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@Maxxor - Overworld Hero Africa isn't one culture. Zakara is the equivalent of the continent of Africa, and there are many human cultures there. Unfortunately, they aren't expanded upon, so I tend to look at the map and come up with a culture based on that. The weirdest exception is the Mullan nation is in Faerun, south of Thay in Northeastern Faerun, and they're supposed to be Egypt... which is in North Africa. Note: this reply accidentally tagged the wrong person. I edited it to reflect the change, but don't know if that really worked.
I read once that a elf-mage can memorize greater 100 page spells in 50 years but a human mage did it in less than a year......cause we don't always have tomorrow
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It should be noted that Calishites' ancestors were brought to Faerûn by their genie lords in -7800 Dale Reconing, and were mostly taken from Zakharan Peninsula. As Zakhara was Enlightened circa 800 DR, it shows that the land always had connection with genies, and that while acknowledging shared descent, Calishites and modern Zakharans would not have all that much in common in terms of culture nowadays, even with shared prolonged genie influence. Cultural posturing seems to be innate to both ethnicities, though.
Thank you for uploading these videos, I've been following you since your 5th video, & everything has improved. They are great sources of lore for me and many DMs. Keep it up brotha!
wow your videos are somehow almost always magically relevant to content i'm working on. 10/10 lol TY I was just thinking up potential human and faerun creation stories. My custom game lore is already a little different. In my game almost everything came from AO. His original form became that of reality itself. His skin and bones turned into earth & stone, his breath filled all space, Ao's heart became the prime material and from it's veins ran the blood of creation. Almost all races propagated from this changing aqueous form and were sent to mold to the land. As they spread out to new lands the individuals began inheriting traits from areas they adapted to. Eventually their forms settled like hard clay and they became the different origin races of AO's universe. Humans are late descendants of those that did not mold to any particular land, they are a generic and adaptable race with alot of potential for individual personality . At least that's the story some folk tell
- Chondalwood... CORMYR.... *Eyes wide open* - ...Dalelands and the Moonsea *Slowly fades* ...Nah, not (fully) true. Great video! I'll use this info for detailling my characters better. Thank you sir
Humans become really focused on one thing, whereas elves live so long that they can afford to be distracted by many things, but as a result never specialize in any particular things. This is why humans become diverse, because they focus intensely on different things knowing that their time is short. Humans fight wars because when one culture seeks to undermine another culture, either side feels "oppressed", making their lives a waste, having focused on their own one thing and then seeing it disrupted or destroyed. They don't want it to go to waste, so they'll sacrifice themselves and end the lives of others who get in the way. From that comes all the moral foundations that generally drive mankind. Elves are not as warlike as humans - after all, they live long lives, and so value it more than humans; and even evil elves will avoid direct violence for fear of their own deaths, and tend to prefer long plots. However, they are all vulnerable to sin at an individual level, which can instill in them, even sometimes in the good ones, the desire to manipulate other intelligent species to get what they want. An elf has lived such a long life that they have surely sinned and redeemed themselves many times over. Elves don't place as much value in relationships with shorter lived creatures, but highly prize relationships with their own kind. This leads to the view that they're "racist", which isn't always true, though there is a certain inescapable smugness that is carried with every elf. Elves will engage in family vendettas, as long lives lead to long memories; Evil elves do so enthusiastically as a means to power and influence, and failing that, a kind of consequentialist fanatacism, while Neutral elves will do so begrudgingly out of shame, guilt and loyalty, whereas Good elves will devote significant time to making amends and ensuring peace, only volunteering to fight the inescapable battles that would retain the trust necessary to ensure peace. Most elves desire freedom from social obligation and tend to found communities based on mutual respect and standards that come before any terms of employment or socioeconomic governmental policy.
