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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 8031543" data-attributes="member: 6777454"><p>If one is trying to sell a new setting based on another mythology, how on earth does it make sense to take all the fairy people that they said lived in their forest and mountains, toss it all into the trash can and declare:</p><p></p><p>"We decided that Nordic is core. So now all mythologies <strong>MUST</strong> have short, beardy Nordic people who live in the mountains and are really good at smithery. They <strong>MUST </strong>have tall, slender, pointy-eared Nordic folk who are good at magic living in their forests. The <strong>MUST</strong> have short, plump Irish farmers with furry feet. Any mythology that does not have these things is unworthy!! Anything in their mythology that interferes with that <strong>MUST</strong> be stamped out, ground to dust and scattered to the winds!! All cultures and ideas shall fit our cookie-cutter demands and will be beaten into shape until they conform! Our superior Nordic mythology <strong>SHALL</strong> reign over all others!!"</p><p></p><p>But-- also-- you think you are being "perfectly reasonable" in that, so long as those other cultural elements are used as mere fringe decorations for your CORE Nordic mythology, that you are perfectly content with amusingly toying with the idea that you might allow those non-human races to have the skin colors of the other human phenotypes common in the area that you are using as fringe decoration on your core.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 8031543, member: 6777454"] If one is trying to sell a new setting based on another mythology, how on earth does it make sense to take all the fairy people that they said lived in their forest and mountains, toss it all into the trash can and declare: "We decided that Nordic is core. So now all mythologies [B]MUST[/B] have short, beardy Nordic people who live in the mountains and are really good at smithery. They [B]MUST [/B]have tall, slender, pointy-eared Nordic folk who are good at magic living in their forests. The [B]MUST[/B] have short, plump Irish farmers with furry feet. Any mythology that does not have these things is unworthy!! Anything in their mythology that interferes with that [B]MUST[/B] be stamped out, ground to dust and scattered to the winds!! All cultures and ideas shall fit our cookie-cutter demands and will be beaten into shape until they conform! Our superior Nordic mythology [B]SHALL[/B] reign over all others!!" But-- also-- you think you are being "perfectly reasonable" in that, so long as those other cultural elements are used as mere fringe decorations for your CORE Nordic mythology, that you are perfectly content with amusingly toying with the idea that you might allow those non-human races to have the skin colors of the other human phenotypes common in the area that you are using as fringe decoration on your core. [/QUOTE]
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