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help me think of cultures for my world

button Mac · 2016-10-27T15:41:11

I need some ideas for more cultures/nations in my world, even just basic outlines. Here is a overview of the continents I have: Antikos --------------------- Antikos is a large continent of mostly desert, jungle, and plains. It has a large area of volcanic wasteland to the far west of the continent. Daishan ---------------------- Daishan is tropical to the south and in the central areas of the continent there is mostly plains with a few small desert areas. The north gets gradually cooler until it becomes snowy in the far north. Aegir --------------------- Aegir is a northern continent, cold but still usually green in the south but freezing and snowy in most of the rest of the continent. It has large mountains in the far north seperating the continent from the north pole. Norharr ------------------------ Norharr is a continent neighboring Aegir. It has a smaller area of temperate land than Aegir, with most of the continent being icy cold. The north pole can be reached through this continent. The continent is largely more wild than it's neighbour. Gorash ------------------------- A huge continent of mixed environments from snow and then temperate in the north, to plains and desert in the centre, to the jungle in the south. More nonhumans live here. The Northern Kingdoms ----------------------------- This is a small continent as it is one of the small continents making up 'the ring' in the centre of the world. It is mostly temperate with one cold snowy area to the far north. Aranar ------------------------- Another of the ring continents, mostly temperate with a dry plains area to the south and a snowy area up in the mountains. Kydar ------------------------- A largely uncharted continent to the east of Gorash. The areas that are charted are made up of jungle and plains and then further than that is hue volcanic wasteland that nobody travels through too far to see what's on the other side. The races/species I have at the moment are: Human Orc Elf Dark Elf Dwarf Gnome Goblin Lizardfolk Catfolk Bullfolk Ogre There are more minor races and other races I'm still thinking of but those are the basic ones at the moment. And the time setting of my world is roughly 1700s but some nations might have higher technology (steampunk/magitech)