• rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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      14 hours ago

      This is Tamriel if you replace East Asia stuff with Dark Elves, which… are actually not that far from that to begin with.

    • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      15 hours ago

      No? This is a bunch of Tolkien tropes + Conan the Barbarian + a bunch of shuffled around real world cultures.

      The Last Airbender continent was mostly China, with the fire nation being steampunk imperial Japan. At the poles there were the Inuit-inspired water benders and the Air Benders were Tibetan monks except spread around all over the place on mountaintops.

      There weren’t any Egyptian pyramids or nomadic steppe peoples that I can remember being portrayed in Avatar, and there certainly weren’t any elves, orcs, dwarves, wizards, or barbarians from the icy north.