>>41047267Played a bit of monhun and my brain's clear again.
>and can be considered of the larger "Hoshiyomite culture"If possible I think the borders can be shrunk a bit. There really isn't a river or anything separating the /uuu/ part and everything south. (The edge of the Forest are supposed to be decently open.) And I don't think that the culture's literally that wide. /jp/ magic would effect things but with historical travel speeds unless there are frequent population movements cultures are gonna become relatively static and branch off. How much cultural similarities is shared between the peoples south of the Forest I think should also depend on that.
I actually originally planned for the Council nations to be it's own little cultural group. Which originated from the native inhabitants of the North-West together with people fleeing from the Empire from the East and South West.
>Feudal lords, city states, bishoprics, and other vassals are nominally under our command in this region &>It is likely that your culture would have a lot of Hoshiyomite Language influencesI'm taking a lot of inspiration from Rus' states. And the period after the split especially should see the elites slowly developing a sort of proto-national consciousness. It also depends on how exactly did the types of interaction went. ~1100 years is a long time with a lot of chances for great linguistic shifts.
Which lead to the second
>and other things that we can get into to add more flavour to /who/ as well as names which you two are terrible at getting.Turns out that having to name things using a half-finished conlang without a clear guidelines on many aspects related to word building and without using Wikipedia or google translate to name stuff is hard. But the biggest obstacle was the map, which we have now
only took like half a year. 