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Originally Posted by Asta Kask
Or you can be the people of the East, fighting colonial aggression from the heirs of Elessar.
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That would rule.
It might just be the similiarity of the names
Variag and
Varyag, but I like to imagine the Variags of Khand as a little bit like the Norse/Rus of Kiev.
Yes, I'm well aware that LotR is not a historical allegory. Tolkien might have had a certain vague similiarity in mind-- or maybe he just liked the sound of the word.