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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phlebas" data-source="post: 3953974" data-attributes="member: 23810">Katherine Kerr books show a celtic evolved to medieval society - might be a good baseline and since whe has elves / dwarves as well ............Scottish history is mainly celtic as well and thats didn't evolve too differently from the rest of the british isles, scandinavia or northern europe. the biggest difference i can see in a fantasy world would be the absence of a cross-culture monotheism and playing 'what if' for the absence of christianity in europe is well established past timeIf you want to stress the differences - use tribal affiliations, the concept of kingship not being directly inherited but elected from a small pool of nobles, a priesthood controlling the mysteries of religion and a tendency to fight amongst themselves unless there is an outsider to gang up against.Funnily enough i was having a chat with a colleague from Sri Lanka recently and he was highlighting that their, the 'clan' you come from still has a major impact on what job you do even though there's officially no caste system as such - thats always struck me as something you'd see where tribe is more important than nation and the 'celtic' stereotype would seem to work well with that.(There's a theory going around that the celts started off in the middle eastern steps thousands of years ago and migrated through southern russia to europe picking up a distinctive culture on the way - effectively celtic culture was already contaminated by germanic / roman ideas before it even arrived in the british isles, and then met native british (pictish), scandinavian and all the other influences you get in multi-cultural europe....)</blockquote>

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