07-04-2012, 08:55 PM | #1 |
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What is Cardiel?
Each of the countries in Yrth represents a particular genre of fantasy. Megalos is high fantasy; Caithness is Arthurian fantasy; Al-Wazif is Arabian Nights; etc.
What is the genre for Cardiel? Its theme seems to be a live-and-let-live mixture of other cultures, but does it correspond to a particular fantasy genre? |
07-04-2012, 09:00 PM | #2 |
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07-04-2012, 09:27 PM | #3 |
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I thought Megalos was Evil Roman/Byzantine Fantasy.
Caithness I wouldn't call 'Arthurian'...it always struck me as more like 'Generic Fantasy Kingdom Based Off The SCA/RenFaire.' Cardiel is what I would call 'Generic Urbanite Fantasy Close To Modern Sensibilities'. Glenn Cook's Garret Files would work in Cardiel, and in fact you could drop Garret into Tredroy and he might not even notice...:)
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07-04-2012, 09:37 PM | #4 |
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Caithness is outright described as a place for Arthurian adventures, and it does fit what with the orders of knights errant and the fact that wizards mostly stick to their towers in the pockets of normal/high mana.
Anyways, while I agree that Tredroy is supposed to be the big, cosmopolitan city where you might run across anything, I think the OP might have been referring to the rest of Cardiel, which I agree doesn't have a "theme" to it like other countries do, besides having a lot of intrigue and religious diversity. That seems to be intentional, since it gives GMs a relatively generic place to start off players new to roleplaying. |
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07-05-2012, 03:13 AM | #7 |
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I see Cardiel primarily as a place to play fairly generic sword-and-sorcery without having to worry much about the weather or the government. I tend to think of Fritz Leiber a lot when I'm looking at it.
In Megalos, there's always a feeling that you ought to be fighting The Man; in Caithness, you probably have ambitions to swing a knighthood and become The Man; in Sahud, The Man is part of a complicated system you probably don't understand but he'll still cause you trouble; in the Nomad Lands, it's bloody freezing; in Al-Haz and Al-Wazif, it's hot, and The Man is straight out of the Arabian Nights; but in Cardiel ... who cares? The Man locally might be a mad baron who's trying to kill you or a decent guy who's willing to pay you, but that's a strictly local issue, the weather is okay, and there are lots of monsters and bandits and stuff you can go out and deal with in the approved fashion.
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07-05-2012, 09:07 AM | #8 |
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The reference to Lankhmar helps, at least for Tredroy. It's simple enough to extrapolate for Cardiel after that: generic or Leiberesque low fantasy.
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