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Topic: non european fantasy? Cultural appropriation vs some thing different

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2 (edited by BigDamnArtist 2015-06-18 14:47:03)

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Its not really a fantasy story in this setting. But Tad Williams' Otherland series includes a lot of concepts and imagery inspired by some South African aborigines tribes. One of the lead characters is a man from a tribe of bushmen in South Africa that wants to preserve the stories and mythology of his people using the modern VI tech the rest of the story is based around.

From what I understand a lot of what Tad came up with and uses is inspired by a lot of real aborigines stories, although none of it is "actual" mythology.


Edit: Typing on phones is hard guyz.

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Ah, you excluded Asian. I'll point this out anyway - Jade Empire, a video game, was a great example of a fabricated, Eastern-style mythology, done by a Western team.

Prey comes to mind. It's not a fantasy - it's sci-fi - but it incorporates Cherokee spiritualism in a way that isn't overly offensive; I'm not well-versed in Native American culture to know whether it's actually good.

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4 (edited by redxavier 2015-06-18 15:11:54)

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The chinese have a whole genre that is basically their equivalent of our fantasy - Wu Xia. Basically, swordplay stories set in a quasi-historical setting. As for specific recommendations, you have something like The Blade or Ashes of Time which is low fantasy (Conan-esque), and then Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain, which is at the high fantasy end of the spectrum (flying swordsmen, magic, ghosts).

edit - I appeared not to have read that right, I thought you meant non-European, eg, Asian and African, rather than non-all three of these.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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Oh, okay, if that's the case I rread that wrong as well. Although I'm trying to think what there is outside European, Asian or African. That kinda encompasses the whole ancient world that thesse kind of stories build on.

Although I mean I could tell you the stories of the mighty Moose wars, and the Beaver tribes I guess.

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How about Pacific islanders? I'm currently basing a culture off an amalgam of Norse and Maori culture.

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7 (edited by BigDamnArtist 2015-06-18 15:25:47)

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wow thanks!
to clarify i meant just non European
African or Asian or Khmer is what i was talking about.

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vikings are out too, but not from interest just looking for areas not covered as much. There is, while non fantasy great comics and tv shows on vikings at this moment. for this exercise consider Europe from Norway to Greece off the list.

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I'd recommend the anime El-Hazard (the original seven part OAV, not the TV show). It's set in a sort of Arabian fantasy world. It's also one of the few cases where the dub is actually better than the original.

There's Nazca, set in the old Incan empire, but that's only fantasy if you factor in reincarnation.

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