Hello there. I'm a big bearded Mountain man who loves history, mythology and fantasy. I love crafting armor, painting and many other art forms which I use to create content.
my goal is to tell interesting stories and educate about the wonderful world we live in and great stories we can imagine. I'm also trying to focus on the parts of history and mythology popular media ignores, especially my part of the world, the Caucasus and its surrounding areas.
Don't take anything I say too seriously or as gospel. I'm still learning myself.
Love this channel. In a DnD campaign I played, guns (specifically pistol) were a new technology introduced from Plane of Fire that became popular when mass produced by thieves guild. I played a Wizard who studied tactics in school and went on journey to write a book on the applications of firearms with magic artillery.
Asuras as whole isn't consider bad for their appearance, in Hinduism asura is a title for person doing wrong doings as some asuras were considered intellectual noble due to their good karma like vibhishan or Hiranyakashipu son prahlad
Dear Bordo do more of this, our ancient lore is being snuffed out by others who simply speak louder not truer, You may save your people more than a thousand swords ever could ! გამარჯვებას გისურვებ ინფო-ომში !!!
Div and the Zoroastrian ashura are a Iranian myth don’t say Middle Eastern, You’re pissing on my ancestors that way and undermining our importance I’m against the current Islamic regime but my people deserve better than this
Currently playing a gun using artificer in a campaign where hundreds of years ago guns were used by peasants during an uprising that only barely failed. Since then only the nobility has been legally allowed to own/carry them, and they've essentially become a badge of office/title.
Great discussion. I wholeheartedly agree that we should see more diverse world history in fantasy. I'm so tired of the same old tropes, so really like when it draws from other cultures, history and mythology. I'm also a lover of world history and mythology so try and infuse as much diverse cultural background into my worlds as I can. I had to laugh at your comment on the guilds and economics of a world. I have gone down similar pathways. In fact I found your channel while researching armour systems for my own game to make them as realistic as possible within the bounds of the game. Keep up the good work! P.S. also a massive Terry Pratchett fan, clearly you're a man of taste and distinction!
When storing a cast iron pan a small amount of cooking oil prevents rusting. Have you tried a light coating of cooking oil? Washes off easily and is cheap. Organic too. Or cosmoline oil for heavy duty
In Georgia there is earlier name for Amirani which is Abskili -> Ab in Sumer means Sea and Skili/Skiri in Megrelian means Child so the name would be child of the Sea for some reason. Name comes from the Gali and region around Enguri river. Btw. Engur(u) in Sumerian means deep. Weird.
As a fellow world history lover I sometimes find myself jealous of people like this guy who have such an interesting and complex past. As an American who knows nothing about his ancestry beyond the early 1900s, I can't imagine what it must be like to have a deep connection to your homeland.
love this content! i’d like to hear more about comparative mythology from your perspective if you were ever inspired to do more stuff in that direction
Hahaha ahhh yes. The Georgian cultural fusion being able to dodge in any direction any allegation. I’ve been an Asian-Middle Eastern-European-Mediterranean with red hair all my years growing up in the US 😊
Also, brother, I want to suggest to you a book by the current and alive “mystic” Tanis Helliwell (she wrote several that she was asked to write by elemental beings) but the one I started with is “Summer with the Leprechauns” and I read maybe 8 more by her in the couple months after but you can see the inner workings of the elemental world which still very much exists about a half dimension up from us (in the Etheric and astral worlds). Check it out if you feel called to.
Great video as always dude. I love the way you put it that modern fantasy is just reusing tropes and ideas from people who did the hard work of taking inspiration from real mythology and history. Then on the topic of fake diversity, it's a pet peeve of my own that was part of the reason I wanted to write a fantasy novel inspired by South Asia and it's been really fun to have my girlfriend (who is Malayali) help with all that.
I love taking historical cultures and wrapping them up in a fantasy skin. The Japanese "Ama" pearl divers make for a great framework for fantasy aquatic races. World building can be a great creative outlet. Any large and personal project can break a person as you have discovered with your game. I haven't played any RPGs since 2004 due to burnout, pouring everything I had into campaign world building. It has only been this year that I found my desire to game again, and was introduced to Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC).
burnout is a difficult thing to overcome and its a big issue in TTRPGs as its a massive work for little reward. Many classic writers don't put as much work in as some DM's do
I would absolutely love to create a world inspired by Middle-Eastern civilization, especially Neo-Persian. I have the bare basics of an industrialized, Persia-inspired setting slowly materializing in my head for a story. I agree, though. Too many overused Tolkienian races (elves, dwarves, orcs, hobbits) and medieval, western-Europe-inspired settings. East Asia, too, kind of. There's a whole world of untapped cultures to use for inspiration. Why just use the same things as everyone else? How is that being creative and not derivative?
