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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 6705322" data-attributes="member: 6563">Actually, the opposite is true... Kara-Tur had direct analogues for various East and Southeast Asian nations and cultures It had two Chinas (Shou Lung and T'u Lung), Two Japans (Kozakura and Wa)—one modeled after the Sengoku era, the other modeled after the Edo period, a Korea (Koryo), Tibet (Tabot), Mongolia (the Plain of Horses), Southeast Asian lands (The Jungle Lands), and Indonesia (the Island Kingdoms).Unlike other settings like Faerun, Greyhawk and Dragonlance, where there is no one-to-one historical equivalent for their countries, Kara-Tur took cultures wholecloth and then added fantasy elements. It would have been nice, if there was more intermixing to come up with different countries that had no direct analogues and instead had distinct cultures that took an "a little of this and a little of that" approach.</blockquote>