The movie was fantastic other than the vikings all speaking with a Mike Meyers Canadian-Scotch accent...

It got me thinking about the Norsicans in WFRP. Do they regularly raid Albion? Is there anything to raid there? Is there any interest here in a scenario or "product" for the island? I don't own "Tragedy of McDeath," but I did re-write THE WEB OF ELDAW back in the wfrp2 days (man was that scenario bland...)

It seems to me that they would be a stop-over point for Druchii raiders along the north coast and from the other side, the same from the Norsicans

jh

And with McDeath, about all I can round up about the scenario is: www.solegends.com/citscenarios/index.htm

jh

Here's a slightly related question: why do DWARFS all have scottish accents too?

I mean, they're from Norse mythology...

Interesting.

Emirikol said:

The NORSE do and have raided Albion. There is always slaves there. There might be treasures to pillage also, but I dont really know what level Albion-folk now are? Are they more wild-folk (barbarians) with not that much of technical level, or are there also more advanced cultures there - Who might have some contact with Old Worlders? WFRP1 Albion seemed to be more advanced, with maybe civilized folk. WFRP2 and especially post-Dark Shadows campaign they seem more barbaric celt-type of people.

Also it would make sense for the Norse to rule part of Albion and then use this as base for attacks further, like Ulthuan (little closer). And some Norse could just wanna rule the Island or part of it. This just havent happened the folk there probably have united as a powerful army to drive the Norse away everytime - so, they just raid the place. Also Norse probably attack northern reaches of island and I think the Lizardmen protect partly that region because it has some important "nexus-points" there connecting to the Old Ones network.

But the Norse have been there, and ruled the areas there time to time through history. So, there are probably some cultural things taken both sides.

Now, Albion might have some valuable natural resources (silver, gold, gems...), but I dont know are people there advanced enough to mine these.

Very hard to sound rugged 'n scary and do a sing-songy scandinavian accent at the same time.

Danes have an extremely cool english accent, I think, but it is rather close to the german accent.

I'm from Norway myself, and for laughs we did various norwegian dialects for differnet races in DnD. Eladrin are from Stavanger, Drow are from Bergen. The NPC's are all speaking Hedmarking, and Dwaves are invariably from the high north, Troms and Finnmark.

It's hilarious, but I guess it's a "you'd have to be there" kind of fun, and be a fluent speaker of norwegian of course.

But this does raise an intersting question:
What would be good north american dialects/accents for fantasy races?

• Canuckian for Dwarves?
• Texas for Reikland and Altdorf?
• Louisiana Cajun for Wood Elves?

Would be a refreshing change from the tired old pseudo-british warble all Fantasy computer games seems to subscribe to.

Olemak said:

That's an AWESOME idea.

...What would French Canadian (Quebecois) be?

That post is useless without the YouTube demonstrations to go with them

Dwarf (western): norwegian far north: www.youtube.com/watch

Mootlander: mexican spanish

Wood Elf: australian, "Thet's not a knoyf'..NAW THETS A KNOYF'!"

Reiklanders: Minnesotan (www.youtube.com/watch)..afterall if you've ever dated a girl from Brainerd..they ACTUALLY ARE LIKE THIS! Ya? Yeah.

High Elf: Will Smith:

Sea Elf:

Dark Elf:

Talabeclander:

jh

Loved that you made the Darkelves come from bergen ^^. For those of you who dont know anything about Norway Bergen is the rainiest place in the world, it beats Seattle by a wide margin (they managed 355 days of perspiration one year or something silly like that). They are also known for offing themselves, being very very emo and spawning some of the meanest death/brutal/black metal ever... Gotta love norwegians