Its funny history was my least favorite subject in school but here I am at midnight watching videos about the history and people of a fictional land. Ironically it makes me want to dig in to the real world analogues these cultures are inspired by. Kudos to you for this presentation
@@TheMythkeeper if that's what you want, make sure you keep your standard volume high, so advertisements don't blow up your watchers ears when those fire off. Keep your intro and outro volumes even with the rest of the video too. I watch videos while falling asleep and channels that miss that stuff fall off my playlists.
@@nikolibarastov4487 that was definitely part of it. Maybe they weren't engaged in the material that much themselves. Presenting it in a matter of fact way "on X date Y happened this will be on the test memorize these dates 😴" I also wasn't interested in it because I wasn't seeing how those things in the past affected other things in the past and now affect our future and present in some ways. But yeah now as an adult I'm fully immersed in Golarion lore, Westerosi lore and middle earth lol
As someone very new to Pathfinder's world, I'm so glad that you included the real world analogs for the various ethnicities. That really does help in getting a very base line understanding of the regions before delving in deeper.
As I understand Kellids once inhabited far greater area, inhabiting almost all of Avistan, but in most places they were completely assimilated. While I agree that Kellids are mostly inspired by literary example of Conan the Barbarian, I also notice a possible comparison with Celtic people (even the names Kellid/Celtic sound similar), especially the Sarkorian Kellids. They've had druids, scared circles, and other customs thet I link with Celtic history or mythology. Celts were also mentioned to have warriors that fought naked, and a Celtic nation of Picts had a custom of painting their bodies, and we can find these behaviors among Kellids.
Awesome to see the face reveal. This has been extremely enjoyable and I am looking forward to sharing this frankly underappreciated content. Have a luxurious day everyone! Thanks for the vid.
So actually the Varki are inspired by the Sami of Northern Europe. The Sami and the Norse were neighbors historically and I think the proximity between the Varki and the Ulfen is intentional.
In the first section your voice does come through if listening via headphones, as well as the last section after you appear back on screen. Your voice comes through fine via headphones for the rest of the video. Very enjoyable videos. If there was ever a class (like Klingon) offered, your videos would make great 'go-to' 'textbooks' for such a class.
The Jadwiga culture sound Polish, since the name reminded me of the Polish-Lithuanian king Jadwiga (Yadviga). I'm unsure for I just stumbled upon this video and can be incredibly wrong on my assumption. Also, Awesome video! I like it a lot!!
Hey, thank you so much for pointing this out! This would make sense, since the Jadwiga descend from the Baba Yaga, which is prominent in all slavic mythology.
I only recently started to learn ablit pathfinder lore and immediately the thing I liked most about it was that it's world was way more fleshed out than D&Ds which seemingly kept all of its nations and peoples intentionally vague.
I play a Varki Aasimar Ranger named Eemil, since I am of Sami Finnish heritage and wanted to explore the Ancestry in Golarion. The table pretty much has done something similar, cherry picking a heritage and stretching into a real world ancestry that made sense based on their back story and personal knowledge of the real world, since we are just beginning as we start to transition to PF 2E as our main system. These videos are fantastic as we expand our Pathfinder game and explore the world. Thank you.
If you haven't already, check out my Region Deepdive on the Lands of the Linnorm Kings as well. There's a little more information there about the Varki as well.
I want to thank you so much for your videos especially the ones that describe the world… I love your ancestry for the humans and the elves… I would love to see you do one for dwarves and orcs.
I use to dislike other players who pick Human (especially Variant) in 5e, yet come to accept most of them and will say Cusanian people in Pathfinder sound intresting or maybe I just have a weakness for Heterochromia. Could see myself playing a Curasinia with Ganzi (gm permission ofc) heritage with a tail.
This is great! I always saw Varisians as, you said, a blended people but overwhelming Eastern European; I see Ustalav as being that Gothic Eastern European given its Taldor roots. Then the citystates of Riddleport and Korvosa are similar but a bit more Chelish, but still with that Eastern European feel. I could see Korvosa looking very much like Prague, for example. And the landscape looking a lot like Bulgaria or western Russia.
Seems far more like central Europe. You mentioned Prague for example. Sounds more like Greece through Czechia, up to and including Germany. It fits both histories too, with Roman control or influence of these areas. We can probably put in Ustalav as Germany and/or Czechia, the mountains to the west as the border with France and Brevoy being western Russia. Though why the Varisians are also in what is on the map western Europe I don't know, maybe as a spread of Roman culture and leadership. Or maybe it's just the Aryan world.
