#*because aesthetically malan seems p r e t t y analogous to Italy and going off of my (very thin) knowledge of european history I'm

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I'm too lazy to make it rn but like imagine the neutral row in a D&D alignment table, label it "fantasy worlds where the societies clearly stem from irl cultures", and that goes as follows:

lawful neutral: Ranger's Apprentice, where the kingdoms are all 1:1 to an irl country lol. araluen is fantasy!england, galllica is fantasy!france, nihon-ja is fantasy!japan etc.)

true neutral: Pale Lights, where cultures are all pretty identifiable but not necessarily 1:1, so Tianxi being pretty obviously late-Qing early-Republic era China, but Peredur having a variety of influences/being analogous to a few diff groups (Wales/Zulu?/Sicily???*)

chaotic neutral: Wheel of Time, where the books snort a massive line of cocaine like (in the tone of voice of this tiktok) so we have fantasy greece-netherlands, fantasy japanese-irish-bedouin people, [...] AND fantasy imperial-china/japan-texans YEEHAW

I haven't actually gotten very far into wot yet (I'm on book 2) I'm basing this off of the memes I've seen

#my rambles #books #ranger's apprentice #pale lights #wot #*because aesthetically malan seems p r e t t y analogous to Italy and going off of my (very thin) knowledge of european history I'm #pretty sure that makes peredur sicily? #10n