Fantasy Setting Question

If your wizard smokes a pipe (and whose doesn't, to be fair) then potatoes should be fair game I should think. Though I do draw the line at fields full of maize in a pseudo-European context.
 
Gasp... are you saying it's actually sweet leaf from Athel Loren? :o

Seriously though, lore of warhammer is more than a little wacky at (most) times and so much depends on what one considers to be canon.
Deeper the rabbit hole one goes, crazier stuff tends to get as it's fleshed out more and more.
Wfrp 2nd edition source book 'Old world armoury' explicitly mentions vodka, whiskey and scotch(!) as spirits. Scotch being a thing in the old world would mean there is Scotland and Scots as well, right?
 
Sure, but despite its theme and inspiration not being all too subtle (to say the least) I don't think it actually mentions Scotland anywhere?
There's a good chance I'm wrong here as I don't own nor have I read the scenario, but quick search seems to suggest it takes place in "East Albion", with "Kingdom of McDeath" also being mentioned.

Warhammer wiki also has this bit:
Canon Conflict

The map of Albion has changed several times as the concept of the island has altered over the course of the development of Warhammer. The story of McDeath originally belonged to one of these versions of Albion that is no longer canon, though the story itself lives on as a legend told in the Old World.
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Which leads us to that "pick and choose your canon" thinking. So much has been retconned that one can go with what is current lore (in which case they should accept it will change at some point and not throw a tantrum over it when the time comes), go with lore of certain time period and pay no heed to anything that has happened after that or mix and match as they see fit.

How I see it is McDeath falls to same category as Oriental Heroes -line GW did back in the day. Theme is just as clear, but instead of Japan they came from Nippon (though this might have been later invention, I'm not sure).
I'm well aware of meaning of Nippon and Albion (and must say they are extremely lazy names by GW for their world building) but then again, when the whole setting is based on our real world and lots of ideas are "borrowed" from elsewhere, maybe lore shouldn't be taken too seriously.

TL;DR Let there be light, potatoes and scotch for anyone who so wishes. ;)
 
Geroak II said:
So much has been retconned that one can go with what is current lore (in which case they should accept it will change at some point and not throw a tantrum over it when the time comes), go with lore of certain time period and pay no heed to anything that has happened after that or mix and match as they see fit.
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This seems the only sane approach.

(also the only approach?)
 
Nine tenths of the names in my own youthful world building are equally original, and the other tenth are rather ridiculous. And I go hot and cold on the idea of changing them as I've been building the world . . . eek . . . forty years now. All that said, I have no* room to complain about GW's early names. Or a bit of mild rewriting and editing after original publication. It's an honorable tradition. (Just so long as I agree with all the changes.) ;)

*This originally said "to" but that makes no grammatical sense here. And I don't have any room, seeing as my names are no better, so . . . I have "no" room, not to room.
 
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No. Never occured to me. That said - is bread not enough? But there is tobacco - which did occur to me. What helped with the latter was the fact that some of my figures had pipes but none had potatoes!

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@ Symphonic: I do change some of the GW early names, but others I failed to understand the joke and left them in.
 
^Hey, as far as I'm concerned Tilea is all yours now and GW should just accept that they need to sign over the lease. ;) You strongly tempt me to buy fantasy miniatures for Abithar, but I don't have enough money or enough time for another collecting spree of that scope! :grin: But if that ever changes . . .

Your story is always inspiring.
 
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