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ParanoidObsessive posted...

by contrast, dwarves are like 99% beards and axes).

idk, I heard from a certain ranger/king that even dwarven women have beards.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

(On the other hand, in the Greek pantheon Athena was the goddess of "good" war while Ares was the god of "bad" war, while their god of healing and medicine was male, so maybe it's not as unrealistic as one might think.)

Well, she was more associated with wisdom and the arts. The war bit more reflected Athens' success when it came to holding its own against rivals.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Feel free to throw out whatever ideas or suggestions you like. At worst I just ignore them all, at best, I might take an idea, or an idea might trigger an entirely different idea or way of thinking for me.

That's part of what I love best about brainstorming. Multiple people throwing out ideas, one idea playing off others, setting off a chain of new ideas and modes of thinking, changing perspectives, and generally creating a wealth of ideas to pick and choose from.

Plus, like I said, in the grand scheme of things this probably doesn't really matter, since I likely won't ever do anything with the idea anyway in the long run.

Awesome. Now the only problem is I *forgot* what I had intended to say earlier, other than joking about an elven Margaret Thatcher but I can't remember even how I was going to build into that.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I think that's actually why a lot of fantasy settings that go with their own calendar tend to bypass the real world influence entirely. ie, whereas our calendar is six months named after gods (some relatively obscure), four months that are literally just numbered 7-10, and two named after the guy who created the calendar and his adopted dad, worlds like D&D's Faerun or Tamriel in the Elder Scrolls just give all their months seasonal-sounding names like Deepwinter, First Seed, Summertide, Frostfall, and so on (or conversely, the way Native Americans named the various full moons of a year Harvest Moon, Hunter's Moon, Wolf Moon, Blue Corn Moon etc).

I more meant the day-to-day issues where one nation has its calendar and another nation has its calendar, whereas the world now pretty much just recognizes the one (thanks to international commerce). Otherwise I like the notion of tying months into seasons.
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