Tian Xia is their ‘Asian fusion’ continent, has a lot of different regions and governments all dreamt up by a very wide cast of writers in Asia, but most seem to be from Shanghai and Hong Kong.

I am told that if you speak some Asian languages, these are very fun names to look at.

Big bads:

cw: spider

cw: spider

cw: spider

super saiyan cat

adorable forest fey

tanuki!!

racially diverse ‘western’ explorers and refugees, technically a ‘hong kongesque’ situation without brutal colonialism:

this is qin shi huangdi except the elixir actually worked

qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

before anyone gets weirded out by the elves, all pathfinder elves look like this, even ones from ‘western’ or ‘african’ areas

fantasy korea

sassy snake deity

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dragons

  • lurkerlady [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    8·
    7 months ago

    yeah, if it makes you feel better theyre all descendants from refugees/explorers that showed up in ancient times. basically fantasy romans went exploring and intermingled with a lot of random places

    there are some actual bad white people colonies that are explicitly unholy evil devil worshipers and slavers in fantasy africa, theres a holy goddess of vengeance and anticolonialism that looks cool as hell and helps people that fight them

      • lurkerlady [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        5·
        7 months ago

        also added a bit about fantasy africa, there are actual colonies in pathfinder but all of them are founded by literal devil worshipers lol

          • lurkerlady [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
            6·
            7 months ago

            yeah theres some pirate campaigns where you try to interdict the devil worshipers supply lines, stuff like that. lot of content around them, theyre basically the big bads of the setting, along with some undead empires

          • Babs [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
            5·
            7 months ago

            Devil worshiping nazis, in fact. Cheliax isn’t exactly subtle.

            There’s an old adventure path where you play a sort of resistance within the empire of Cheliax.

            edit: yeah the devil part is very literal as well. Devils in Pathfinder are nuanced in that they are evil but also lawful, and it’s entirely possible to play a Faust-like character who binds them without being evil. Queen Abrogail Thrune II is not like that at all.