10-05-2020, 01:40 AM
Havard Wrote:My idea is that before the arrival of the Thonian Humans, the main human cultures of the North were:
- The Peshwa
- The Skandaharians
- The Valemen
- Brute Men
While the Skandaharians dominated farther north and the Peshwa were masters of the grasslands, the woods, swamps and farmlands were populated by Valemen. Valmen correspond to the label "Picts" in older Dave Arneson maps, even though Dave also may have swapped out the Picts with Orcs when Freddie joined the campaign.
Interesting way of re-framing the "Picts", although I can see your point: the Picts seem to be more "barbaric" in their origins than the Valemen as they are presented in the DA series, but maybe that depiction was very archaic, maybe there were many tribes of Valemen (a bit like the Celts...) with very different ways of living and "grades" of civilisation. The Picts may be entirely something else as well and maybe at the time of Uther they already more or less vanished from Blackmoor.
I guess that the more options we present to the GMs, the better, after all. :wink:
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