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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 6462291" data-attributes="member: 509">We had a session last night. It was short, less than three hours of play, and we had problems focusing on the game in front of us, so we kept going off on tangents. We were thus not able to finish off G1 as expected, but it produced a few tidbits on the wider world:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> After defeating the Giants, the Moon Elves retreated back to their habitats while the Humans and Halflings were effectively stripped of their culture, leaving the Dwarves as the main cultural influence of the era. The Flan is pseudo-medieval-germanic in style, whose trappings were adopted from the Dwarves. In the centuries since, each locality has developed their own spin on the style, of course, but there is a clear Dwarven feel to the Flan.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The same goes for moral attitudes on the Flan, which are very tribal and somewhat nordic-lutheran--a person's moral character is measured in his work-ethic and his dedication to his "clan" (whatever form the "clan" may take), and a person is expected to project a demeanor of exaggerated sense of honor yet personal humility. Any extreme gluttony or decadence is frowned upon. There is some sense of gender roles, but more as a default expectation than anything enforced by society, while sexual attitudes are liberal as long as any shenanigans are kept private. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> There is a certain pseudo-roman-renaissance strand of style among the more wealthy of the bourgeoisie, which is a fashion callback to Old Netheril.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Flannish Common is a form of Old Netheril fused onto a simplified Dwarven grammatical framework, peppered with words from various local dialects.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The greatest known wizard on the Flan is The Great Albus, Mayor-for-Life of Golem City, headmaster of the School of Conjuration and President of the Flannish Beard Appreciation Society, the highest authority on Beards on the Flan. He's very old, very powerful--both in the arcane arts and politically--and wields a beard to die for.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The best ale is from Blöde, which is the only big city in the Highlands. Blöde is pretty far south, though, and it's true Highlanderness is commonly disputed among the people of the Barrier Kingdoms.[sup]1[/sup]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> But the best and most expensive wines come from the Savage Coast, the southernmost part of the Flan (south of the Lowlands and the Steppes). </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The Savage Coast's Freeholds are seen as the epitome of crime, corruption, gluttony and moral decay in the rest of the Flan. The Freeholds were never taken by the Giants--relatively few giants ventured this far south--so they still retain a lot of their Netheril identity and it's more liberal, gluttonous and decidedly non-Dwarven attitudes. </li> </ul>---[sup]1[/sup] The Highland-snobbery was all provided by the players, who went on a rant among themselves against those wimpy southerners with their nuanced beers and puny weather.</blockquote>

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