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
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
dragons
@[email protected] @[email protected] might be of interest to /c/em_poc
pathfinder seems to have been very good with poc rep, they also have a fantasy africa continent that was done very well. main adventure there is basically not shit harry potter in fantasy timbuktu, main antagonist is an african mythological figure iirc. ap is called Strength of Thousands
Actually was gonna shout out the 2e Mwangi Expanse & Strength of Thousands before I saw your comment lol. Love the fantasy Africa analogue (big fan of the Anadi!) and how they avoided so many of the problems D&D’s fantasy Africa analogue had in its portrayals. Haven’t read anything on the east Asia stuff, looks dope though
“Latino” or “mixed” or “Turkish” analogues would be nice!
i would KILL for some MENA stuff
Pathfinder has northern Garund and Qadira and the Kelesh Empire, but I don’t actually know enough about those regions to speak about how they’re written.
The iconic cleric is a gay Qadiran woman who is married to the iconic rogue (an elf)
Pathfinder has Arcadia as its America-analog. I don’t know anything about it except that they have guns and are featured a lot in the book covering that. Seems very underdeveloped otherwise. https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Arcadia
Developing this more would be interesting!
I think its hinted theyre going to be doing some Arcadia content soonish, its one of the regions that is very undeveloped
that would be nice
Just to add clarity to your comment, Arcadia is the pre-colonisation America analogue, as Andoran is the USA analogue.
Thank you for this!