| Author |
 Topic  |
|
|
branmakmuffin
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
 Posted - 28 Feb 2003 : 22:00:39
|
I am converting a campaign in a world of my own design (what a tremendous chore) to FR and one of the mainstays of players' amusements is my own and their attempts at mimicking (what we at least beleive to be) Irish and Scottish dialects for certain PCs and NPCs.
I have gathered from the way Salvatore writes that Dwarves speak with a generic "Gaelic" dialect (plus, most of the Dwarf audio in the BG/IwD series seem to be vaguely Scottish-like). My question is, what humans in FR would be the closest thing to fantasy Gaelic/Celtic barbarians, e.g. they eat haggis(sp?), wear kilts and shoot lighing bolts out their arses.
|
|
|
Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
1338 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2003 : 10:16:58
|
The Moonshea Isles is the most suited locale in this case. These islands have a flavor which is a mixture of Celtic/Gaelic and Nordic (read Viking). The island of Ruathym could also work, though it is more Nordic-like then Celtic.
In one of my own campaigns I had given the highlanders in Tethyr (eastern Tethyr against the Omlarandin's) a 'scottish' cultural flavor. |
 |
|
|
Elrond Half Elven
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
322 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2003 : 21:00:20
|
What ya want is to give these good men a Claymore. You could also give 'em a nice large bastard sword in one hand and a dirk in the other, with a nice wee buckler strapped on tae it. Then you have a some of those fearsome Highlanders. 
Ach the normal highlander tactics where to charge the enemy with this combination- all through history it has been used. One of the reasons for the defeat of us at Culloden was beacuase our charge was up hill  .
I don't think any of this information will be of any use to you at all, but how could i pass by a chance to rabble on a wee bitty about my past?
Hanx for listening
Andrew |
Once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While i nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
-The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
|
branmakmuffin
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2003 : 21:37:56
|
Elrond Half Elven:
<snip>
>I don't think any of this information will be of any use to you at
>all, but how could i pass by a chance to rabble on a wee bitty about
>my past?
Hoot mon! (That's what Americans say when imitating Scotsmen). |
|
|
|
branmakmuffin
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2003 : 21:42:22
|
Mumadar Ibn Huzal:
Thanks for the suggestions.
As I belive the "evil" bearded Spock said in "Mirror, Mirror", "Captain Kirk, I shall consider it." |
|
|
| |
Topic |
|
Closest thing to fantasy Gaels/Celts in FR
