Re: Interesting concultural ideas
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 4:04 |
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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 02:26:12 -0500, Dan Seriff <microtonal@...>
wrote:
>Has anyone contemplated (or implemented) having a conculture based on a
>celestial body other than a globe? I've been playing a little too much Halo
>lately, and I like the idea of placing my conculture on (in?) a ringworld.
>
>Anyone else's people live on a ringworld or (yikes!) a Dyson sphere?
Ronyllevo, the setting for my old AD&D campaign (around 15 years ago) was a
mini-ringworld, with a rotational period of one day, which orbited around a
sun instead of having the sun in the middle like Niven's Ringworld. Even a
mini-ringworld is huge! I had maps of a few whole planet-sized areas
separated by wide oceans, and that was just a small part of the world. The
common language of the region was called Lyzantura ("common language",
unimaginatively), and I had a brief word list for it (mainly borrowed from
other languages, nothing of much interest). More interesting languages were
the dwarf language Zarkhând and a language of a neighboring human
population, Kazat ?akkorou. The kobold language Røzhxh [R@Zx\] was also
from that era.
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