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Borderlands, Saldaea

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Table of Contents

General Description

    Culture

    Games and entertainment

    Sayings

    Courting and marriage

Political Description

    External politics

    Internal politics

    The military and warfare

Trade and Economy

People

       Physical looks

       Clothing

            Women

            Men

            Coats

            Military

    Talents, skills, characteristics

Design Considerations

    Landscape

    Plant life

    Animal life

    Building exteriors

    Building interiors

    Food and drink

Cities/Towns/Sites

     Maradon - capital

     Irinjavar

     Mehar

    

 

   


General Description

Culture

  • people travel by snowshoes and skis during the winter. (V: 344)
  • horses from Saldaea are smaller? (VI: 212)
  • girls in Saldaea are not taught the sword or war. (IV: 680)
  • Saldaeans have a form of martial arts. (IV: 680)

Games and entertainment

  • desc of Saldaean customs - reciting poetry while hawking, ride hunts, play cittern while discussing how to counter Trolloc raids, the courting language of lace fans, never draw a knife unless you mean to use it.  (IV: 243)
  • Saldaean horsemen are very skilled at riding horses, can perform intricate tricks and maneuvers. (VI: 372)
  • like trying to make a horse dance the sa'sara (VI: 33)

Sayings

  • like trying to make a horse dance the sa'sara (VI: 33)
  • mad as a hare in spring thaw (VI: 81)
  • A general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both. (IV: 678)
  • A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her. (VI: 198)
  • As forward as a farm girl at harvest. (VI: 585)

Courting and marriage

  • in Saldaea, men do the proposing of marriage. (IV: 889)
  • women younger than a certain age in Saldaea have to ask their mothers' permission to marry. If they marry without that permission, their mothers can punish them, and their fathers might even elect to kill the groom? (VI: 573)
  • Saldaeans feel the man should be stronger than the woman. (VI: 577)

Political Description

External politics

Internal politics

  • 15 years ago, there were parts of Saldaea that had not seen a taxman in five generations, but Tenobia reclaimed them. (IV: 677)
  • Saldaeans feel spying is a wife's, not a husband's, work. (VI: 583)
  • there is a Council of Lords in Saldaea. (IV: 936)
  • Zarine is a Saldaean name for a great beauty who lives a life of ease.  (III: 417)
  • the eldest Saldaean child of either age studies accounting and trading to learn to manage the estates one day. (IV: 680)
  • desc of Lord Bashere's title (IV: 678)
  • reference to the Broken Crown. (VI: 573)

The military and warfare

  • attacks of the DO are increasing in Saldaea. (I: 312)
  • frequent Trolloc raids in Saldaea. (IV: 516-517)
  • underlieutenant sword-sworn is a Saldaean military rank. (VI: 565)

Trade and Economy

  • furs and ice peppers from Saldaea are very valuable. (II: 157)
  • fur trading is an important occupation in Saldaea. (IV: 53) Saldaean products include lumber, ice peppers and furs. (IV: 678)
  • sheep are also raised in Saldaea. (IV: 512)
  • notches in horses' ears indicate who owns them. (VI: 6630)
  • people travel by snowshoes and skis during the winter. (V: 344)

People

Physical looks

  • dark, tilted eyes and bold noses are common Saldaean physical traits.   (IV: 632)
  • many Saldaeans have a distinctive type of nose (the way the Gallic nose is well-known and common.) (IV: 841)
  • virtually all Saldaeans have tilted eyes. (VI: 278, 373, 542)
  • Saldaeans are not a particularly tall people. (VI: 195)
  • black hair is common. (VI: 564)
  • Saldaean with fire-red hair, tilted green eyes and high cheekbones.  (II: 282)
  • green eyes not uncommon in Saldaea. (V: 234)
  • Faile is tall, with black hair, high cheekbones and dark, tilted eyes.  (III: 386)
  • Sheriam (red hair, tilted green eyes) is Saldaean. (VI: 156)

Clothing

Women

  • riding dress of plain, dark material, with wide sleeves and narrow, divided skirts, with gloves for riding. (III: 386, IV: 445)
  • dresses are often embroidered down the sleeves and on the high neck.  (VI: 373)

Men

  • thick, hanging moustaches are the Saldaean fashion. (VI: 68)
  • men often wear beards or thick moustaches. (VI: 564)

Coats

Military

Talents, skills, characteristics

  • girls in Saldaea are not taught the sword or war. (IV: 680)
    Faile knows the knife so shortsword would be a good talent for the women.
  • Saldaeans have a form of martial arts. (IV: 680)
    Should have high skill in unarmed combat.
  • Saldaean horsemen are very skilled at riding horses, can perform intricate tricks and maneuvers. (VI: 372)
  • Saldaeans feel spying is a wife's, not a husband's, work. (VI: 583)
    Thief skills should be high for females and normal for males at least for starting stats and abilities.

Design Considerations

Landscape

  • there are estates in Saldaea larger than Mayene. (IV: 243)
  • Bashere, Tyr, Sidona areas/cities in Saldaea? (IV: 679)
  • the land of Two Rivers is "soft" compared to the land of Saldaea. (IV: 696)
  • Saldaea is a harsh land. (IV: 696)
  • winters are very cold, the trees sometimes burst as their sap freezes.  (V: 344)
     

Plant life

Animal life

Building exteriors

Building interiors

Food and drink


Cities/Towns/Sites

Maradon - capital

  • they say you can see the Blight from the highest towers in Maradon.  (I: 312)
  • Maradon is Ogier-built. (VI: 324)

Irinjavar

Mehar


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