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Latinian
Native Language: Latinian
Bonus Languages: Clasbron, Futhark, Nostrian Script, Halfling, Orc
Religion: Latinian
Orthodox
Description
- Origins - Views - Culture
- Home Regions - Latinian Names
Description
Latinians are well known for their jet-black hair and their dark mysterious brown eyes. Though lighter hair colors occur occasionally, Latinian eyes
almost never get lighter than hazel. Despite this fact, Latinians are the only known human culture of Novaria to be born with grey eyes. This is
considered a divine omen from their war goddess Athena, and Athenian monasteries often offer to adopt and raise these children as her chosen warriors. [Top]
Origins
Latinians are the descendants of the Nostrian legions that once occupied much of southern Novaria and the native Danaan population. Through the
years of occupation, those Danaans living in the Nostrian province known as Latinia married into the families of Latinian colonists and adopted their
language and customs. [Top]
Views
As a former people of the Nostrian Empire, Latinians view themselves as the crème-de-la-crème of Novarian culture. They view both the Futhark and
the Clasbron as beneath their station, an unfortunate outlook for numerous lesser Latinian nobility in the presence of the upper echelons of Futhark and
Clasbron nobility. Many Latinians still view the Futhark as foreigners even though centuries have past since the
Futhark were granted the Artesia region for driving out the Giants. Still, the Latinians aren't above seeking out Futhark mercenaries and have a healthy respect for Futhark gems and
gold that the mine from the Crystal Mountains. Latinians have very little respect for the Clasbron whom they see as lazy and illiterate bumpkins. However, the Latinian artistic sense can't help but recognize the exceptional poetic and musical skill of the Clasbron bards, inspiring jealousy among
their own bards and clerics of Apollo. Latinians consider Dwarves a dirty, miserable little people and are repulsed by the fact that most Dwarves
spend a good portion of their lives underground, but at the same time are awestruck by feats of Dwarven engineering and stone craft. To the Latinian,
the average halfling is nothing more than a shrewd burglar or a hardworking simpleton. Though they are found nearly everywhere, most Latinians
rarely pay them any attention, or worse, patronize them as children. Latinians have a strong dislike for Elves. They're wary of Elven magic, jealous of
Elven artistic ability and suspicious of Elven lack of respect for Latinian social institutions. What bothers Latinians the most is the way the Elves act
as if they are higher on the social ladder than the Latinians. Because of Tiel's hiring of humanoid mercenaries, the presence of Orcs, Goblins and
Kobolds in Latinian cities is barely tolerated and not much effort is given to the investigation of a humanoid death, racking most such cases up to self-defense. [Top]
More than any other group, the Latinians support the reign of Tiel and are looking forward to a new age of Latinian dominance and hopeful that they will
regain some of the former glory of the Nostrian Empire. Several Latinian nobles have set their eyes on Futhark lands and the riches that can be
gained by the gold and gem mines in the Crystal Mountains. Tense relations also exist on the Clasbron border, where the Latinian nobles suspect
Clasbron collaboration with the Elves or worse, harboring supporters of the deposed Queen. [Top]
Culture
Latinians have a keen interest in the arts and architecture and possess what some might call an obsession with politics. More than the other human cultures of
Novaria, the Latinians are very cosmopolitan and the streets of Latinian towns and cities are flooded with young Latinian peasants trying to make
something of themselves.
Latinians have a flair for flamboyance. They wear the best clothes they can afford and adorn almost
everything they own with ornate decorations, sometimes to the point of being gaudy and at the expense of function.
Despite the Latinian desire for the best of things, Latinian society is very divided between the nobility and commoners. For this reason, Latinian
courts are very structured and formal. Latinian nobility has little feeling for the needs of the commoner or peasant. Few commoners are allowed an
audience with Latinian nobility unless they are formerly requested.
Women in Latinian society are treated as social inferiors and are often regulated to purely domestic roles of housework and childrearing. Some
women are able to escape these roles by joining the clergy of several Latinian goddesses. The Latinian female who takes up adventuring will likely to receive scorn and ridicule from others of her culture, but it is not unknown for Latinian women to rise above these social prohibitions.
Latinians worship the Olympian deities in churches around Novaria. Most churches are dedicated to Zeus, their primary deity, though it is not
uncommon for chapels to other deities to exist in the same town. Most Latinians attend regular services, though they may practice quite differently
from what they are taught.
