KaiserElectric
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I'll add something to the area around Denmark and Sweden then. Kindly leave that spot available. 
The Sands of Time - Pre-NES/Worldbuilding
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Lord_Herobrine
Back in the Saddle
Okay, changed the name of "The River People" to Riovela for short.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
added name and a few other stuff.
mythmonster2
BEC NOIR! RUN!
Chikamoro Culture
Location: Himalayas / Yarlung River
Color: Pale Blue
Map:
The Chikamoro are, unusually, an atheistic culture. Rather than believing in a god or gods, they believe in spirits that inhabit the world alongside people. Unfortunately for the neighbors of the Chikamoro, they believe that these spirits crave one things above all else: blood. It is believed that spirits live with each family, and if that family does not provide those spirits with enough blood from other sources, the spirits will seek their blood. Most of the time, animal blood suffices, but it is also believed that every so often, the spirits grow even hungrier and desire human blood above all else. It is then that the Chikamoro go to battle, if not with another people, then with themselves.
Location: Himalayas / Yarlung River
Color: Pale Blue
Map:
Spoiler :
The Chikamoro are, unusually, an atheistic culture. Rather than believing in a god or gods, they believe in spirits that inhabit the world alongside people. Unfortunately for the neighbors of the Chikamoro, they believe that these spirits crave one things above all else: blood. It is believed that spirits live with each family, and if that family does not provide those spirits with enough blood from other sources, the spirits will seek their blood. Most of the time, animal blood suffices, but it is also believed that every so often, the spirits grow even hungrier and desire human blood above all else. It is then that the Chikamoro go to battle, if not with another people, then with themselves.
mythmonster2
BEC NOIR! RUN!
I would like to see this continue, personally.
Bair_the_Normal
転輪聖王
Same with me. I like the concept, and if it's a bit slow, I don't think that the people who have already contributed would mind making a few more cultures.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
I'd like it to continue.
Lord_Herobrine
Back in the Saddle
I would very much like to see this continue as well, as long as it doesn't stress out your modding responsibilities.
ChineseWarlord
Prince
Location: Central Japan
Color: Green
Map: (I don't know how to edit maps.
The Yūkan'na mono are a people who live in closely-knit tribe families. Compassion is important in their culture and the elderly are considered very important. They have a strong warrior tradition however, and they do not hesitate to fight their enemies. Arts and crafts are important in the society, and the Yūkan'na mono often spend their free time building things. If 2 men cannot get along, they will arrange a duel to the death, Shinogemu, in which the 2 fight each other until one man is dead. In order for the Shinogemu to not be classified as murder. Shinogemu is off limits if one has wives or childeren.
Color: Green
Map: (I don't know how to edit maps.
The Yūkan'na mono are a people who live in closely-knit tribe families. Compassion is important in their culture and the elderly are considered very important. They have a strong warrior tradition however, and they do not hesitate to fight their enemies. Arts and crafts are important in the society, and the Yūkan'na mono often spend their free time building things. If 2 men cannot get along, they will arrange a duel to the death, Shinogemu, in which the 2 fight each other until one man is dead. In order for the Shinogemu to not be classified as murder. Shinogemu is off limits if one has wives or childeren.
Arrow Gamer
America's Dictator
First of all, welcome Warlord.
Second, copy the map to Microsoft paint and edit away.
Second, copy the map to Microsoft paint and edit away.
thomas.berubeg
Wandering the World
The Tuniit
Color: Pale Blue
Northern Canada
The Tuniit are a semi-nomadic people who happened to enter this region (Following the Bowhead whales that migrate through the area. While, OTL, the Tuniit lost the technological package through privation, eventually being forced to subsist on the ice without the Bow, Dogs, or boats, ITTL, the Tuniit are Luckier, and manage to keep these. Additionally, through a series of ritual practices, wherein Parts of the root from the flora that they depend on are returned to the ground as gifts to the spirits, early agriculture has started to develop. While one or two returned roots does not much, a little more food per year here and there accumulates over centuries, and suddenly, there is a primitive agricultural technological package, with the Tuniit becoming semi-sedentary.
Food the Tuniit depend on:
Whale
Seal
Walrus
Caribou
Muskox
sweetvetch
Claytonia Tuberosa (Eskimo potato)
Rhodiola Rosea
Color: Pale Blue
Northern Canada
The Tuniit are a semi-nomadic people who happened to enter this region (Following the Bowhead whales that migrate through the area. While, OTL, the Tuniit lost the technological package through privation, eventually being forced to subsist on the ice without the Bow, Dogs, or boats, ITTL, the Tuniit are Luckier, and manage to keep these. Additionally, through a series of ritual practices, wherein Parts of the root from the flora that they depend on are returned to the ground as gifts to the spirits, early agriculture has started to develop. While one or two returned roots does not much, a little more food per year here and there accumulates over centuries, and suddenly, there is a primitive agricultural technological package, with the Tuniit becoming semi-sedentary.
