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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8761313" data-attributes="member: 58172">Flannaess drives from the earlier Castles & Crusades map that intentionally stylizes North America. The City of Greyhawk corresponds to Chicago and the Town of Blackmoor corresponds to a remote town on Hudson Bay in Canada, where the town of Churchill is.The Flan are inspired by the reallife Indigenous of these same locations and elsewhere in North America.The Flannae are the "native" "tribes" of Flannaess, who are "hunters", being the "first humans" to arrive in the continent. Their "bronze" skin ranges from red "copper" to dark brown; the hair black or brown; and similarly, the eyes "dark brown, black, brown", or for a touch of fantastic exoticism, "amber". Etcetera. These intentionally describe Indigenous Americans. Unfortunately, Gygax evaluates these Indigenous as having "made no appreciable civilizating efforts". Meanwhile, they speak "a stagnant language" that is "difficult to translate modern concepts into". Moreover, where he defines these ethnicities as human "races", his commentary is actually racist.Illustrations that portray the Flan display Indigenous American material culture, even war paint.The Flan are the fantasy version of Indigenous North America.</blockquote>