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Kajehase
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 Posted - 17 Sep 2004 : 15:34:01
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I'm currently working on a bit of fan-fiction set in Amn and Tethyr and would like to know if anyone know of any sources detailing the mode of dress in those countries other than Lands of Intrigue and Empires of the Sands.
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 17 Sep 2004 : 17:32:32
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| Did you try 3/3.5's Races of Faerun? :) It has some info like that but I forgot if the human "races" of thier nations are detailed with that info. |
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Hymn
Senior Scribe
Sweden
514 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2004 : 20:12:36
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ah nice to see a fellow swede in here was quite some time , hmm well yes kuje 31 Races of Faerun does indeed have that info (at least pictures of the different clothes.) I also recall a list of different styles of clothing somewhere think it might have been on the Realms-L archive. Have to check it out to be sure. |
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 17 Sep 2004 : 21:08:01
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Originally posted by Hymn
ah nice to see a fellow swede in here was quite some time, hmm well yes kuje 31 Races of Faerun does indeed have that info (at least pictures of the different clothes.) I also recall a list of different styles of clothing somewhere think it might have been on the Realms-L archive. Have to check it out to be sure.
The deity trilogy of sourcebooks from 2e also had dress for each of the different clergy. :) But that doesn't help much really and so I was just throwing that out there for ideas. |
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2004 : 14:47:25
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Kuje 31 and Hymn; Thanks for your kind answers, I have indeed looked at those pictures and am afriad to say that they don't help quite as much as I'd wanted, I was looking more for some really detailed descriptive text for it. As it is I'll probably use what's in the mentioned tomes along with descriptions if the clothes in Spain under the Moors (the latter in a fairly bowdlerized version though).
But the effort from your side is appreiated, the descriptions of the different clerical clothing might actually help a bit as one scene in the story will take place during a Grand Revel (one of the Sunites festivals), and should include one or two clergymembers I'd say. (And some serious difficulty for me to avoid using the term "shapely leg" too often ). |
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Wood Elf Ranger
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 22 Sep 2004 : 16:13:24
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A Sunite revel? Why should there be clothes at all?  Well unless you want to describe them strewn all over the floor   |
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Jerard Doonsay
Seeker
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Posted - 22 Sep 2004 : 16:44:04
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Hey now, not every Sunite selebration has to end in a wild night of multiple romps.  Wow, I almost said that with a strait face. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 22 Sep 2004 : 18:01:15
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Hey now, not every Sunite selebration has to end in a wild night of multiple romps.
... just the good ones. |
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
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Posted - 22 Sep 2004 : 23:12:21
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A Sunite revel? Why should there be clothes at all? Well unless you want to describe them strewn all over the floor
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Hey now, not every Sunite selebration has to end in a wild night of multiple romps. Wow, I almost said that with a strait face.
Calm down lads , unfortunately the main character of the story is a fourteen-years old girl. So certain ...aspects of the revel will have to be ...um ...toned down a bit |
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Hymn
Senior Scribe
Sweden
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Posted - 22 Sep 2004 : 23:19:36
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Originally posted by Kajehase
Calm down lads, unfortunately the main character of the story is a fourteen-years old girl. So certain ...aspects of the revel will have to be ...um ...toned down a bit
Naa, and there went the fun of this eve out through the door. You know Alaundo dosn't let us out much from these halls. He just piles more scrolls and tomes we have to go through. |
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2004 : 23:32:52
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You know Alaundo dosn't let us out much from these halls. He just piles more scrolls and tomes we have to go through
Hmm... I've got a scroll you might like here then. It's entitled "Three-hundred tales from the Temples of Sharess" |
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Hymn
Senior Scribe
Sweden
514 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2004 : 23:38:01
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Ah speaking of clothes I found that document, it's not exactly concerning clothes but instead cultural reference to different regions/ countries in the realms and their counterpart in our world.
As for Amn it has a Spanish/ Portuguese feel. Tethyr aims for an Arabian (North African) style. It's not canon though, the file containing it all and more can be found here. It's in netbook# 1 or download the pdf for ease of reference. I
http://www.candlekeep.com/library/notebook.htm#Netbooks |
Sauro moki kara ochiro - Even monkeys falls from trees.
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 26 Sep 2004 : 11:49:12
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Originally posted by Hymn
As for Amn it has a Spanish/ Portuguese feel.
Yup, that's why I made the Moorish spain paralell for Amn, if you look at the illustrations in the Lands of Intrigue source-book for Amn the clothes have a rather Near Oriental look to them. So I guess I'd better go find a book with some good descriptions of the fashions of those kingdoms now
And thanks for bringing the topic back ...on topic Hymn |
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Lands on Intrigue Fashion