I rewatched your video about the ancestries since I saw it, every time I had to build a new human character, which happens actually quite often since we have a lot of rounds (basically for any constellation of players, and everyone of us has their own rounds as DM). Right now, I wanted to build a character from Nidal, who is unbeknownst to the group the father of one of the player characters. So the thought that he looks quite a bit different to the rest was in my mind an interesting detail that they might get the hint. But I don't know if it would be so obvious for my players. Two of them started watching your videos after I told them about you, but I am not too sure if they watched this one. That leads me to the question I have: Can you tell me where this information about the Nidalese is from (I googled a bit but Icouldnt find it)? It's no problem if you don't know it; I just thought I'd ask because I know my players a bit and usually know which books they have read. I love your videos, thank you for making these
Great video MythKeeper! 🙏 I am a new fan and sub of your channel. LOVED your video about the history of Golarion as well, and will soon dive into all of your deep dive regional videos too, I am sure. ONE question though, PLEASE: Where is the Inner Sea map from that you are referencing in this video? I can't find ANY map this beautiful and detailed anywhere. The best I can find is from 1e, but still not this detailed. So please, can anyone refer me to where to get this map (either digitally or print?)
Hey! Welcome to the channel! Its the Rob McCaleb map. You may have to dig around for it. The history here is that he originally created it as a fan-project and then it was bought by Paizo and has been pulled down from various sites since it was bought. He know does all of the official Paizo maps IIRC.
I do have a witch that is a varkim. He an undead patron witch and his familiar is a little skeleton penguin. He is travelinf south to learn the secrets of the great necromamcers of those lands.
What books should I look at that would have all this information in so I can help my self and other folks that may want to play a human. its neat how pathfinder took the human and broke it up into distinced ppl like we have in the real world,
Pathfinder is such a great game . I ll definitely use the 2e adventures but I don't think I'll give up the 3.5 / 1e resources I believe it's already been perfected. But I understand paizo had to cut ties with Hasbro and wotc. I did that many years ago.
Yeah Paizo is moving away from the OGL and has developed a new Open Gaming license called the ORC license. You can see the details about this in my OGL video ;-)
Though Baba Yaga is Russian, I don't believe that Jadwiga is a Russian name, though I hear it is a Polish one. I think they're just generally mixing mythologies here.
Its a choice Pathfinder made for their new edition. In part because in RPGs we actually mean Species not Race, generally, and in part because they wanted to promote the "ABCs" of character creations, Ancestry, Background, Class
Historically, yes. But the change fits the effort to simplify character creation for new players which is: ABCs of character creation for PF2E = Ancestry, Background, Class
@@madman_chris using Ancestry feels like it doesn't fit... mainly because the term is literally the same as Bloodline. Simplification sometimes is not needed.
Its funny history was my least favorite subject in school but here I am at midnight watching videos about the history and people of a fictional land. Ironically it makes me want to dig in to the real world analogues these cultures are inspired by. Kudos to you for this presentation
Thank you! Midnight viewings is what I strive for! 😅
@@TheMythkeeper if that's what you want, make sure you keep your standard volume high, so advertisements don't blow up your watchers ears when those fire off. Keep your intro and outro volumes even with the rest of the video too.
I watch videos while falling asleep and channels that miss that stuff fall off my playlists.
@@AlossFS Hey, thanks so much for the tip! I'll try to make sure its aligned to ad volume 🙂
I would venture to guess your teachers failed to engage you properly if you are invested in fictional history, but were not interested in school.
@@nikolibarastov4487 that was definitely part of it. Maybe they weren't engaged in the material that much themselves. Presenting it in a matter of fact way "on X date Y happened this will be on the test memorize these dates 😴"
I also wasn't interested in it because I wasn't seeing how those things in the past affected other things in the past and now affect our future and present in some ways. But yeah now as an adult I'm fully immersed in Golarion lore, Westerosi lore and middle earth lol
As someone very new to Pathfinder's world, I'm so glad that you included the real world analogs for the various ethnicities. That really does help in getting a very base line understanding of the regions before delving in deeper.
As I understand Kellids once inhabited far greater area, inhabiting almost all of Avistan, but in most places they were completely assimilated. While I agree that Kellids are mostly inspired by literary example of Conan the Barbarian, I also notice a possible comparison with Celtic people (even the names Kellid/Celtic sound similar), especially the Sarkorian Kellids. They've had druids, scared circles, and other customs thet I link with Celtic history or mythology. Celts were also mentioned to have warriors that fought naked, and a Celtic nation of Picts had a custom of painting their bodies, and we can find these behaviors among Kellids.
