Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Alam al-Rashidun: Elemental Renaissance
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="jasin" data-source="post: 2756918" data-attributes="member: 7531"><p>Well, I actually imagine the priesthoods of different Pillars (i.e. elements) being quite friendly with each other. Any rivalry certainly isn't supposed to be worse than friendly (I can imagine two priests after a fight bantering along the lines of: "if you had the swiftness of Fire, you wouldn't have earned that black eye, you know" -- "ah, quite true, but if you had the solidity of Earth, you wouldn't fear a black eye so much").</p><p></p><p>But I guess that nearly 150 years since the last serious threat, petty politicking might have taken root. Not enough that they should be considered fractious or disorganized, but enough that they might waste precious moments stuck in a council chamber while the Fedayeen/Kurgan/whoever ride with swords drawn...</p><p></p><p></p><p>It might make an interesting journey, from being looked down on for his adherence to "wild", "pre-Pillar", "village" elementalism, to being hailed as a hero of the land.</p><p></p><p>Also, Walkers in the Waste. Must include Walkers in the Waste somehow!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes! A perfect character.</p><p></p><p></p><p>"House of War". It's the Turkish name for Belgrade. (Dar es Salaam is "House of Peace".)</p><p></p><p>It has been brought to my attention that "jihad" doesn't really mean "war" but "religious struggle" which can mean anything from trying to be a better person to cutting or blowing people up, so a more literal name might be Dar al-Harb (which means something like "house of war/chaos"). But Dar ul-Jihad will have a more sinister ring for modern player, which is good, and the Kurgan could easily have been fanatics. Unswerving conviction always helps if you're trying to be a powerful evil tyranny.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That's it, more or less. "Realm of the Righteous", "World of the Rightly-Guided", something like that.</p><p></p><p>My Arabic is pretty much non-existant too. This is just the result of a bit of Googling and Wikipedia searching and cutting and pasting phrases to create new ones (probably mismatching inflections horribly in the process).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jasin, post: 2756918, member: 7531"] Well, I actually imagine the priesthoods of different Pillars (i.e. elements) being quite friendly with each other. Any rivalry certainly isn't supposed to be worse than friendly (I can imagine two priests after a fight bantering along the lines of: "if you had the swiftness of Fire, you wouldn't have earned that black eye, you know" -- "ah, quite true, but if you had the solidity of Earth, you wouldn't fear a black eye so much"). But I guess that nearly 150 years since the last serious threat, petty politicking might have taken root. Not enough that they should be considered fractious or disorganized, but enough that they might waste precious moments stuck in a council chamber while the Fedayeen/Kurgan/whoever ride with swords drawn... It might make an interesting journey, from being looked down on for his adherence to "wild", "pre-Pillar", "village" elementalism, to being hailed as a hero of the land. Also, Walkers in the Waste. Must include Walkers in the Waste somehow! Yes! A perfect character. "House of War". It's the Turkish name for Belgrade. (Dar es Salaam is "House of Peace".) It has been brought to my attention that "jihad" doesn't really mean "war" but "religious struggle" which can mean anything from trying to be a better person to cutting or blowing people up, so a more literal name might be Dar al-Harb (which means something like "house of war/chaos"). But Dar ul-Jihad will have a more sinister ring for modern player, which is good, and the Kurgan could easily have been fanatics. Unswerving conviction always helps if you're trying to be a powerful evil tyranny. That's it, more or less. "Realm of the Righteous", "World of the Rightly-Guided", something like that. My Arabic is pretty much non-existant too. This is just the result of a bit of Googling and Wikipedia searching and cutting and pasting phrases to create new ones (probably mismatching inflections horribly in the process). [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Alam al-Rashidun: Elemental Renaissance
Top
