I'm not saying the Azim Steppe is perfect, but reading an analysis of GRRM's Dothraki vs actual horse nomads, clearly someone at SE did more research (any at all)
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I'm not saying the Azim Steppe is perfect, but reading an analysis of GRRM's Dothraki vs actual horse nomads, clearly someone at SE did more research (any at all)
I'm not saying the Azim Steppe is perfect, but reading an analysis of GRRM's Dothraki vs actual horse nomads, clearly someone at SE did more research (any at all)
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since we have:
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-multiple cultures/ethnic groups, with clearly different cultures
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(everyone speaks the same language, though)
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-clothing made largely of textiles, with bright colors and decoration because people like to look nice
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(...and whatever Sadu and the Buduga think they're doing. it's NOT perfect, but it's not Dothraki "plain brown leather and horsehair trousers")
Un(t)sundered
an effort was made! an imperfect effort, but there was research
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-a mixture of sheep pastoralism and dzo (bisonish) hunting as primary subsistence methods
unbound
Azim Steppe feels like the most I’ve seen anyone actually try wrt central Asian horse nomads that wasn’t, like, clearly someone with a degree writing historical fiction
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there was research! rather than exclusively dredging up hollywood stereotypes and claiming that there was "a dash of pure fantasy"
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it really is
unbound
I mean it’s not a very big reference pool but
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the bar is, to be clear, on the floor, but
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ironically they aren't either horse or nomads in FFXIV - those dwellings are definitely permanent structures, by the size and weight of components
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yol pastoralists
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also:
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-music and art
paradisaea
to be fair to the singular language thing I can excuse it with a dash of "language barriers seem to largely not exist on eitheirys at all"
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between that and the Echo and the "shh they all speak Player", yeah
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and in a game where the player speaks Beaver, you know what, we'll allow it.
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
language barriers only exist in relevance to meracydia since arr which is deeply funny to me.
Un(t)sundered
yeah, I assume there's probably like... a trade language between the tribes (or those who actually speak)
Un(t)sundered
and the WoL is shortcutting with Echo nonsense
Nancy Crawfish
I love that they have so many cultures