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| LWhitehead1 |
Posted - 11 Aug 2025 : 20:44:04
I'm officially looking for Slavic like Nation or Nations in FR, it's for my Hexblooded character that I would like officially would like to work on and create a novel series about her.
The reason I think that all Hexblooded are Slavic is the simple fact that the official picture showing around that large kettle is very Slavic looking all was missing was flask of the water of life.
LW
Mod edit: Moving this one out of the ethers. |
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| TBeholder |
Posted - 25 Aug 2025 : 18:31:33
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Originally posted by TomCosta
LWhitehead1, Ed specifically tried to avoid real world comparisons.
And he is, of course, entirely right about it.
IMO the hurr durr copycats are and always were a hack cancer. These are highly toxic for worldbuilding, as little more than sinks for low-quality material such as lame jokes, moldy propaganda and Hollywood grade stupid cud of "theme parks with funny hats". Once enough of that accumulates in one place, it would be hard to drag out of the bog even if someone still tried.
Unfortunately, lots of people seem to never have read much literature above trash level, as we can see from repeated questions like "Is Amn the designated hurr durr copycat in FR of Spain, or of the Hanseatic League?" etc etc.
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That said, the closest thing to Slavic is definitely Rashemen, though you could branch out a bit into neighboring regions, such as the former Raumatherans as Ayrik points out.
Some hurr durr copycats can be more salvageable than the others, of course. More so when a writer on the level of Elaine Cunningham helps.
...and then there's The Horde. |
| TomCosta |
Posted - 25 Aug 2025 : 15:58:47
LWhitehead1, Ed specifically tried to avoid real world comparisons. That said, the closest thing to Slavic is definitely Rashemen, though you could branch out a bit into neighboring regions, such as the former Raumatherans as Ayrik points out.
(As an aside, I would argue there really is no analog for Thay, but I always thought of them as more Byzantine FWIW.) |
| Delnyn |
Posted - 23 Aug 2025 : 20:05:47
Would you consider a slight detour and have the team members hail from Narfell? That way, you have a cold desolate realm near Rashemen and a land with a heavy demonic history and legacy. I don't know how strict your constraints are. |
| LWhitehead1 |
Posted - 14 Aug 2025 : 09:22:50
I'm looking for Middle Age Russia for my Hexblood character, which in the hopeful novel series would lead a Heroic adventure team of races that are considered Evil but personally aren't.
Races that don't get to normal stay in inns but in stable if there lucky, only the Dark Gods are willing to give a blessing in FR.
LW |
| Ayrik |
Posted - 12 Aug 2025 : 00:07:19
I was going to put Thay on my list. It has proximity and had weather which would be ideal for "Slavic" spread in the region.
But Thay is distinctly derived from Mulhorandi origins. And the old lore seems vague about whether or not there were already people native to Thay when the Mulhorandi-Thayans arrived. (It's equally vague about whether such people were absorbed, ejected, enslaved, or destroyed by the arriving Thayans.)
So I didn't put Thay on my list. Even if it was indeed "Slavic" in the past, it would be fully "Thayan" in the present. |
| Azar |
Posted - 12 Aug 2025 : 00:00:24
I would say "Thay" (to an extent)...but that is only because a specific NPC from a cRPG originated from Thay and spoke with a vaguely Eastern European accent. |
| Ayrik |
Posted - 11 Aug 2025 : 23:49:05
Definitely the Bloodstone Lands (Vaasa, Damara), definitely Rashemen, probably Narfell, probably Sossal, maybe Thesk, maybe other parts of the Unapproachable East.
(In theory, Damara was meant to be a representation of medieval Germany. In practice, it is very much a representation more like medieval Poland, Russia, and classic sullen-peasant Moldavia/Romania sorts of areas.)
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Bloodstone_Lands
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Vaasa
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Damara
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Rashemen
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Narfell
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Sossal
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Thesk
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Unapproachable_East
The Raumtheran languages are described as being the Realms equivalent of Slavic or Proto-Slavic. Regions where those languages are spoken will have varying degrees of Slavic-like inspirations and cultures.
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Raumtheran_languages
Dragon #203 and Dragon #213 apparently had some articles about real-world ethnicities in the Realms.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Forgotten_Realms/comments/vlsoy1/here_is_my_personal_list_of_cultural_equivalents/
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acandlekeep.com%2Fforum+%2Bslavic
"Slavic" is a generic and vague term. Slav peoples are found in Belgium and Siberia and everywhere in between, at the extremes they have as many cultural and ethnic differences as similarities. And "slavic" likely has unique meanings to each of the different writers/contributors who developed the Realms. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 11 Aug 2025 : 23:11:03
Google is your friend. |
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