/Articles/reforming-society/Eternity-Now-Aboriginal-Concepts-of-Time/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blue-versus-green-rocking-the-byzantine-empire-113325928/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/dahomeys-women-warriors-88286072/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/islams-medieval-underworld-15821520/?no-ist=

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-footbinding-persisted-china-millennium-180953971/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-inca-empire-engineered-road-would-endure-centuries-180955709/

http://www.theoi.com/

http://www.vampires.com/apotamkin-or-rather-the-cold-one/

http://yokai.com/

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>>50787776
http://www.pothos.org/content/index.php?page=art-and-legends

http://www.primitivism.com/hellhounds.htm

http://www.primitivism.com/sexual.htm

http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/women-in-combat

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/index.html

>THE DRAGON GHOST-GODS
http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlog/hlog28.htm

http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/events/war_strategy.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/01/29/cemetery_gun_invented_to_thwart_grave_robbers.html

>Filipino Folklore, Mythology, Creatures & Monsters
http://www.mangkukulam.com/

http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zone-of-france-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/

http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/07/10/the-secret-swimming-pools-of-the-paris-catacombs/

http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/11/24/the-art-of-homemaking-in-a-world-war-dugout/

>Ropoto: Greece’s Sinking Ghost Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur8v6QBFVO8

>Leprosy
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09182a.htm

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>>50787776
>>50787881
Holy fucking shit, anão, thank you.
That's a shit ton of reading material, it's going to take a while.
Again, thanks a lot and fica de olho nesse teu cu, gaudério viado.

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>>50787881
Is it obvious I'm worldbuilding myself yet?
>>50787942
Ain't done.
Poisé, todo mundo quer carne gaúcha.

http://www.jstor.org/subject/folklore

>Capoeira's predecessor
http://www.historyoffighting.com/art-blog/traditional-fighting-in-africa-engolo

http://www.livius.org/sources/content/arrian/anabasis/alexander-captures-the-sogdian-rock

>Sunbathing in the living room: oven stoves and heat walls
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/12/tile-stoves.html

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/01/aerial-ropeways-automatic-cargo-transport.html

>Folklore reinterpretation manga
http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Munakata-Kyouju-Denkikou
http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Munakata-Kyouju-Ikouroku

>Historically correct story about the Trojan War, uniting all the fragments and accounts.
http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Age-of-Bronze

http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Culture/achaemenid_gardens.htm

>Anarchy in 12th Century England
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/medievalengland.htm

http://www.freelanceacademypress.com/duelingshield.aspx

http://www.germanicmythology.com/index.html

>True stories, fables, and anecdotes from the Middle Ages
http://www.godecookery.com/mtales/mtales.htm

https://thehairpin.com/the-ladies-of-the-17th-century-were-way-more-hardcore-than-you-b7f3e12c376e#.hd2gsan1h

http://web.archive.org/web/20051212094535/http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Andalusian/andalusian1.htm

>How to Deliver a Cavalry Charge
http://web.archive.org/web/20110805101324/http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/articles/bennett1.htm

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/12/the-smoked-corpses-of-aseki-papua-new.html

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>>50788057
http://alkman1.blogspot.com.br/2007/06/berserks-history-of-indo-european-mad.html

>The book on why the dichotomy between science and religion is fake.
http://astrorhysy.blogspot.com.br/2014/07/review-gods-philosophers.html

http://byzantinemilitary.blogspot.com.br/search/label/Sex%20-%20Prostitution%20in%20the%20Byzantine%20Holy%20Land

>Retro-technology, like dog-powered skewers
http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm

http://europabarbarorum.wikia.com/wiki/Worg%C5%8Dzez_(Wild_Mercenary_Infantry)

http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng215/medieval_prices.html

>War wheelbarrows and other details of chinese military history
http://greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com.br/

http://holocaustcontroversies.yuku.com/topic/1824/Gold-Rush-in-Treblinka

http://io9.gizmodo.com/gay-marriage-in-the-year-100-ad-951140108

http://jogodopau.blogspot.com.br/p/1-jogo-do-pau-main-traits-combat_4.html

>English Peasants' Revolt 1381
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/source/anon1381.asp

>The missing civilization of the Bronze Age?
http://luwianstudies.org/

http://medieval-castles.org/index.php/1_day_of_being_a_peasant_1

http://medievalcookery.com/recipes/

http://militaryhistorynow.com/2016/04/24/gentlemens-war-six-astounding-rules-of-fair-play-from-18th-century-battlefields/

http://militaryhistorynow.com/2016/08/03/germ-warfare-filth-and-disease-were-the-real-killers-in-wars-of-the-18th-and-19th-centuries/

>Geospatial network model of the roman world
http://orbis.stanford.edu/

>Roman worship of diseases and other things I never saw anywhere else
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html

>Shitposting. Shitposting never changes.
http://pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm

>Giant thread
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/16908940/

>Mythological creatures that are much more fucked up IRL myths than in the RPGs they appear in.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17057731/

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>>50787042
4chan thinks I'm a spammer, so I put everything here:
http://pastebin.com/0gG8Lwgy

>>50787616
Killed using a sling and glass bullets (Marbles)

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Scottish Brownies, one of the few fairies that aren't assholes. Whoever called them the "Good little people" is going to hell for lying because their rewarding good people pretty much comes down to you putting up with their shit.
Brownies are these little fairies that help with house chores and stuff. They only work at night because they tend to be shy. You're suppose to leave a chair or stool out by the fire for them to rest on and they tend to live in attics. basements, or just rooms generally not occupied.
In return for helping you with house chores you're suppose to leave some food out for them. If you start calling them or treating them like servants they leave though so you can't just leave stuff undone and expect the brownie to do it for you.
My grandmother used to call one of the rooms in her house the "Brownie's room". It was just a guest room but I thought it was super cool as a kid.