As someone very new to Pathfinder's world, I'm so glad that you included the real world analogs for the various ethnicities. That really does help in getting a very base line understanding of the regions before delving in deeper.

Its funny history was my least favorite subject in school but here I am at midnight watching videos about the history and people of a fictional land. Ironically it makes me want to dig in to the real world analogues these cultures are inspired by. Kudos to you for this presentation

As I understand Kellids once inhabited far greater area, inhabiting almost all of Avistan, but in most places they were completely assimilated. While I agree that Kellids are mostly inspired by literary example of Conan the Barbarian, I also notice a possible comparison with Celtic people (even the names Kellid/Celtic sound similar), especially the Sarkorian Kellids. They've had druids, scared circles, and other customs thet I link with Celtic history or mythology. Celts were also mentioned to have warriors that fought naked, and a Celtic nation of Picts had a custom of painting their bodies, and we can find these behaviors among Kellids.

Awesome to see the face reveal. This has been extremely enjoyable and I am looking forward to sharing this frankly underappreciated content. Have a luxurious day everyone! Thanks for the vid.

Great video! My right ear loved the intro.

The Shoanti are very cool.

So actually the Varki are inspired by the Sami of Northern Europe. The Sami and the Norse were neighbors historically and I think the proximity between the Varki and the Ulfen is intentional.

The Jadwiga culture sound Polish, since the name reminded me of the Polish-Lithuanian king Jadwiga (Yadviga). I'm unsure for I just stumbled upon this video and can be incredibly wrong on my assumption. Also, Awesome video! I like it a lot!!

I use to dislike other players who pick Human (especially Variant) in 5e, yet come to accept most of them and will say Cusanian people in Pathfinder sound intresting or maybe I just have a weakness for Heterochromia. Could see myself playing a Curasinia with Ganzi (gm permission ofc) heritage with a tail.

Just now getting into Golarion lore. I am very excited!

these are great. especially the cadence, delivery and the call outs to real world or other sources. looking forward to more! especially Goblins :)

I only recently started to learn ablit pathfinder lore and immediately the thing I liked most about it was that it's world was way more fleshed out than D&Ds which seemingly kept all of its nations and peoples intentionally vague.

I play a Varki Aasimar Ranger named Eemil, since I am of Sami Finnish heritage and wanted to explore the Ancestry in Golarion. The table pretty much has done something similar, cherry picking a heritage and stretching into a real world ancestry that made sense based on their back story and personal knowledge of the real world, since we are just beginning as we start to transition to PF 2E as our main system. These videos are fantastic as we expand our Pathfinder game and explore the world. Thank you.

In the first section your voice does come through if listening via headphones, as well as the last section after you appear back on screen. Your voice comes through fine via headphones for the rest of the video. Very enjoyable videos. If there was ever a class (like Klingon) offered, your videos would make great 'go-to' 'textbooks' for such a class.

Thank you for making these, as someone new to dming pf2e I’m loving it.

I want to thank you so much for your videos especially the ones that describe the world… I love your ancestry for the humans and the elves… I would love to see you do one for dwarves and orcs.

I learned so much from this video. Thanks for the upload.

Great video as always. Keep showing youself.

I love these videos as a new PF player!

Excellent stuff! Thank you for making these videos! :)

Wait... Robbery is "non-violent"?!

Lots of great details here. Thanks for the great video.

This is great! I always saw Varisians as, you said, a blended people but overwhelming Eastern European; I see Ustalav as being that Gothic Eastern European given its Taldor roots. Then the citystates of Riddleport and Korvosa are similar but a bit more Chelish, but still with that Eastern European feel. I could see Korvosa looking very much like Prague, for example. And the landscape looking a lot like Bulgaria or western Russia.

Thanks for the infromation!

7:22 At first I thought those tattoos were Klingon headridges! I guess it's fitting considering both are heavily influenced by the same thing!

I do have a witch that is a varkim. He an undead patron witch and his familiar is a little skeleton penguin. He is travelinf south to learn the secrets of the great necromamcers of those lands.

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What books should I look at that would have all this information in so I can help my self and other folks that may want to play a human. its neat how pathfinder took the human and broke it up into distinced ppl like we have in the real world,

“There’s no real world analog for these people because there’s no such thing as a shadow god.” This guy has obviously never met my ex.

I rewatched your video about the ancestries since I saw it, every time I had to build a new human character, which happens actually quite often since we have a lot of rounds (basically for any constellation of players, and everyone of us has their own rounds as DM). Right now, I wanted to build a character from Nidal, who is unbeknownst to the group the father of one of the player characters. So the thought that he looks quite a bit different to the rest was in my mind an interesting detail that they might get the hint. But I don't know if it would be so obvious for my players. Two of them started watching your videos after I told them about you, but I am not too sure if they watched this one. That leads me to the question I have: Can you tell me where this information about the Nidalese is from (I googled a bit but Icouldnt find it)? It's no problem if you don't know it; I just thought I'd ask because I know my players a bit and usually know which books they have read. I love your videos, thank you for making these

Great video MythKeeper! 🙏 I am a new fan and sub of your channel. LOVED your video about the history of Golarion as well, and will soon dive into all of your deep dive regional videos too, I am sure. ONE question though, PLEASE: Where is the Inner Sea map from that you are referencing in this video? I can't find ANY map this beautiful and detailed anywhere. The best I can find is from 1e, but still not this detailed. So please, can anyone refer me to where to get this map (either digitally or print?)

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The Nidalese seem like they're loosely based on the Melnibonéans of the Elric stories.

The real world analog of the Nidalese are corporate lobbyists.

"the Sczarni have no real world analog" my man hasn't been to Eastern Europe

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Don't intend to ever play or make a human character, yet I am here watching out of curiosity.

Jadwiga is a Polish name, and Jaga is a form of it, so... there's your real world connection. :)

21:43 was that Draco Malfoy?

But Baba Yaga is from Russia so wouldn't that make Jedwiga Russian?

Are ancestries supposed to be Race? Why change the word? It’s just confusing 🫤 now. Ancestry is a family thing not a racial thing.

>ancestry You mean Race?