Anyway, it'd be cool if elves were jacks of all trades, but a specialist character would be a human. Elves just don't care enough to get really good at something, unless it's artistry, like music or painting or sculpture, engraving, etc. Humans can be artsy as well, but this is usually the result of luxurious living (ie. not having to get by on physical labour for food and shelter, and having the free time to work on one's talent), and the general osmosis that results from human diversity. At least one human out there will want to specialize in art, though few have matched the elves as plenty of elves have spent many decades of working towards singular items of beauty.
Im new to this whole DnD and I Came looking for ideas to base my human rogue/wizard like character. Being new I know nothing about how my character would come to be but this definitely gave me ideas of how to go about explaining it
I choose to think it functions similarly and hilariously like pieces of fiction where multiple pantheons and creations coexist: everyone had the same idea for making people
it's because human have such short lifespans compared to other races that they were able to embrace new ideas faster as each generation die off, and live long enough to build upon it, not because they were genius that could do 10 times more than a elf with the same amount of time at least that would have been a more realistic take in my opinion
i have never once read that humans were one of the creator races. dragons were one of the first races on toril, and they had never heard of humans until a million years later.
Not even watched yet.... but..,. Seriously... humans are the majority of people walking Faerun. There needed to be drastically more info on ethnicities. 5e made humans more enticing. But in other editions the meta game was what drove my players to play humans. On the occasional instance that they did
Interesting realisation i learn about human race in D&D setting. 1) Humans have no distinct racial gods yet gods that based on unique culture and sub-race appear in far too many number. 2) Half-Orc is better than pure-Orc on character sheet, mostly due to Human side. 3) Humans ascend into godhood so often in official material, I think the writer is actually the master of reality itself, the true racial god for humanity.
I don't understand why elves are portrayed as taller than humans in the forgotten realms...the average male adult elf is 5'5 and 130 lbs ,5'7 would be a tall elf. The average male adult human is 5'9 and 175 lbs, with 6 feet not uncommon... these facts are from me... someone who has played D&D since 1985.
I don't think it was your best man, sorry. I think this is why a lot of people dislike humans in fantasy, tell me that this next sentence isn't ported into every single fantasy story ever: Humans make up for their short life with passion, and because of this they dominate race in 'Proper name'. That is why I hate all of these D&D style humans, they are either, here are fantasy Spaniards or they are they like gold cloth and fancy things. We here on this world have diverse and rich cultures, like seriously look up Japanese mummification and tell me that isn't wild! But they are all this generic pan-west Europian culture which makes me want to tear my eyes out just to stop the boredom. You want to know why so many people want to be from Thay because they actually have a culture!
That's ok can't hit the mark every video for every person. According to this survey Humans are in fact the most popular fantasy race to play. I think you're confusing your dislike of humans for "a lot of people's" opinion. fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-your-dd-character-rare/ And yes that sentence is in a lot of fantasy, which is why I felt it was important to include it into the video. :) Thanks for the comment!
Sounds like you should leave your distain elsewhere because your criticism has nothing to do with this video. Great job on the lore! Always quick and easy to watch videos.
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Short version: Callishite: Arabic. Chondathan: Mediterranean. Illuskan: Norse. Tethyran: Western-Europe.
Would the Callishite also act as Africa?
Joshua Fogg I think there is a separate sub-Saharan equivalent but I am not sure
@Maxxor - Overworld Hero Africa isn't one culture. Zakara is the equivalent of the continent of Africa, and there are many human cultures there. Unfortunately, they aren't expanded upon, so I tend to look at the map and come up with a culture based on that.
The weirdest exception is the Mullan nation is in Faerun, south of Thay in Northeastern Faerun, and they're supposed to be Egypt... which is in North Africa.
Note: this reply accidentally tagged the wrong person. I edited it to reflect the change, but don't know if that really worked.
@@km1dash6 no but you can group them together, particularly western sub Saharan Africa the same way you can group “Western” civilization
@@eliezercohengoldberg1381 meant to TAG " @Maxxor - Overworld Hero " in my comment. Sorry about that.
I read once that a elf-mage can memorize greater 100 page spells in 50 years but a human mage did it in less than a year......cause we don't always have tomorrow
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HUMANS!
