05-29-2021, 05:31 PM | #1 |
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[Banestorm] Is there a more comprehensive list of languages anywhere?
Banestorm p. 33 lists:
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05-29-2021, 05:54 PM | #2 |
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Re: [Banestorm] Is there a more comprehensive list of languages anywhere?
Elvish, gnomish, etc. presumably have names in their own language.
Realistically there should be hundreds of languages scattered around in pockets depending on who the Banestorm brought and who ended on top a hundred years later. The only events which could drive the spread of a single language in the last thousand years of Yrth history are the rise of the Megalan empire and the similar events that created the three (now two) Moslem states. And those were so long ago that Arabic and Anglish should be splintering like Arabic and the Romance language and the Sinitic (Chinese) languages in our world! I doubt any mortal on Yrth could list them all. Maybe the colonization of Caithness since the indigenous (Orcish) population was exterminated or forced away.
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05-30-2021, 05:43 AM | #3 |
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Re: [Banestorm] Is there a more comprehensive list of languages anywhere?
Banestorm, p.9: "...even today travelers can find isolated villages where almost all the inhabitants have black skin, worship Krishna and Vishnu, or speak undiluted German."
So a definitive list of languages would contradict the spirit of the book. Anything that could be there, might be there.
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Re: [Banestorm] Is there a more comprehensive list of languages anywhere?
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GURPS 4e Banestorm reads like a toolkit not a setting bible. It seems written to let the GM tweak it in whichever direction she wants, not to constrain the GM.
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