Possible missing nations in Dom III?

[HoneyBadger]

Yeah, what kind of mythology do Mongolians and Siberians concern themselves with? Not to mention old Russia and the Cossac peoples? It would also be interesting to see a nation based on Gypsies, or Aryans, or the Slavic peoples. Maybe West Africa and Nubia or Central Africa and the Pygmies. We have Machaka which seems to be African, maybe Zulu in nature. I know that Nerfix made the Sar Elad nation based on the Israelites. We don't even have to rely on historical or even mythological based nations. Some really good nations could come out of Empire of the Petal Throne RPG, Talislanta RPG, or Narnia. I'm working on nations based on H.P. Lovecraft and some others. Late 19th and early 20th century authors are a fantastic source of creative material. H.P. Lovecraft and J.R.R. Tolkien are just the tip of the iceburg. C.S. Lewis and the other lesser-known "inklings", William Hope Hodgson, H. Ryder Haggard, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, the list goes on and on. People really had great imaginations back then before television and fast food sucked our brains out and everywhere you went started looking like everywhere you've already been. Ok that's not really fair, the main issue is that, with the spread of information, our imaginary landscapes have started to resemble each other's to a greater degree than was previously possible, except where the Bible was concerned, and consequently we get elves, dwarves, dragons, wizards, magic swords, and castles ad nauseum, which is why I'm recommending for interesting (read "truly bizarre") ideas, it's a good idea to dig a bit into the past, not that the likes of Neil Gaiman, Jack Vance, Steven Spielburg, George Lucas, Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, J.K. Rowling, and a host of others with fine imaginations are doing us a disservice, it's just that it's more likely now than at any other time in history that their ideas and our ideas will be recycled ones.