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<blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 8713503" data-attributes="member: 6688049"><p>Update:</p><p></p><p>After conversations on the Mystara Piazza messageboard, I looked more closely at the Pearl Islanders of Mystara, and realized that my initial attribution of an Afro-Caribbean culture was mistaken. I'd mistakenly thought the "black explorers" with the "Rake" class was an Afro-Caribbean swashbuckler motif. I hadn't recently or closely looked at the source materials till now.</p><p></p><p>Here's the new entry:</p><p></p><p><strong>~Oceanic / Pacific Islands:</strong></p><p></p><p>In Mystara:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Pearl Islands (~Papua New Guinea, specifically the culture of the Motu, an Austronesian people in PNG). In <em>Dawn of the Emperors, </em>the Pearl Islanders are said to be "black explorers" with "skin black" from "far-away Tangor" (~Africa). On p.79, the illustration of a Pearl Islander couple has an Austronesian aesthetic. So "black" + Austronesian = ~Melanesian. The text mentions the "Pearl Islander kilt" as clothing. The names appear to be fantastic quasi-Austronesian: Nuar (said to mean: Nu = "Western" + Ar "Home"), Tuar, Kuir, Puir, Dwar, Mt. Morimoru, Nurokidu. The name Morimoru is evocative of "Hiri Motu", a relatively well-known language that used to be the lingua franca of the Port Moresby area, the capital of Papua New Guinea. Hiri Motu is a pidgin language based on the local Austronesian Motu language of the Motu people, one of the indigenous peoples of the capital region. The names "Nuar" and "Tuar" have a slight similarity with "Papua" (the /ua/ wordshape), and the word "Nu" (meaning 'western') is like "New" in "Papua New Guinea. Seagirt, the capital of the Pearl Islands, could be something like Port Moresby. In DotE, the Pearl Islands are the home of the "Rake" PC class (charisma-based rogues).</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dungeonosophy, post: 8713503, member: 6688049"] Update: After conversations on the Mystara Piazza messageboard, I looked more closely at the Pearl Islanders of Mystara, and realized that my initial attribution of an Afro-Caribbean culture was mistaken. I'd mistakenly thought the "black explorers" with the "Rake" class was an Afro-Caribbean swashbuckler motif. I hadn't recently or closely looked at the source materials till now. Here's the new entry: [B]~Oceanic / Pacific Islands:[/B] In Mystara: [LIST] [*]The Pearl Islands (~Papua New Guinea, specifically the culture of the Motu, an Austronesian people in PNG). In [I]Dawn of the Emperors, [/I]the Pearl Islanders are said to be "black explorers" with "skin black" from "far-away Tangor" (~Africa). On p.79, the illustration of a Pearl Islander couple has an Austronesian aesthetic. So "black" + Austronesian = ~Melanesian. The text mentions the "Pearl Islander kilt" as clothing. The names appear to be fantastic quasi-Austronesian: Nuar (said to mean: Nu = "Western" + Ar "Home"), Tuar, Kuir, Puir, Dwar, Mt. Morimoru, Nurokidu. The name Morimoru is evocative of "Hiri Motu", a relatively well-known language that used to be the lingua franca of the Port Moresby area, the capital of Papua New Guinea. Hiri Motu is a pidgin language based on the local Austronesian Motu language of the Motu people, one of the indigenous peoples of the capital region. The names "Nuar" and "Tuar" have a slight similarity with "Papua" (the /ua/ wordshape), and the word "Nu" (meaning 'western') is like "New" in "Papua New Guinea. Seagirt, the capital of the Pearl Islands, could be something like Port Moresby. In DotE, the Pearl Islands are the home of the "Rake" PC class (charisma-based rogues). [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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