I am building a fantasy world for #Pathfinder, and the "main area" I am focusing on is culturally roughly analogous to Europe - since that is what I am most familiar with, and reinforces some of the main themes of the setting.
Yet I want to make clear that this is not the only culture on the face of the planet, and thus I will need to at least sketch out other regions of this world as well as their cultural groups - many of which should be counterpoints to real world cultures.
The trick is how to make these interesting places in their own right that can exist independently of the "Europe-analogous" area without resorting to all sorts of ugly and/or stereotypes which have been used by European/American authors writing about cultures which are not their own.
There has been quite enough of that in RPG spaces already - I am sure most of you could name quite a few examples.
Would they have had their own "renaissances" and "enlightenments"? Meanwhile, a Europe devastated by the Black Death missed out and we got invaded by Aztecs etc?
Ahh! That reminds me of the shaggy dog story of the HBoND and his apprentice who rings the bells by head-butting them. The apprentice falls from the tower and when asked who he was, the HBoND replies:
"I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell"...
" ... it seems clear – to me, at least – that both Labour and the Conservatives are in the narrative business, as distinct from the business of good governance"
@fkamiah17 That's right - I was hunting round for some similar ideas. The closest I found was some around break ups of and betrayals in relationships (I suppose this has some relevance here if we consider the relationship between citizen and government).
No alcohol - I wouldn't wish to be in a bus with a driver who'd had a few at lunchtime. Why should the reverse be true for those supposedly "steering" the country?