In many ways, Latinian culture permeates the rest of Novaria. The religions of the Futhark and the Clasbron have adapted a Latinian style of formal
worship to their faiths, nearly all humans in Novaria can speak the Latinian tongue and many languages have adopted the Nostrian script to set their
words to paper. [Top]
Random Home
Regions [Top]
| Home
Region |
d% |
| Aurora |
1 |
| Faraway |
2 |
| Ft. Garret |
3 |
| Loran |
4 |
| Fystar |
5-10 |
| Three
Rivers |
11-16 |
| Tourn |
17-23 |
| Brandy |
24-33 |
| Kirsten |
34-49 |
| Regal |
50-68 |
| Chelsea |
69-100 |
Latinian First Names [Male] [Female] [Top]
Male
Abban, Abelard, Achille, Adalard, Adalhard, Adhémar, Adrien, Aimery, Alain, Albion, Aleaume, Alexandre, Alexe, Alfred, Alphonse, Alysaundre, Amable, Amadé, Amand, Amaury, Ambroise, Amé, Amédée, Amélien, Amelot, Amiel, Amils, Amyon, Anastase, Anatole, Ancelot, André, Andrieu, Ange, Anicet, Anquetil, Anselme, Anselot, Antoine, Archambaud, Archambault, Aribert, Aristide, Armand, Arnald, Arnaud, Arnaut, Arnoud, Arnoul, Arnould, Artemidore, Artus, Asuerues, Athanase, Aubri, Aubry, Audafrei, Audard, Auguste, Aurel, Aurèle, Aymeri, Aymon, Ayol, Baltasard, Baptiste, Barnabé, Barthelemi, Bartholomée, Bartholomieu, Basile, Bastien, Batiste, Bâtiste, Baud, Baudoin, Baudouin, Baudrand, Baudri, Beat, Beaudonnier, Begon, Begue, Benigne, Benin, Benoit, Béranger, Berault, Bernaldo, Bernardin, Bernier, Berthomieu, Bertin, Bertoud, Bertrand, Beuve, Blaise, Blaisot, Boleslas, Bonaventure, Brantome, Bretonnet, Brien, Bruyant, Calvandre, Carloman, Casimir, Caton, Celestin, César, Charles, Charlot, Chrestien, Chretien, Chrodo, Chrysostome, Clair, Claude, Clement, Clovd, Cobert, Colas, Colin,
Côme, Conrade, Conradin, Corneille, Crepet, Crepin, Crescent, Cristophe, Cyprien, Cyr, Cyran, Cyriac, Cyrille, Dagobert, Dalphin, Damien, David, Dé, Demetre, Denis, Denys, Didier, Diel, Dieudonné, Dolphin, Dominique, Donatien, Doolin, Drogon, Dru, Dudon, Durand, Edgar, Edgard, Edmond, Édouard, Egide, Egilbert, Egilolf, Eginhard, Elic, Elie, Eloi, Eloy, Elzear, Emile, Enée, Engerraud, Ennan, Erasme, Erembert, Ermé, Ernaut, Erneste, Esaïe, Estienne, Étienne, Euchaire, Eudes, Eudon, Eugène, Eustache, Eustache, Evrard, Evre, Evremond, Evrols, Evroud, Fabien, Fabrice, Faure, Felix, Ferabras, Ferry, Fiacre, Fiebras, Filibert, Flobert, Florentin, Florian, Fluvant, Fougues, Foulgues, Foulque, Fouqueret, François, Frederic, Fromondin, Fromony, Fulcher, Gaetan, Gahariet, Gaidon, Gaillard, Galafre, Galeran, Galien, Garalt, Garnier, Gaspard, Gaston, Gaubert, Gaucher, Gaud, Gaumardas, Gédéon, Geoffroi, Georges, Gérard, Gerart, Gerbert, Germain, Gervais, Gilbert, Gileber, Gilles, Girairs, Girars, Girault, Girbers, Girroald, Godard, Godefroi, Godefroi, Goderic, Godon, Gogo, Gombert, Gondebault, Gondebert, Gonsalve, Gonthery, Gonthier, Gontier, Gontram, Gonzalve, Grégoire, Grimaud, Gualthier, Guarin, Gueri, Guérin, Gui, Guibert, Guichard, Guidon, Guilhabert, Guillaume, Guillibaud, Guillot, Guillot, Guinemant, Guion, Guirauld, Guiscard, Gunthram, Gustave, Guy, Guyon, Harde, Hardouin, Henri, Herbert, Herluin, Hernaudin, Hernaut, Hervisse, Hilaire, Hippolyte, Honoré