valdorian age

[steph]

just a little question about the ureth kalai land .. the people of this place are a kind of oriental person like mongolian or chinese ??............or maybe ketai of the hyborian age??
stef the french canadian
excuse my english again

[Eosin]

I believe that is correct - I will double check for you tonight.

[arcady]

They are described as having sallow skin, which doesn't really mean anything in particular.

If you've read the GM's only section, you know there is at least one person from this land hiding out in Elweir - not the one people think it is - and not visibly obviously from elsewhere.

[Curufea]

They are described as having sallow skin, which doesn't really mean anything in particular..

Other than "Of a sickly yellowish hue or complexion", of course.

[arcady]

Which shouldn't have any implications on race, unless you approach it from a somewhat shallowly negatively biased perspective.

Of course, it's 40,000 years ago, so this all should be set in Afghanistan with all the PCs looking somewhat Afro-Asiatic. Roughly 40,000 mankind was almost entirely in central asia and about to undergo three major migrations at about the same time - one to Asia, one to Europe, and one to North America. Regions that all got settled at about the same point in time...

But, ignoring that and pushing this thing off of Earth, the people there have a shade to their tone, one that isn't even actually fitting for Asia, and that shouldn't say anything about who or what they are in culture, genotype, or even attempts to geneticly map them to some real world race or ethnicity.

[Curufea]

I don't think the Champions Universe is meant to be very close to ours. There are only passing resemblances between their Earth and our own. The closest it comes to "real life and our history) is the superhero genre. Every other genre book becomes more abstracted from real history, and it is silly to compare it (unless there is a blank, and you can mangle something to fit).