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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 8650621" data-attributes="member: 6670763">After staring at the map cropped like this for a long enough time, it started reminding me of Skyrim.And I think pretty much every possible idea you might get from Skyrim should fit in perfectly with this region. The Reachmen are somewhat like Nar barbarians, the Companions are a Rashemi berserker lodge, Nord Tombs could be Nar fortresses (described as being small surface fortifications with huge underground tunnels), Dragon Priests are like ancient Nar demonbinders. Solitude could be a city in Impiltur, and Thesk is already pretty much Whiterun to begin with. Oh yeah, and the Red Wizards are Thalmor. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I think Diablo 2 could also be a nice source for ideas to mine, with both the ancient Nars and the Red Wizards being big fans of summoning demons, and the Rashemi barbarians vigilanty holding back the infernal hordes.And you can never go wrong with The 13th Warrior. It's basically an Untherite joining 12 Rashemi berserkers on a quest to defend a town against [SPOILER]Nar barbarians corrupted by a demon possessed shaman.[/SPOILER]Though another thing I noticed is that even with all the places and peoples described, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of plot hooks inherent to the setting. Red Wizards trying to invade Rashemen or Aglarond is a bit of a one trick pony. And the region isn't quite the place where scared farmers are hiding in their villages waiting for some great warriors from a distant land to save them. It's less the typical question of "Why don't any of the high level NPCs deal with this?" and more "Why doesn't anyone of these badass villagers deal with this themselves?"I'm not much a hero of Heroic Adventurers traveling the Land in Search for Wrongs to right to begin with, but I think in this part of the Realms it seems particularly out of place. However, being such a large region with mostly very sparse settlements, but a rich history of ancient evil sorcerers and filled with many great dangerous beasts, I think the more classic Treasure Hunters types would fit in very well around these parts. And you're not even robbing the cultural sites of the native inhabitants, which is always nice.What I do find rather puzzling is how strong the focus on just humans is in the material I've been flipping through so far. Adding ogers, trolls, hill, stone, and frost giants to the setting is a no brainer. But what else might work well in regard to people monsters? I feel that if you'd want to feature orcs prominently, you would need them in considerable numbers to make any kind of splash, and that would mean having to add orc cities and strongholds to the map which doesn't really have any by default. So I am somewhat leaning away from that.</blockquote>

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