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Celtic Influences In Mystara?

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#1
iramus
Nov 25, 2005 14:01:39 I was wondering if any of the published material for Mystara was influenced by the Celtic culture?

Any ideas?
#2
Goldrak
Nov 25, 2005 14:45:04 The Hinterlands in Davania have somew celtic influence.
#3
verro_diabolico
Nov 25, 2005 16:50:24 Also redstone and dunadale seems to hide a "celtics" ancestry in the names.
#4
agathokles
Nov 26, 2005 7:35:30
I was wondering if any of the published material for Mystara was influenced by the Celtic culture?

Sure, here they are, in order of decreasing details:

- The Fairies (Tall Tales of the Wee Folk): the Fairy part of PC1 is strongly based on Celtic lore (sidhe, Annwn, the Ard Ri, ), while the Forest Folk part is more mediterranean.

- Robrenn (Savage Coast): a nation with strong Gaulish influences (of the Asterix kind). See the Dragon Magazine article as well as the SC campaign book.

- The Principality of Klantyre in Glantri, inhabited by people from Laterre's version of Scotland. See the Gazetteer of Glantri.

- The Hinterlands (celtic names, but the environment is a jungle, so there're also many differences)

- The Isle of Dawn (many names of places, Dunadale itself); also the Leprechaun kingdom of Feylinn is not on Brun. PC1 gives the IoD as an hypotetic location.

Not many details on the last two, so you'll have to make up stuff yourself.
#5
zombiegleemax
Nov 28, 2005 7:40:51 I've added my own celtic influenced area to Mystara. To the North of the Great Bay in Norwold, there is a land called Caltia. Basically kind of Scottish-Irish Celtic culture, based largely on the AD&D 2nd edition supplement The Celts.

To the South of the Great Bay, before Heldann people moved into the region (and subsequent Thyatian and Alphatian invasions) was a further Caltic group more influenced by Welsh culture. Small remnants of that culture still exist, their main sites being two towns in the shadows if the Northern Wyrmsteeth, Llanderris and Llandwydir. The Heldann people of Norwold, being subject to wave after wave of invasions and incursions, have become rather more cosmopolitan than the Calts, and have developed a strange and complex culture. Think of them as Midlands to Southern English.

Canon sources for celtic influence in Mystara are, in truth, rather slim. None of the celtic infleunced cultures in the published works are terribly convincing.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 iramus Nov 25, 2005 14:01:39	I was wondering if any of the published material for Mystara was influenced by the Celtic culture? Any ideas?
#2 Goldrak Nov 25, 2005 14:45:04	The Hinterlands in Davania have somew celtic influence.
#3 verro_diabolico Nov 25, 2005 16:50:24	Also redstone and dunadale seems to hide a "celtics" ancestry in the names.
#4 agathokles Nov 26, 2005 7:35:30	I was wondering if any of the published material for Mystara was influenced by the Celtic culture? Sure, here they are, in order of decreasing details: - The Fairies (Tall Tales of the Wee Folk): the Fairy part of PC1 is strongly based on Celtic lore (sidhe, Annwn, the Ard Ri, ), while the Forest Folk part is more mediterranean. - Robrenn (Savage Coast): a nation with strong Gaulish influences (of the Asterix kind). See the Dragon Magazine article as well as the SC campaign book. - The Principality of Klantyre in Glantri, inhabited by people from Laterre's version of Scotland. See the Gazetteer of Glantri. - The Hinterlands (celtic names, but the environment is a jungle, so there're also many differences) - The Isle of Dawn (many names of places, Dunadale itself); also the Leprechaun kingdom of Feylinn is not on Brun. PC1 gives the IoD as an hypotetic location. Not many details on the last two, so you'll have to make up stuff yourself.
#5 zombiegleemax Nov 28, 2005 7:40:51	I've added my own celtic influenced area to Mystara. To the North of the Great Bay in Norwold, there is a land called Caltia. Basically kind of Scottish-Irish Celtic culture, based largely on the AD&D 2nd edition supplement The Celts. To the South of the Great Bay, before Heldann people moved into the region (and subsequent Thyatian and Alphatian invasions) was a further Caltic group more influenced by Welsh culture. Small remnants of that culture still exist, their main sites being two towns in the shadows if the Northern Wyrmsteeth, Llanderris and Llandwydir. The Heldann people of Norwold, being subject to wave after wave of invasions and incursions, have become rather more cosmopolitan than the Calts, and have developed a strange and complex culture. Think of them as Midlands to Southern English. Canon sources for celtic influence in Mystara are, in truth, rather slim. None of the celtic infleunced cultures in the published works are terribly convincing.