brushyourteeth wrote...
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the point of this topic isn't "Bioware are racists!" it's "If we travel north, diversity is appropriate" and also "African tribal warriors make the warrior inside my heart sit up and pay closer attention"
Great pictures in the OP, BTW
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No idea whether the ‘ Fog warriors’ go anywhere, to me they feel like some of those cool-sounding Codex entries that may never get realized, or even retconned out of existence. I think it’s totally unpredictable what BioWare would do if they ever get to Seheron and the ‘Fog warriors’. So far, they have been only consistent in the inconsistency of the use of the consistency argument (yeah, I know. I got a headache just thinking about it myself).
However, should they use it…*
If you look at the map of Thedas (
images.wikia.com/dragonage/es/images/f/f2/Thedasmap_wallpaper_1920x1200.jpg ) and zoom in, you’ll notice that Anderfels and Tevinter are pretty far north, overlapping in latitude much of Rivain and the southern part of Seheron as well.
(that’s why I think, should BioWare use the consistency argument, the Anderfels people ought to look (mostly) southern European / Mediterranean, not very different from the Rivainis. Of course, if they combine this with a Herr Flick accent…And Anders looked Northern European, so there’s potentially some major…inconsistency and/or mental disconnect there.)In fact, Seheron appears to be pretty close to Minrathous and its peninsula**.
If you buy into the ‘Minrathous is Rome’ analogy, that would make Seheron possibly analogous to Sardinia, Sicily, Tunisia, Greece, Cyprus or Turkey. If BioWare actually uses the consistency-with-the analogy argument, they might go for something like the Greek klephts who fought the Ottoman Turks or, in another direction, the Kabyle of Algeria, who resisted the French conquerors.
(That moustache looks lethal)
Kabyle warriors
Lalla Fadhma, Kabyle resistance leaderI am posting these not as an alternative to the (sub-Saharan-) African suggestion, but as a warning that if and when BioWare uses the consistency-and-analogy argument, they can easily go for options similar to these. And frankly, provided they create terrific Kabylo-klepht-whatever ‘Fog warriors’, there’s no problem with that. Even if they don’t, it would be stretching it a bit that Seheron, almost next door to Minrathous itself, wouldn’t be at least culturally heavily influenced by Tevinter, or even an integral part of it. That there are local people who are fed up being ‘caught between the lines’ is believable, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they are noticeably different from the Tevinter people in terms of looks or culture.
Frankly, if BioWare goes with the OP’s suggestion, they might do this because they think it’s cool, or important to depict an African-inspired culture or, at least as likely, because of rational commercial considerations (‘ 12% of the population of the USA identifies as African-American, the USA is our biggest market, so…’). Certainly not because of any consistency-and-analogy argument.
Having said that, it would
definitely be a relief to finally have a non-European inspired human culture. I myself am partial to the northeast African peoples and the Dayaks. :innocent:
DAYAKS:
An enemy’s skull is, indeed, a thing of beauty…The La Tene Celts would feel right at home 
And tattoos too. I think those are stylized squid?*
That is, assuming Thedas’ world is a planet that, apart from magic, pretty much operates like we would expect, and isn’t a flat disc spinning on the back of a giant space platypus swimming in the mystical ocean of Unbeing while chasing giant space hamsters.
Which actually would be kind of cool…**
Note: Seheron is supposed to be - at least partly - jungle if I recall correctly. However, if Thedas and its world are comparable to Europe and our own, then it's way too far south for that jungle to be 'tropical jungle', as in the case of Borneo and parts of Africa and central and southern America.
But there also exist 'temperate' rainforests, including in Europe and its vicinity. The temperate rainforests of, for example, northern Iran may be an example of what to expect:
And, while the locals grow rice, there used to be tigers in them woods. Now extinct, alas:crying:.
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