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« on: January 11, 2011, 08:02:14 PM »
Yeah, Lacontia is basically just a load of Spartan references, an imagining of that sort of state in the medieval era.
As to the Vors/Dhars; the Voroks are the least civilised of the Vorok/Dharrok/Rhodok people, and the most tribal. They are how ever experts at mining, good builders of fortifications, and fairly handy healers due to their lack of truck with the "make it bleed, that'll heal it" methods employed across Calradia and the Gorin Empire at this time. They're still (as I said) very tribal by nature, and are led by a council of chiefs, from whom a convocation of monks (of which there are large numbers across the Vorok lands, practitioners of their rather shamanistic religion) choose a High Chief.
The Dharroks are a migration southwards mirroring the northwards spread of the Rhodoks; they are more feudal by nature, and are fairly similar to medieval Scotland.
All three have strong similarities; they dislike cavalry and distrust horses, they prefer spears as weapons, they place a strong cultural emphasis on herding animals, they prefer a more egalitarian view of religion (the Rhodoks are Coniriles, the Dharroks oft-schismatic Varalites, and the Voroks tribalists, but all three have a very community-based religious approach). They have a strong respect for age and wisdom, and little respect for personal military valour over military cleverness and order.
The differences are really that the Voroks are the traditional and "pure" culture. The Rhodoks moved north, and their tribe became mixed up in the disputes of the southern Swadian farmers and merchants, who together broke away from the more feudal and militaristic knight-controlled parts of the realm (In the vale of Uxhal and the Duchy of Suno). This has given them a more mercantile and pastoral outlook, and encouraged their absorption of old Calradic culture which was instrumental in influencing the thinkers and philosophers behind the Great Peasants' War (as the Rhodok war of Independence is known). The Dharroks were a southern offshoot of the Voroks who conquered the surrounding lowlands as their previous masters took troops out in their failed war against Gorinia. Their acceptance of the Varalite faith bought them support from Lexandria and other smaller nations who helped their new co-religionists maintain independence. The support of the church bought with it the idea of anointed monarchs under the Mother Goddess (a monotheistic deity shared by the Varalites, Coniriles, and Orinites), which in time led to a more feudal system developing.
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