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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dualazi" data-source="post: 6939126" data-attributes="member: 6855537">Moderately interesting read, I liked your observations on cultural exchanges around hubs like Calimshan, it’s something I’d like to see in more works in general and definitely helps breathe life into a setting when you can see the slow shift in mannerisms and customs. Trade in general is often overlooked, so props for that as well.That said, it seems like a large focus of the… let’s call it an essay, seems to be centered on making the Al-Qadim a more ‘accurate’ (not)Islam, and I’m curious why. If it’s being “remixed” as you say in the opening, then there’s really not a definite need to create analogues between the fictional world and the real one. You should be writing what you think is interesting or evocative and not be as concerned with pseudo-accuracy, in my opinion.As far as Djinn go, I’d avoid designating them Fey, since D&D at large has largely made the word/classification synonymous with the European ideas of such. They’re definitely outsiders/elementals. As per the feywild, I’d assume there wouldn’t be a different one at all, just that it would be a different part of the same plane. It’s worth noting that the feywild doesn’t have to have tons of greenery, it’s just the natural world in all its shapes dialed up to 11, deserts included. Some of the old legends of the Djinn also feature large caves where they’re said to reside, so the feydark might also be worth looking at.This part of your post depresses me. As I stated elsewhere in a recently closed thread, appropriation doesn’t really exist. Cultures and peoples have been swapping ideas and customs for as long as there have been people to hold them, and even your examples show that with the blending of Hindu and Islamic faiths, which at one point could have been called ‘appropriation’. You should attempt to write and create whatever you want to, it’s vastly superior to create an offensive product than it is to stay silent for fear of rustling feathers. This feels incredibly pandering to me, like you’re afraid of adding genuine negative traits or societal faults to the Al-Qadim, and have to make them seem far more advanced and powerful just so everyone’s sure you’re not beating up on Islam. Every society, fictional and real, has negative traits, and ignoring that is as much a disservice as suppressing the positive aspects.</blockquote>

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