MANS GREATEST RACE!
-Humans
the emperor protects
Imperium Gang
FourElemental He’s right you know
For the Imperium!
It should be noted that Calishites' ancestors were brought to Faerûn by their genie lords in -7800 Dale Reconing, and were mostly taken from Zakharan Peninsula. As Zakhara was Enlightened circa 800 DR, it shows that the land always had connection with genies, and that while acknowledging shared descent, Calishites and modern Zakharans would not have all that much in common in terms of culture nowadays, even with shared prolonged genie influence. Cultural posturing seems to be innate to both ethnicities, though.
Yeah, I'm definitely having SG1 show up in my next game. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you for uploading these videos, I've been following you since your 5th video, & everything has improved. They are great sources of lore for me and many DMs. Keep it up brotha!
Thanks so much! 😀
wow your videos are somehow almost always magically relevant to content i'm working on. 10/10 lol TY
I was just thinking up potential human and faerun creation stories. My custom game lore is already a little different.
In my game almost everything came from AO. His original form became that of reality itself. His skin and bones turned into earth & stone, his breath filled all space, Ao's heart became the prime material and from it's veins ran the blood of creation.
Almost all races propagated from this changing aqueous form and were sent to mold to the land. As they spread out to new lands the individuals began inheriting traits from areas they adapted to. Eventually their forms settled like hard clay and they became the different origin races of AO's universe. Humans are late descendants of those that did not mold to any particular land, they are a generic and adaptable race with alot of potential for individual personality .
At least that's the story some folk tell
Yeah Wulfgar! 5:04
- Chondalwood... CORMYR....
*Eyes wide open*
- ...Dalelands and the Moonsea
*Slowly fades*
...Nah, not (fully) true. Great video! I'll use this info for detailling my characters better. Thank you sir
Will you make a video specifically about Cormyr ?
it's on the list, and requested. I'll get to it as soon as I go back to locations :)
Humans become really focused on one thing, whereas elves live so long that they can afford to be distracted by many things, but as a result never specialize in any particular things. This is why humans become diverse, because they focus intensely on different things knowing that their time is short.
Humans fight wars because when one culture seeks to undermine another culture, either side feels "oppressed", making their lives a waste, having focused on their own one thing and then seeing it disrupted or destroyed. They don't want it to go to waste, so they'll sacrifice themselves and end the lives of others who get in the way. From that comes all the moral foundations that generally drive mankind.
Elves are not as warlike as humans - after all, they live long lives, and so value it more than humans; and even evil elves will avoid direct violence for fear of their own deaths, and tend to prefer long plots. However, they are all vulnerable to sin at an individual level, which can instill in them, even sometimes in the good ones, the desire to manipulate other intelligent species to get what they want. An elf has lived such a long life that they have surely sinned and redeemed themselves many times over. Elves don't place as much value in relationships with shorter lived creatures, but highly prize relationships with their own kind. This leads to the view that they're "racist", which isn't always true, though there is a certain inescapable smugness that is carried with every elf. Elves will engage in family vendettas, as long lives lead to long memories; Evil elves do so enthusiastically as a means to power and influence, and failing that, a kind of consequentialist fanatacism, while Neutral elves will do so begrudgingly out of shame, guilt and loyalty, whereas Good elves will devote significant time to making amends and ensuring peace, only volunteering to fight the inescapable battles that would retain the trust necessary to ensure peace. Most elves desire freedom from social obligation and tend to found communities based on mutual respect and standards that come before any terms of employment or socioeconomic governmental policy.
Anyway, it'd be cool if elves were jacks of all trades, but a specialist character would be a human. Elves just don't care enough to get really good at something, unless it's artistry, like music or painting or sculpture, engraving, etc.
Humans can be artsy as well, but this is usually the result of luxurious living (ie. not having to get by on physical labour for food and shelter, and having the free time to work on one's talent), and the general osmosis that results from human diversity. At least one human out there will want to specialize in art, though few have matched the elves as plenty of elves have spent many decades of working towards singular items of beauty.
