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From: Mikko Rintasaari <rintasaa_at_mail.student.oulu.fi>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:18:50 +0200


> Mikko Rintasaari
>
> >What do people look like? How do they dress? Individuals, as well as
> >nationalities.

D.Dunham:
> We defined Sartarites, Tarshites, and Grazers in King of Dragon Pass.

That's true. It would be nice to have your summary on them in written form too.  

> >At the moment I would really, really like to know what did Sartar the
> >Changer look like, and what do his descendants look like?
> >
> >Was Sartar dark or light, or parhaps a readhead? (Incidentally Gunda
> >should be a scandinavian style blonde, not red!). Did Sartar have a beard
> >or a moustache? Did he dress simply or splendedly?
>
> Since he came from Heortland, he would have looked much like the
> other immigrants (whom you've seen in KoDP).

Ah, but I think Sartar will be the most important single figure in the country bearing his name, and given that he still lives within his name, there will be not only art and stories, but dreams and manifestations too (My campain is pre-invasion)

So I think Sartar's appearance is important.  

> As to the color of his hair, it's not something that most people care
> about -- certainly we never got comments like this from Greg during
> the development of KoDP!

Greg has told me that he does not think on that level unless he has to. But a GM/Narrator has to think on that level of detail.

> As for his attire, I imagine it depended on
> what he was doing. I'm sure he dressed splendidly when he married the
> Feathered Horse Queen. I suspect he dressed simply much of the time.

Propably, but I would guess that he had a style that people still remember, having founded the kingdom and all.  

> Of course, Greg and I are both American, and we are thus used to a
> pretty mixed batch of genetics (as compared to say Iceland). There
> are enough genes floating around here that you can't predict hair
> color from the parents. I think the Sartarites are fairly similar in
> this regard -- they've had a pretty turbulent history, and have ways
> of accepting foreigners into their gene pool.

The Heortlings have been visitor friendly, so they propably have variation in this too. Though I think there's a lot of blondes and redheads.

        ---

In a nother post, I wrote:
> << The orlanthi need skirmishers, in addition to their
> heavy infantry. >>
>
> I didn't think the Orlanthi had any heavy infantry. What is the
> definition of heavy infantry? They've go naked blue painted savages,
> they've got heroic war and dangerously fearless warleaders, they've got
> brave farmers with spears and hard hards, they've got ruthless, death
> obsessed mercenaries. Heavy infantry, I would say, is what they have
> not got.
>
> Keith N

Heavy infantry = troops that fight with melee weapons in hand to hand

                 combat.

Light infantry = Troops that fight with skirmish weapons, and avoid

                 sustained melee.

This is at least how I've learned the terms.

Me:
> >The bronze age swords vere straight and double edged.

Peter:
> So? Kralorela is not bronze age china, especially with its
> crossbows, rockets and scale armor.

The chinise did indeed have these things. They even had combat gasses in the bronze age. That's what I call alchemy! (or did I get you wrong, and you meant that the kralori definitely don't have such advanced weaponry?)  

> >I wonder, are you confusing the Kralori with the Vormaini?
>
> Nor is Kralorela a straight Chinese copy. The Utuma and the
> Military Police owe more to Japan and the Stone Obelisks that
> record Mikaday's teachings are probably based on the Indian
> rock edicts of Asoka.
>
> - --Peter Metcalfe

It's just that _so_ many people treat Kralorela as Nippon, and late Nippon at that.  

        -Adept


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