I’m planning on running a Moonshae campaign and have researched quite a lot. But can’t seem to find on what kind of culture are Alaron’s citizens like. Especially the Caer Callidyrr citizens. Thanks in advance. For the short answer, see "Ffolk" in the FR wiki (Google "Fr wikia" if you're not familiar with it). Doug Niles created the published Moonshaes, and brought many Ffolk to vivid life in his novels. I did a "campaign" module set there, Halls of the High King, for 2e D&D. Have fun!
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 31, 2018
Thanks for the quick answer , but on the wikia it says that the cultures of the Ffolk and Northlanders (Illuskans) sort of merged. I was mainly wondering how that is like? And the Ffolk are said to be a druidic culture but Caer Callidyrr is a city, how would this work?
— Benjamin Celis (@BenjaminCelis_) October 31, 2018
1/8) Heh. Fair enough. :} Okay, a longer answer:
The Ffolk and the Northlanders were traditional foes (the Northlanders regularly raided the Ffolk), but over time, increasing trade-ties and intermarriages (and the dwindling martial might… https://t.co/Iv9LV4dCaL— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 1, 2018
2/8) of the Northlanders, that made raiding at will increasingly seem obviously foolish to them as it was clearly sailing to death) made raids fewer and fewer. That, coupled with a decade in the mid 1300s DR of harsh winter/shortened…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 1, 2018
3/8) growing seasons and therefore food shortages and therefore starvation or cooperation to survive, made the two peoples increasingly live together and work together. So the peoples did merge. Northlanders fish and sail merchant…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 1, 2018
4/8) voyages more than the Ffolk do, as the Ffolk remain more “tied to the land.” Yet the Ffolk dominate the shared culture because of their numbers, their close connections to the land, and their skills (they’re better at providing food…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 1, 2018
5/8) and water, medicine, and shelter). The Ffolk still cringe at cities that pave and despoil and have no green growing things, and no wildlife. So, Caer Callidyrr is a city built around the original castle that, like their other…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 1, 2018
6/8) settlements, has plentiful gardens, cobbled streets with herbs and moss growing between the cobbles, many growing grass roofs on buildings, fences made of living vines over frames, many hedges, and abundant resident wildlife that the…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 1, 2018
7/8) citizens co-exist with (and kill for family stewpots). {Silverymoon on the mainland is a larger and more beautiful city that’s also green, growing, and “lies gently upon the land” rather than crowding and paving everything.}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 1, 2018
8/8) The Ffolk live WITH the land rather than “imposing upon it.” The Northlanders have no disagreement with that, because they’ve seen that it works. And as the years pass, Ffolk and Northlanders more and more become one.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 1, 2018
