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Ed Greenwood is Contributing to A Sourcebook About Thay
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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 8542295" data-attributes="member: 10531"><p>The novel establishes that there's a place called Osse that a specific character is from. We don't know how big it is (it could be a moderately-sized island), nor that it is for certain on Toril (since the character could have gone through a portal unknown to him; Osse could be on Abeir, or Oerth, or, for that matter, Earth in the past).</p><p></p><p>Taking an entire huge unmarked continent on the Toril map and transforming it into a precontact Australia-New Zealand hybrid over one character in one novel smacks of the same sort of epileptic trees over-reading into unvetted minor details that resulted in (for example) a one-product Maztica allusion to the real-world Pacific Northwest peoples into a whole medieval Viking culture with a Norse pantheon in a fan-authored DMs Guild product (because it mentioned that the people were seafaring and lived in longhouses, and the fan-author didn't know about Pacific Northwest peoples but did know Vikings were seafaring and had longhouses).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="see, post: 8542295, member: 10531"] The novel establishes that there's a place called Osse that a specific character is from. We don't know how big it is (it could be a moderately-sized island), nor that it is for certain on Toril (since the character could have gone through a portal unknown to him; Osse could be on Abeir, or Oerth, or, for that matter, Earth in the past). Taking an entire huge unmarked continent on the Toril map and transforming it into a precontact Australia-New Zealand hybrid over one character in one novel smacks of the same sort of epileptic trees over-reading into unvetted minor details that resulted in (for example) a one-product Maztica allusion to the real-world Pacific Northwest peoples into a whole medieval Viking culture with a Norse pantheon in a fan-authored DMs Guild product (because it mentioned that the people were seafaring and lived in longhouses, and the fan-author didn't know about Pacific Northwest peoples but did know Vikings were seafaring and had longhouses). [/QUOTE]
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