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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:57:05 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Gods of Midkemia/Kelewan On 4/12/2012 10:34 PM, Raymond E. Feist wrote: On Apr 12, 2012, at 9:18 PM, Todd Newton wrote: Hi Ray, This may have been asked in the past, but what about the actual cultures within your books? As an example I feel the Trsurani were inspired by the Japanese. Is this correct? No. Not inspired. Rather you steal. I wanted a non-Norther/Western Feudal European culture, so I made one up. The feudal structure is Japanese, but the court and political reality is very Chinese. A lot of the window dressing is Korean, with some Zulu military and Aztec clan stuff tossed in. And just as another follow up: http://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/faq/2599/is-tsurani-culture-based-on-japanese-culture -Ray
