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PostSubject: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:42 pm

Thats what we need in Felarya now. We have a lot of mention of different species, and we can keep coming up with traits for them to make them seem more real, but what defines a world is the culture and history of the different species. If we can make Felarya's world seem longer, and more ancient, we can get a better feeling and more fleshed out world.
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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:06 pm

As I said in the IRC, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
I think that some Ur-Sagol legends would be in order. Maybe some Negav Urban Legends (which could also be very old considering the indefinite life span of anything in Felarya).
And we must have "Tales of the Naga Tribes." (Geddit? lol!)
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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:11 pm

*gives A-J a Naga in the biggest box ever seen*

anyway, the naga tales. (-_-Wink are a good idea. what about cultural things for the predators?
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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:39 pm

Archmage_Bael wrote:
*gives A-J a Naga in the biggest box ever seen*

Aww... Ya shouldn't have... Very Happy

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anyway, the naga tales. (-_-Wink are a good idea. what about cultural things for the predators?

I think that we could have such things as:
"The (Creation of) The Dryad Network"
Fairy Tales (Couldn't resist)
Driddler... Something... Driddler Legends? Neutral
I'm not sure that nagas would have many legends or myths, they don't seem to have the society for it (correct me If I'm wrong there).

We gotta have this too: 'Neko Yarns" (I'm just full of puns tonight).
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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:41 am

well we'd want something for naga's just to make it fair. I don't wanna incur crisis' wrath because I decided not to include her. O_O

anyway for dridders what about "legs of passion" or "web-masters"
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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:02 pm

Er, aren't most Predators not civilized? Furthermore, don't most of the Predators only interact with a small number of other Preds - even less outside their species?

Dridders and Fairies I could see culture being made for easily, but you'd have a bit of trouble for things like Nagas and Slug Girls considering the greatest connection most seem to have is the Vore-Gods they worship.

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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:09 pm

i believe the younger naga's the ones that are human sized anyway i believe that they would live in secluded human like villages.
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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:08 pm

I imagine the only predators with any kind of culture would be dridders, fairies and communal species like Gypsa. Even those cultures would very from each clan, pack and hive respectively.

Most predators live in the wild. The only interaction they have with other predators is from their parents, their family and their group of friends.

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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:15 pm

Huh. I guess that maybe a lot of the wild non tribal predator culture may be similar. We see that they worship the same gods. It seems likely that a slug girl and naga, for example, would share lots of the same tales, or the versions that are passed down in their family.

But I think there would at least be a separation in culture between land and sea dwelling predators I guess. And harpies seem to have their own... culture.

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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:24 pm

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Huh. I guess that maybe a lot of the wild non tribal predator culture may be similar. We see that they worship the same gods. It seems likely that a slug girl and naga, for example, would share lots of the same tales, or the versions that are passed down in their family.

But I think there would at least be a separation in culture between land and sea dwelling predators I guess. And harpies seem to have their own... culture.


Well, I imagine the lore of Felarya will be common knowledge. I mean, Dryads can communicate mind to mind to share information...and harpies fly all over. Rumors, stories, and so on would quickly spread all over.

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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:26 pm

Tomthumbs, such as I see them, have distinct societies. I've developed their way of life a teensy bit, but looking into their history could be interesting. Hmm...
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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:52 pm

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Tomthumbs, such as I see them, have distinct societies. I've developed their way of life a teensy bit, but looking into their history could be interesting. Hmm...


The only problem of a history of Tomthumbs is that in, say, a radius of on mile, there could be a dozen tomthumb societies, each radically different and with their own trials, tribulations and unique history.

There really can be no overall culture. And while there is history, it's not as cut and dry as on a more... civilized world. Most of the predators just go day to day living and having fun. Hardly any predators have any sort of ties outside of other nearby predators they are friendly with.

It all comes down to territory. Each living thing on Felarya stakes out a living on a plot of land. Humans and nekos band together, and take only what territory they can defend from the jungle. Others attempt to hide inside the territories of a pred, hoping not to get caught.

The 'history' of Felarya can largely be reduced to the rise and quick fall of most humanoid communities. Only Negav has stood the test of time.

All this is simply conjecture on my part of course.

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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:53 am

Well, that suggests that nothing important has ever happened to the predators. Surely some things affected a good deal of the population at one time?

On the other hand, small groups may keep small records of history, for that area or clan. Remember that lots of the predators are really old so they would have a lot to remember and record if they wanted to.

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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:25 am

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Well, that suggests that nothing important has ever happened to the predators. Surely some things affected a good deal of the population at one time?
Like? There's no diseases to remember, no major fires that seem to have had a noticeable effect, natural disasters in general seem rare. Only "important" thing I could think of is something similar to the rivalry between Dridders and Nagas.
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On the other hand, small groups may keep small records of history,
Er... what? Most of the Predator species don't have any sort of written language. Any "records" they'd keep would have to be something simple, like a verbal account kept in some sort of magic crystal or the like.
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Remember that lots of the predators are really old so they would have a lot to remember and record if they wanted to.
Record on what, though? They tend to be illiterate. Best way I can think to have a "record" for them is just telling all of their contacts and hoping one remembers should they forget.

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PostSubject: Re: Culture, History, and other bits.   Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:49 am

Jætte_Troll wrote:
Remember that lots of the predators are really old so they would have a lot to remember and record if they wanted to.


Uhhhm, eighty is not actually that old for predators on Felarya.

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