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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8707957" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>In planet Oerth, the Flanaess continent includes portrayals of the reallife North American Viking Period Norse settlements. refers to them as "Snow Barbarians", "Ice Barbarians", and "Frost Barbarians".</p><p></p><p>The use of the term "barbarian" here is sensitive for any culture, and especially so, in the context of Norse cultures. The historical berserkar are less that 1% of the population. The rest of the populations are normal diverse human cultures.</p><p></p><p>That said, if these cultural communities, go by the names "Snows," "Ices", and "Frosts", it is actually ok.</p><p></p><p>Within the larger map of planet Oerth, the Nordic peoples correspond to NW Oerik, namely Finland, Sweden, and Denmark are in the locales in and near the Fey Realm of Fallen Leaves and Ravilla. Compare the Fey Realm with historical Alfheimr on the Swedish southern coast bordering Norway. Norway and Saami correspond to the Domain of the Giant King that bridges the continent of Oerik with arctic Hyperboria. That Nordic peoples live among the Jǫtnar giants is how it is. Iceland is Fireland albeit splicing together various Nordic islands, including British Shetland and arctic Svalbard.</p><p></p><p>Despite the presence as "barbarians", the Nordic peoples lack an ethnic family name in Oerth. I propose to call them "Jotnum", relating to the "Jotnumheim Sea", that connects Fireland, Hyperboria, Giant King, Fey Realm, and Ravilla. In Norway, several prominent families are understood to descend from Jǫtnar giants, and other animistic beings, so the concept fun. One family descends from Logi, a manifestation from fire.</p><p></p><p>"Snow Jotnum", "Ice Jotnum", and "Frost Jotnum".</p><p></p><p>Keep in mind. Altho a Jǫtnar socalled "giant" individual can manifest to be the size of a mountain (even the size of a continent!), most Jǫtnar manifest as a normal human size. They are nature beings, the animistic minds of various mountains, rivers, glaciers, and so on. To reduce all Jǫtnar to "D&D frost giants" is problematic. But to call attention to how different one Jǫtnar can be from an other is good. Generally, these are sapient elementals but are native to the material plane. They are the actual particular mountain, river, glacier, etcetera.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8707957, member: 58172"] In planet Oerth, the Flanaess continent includes portrayals of the reallife North American Viking Period Norse settlements. refers to them as "Snow Barbarians", "Ice Barbarians", and "Frost Barbarians". The use of the term "barbarian" here is sensitive for any culture, and especially so, in the context of Norse cultures. The historical berserkar are less that 1% of the population. The rest of the populations are normal diverse human cultures. That said, if these cultural communities, go by the names "Snows," "Ices", and "Frosts", it is actually ok. Within the larger map of planet Oerth, the Nordic peoples correspond to NW Oerik, namely Finland, Sweden, and Denmark are in the locales in and near the Fey Realm of Fallen Leaves and Ravilla. Compare the Fey Realm with historical Alfheimr on the Swedish southern coast bordering Norway. Norway and Saami correspond to the Domain of the Giant King that bridges the continent of Oerik with arctic Hyperboria. That Nordic peoples live among the Jǫtnar giants is how it is. Iceland is Fireland albeit splicing together various Nordic islands, including British Shetland and arctic Svalbard. Despite the presence as "barbarians", the Nordic peoples lack an ethnic family name in Oerth. I propose to call them "Jotnum", relating to the "Jotnumheim Sea", that connects Fireland, Hyperboria, Giant King, Fey Realm, and Ravilla. In Norway, several prominent families are understood to descend from Jǫtnar giants, and other animistic beings, so the concept fun. One family descends from Logi, a manifestation from fire. "Snow Jotnum", "Ice Jotnum", and "Frost Jotnum". Keep in mind. Altho a Jǫtnar socalled "giant" individual can manifest to be the size of a mountain (even the size of a continent!), most Jǫtnar manifest as a normal human size. They are nature beings, the animistic minds of various mountains, rivers, glaciers, and so on. To reduce all Jǫtnar to "D&D frost giants" is problematic. But to call attention to how different one Jǫtnar can be from an other is good. Generally, these are sapient elementals but are native to the material plane. They are the actual particular mountain, river, glacier, etcetera. [/QUOTE]
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