It’s a good day when my favorite Dwarf uploads. Todays video isn’t strictly about history so not my favorite but it’s still very interesting and entertaining it’s earned a like and share!
im developìng my own fantasy wrold, and while i write it becomes more complex when cultures of different races intertwine. the way these races that i wrote could be simplified and watered down to their real life influences: Thri-Kreens(Ant People): Aztec and Mayan Culture Dessert Mountain Dwarves: Incan and Mapuche Culture Snowy Mountains Dwarves: Georgian,Abkhazian and Chechen Culture Valley Dwarves: Celtic and Baltic Culture Trolls:Finnish and Estonian Culture Loxodons(Elephant People): Zulu and Berber Culture Lizardfolk (Lizard People): Bantu culture influenced by elements of tribes of the guinean region too Aarakocra(Falcon People): Arab and Ancient Egyptian Culture Cynocephalians(Dog people): Ancient greek Culture Minotaurs: Minoan Civilization Culture Vampires: Romanian Culture High Elves: Roman Culture Industrial Humans: Austro-Hungarian Culture Renaissance Humans: Portuguese,Spanish,French,English and Scottish Culture Dark Elves of the Sea: Dravidian Cultures,Icelandic,Khmer,Thai and Malay Culture Orthodox Dark Elves of the Sea: Phoenician,Hebrew,Assyrian,Babylonian and Sumerian Culture White Orcs: Western,Southern and Eastern Slavic Pagan Cultures Brown Orcs: Mongol and Turkic Culture Green Orcs: Polynesian and Australian aboriginal cultures Nagas(Snake People):Persian,Kushan,Bactrian,Satrap,Kurdish and Median cultures Tabaxis(Cat Peoples) Hindu,Bengali,Nepali,Tibetan,Burmese and Sri Lankan Cultures Draconians: Chinese,Korean,Manchu,Ainu and Japanses Culture
I actually agree with a lot of inspiration sources you showed here. I'll make more videos where I go deeper on this exact topic and why those same influences can work by using convergent evolution and environmental influence on culture.
@@thebordoshow i strongly Believe that cultures are heavily influenced by geographical fearures and climate, and when i saw your video about different mountain cultures and how to relate them to dwarves, i realized that this could be applied for maybe every fantasy race i know
I've been making my own TTRPG for quite a long time, and the first thing I wanted to do was ditch all the LotR races and make my own original races inspired by different cultures and animals around the world. I love Lord of the Rings, but every game having generic elves, orcs, dwarves, etc gets so boring. Now I'm just grinding out a bestiary of original monsters, while I learn digital art so I can paint everything eventually. :') I really love how The Legend of Zelda games made their races, like Gorons are fire dwarves, Zora are water elves, Deku are like nature halflings... The "dwarves" in my game are a sort of golem-like turtlefolk called Kahonua. (Nahonua, plural) "Honu" meaning turtle and "Honua" meaning earth in Hawaiian. They are inspired by Polynesian culture, Menehune, turtles, traditional fantasy dwarves, and one of my best friends who happens to be Hawaiian. He calls himself "The Dwarf" he loves fantasy dwarves, he's built just like a Tolkien dwarf, probably exactly what you imagine when you hear Hawaiian Dwarf. xD Instead of tribal tattoos the Honua carve their rock-like scales and shells. Unlike dwarves they are farmers and mostly vegetarians. They don't eat to live in a normal sense but to recharge their magic which is Mana... auras, lithomancy, and other healing and earth inspired powers. Many people don't know "Mana" is a Hawaiian word. Slow, stubborn, but they love dancing esp haka. They weren't always golem-like, in ancient times they were seafaring and their ancestors built statues of their likeness and imbued them with the spirits of those who were lost. Over time the living race would become extinct, replaced entirely by statues and spirits.
thats very cool idea. the elemental living stone creatures farming for mana is very cool concept not gonna lie. I too am working on more original concepts, but I'll keep it when I can publish it, but for now will focus on popular races to test out complex ideas on more familiar creatures. I like where you are going with Hawaiian influence, I actually played a Dwarf druid inspired by Samoan culture.