I totally agree. Definitely some connection there between Kellid and Celtic people. 🙂
Although Cimmerians were a real people Robert E. Howard based Conan and the Cimmerians on the ancient Celts
I'd also argue that the Kellids have a degree of cro-magnon influence (along with other prehistoric peoples). Especially the Mammoth Lords
Awesome to see the face reveal. This has been extremely enjoyable and I am looking forward to sharing this frankly underappreciated content. Have a luxurious day everyone! Thanks for the vid.
The Shoanti are very cool.
Great video! My right ear loved the intro.
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So actually the Varki are inspired by the Sami of Northern Europe. The Sami and the Norse were neighbors historically and I think the proximity between the Varki and the Ulfen is intentional.
Thank you! I appreciate the detail, and I think you're right about that.
these are great. especially the cadence, delivery and the call outs to real world or other sources. looking forward to more! especially Goblins :)
In the first section your voice does come through if listening via headphones, as well as the last section after you appear back on screen. Your voice comes through fine via headphones for the rest of the video.
Very enjoyable videos. If there was ever a class (like Klingon) offered, your videos would make great 'go-to' 'textbooks' for such a class.
The Jadwiga culture sound Polish, since the name reminded me of the Polish-Lithuanian king Jadwiga (Yadviga).
I'm unsure for I just stumbled upon this video and can be incredibly wrong on my assumption.
Also, Awesome video! I like it a lot!!
Hey, thank you so much for pointing this out! This would make sense, since the Jadwiga descend from the Baba Yaga, which is prominent in all slavic mythology.
I only recently started to learn ablit pathfinder lore and immediately the thing I liked most about it was that it's world was way more fleshed out than D&Ds which seemingly kept all of its nations and peoples intentionally vague.
Yeah the Pathfinder world feels much more lived in and the cultures feel much more real.
Thank you for making these, as someone new to dming pf2e I’m loving it.
Glad you like them!
I play a Varki Aasimar Ranger named Eemil, since I am of Sami Finnish heritage and wanted to explore the Ancestry in Golarion. The table pretty much has done something similar, cherry picking a heritage and stretching into a real world ancestry that made sense based on their back story and personal knowledge of the real world, since we are just beginning as we start to transition to PF 2E as our main system.
These videos are fantastic as we expand our Pathfinder game and explore the world. Thank you.
If you haven't already, check out my Region Deepdive on the Lands of the Linnorm Kings as well. There's a little more information there about the Varki as well.
Just now getting into Golarion lore. I am very excited!
You’ll have a great time
Great video as always. Keep showing youself.
I learned so much from this video. Thanks for the upload.
I want to thank you so much for your videos especially the ones that describe the world… I love your ancestry for the humans and the elves… I would love to see you do one for dwarves and orcs.
Thank you, I appreciate that so much! Dwarves is coming, should be available for viewing by Monday next week.
Excellent stuff! Thank you for making these videos! :)
I love these videos as a new PF player!
Lots of great details here. Thanks for the great video.
Thanks for the infromation!
I use to dislike other players who pick Human (especially Variant) in 5e, yet come to accept most of them and will say Cusanian people in Pathfinder sound intresting or maybe I just have a weakness for Heterochromia.
Could see myself playing a Curasinia with Ganzi (gm permission ofc) heritage with a tail.
This is great! I always saw Varisians as, you said, a blended people but overwhelming Eastern European; I see Ustalav as being that Gothic Eastern European given its Taldor roots. Then the citystates of Riddleport and Korvosa are similar but a bit more Chelish, but still with that Eastern European feel. I could see Korvosa looking very much like Prague, for example. And the landscape looking a lot like Bulgaria or western Russia.
Seems far more like central Europe. You mentioned Prague for example. Sounds more like Greece through Czechia, up to and including Germany.
It fits both histories too, with Roman control or influence of these areas. We can probably put in Ustalav as Germany and/or Czechia, the mountains to the west as the border with France and Brevoy being western Russia.
Though why the Varisians are also in what is on the map western Europe I don't know, maybe as a spread of Roman culture and leadership. Or maybe it's just the Aryan world.
