I've been tossing around ideas for the volcano people. I'll whip something up.

thinking about a native race of swamp people, but it doesn't look like there's any swampland

If you want swamp land, swamp land can be made. I've tried to make it clear that if something doesn't suit your needs I'll do my best to fix whatever needs need be suited. It's really no bother and this project isn't for me, it's for all of us. I just happen to organizing it, well, organizing it from a distance so as to avoid imposing myself upon it.

OK so, now that I can do stuff with forums. We've got the tools to edit Illisia into our new archives/ world section. So once we get this show on the road we're good to go. Also probably going to make another major culture group at this rate...

Remember the key point of culture groups are to provide broad areas of culture that eventually specialize into nations that have their own specific characteristics but share basic features.

I keep saying this, but I swear I'll start putting my own stuff in. It's just been busy, tomorrow for sure.

Lenosian
Area of Origin: The northern most tip of the nearest eastern island.
Complexion: Olive Toned
Facial Features: Rounded faces, small pointed noses, slightly narrowed eyes
Hair: Thick and generally dark(Brown and Black). Not entirely uncommon for their hair to become lighter the further south you go.
Eyes: Carmine(A deep red-brown mix). Not uncommon for their eyes to be amber near their northern most border or just plain brown in the south.
Average Height: Men: 5'9" Women 5'7"
Language: The original Lenosian language(known as Mayle Ku) was incredibly tongue intensive and most spoken words were very short, no more than two syllables generally. This changed after the Lenosians fled their homeland and began colonizing an already occupied area on the mainland. This colonization of course lead to years of war, but more importantly it later gave way to mass cultural assimilation.

The current language spoken by Lenosians, while still tongue intensive, no longer follows its old simple syllable roots. The language has expanded to become far more complex and include many new words and sounds that weren't possible in the original Mayle Ku language. The most notable feature of Lenosian is the stress that is applied to the last syllabel every word. Generally the end of a word drags slightly longer resulting in the start of the next word to fire rapidly making it hard for foreigners to understand the stop and start of words.

Written Lenosian is much easier to understand as it uses a standardized alphabet constructed of easy to pronounce sounds, though parts of their alphabet go generally unused in normal communication as the sounds were adopted early when the language was still being influenced by the indigenous population.

Society: Lenosians are mostly farmers and have a rich tradition based around their most important crop, grapes. Lenosian's cherish their vineyards and many pray to the different local gods for a good harvest. (Lenosian made wines are incredibly strong, most have alcohol contents that easily surpass 30 percent). Despite being farmers with little to no warrior culture remaining, the Lenosians still consider themselves strong people. They are quite used to dealing with aggressors and have been known to even fight with the dangerous Pukutehtilikhekehtikuli on multiple occasions after having been raided and attacked.

Lenosians generally live together in communities built around major Vineyards. Some of these communities have turned into decently large towns but none yet have evolved into anything on the scale of a major city.


Background: Originally the Lenosians hailed from one of the eastern islands where they were a large yet compact society of fishermen. At some point in time the ocean levels began to rise and the Lenosians, ever fearful that their whole island would be consumed, took to boats and fled west to the main continent, a land they had only ever seen from afar in their primitive fishing boats. Many Lenosians died during their flight from their home, and many more would die after they landed due to disease or being separated from the main group. Those who survived the journey landed in the northern most portion of their cultural region where they battled the indigenous tribes for years before finally settling down. After the Lenosians settled they attempted to return to their fishing ways but found that their new coast was much less bountiful then their comfortable homeland coasts and here the weather was harsh and during the autumn, winter, and spring seasons powerful winds tore through rigid coasts and smashed their boats into the imposing cliffs. Unable to fish the Lenosians set out inland and began to adopt the hunting and farming styles of their indigenous neighbors.

As the Lenosian people expanded and traveled south towards more fertile lands and away from the threatening northern swamps they continued to mix and breed with the less threatening peoples who had already settled and worked the land. It was at this time that current Lenosian culture began to form and the old ways began to vanish. No more were the Lenosians dark skinned people with very narrowed eyes and black hair. They had become olive in tone, their hair began to lighten and their eyes slowly widened. They adopted new gods and created a written language heavily influenced by the peoples they had bound themselves to and for all these things they thrived and formed into a highly functioning society of passive and slightly religious farmers.








Really messy draft that I'll probably clean up. Some errors are in there but I wanted to get this up before I started to make a fool of myself for not contributing anything.


Anywho, these people are meant to be a nice border culture that's easily influenced by those around it. It's not really a very distinct culture, more like a big mash of 'em.

Pukutehtilikhekehtikuli

jesus christ

They're whim's people

So which area is the swampland?

The purple area that Kiki is using. If you want more swampland we can add more.

I have all my ideas ready for two new cultures (desert and island), I just need some time to write em up.

Same. I'm going to deal with the common tongue culture and another culture to the south

So how "human" should the other races be?

Not feeling very professor of linguistics today, and there's not too much to these guys because their old culture is rip, so this is a pretty nice and quick one.

Akkadites
Area of origin: Claims of rise in the Kuli Delta, but most likely further down the river. They reside all over the desert and into the eastern side of the mountain ridge, with the greatest amount being near the river.
Complexion: White to light tan
Facial Features: Semitic
Hair: Brown to Black
Eyes: Brown, Black
Average height: 165cm 5'5"
Language description:
The Akkadite language is somewhat similar to that of the Pukutehtilikhekehtikuli in that the desert area is a sprachbund. It contains many of the same grammatical features, especially the subject-object relationship that provides the skeleton of clauses. The written language is entirely cuneiform, and is significantly less complex than that of their neighbor's language, having none of the confusing non-spacing, requirements of being flowery, and non capitalization of words that aren't the beginning of lines. Scholars of both languages note the similarities in symbols between both the cuneiform and the old pictographics of the Pukutehtilikhekehtikuli, showing influence from the invading people early on in the formation of the language.

The spoken language is completely unlike that of their neighbors, sounding blunt as opposed to slurred speech. Consonants are hard, often guttural, while vowels are a bit softer. Stress is placed upon words through inflection, and proper nouns such as names are always stressed.

Society:
The Akkadites are a classic example of early agricultural farmers. Their crops are very basic grains that they still cultivate to sustain their people. Livestock cultivation is very limited, but very important; though meat is only eaten by men to promote a strong military due to the low amount of meat available at any one time. Their buildings are very simple stone and mud dwellings, which are sparsely decorated and often mostly empty aside from an open fire pit and bedding. The communities they live in are small in scale, but they are all settled close to each other and are interconnected so if news of an attack arrives, they can mobilize quickly and deal with the attackers. This creates what is basically a supercity made up of small communities that act as a web that protects itself.

Background:
The Akkadites are actually a lesser culture, mostly remnants of the original Ur culture that the hordes of Kuli came and decimated. All of that original culture was destroyed completely, but people survived and the culture mutated as they escaped into the desert. Because of this, they can trace their people back to what they call "The Great Threshing," when they were robbed of their homeland. As a culture, they are relatively new, not really having developed significant cultural ties until the last 150 years.
The Akkadites show a lot of disdain toward the horde and spent years trying to build a great military tradition as to protect themselves from raids and one day fight the horde to take back their cultural homeland.

So think humanoid, tall, short, long ears, white eyes. Just at the moment no eight armed ogres with spiked backs.