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I'm Sick and Delerious. Have a Banik Linguistics lesson.

Oct 06, 2005 05:00

Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh... sick.

I've got this head cold thing which means I'm listless and can't think and when I do think it's all disjointed and weird; I slept for something like 12 hours total and kept having the most messed up psychotic dreams ( Read more... )

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numb3r_5ev3n October 9 2005, 04:31:52 UTC

Here's a question, just because I'm curious to see what your answer will be...how similar do you think the Banik are to the Marags from the David Eddings universe?

lizamanynames October 9 2005, 14:16:47 UTC

Ooooooooooooooh...

Iiiinteresting...

The details of Marag culture are fuzzy in my head, it's been a while...

...and SHIT, our copy of the Riven Codex is packed somewhere while we move furniture around in preparation for the new couch...

I'm drawing a blank on Marags, except that they're a Malloean race (or you know, from that continant anyway) and they're not the demon worshipping people, or the Dals, so I'll have to get back to you on that.

numb3r_5ev3n October 9 2005, 21:16:28 UTC

Well, the Marags were the Children of Mara, and were mostly wiped out by the Tolnedrans, who sold the ones who were left into slavery to the Angaraks. For the next few thousand years, the Marags who were left existed as a slave race of the Angaraks, who sacrificed many and worked the rest to death for the most part. By the time of the events of the Belgariad, only Taiba was left, and she became the progenitress of the new Marag race after the death of Torak.

lizamanynames October 10 2005, 13:03:29 UTC

I remember them now! They were matriarchal, and beleived in blood scrifice.

I honestly don't think there's much resemblance between my Baniks and Marags, aside from that grim, steady determination Slave races get.

Actually, if I'm drawing inspiration for the Banik from anywhere else in science fiction, the people they bear the most resemblence to are Tenctonese, from Alien Nation. And even then only cultrually, because physiologically they're almost nothing alike. Hell, my Delvians are physiologically closer to Tenctonese than my Bnaik are - and that's only in very superficial ways.

Though now that I think of it, the ghosts of the Marag... yeah, there's some resonance there. But the Banik are very much a living race, even if large parts of thier culture have been ravaged by slavery.

numb3r_5ev3n October 11 2005, 15:56:01 UTC

lizamanynames October 11 2005, 16:18:40 UTC

True, there probably aren't so many similarities now that you mention it...but I still wonder what a Marag-equivalent of a Stykera would be like...why isn't there an Eddings RPG?

Now there's a good frelling question - probably nobody's approached him for the rights - though there's GOTTA be at least on Fan-writeup out there somewhere.

Now Stark in Maragor...there's an idea. X-OVER TIME! ;D

YOU'RE writing that, not me! I STILL can't find my frelling Riven codex!!

lasultrix October 31 2005, 14:49:50 UTC

Progenitrix: -tor words transform to -trix, -er to -ess.

(sorry, I adore words ending in -trix! don't mind me.)

Wow, I'd forgotten that the Tolnedrans were the ones who sold them to the Angaraks. With a hazy memory of the Belgariad, you tend to come away with the impression that all the non-Angarak races are lovely (except the Nyissans, I suppose), don't you? One of the things I like about the Malloreon is that we see Angaraks in a much more balanced way.

lizamanynames November 1 2005, 07:42:02 UTC

(sorry, I adore words ending in -trix! don't mind me.)

A) I kinda figured, and

b) Who the hell can blame you?! :D

Wow, I'd forgotten that the Tolnedrans were the ones who sold them to the Angaraks. With a hazy memory of the Belgariad, you tend to come away with the impression that all the non-Angarak races are lovely (except the Nyissans, I suppose), don't you?

No, I actually always had a bit of a dislike for Tolnedrans, though individual Tolnedrans could be lovely. And something Eddings is very very good at over the entire arc is giving both good and bad examples of every cultre.

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