, Hubert, Hugh, Hugues, Huidemar, Huon, Ignace, Isaïe, Isidore, Isore, Jacquelin, Jacques, Jean, Jean-Baptiste, Jehan, Jérémie, Jérôme, Joseph, Jourdain, Julien, Juste, Lambert, Landri, Laurent, Léandre, Léon, Léonard, Léopold, Louis, Loup, Luc, Macaire, Mainet, Marcel, Marcellin, Martin, Matthieu, Maugis, Maxime, Mercadier, Michel, Milon, Naimes, Namus, Narcisse, Nazaire, Nicodème, Nicolas, Noel, Nouel, Olivier, Othon, Pascal, Paul, Philippe, Piccolet, Pierre, Ponce, Prades, Prosper, Rabel, Raphael, Régis, Rémi, Renaud, René, Renier, Renouart, Richard, Rigobert, Robert, Roch, Roger, Sébastien, Séverin, Simon, Sylvain, Sylvestre, Tancrede, Théodore, Théophile, Thibault, Thomas, Timothée, Toussaint, Turpin, Urbain, Valentin, Varocher, Vivien, Yon
Female
Abelia, Adélaïde, Adèle, Adeline, Adrienne, Aelis, Agathe, Agnès, Aicelina, Aida, Aiglante, Aimée, Alais, Alazaïs, Alesta, Alette, Alexandra, Algaia, Alice, Aline, Alissende, Allemande, Amalie, Amalone, Amarante, Ameline, Anaïs, Andrée, Andreva, Angèle, Angélique, Anne, Ansere, Antoinette, Apolline, Arianne, Arnaude, Asceline, Aude, Audiarda, Aure, Aurélie, Aurore, Austorga, Ava, Aveline, Aye, Barbara, Bartholomette, Bellisente, Bastienne, Béatrice, Bénédicte, Benoïte, Bérengère, Bernadette, Bernardine, Berthe, Bibiane, Blanche, Blonde, Bonassias, Brigitte, Brune, Brunehaut, Brunisente, Brunissende, Camille, Catherine, Cécile, Céleste, Céline, Chantal, Claire, Clarisse, Clémence, Clothilde, Colette, Condors, Corrine, Danielle, Delphine, Dominique, Eglantine, Emersende, Ermbourg, Ermengarda, Ermengarde, Ermengart, Ermessenda, Esclamonde, Esclarmonde, Esperte, Esquiva, Étiennette, Eugénie, Eulalie, Euphémie, Fabienne, Fabiola, Fabrisse, Félicité, Flore, Flore, Florence, Frances, Françoise, Fredegonde, Frédérique, Gabrielle, Gaillarde, Galienne, Gaude, Gauzia, Gemma, Genevieve, Geneviève, Gentile, Germaine, Ghislaine, Giselle, Grazide, Guiborc, Guillemette, Hedwige, Hélène, Helissente, Henriette, Hermengart, Hermine, Honoria, Honors, Huguette, Hyacinthe, Ide, Inès, Irénée, Isabelle, Jacinthe, Jacotte, Jacqueline, Jeanne, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jehanne, Joceline, Joélle, Johanne, Joie, Josée, Josèphe, Josiane, Judith, Julie, Julienne, Julitte, Justine, Laure, Léa, Léonie, Léonore, Léontine, Liliane, Louise, Louve, Lubias, Luce, Lucia, Lutisse, Madeleine, Manon, Marcelline, Margot, Marguerite, Maria, Mariamne, Marie, Marquise, Marthe, Martine, Mathena, Mathilde, Maude, Maura, Mengarde, Michèle, Micheline, Mirabelle, Monique, Montagne, Myriam, Nadia, Natalie, Nicole, Nicolette, Ninon, Noëlle, Noémie, Odette, Odile, Olympe, Ophelie, Oriabel, Oriane, Pascale, Passerose, Patrice, Paule, Pernelle, Perrine, Petrona, Petronille, Philippa, Philomène, Pierrette, Rachel, Raymonde, Rébecca, Régine, Reine, Renée, Rixenda, Rixende, Romaine, Rosalie, Rose, Rosemonde, Rousse, Rubea, Sabine, Salomé, Séraphine, Serena, Simone, Solange, Sophie, Susanne, Sybille, Thérèse, Thomassa, Thomassia, Valérie, Véronique, Violette, Virginie, Vivienne, Vuissance, Willelma, Xavière, Yolande, Yvette, Yvonne, Zéphyrine, Zoë
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