dmronny
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Re: OOC thread
Yeah the question was more out of personal curiosity rather than a need to know for the game. I'm not even sure why it suddenly occurred to me since no one's prologue is set in either area. For some reason it started bothering me that I couldn't quite explain what you would say if you happened to be from one of those entities. Admittedly though it is hilarious that they would call themselves "The Empire" to piss off the Byzantines (yes I know the term is wrong but it's easier to differentiate).
German certainly makes sense for the the HRE since most of the princes would have been some type of German. of course it might be more appropriate for them to refer to themselves by whatever principality, duchy, etc, etc. for example Saxon or Bavarian. Though now I'm curious as to what you call a person from Baden-Wurtemmburg. The Holy Roman Empire was hardly united after all and some of the smaller entities might consider themselves other than German.
The Kievans was actually bothering me quite a bit, since everything I thought seemed wrong. The word Russian might have come from Kievan rus but it's not the same, Ukrainians as I understand them wouldn't have existed yet. Viking wouldn't work since they would have been pretty much bred into something new by that point in time. So I guess it would be best to go by principality there as well.
Admittedly I didn't realize the Muscovites were really a big power at the time as you can tell by looking at my maps. Though they are based on the geocron maps, I divided the area between the Kievans and Novgorodians as the main powers in the region. I also wasn't sure how much of a republic Novgorod would actually be since there is more than one Novgorodian entity. I also fudged things because I can, so my maps don't match up perfectly with true geography/history.
Yeah the question was more out of personal curiosity rather than a need to know for the game. I'm not even sure why it suddenly occurred to me since no one's prologue is set in either area. For some reason it started bothering me that I couldn't quite explain what you would say if you happened to be from one of those entities. Admittedly though it is hilarious that they would call themselves "The Empire" to piss off the Byzantines (yes I know the term is wrong but it's easier to differentiate).
German certainly makes sense for the the HRE since most of the princes would have been some type of German. of course it might be more appropriate for them to refer to themselves by whatever principality, duchy, etc, etc. for example Saxon or Bavarian. Though now I'm curious as to what you call a person from Baden-Wurtemmburg. The Holy Roman Empire was hardly united after all and some of the smaller entities might consider themselves other than German.
The Kievans was actually bothering me quite a bit, since everything I thought seemed wrong. The word Russian might have come from Kievan rus but it's not the same, Ukrainians as I understand them wouldn't have existed yet. Viking wouldn't work since they would have been pretty much bred into something new by that point in time. So I guess it would be best to go by principality there as well.
Admittedly I didn't realize the Muscovites were really a big power at the time as you can tell by looking at my maps. Though they are based on the geocron maps, I divided the area between the Kievans and Novgorodians as the main powers in the region. I also wasn't sure how much of a republic Novgorod would actually be since there is more than one Novgorodian entity. I also fudged things because I can, so my maps don't match up perfectly with true geography/history.