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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 1308159" data-attributes="member: 1211">If you add ¨ over the "a" in dwargh and pronounce it in a Germanic way you get the way dwarf is pronounced in German and to an extent in Swedish. As I guess the model of fantasy dwarves is taken from Germanic myths that would probably be a sensible way to spell it. The problem is that it would be hard for Anglo-Saxians to pronounce; if you think about it is "dwarf" a logical Anglo-Saxian pronounciation of "dvärg" (or dwärgh) given the centuries it would take for the word to evolve.On subject: A fantasy world based around 200-300 BC would allow for a greater versatility when it comes to races if placed in the Middle east:-Greeks/Romans would be representants of white people, Arabians would be, well, Arabians <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />, Nubia was a big kingdom of black people, Germanic tribes and Africans from the south would be barbarians and if you want Asians (as in Chinese, Japanese) you could make Asia a bit shorter so that traders from East Asia would be more common. Just change the map a bit and rename the peoples above and you get a multiethnical society that would actually be pretty realistic.In medieval Europe it is harder to fit in other races then Caucasians but it isnt impossible if you crank up the trading and (as D&D does) do away with the monotheistic religions. So it is not impossible to create a plausible fantasy Europe with an ethnical diversity without too much work.</blockquote>

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