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- From: jeffs@math.bu.EDU (Jeff Suzuki)
- Subject: Japanese persona
- Message-ID: <9212261639.AA05533@math.bu.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:39:31 GMT
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- Cosmano asks:
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- > I was wondering, then, are there some kind folk who
- >might be willing to describe problems/non-problems with
- >having Japense personae in the Society?
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- This question might be extended to all who have non-European,
- non-Islamic personas. I'd say the response depends on your location.
- There's not much of a problem with Asian personas here in Carolingia
- (our Seneschal is one...), but then we're a pretty eclectic group
- anyhow.
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- Even if you want to play the "game" by the "European locale only"
- standard, there's historical justification for just about any persona
- from any location by the end of period. Part of the fun research in
- my persona was coming up for a justification for being in Europe; it
- went from "I took a wrong turn in Korea" to the current story.
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- A while back I offered the view of the SCA as "interactive historical
- fiction"; it _could_ have happened thus. No magic, no elves, but
- Europe and Asia are separated only by the Ural "mountains", and Asia
- is separated from the Americas by a mere 120 miles or so: man somehow
- got to America long before Cristof whatshisface. If a thousand year
- gap is acceptable, why not a thousand mile one?
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- Fujimoto
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