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JulesCARV 09-05-06, 12:57 AM	This is rather dubious, but just for the heck of it, I thought I'd look at some analogies between Discworld and Eberron. They aren't particularly similar, as fantasy settings go, but heck, if people try to put the crew of Deep Space 9 into Eberron, Discworld can fit at least a little bit too. Locations: Sharn = Ankh-Morpork Breland = The Sto Plains, approximately Aundair = Quirm Thrane = Omnia Karrnath = Überwald Sarlona = The Counterweight Continent Klatch = Valenar Howandaland = Xen'drik Djelibeybi = Riedra People: King Boranel = Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson (sorta) Pontiff Jaela = "Wazzer" Goom (Monstrous Regiment) or Brutha (Small Gods)
Gladius_Lucix 09-05-06, 01:07 AM	If you want to do this, the places can be compared, but most of the characters won't parallel Eberron iconics. Except one: Death = The Keeper :P
ArcTan 09-05-06, 02:05 AM	Death's not the Keeper, unless you buy into the theory that the Keeper's just been misunderstood by the Host priesthood all these years. The Keeper is more like the concept of the Crowned Death who replaced Death in _Reaper Man_. But anyway, Eberron is only superficially similar to Discworld in that they're sort of in the same genre -- "fantasy-punk" literature that takes high fantasy tropes and applies them in a more realistic way. But in fine detail they're not that much alike at all. Riedra is *on* Sarlona, by the way. Riedra is the empire that takes up most of the continent -- the analogous comparison would be the Agatean Empire and the Counterweight Continent. I'd be far more willing to draw a comparison between Breland-as-a-whole and the Ramtops, with Boranel filling the role of the former king, before Verence. A Vimes-like figure would be an awesome character, though (he basically is a stock character, although at this point evolved into one of the more nuanced incarnations of such a character I've seen in fantasy).
JulesCARV 09-05-06, 01:52 PM	Oh, and of course: Xoriat = Dungeon Dimensions
Ricohard_Draconis 09-06-06, 08:59 PM	No theres far too much life in xoriat. The Dungeon Dimensions are just depressing.
stone_dog 09-06-06, 09:31 PM	No theres far too much life in xoriat. The Dungeon Dimensions are just depressing. The Dungeon Dimensions are full of tenticular horrors that spread madness and carnage wherever they break through to this world. It might be different than Xoriat from a technical standpoint, but I seriously doubt the average observer would be able to tell much of a difference at ground level.
JulesCARV 09-06-06, 10:51 PM	Oh, and of course: in Discworld, the significant number is eight. In Eberron, it's thirteen total, twelve "remaining." So eight in Discworld is somehow the numerological equivalent of either twelve or thirteen in Eberron.
ArcTan 09-06-06, 11:55 PM	The Dungeon Dimensions are full of tenticular horrors that spread madness and carnage wherever they break through to this world. It might be different than Xoriat from a technical standpoint, but I seriously doubt the average observer would be able to tell much of a difference at ground level. Xoriat and the Dungeon Dimensions are both quite obvious references to Lovecraft, so they are, in fact, essentially similar. But the Dungeon Dimensions are passe, anyway. They haven't been important in ages -- and neither, really, has the whole "number eight" thing. Pratchett's even forgotten about a few times and instead used more traditional numbers like three, five and seven for numerological purposes. The Auditors, on the other hand, Discworld's Lawful-aligned take on the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions, don't have much of an analogue in Eberron, or in any other fantasy setting for that matter (which was intentional) -- although I'd argue the quori serve essentially the same role.
JulesCARV 09-07-06, 12:47 AM	Inevitables are sorta Auditor-like, but only in being obsessed with law, not being hostile to all life. Discworld elves are vaguely (very vaguely) like Eberron Inspired: stupefying people with glamer, dreams, and fantasy while robbing them.