Food the Tuniit depend on:
Whale
Seal
Walrus
Caribou
Muskox
sweetvetch
Claytonia Tuberosa (Eskimo potato)
Rhodiola Rosea
Lord_Herobrine
Back in the Saddle
Hawkero Culture
Color: very faint purple
Location: The Great Plains of North America
The Hawkero culture is a very nomadic cluster of peoples. Living off the massive herd of buffalo and bison that stampede across the plains, the Hawkero eek out a living. Wishing to keep in range of the main herds, they never settle down in any one area. They are a very spiritualistic peoples, making sure to never waste anything on the bison they hunt. They tend to decorate everything they own in the bones and hides of their bison brothers, not wishing to upset the balance in the spiritual world.
Color: very faint purple
Location: The Great Plains of North America
Spoiler :
The Hawkero culture is a very nomadic cluster of peoples. Living off the massive herd of buffalo and bison that stampede across the plains, the Hawkero eek out a living. Wishing to keep in range of the main herds, they never settle down in any one area. They are a very spiritualistic peoples, making sure to never waste anything on the bison they hunt. They tend to decorate everything they own in the bones and hides of their bison brothers, not wishing to upset the balance in the spiritual world.
m.t.cicero
Good Kid
The Pwa'ti-Ei
The Pwa'ti-Ei, Pwa'tivan for "People of the Moon," are descendants of those who came before the Utara and Luciari, around the same time as the Poblymôr. Theirs is a highly agrarian society, which has mostly settled down into established villages in the rich farmland between the Ei and Sui Rivers. They have developed a basic lunar calendar, and have a culture based around worship of the Moon as a deity.
OOC: This seems like it'll be an interesting NES, and I might make another culture based in the OTL US east coast.
Bair_the_Normal
転輪聖王
The Tōjin Culture
Map:
The Tōjin Culture is a unique culture whose center is on the aptly named island "Nakajima", or "Center Island". It is here on this island that the first Tōjin tribes saw their debut, and it is on here and other islands that Tōjin culture and ideals continue to spread. The animist religion of the Tōjin focuses on the ideal that every object, from a bucket to a grand whale, has its own spirit within, and that when left alone for long enough, or if it survives for long enough, in the case of the living creatures and plants, will eventually ascend mere mortality to the status of Yōjin, personified spirits that manifest with time. In the short time that the Tōjin culture has existed, two primary Yōjin persist through all the islands of the Tōjin. "Rinbakusha", the Heart of the Sun, and "Gezuraisha", the Brain of the Moon.
Due to the Tōjin's status as an island peoples, their main diet consists of the bounty of the sea, which is another huge aspect of life, and death, for the Tōjin. They believe that once a family member dies, it is the duty of the remaining family members to weigh the deceased down with stones to the depth of the ocean, where they will eventually find eternal solace.
Patchy
Emperor
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The Mehila
Spoiler :
Similar to their northern Skrisin kin the Mehila differ in that they are a matriarchal culture, not just matrilineal. They live in settled tribes with a Matriarch leading each tribe temporally as well as spiritually. They have an animist religion and worship the local spirits and ancestors. Many wars are fought between the tribes over farming land as they have the knowledge of agriculture.
Below the Matriarch in social standing are the warriors, made up entirely of women these amazons are chosen from a young age among the other tribe girls to be the fighters of their people. Under them are the regular farmers, merchants, and craftswomen who are all lumped into the class of Gesan. At the bottom of society are the slaves who are mostly captured criminals and POWs.
I'm in the process of editing the map. My apologies to the Turkish culture, I may mangle the borders a bit (using the full map). The Hawkero cultural borders were tweaked to better conform to river boundaries.
On another note, would you find a wiki a useful way to manage information? In this manner, it would allow us to preserve the details, without overcluttering a thread (or at least, that's how it strikes me).
On another note, would you find a wiki a useful way to manage information? In this manner, it would allow us to preserve the details, without overcluttering a thread (or at least, that's how it strikes me).
Spoiler Map :
I left out the Scandinavian, Japanese, and what I assume to be Japanese for clarity reasons.
If I mangled your borders, feel free to fix them a bit.
Additionally, if anyone happens to be particularly talented with editing images, scaling this image up 2X and adding some of the rivers present on other maps would be an awesome thing to do (my programs don't want to scale it up without making it all pixelated).
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