Im new to this whole DnD and I Came looking for ideas to base my human rogue/wizard like character. Being new I know nothing about how my character would come to be but this definitely gave me ideas of how to go about explaining it
Welcome to the hobby! I hope you have a great game!
@@Jorphdan much appreciated, I'm definitely excited about it, it's been something I've wanted to try for some time now
I choose to think it functions similarly and hilariously like pieces of fiction where multiple pantheons and creations coexist: everyone had the same idea for making people
it's because human have such short lifespans compared to other races that they were able to embrace new ideas faster as each generation die off, and live long enough to build upon it, not because they were genius that could do 10 times more than a elf with the same amount of time at least that would have been a more realistic take in my opinion
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That is a distorted map of Earth! :)
Autralia was scaled up, Africa and North America were scaled down
There's a reason that all liches are assumed human unless told otherwise
Shout out to the Chondalwood! Represent what! what!
Maybe cover a few notable heroes from each of these races?
Humans are the coolest =w= we get feats
dat feat though :D
@@Jorphdan sexy, SAXY feats :3
Im emberessed about my feat fetish
Great video pal!
Thank you =)
Do you have any videos on THE GREAT OLD ONES
Sounds like a great topic, I haven't done any videos on this but I'll add it to my list :D
Me: toad men
Could you do a video on doppelgängers. If there is enough there for one.
Sounds like a great topic. I'll see what I can find :)
Are you going to talk about Kara-tur and Maztica?
i have never once read that humans were one of the creator races. dragons were one of the first races on toril, and they had never heard of humans until a million years later.
Not even watched yet.... but..,. Seriously... humans are the majority of people walking Faerun. There needed to be drastically more info on ethnicities. 5e made humans more enticing. But in other editions the meta game was what drove my players to play humans. On the occasional instance that they did
Interesting realisation i learn about human race in D&D setting.
1) Humans have no distinct racial gods yet gods that based on unique culture and sub-race appear in far too many number.
2) Half-Orc is better than pure-Orc on character sheet, mostly due to Human side.
3) Humans ascend into godhood so often in official material, I think the writer is actually the master of reality itself, the true racial god for humanity.
Fuck yes I've been waiting for this video 5evr
What About Neanderthals?
Can you do a video on Neverwinter?
Sure can!
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I don't understand why elves are portrayed as taller than humans in the forgotten realms...the average male adult elf is 5'5 and 130 lbs ,5'7 would be a tall elf. The average male adult human is 5'9 and 175 lbs, with 6 feet not uncommon... these facts are from me... someone who has played D&D since 1985.
hopefully you lhave a series on the dark elves :)
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@@Jorphdan ayyyyee! Youre the best!
A lot of advertising in this one. Sigh.
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I don't think it was your best man, sorry.
I think this is why a lot of people dislike humans in fantasy, tell me that this next sentence isn't ported into every single fantasy story ever: Humans make up for their short life with passion, and because of this they dominate race in 'Proper name'. That is why I hate all of these D&D style humans, they are either, here are fantasy Spaniards or they are they like gold cloth and fancy things. We here on this world have diverse and rich cultures, like seriously look up Japanese mummification and tell me that isn't wild! But they are all this generic pan-west Europian culture which makes me want to tear my eyes out just to stop the boredom. You want to know why so many people want to be from Thay because they actually have a culture!
That's ok can't hit the mark every video for every person.
According to this survey Humans are in fact the most popular fantasy race to play. I think you're confusing your dislike of humans for "a lot of people's" opinion.
fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-your-dd-character-rare/
And yes that sentence is in a lot of fantasy, which is why I felt it was important to include it into the video. :)
Thanks for the comment!
Sounds like you should leave your distain elsewhere because your criticism has nothing to do with this video.
Great job on the lore! Always quick and easy to watch videos.