I rewatched your video about the ancestries since I saw it, every time I had to build a new human character, which happens actually quite often since we have a lot of rounds (basically for any constellation of players, and everyone of us has their own rounds as DM). Right now, I wanted to build a character from Nidal, who is unbeknownst to the group the father of one of the player characters. So the thought that he looks quite a bit different to the rest was in my mind an interesting detail that they might get the hint. But I don't know if it would be so obvious for my players. Two of them started watching your videos after I told them about you, but I am not too sure if they watched this one. That leads me to the question I have: Can you tell me where this information about the Nidalese is from (I googled a bit but Icouldnt find it)? It's no problem if you don't know it; I just thought I'd ask because I know my players a bit and usually know which books they have read.
I love your videos, thank you for making these
That information is found in Nidal: Land of Shadows 1E sourcebook, but is also described in the basic Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide book.
7:22 At first I thought those tattoos were Klingon headridges! I guess it's fitting considering both are heavily influenced by the same thing!
Great video MythKeeper! 🙏 I am a new fan and sub of your channel. LOVED your video about the history of Golarion as well, and will soon dive into all of your deep dive regional videos too, I am sure. ONE question though, PLEASE: Where is the Inner Sea map from that you are referencing in this video? I can't find ANY map this beautiful and detailed anywhere. The best I can find is from 1e, but still not this detailed. So please, can anyone refer me to where to get this map (either digitally or print?)
Hey! Welcome to the channel! Its the Rob McCaleb map. You may have to dig around for it. The history here is that he originally created it as a fan-project and then it was bought by Paizo and has been pulled down from various sites since it was bought. He know does all of the official Paizo maps IIRC.
@@TheMythkeeper Thanks a lot for your answer. So Paizo doesn't sell this map then?
@@redbaronlast Not that I'm aware of unfortunately
I do have a witch that is a varkim. He an undead patron witch and his familiar is a little skeleton penguin.
He is travelinf south to learn the secrets of the great necromamcers of those lands.
Thanks!
What books should I look at that would have all this information in so I can help my self and other folks that may want to play a human. its neat how pathfinder took the human and broke it up into distinced ppl like we have in the real world,
I think "Lost Omens: World Guide" is a great choice for this and so is the Character Guide.
Pathfinder is such a great game . I ll definitely use the 2e adventures but I don't think I'll give up the 3.5 / 1e resources I believe it's already been perfected. But I understand paizo had to cut ties with Hasbro and wotc. I did that many years ago.
Yeah Paizo is moving away from the OGL and has developed a new Open Gaming license called the ORC license. You can see the details about this in my OGL video ;-)
Wait... Robbery is "non-violent"?!
I suppose that should be burglary.
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Sweet
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“There’s no real world analog for these people because there’s no such thing as a shadow god.”
This guy has obviously never met my ex.
The Nidalese seem like they're loosely based on the Melnibonéans of the Elric stories.
This is certainly true! Thanks. 🙂
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"the Sczarni have no real world analog"
my man hasn't been to Eastern Europe
The real world analog of the Nidalese are corporate lobbyists.
21:43 was that Draco Malfoy?
Haha! Good catch ;-) What, he looks Nidalese!
Jadwiga is a Polish name, and Jaga is a form of it, so... there's your real world connection. :)
Thanks!
But Baba Yaga is from Russia so wouldn't that make Jedwiga Russian?
Though Baba Yaga is Russian, I don't believe that Jadwiga is a Russian name, though I hear it is a Polish one. I think they're just generally mixing mythologies here.
@@TheMythkeeper Fair enough.
Don't intend to ever play or make a human character, yet I am here watching out of curiosity.
Are ancestries supposed to be Race? Why change the word? It’s just confusing 🫤 now. Ancestry is a family thing not a racial thing.
Its a choice Pathfinder made for their new edition. In part because in RPGs we actually mean Species not Race, generally, and in part because they wanted to promote the "ABCs" of character creations, Ancestry, Background, Class
Ok cool 😎
>ancestry
You mean Race?
Historically, yes. But the change fits the effort to simplify character creation for new players which is:
ABCs of character creation for PF2E = Ancestry, Background, Class
@@madman_chris I don't believe it was to make a cute acronym, nor is the acronym necessary.
Just using the most current game term. Don't read too much into it. Do what works for you and your players. ;-)
@@VermilionMage Believe what you want, though I'm sure Paizo would appreciate you thinking the acronym is "cute"! I'll let them know you think so!!!
@@madman_chris using Ancestry feels like it doesn't fit... mainly because the term is literally the same as Bloodline.
Simplification sometimes is not needed.