I was thinking of making a homebrew variant Human race who are inhabitants of the Icewind Dale area and I can't think of what I should name them. At first, obviously, I thought Icewind Dalians but that doesn't sound very (IMO) nice. Does anybody know what I should name the inhabitants of Icewind Dale or the variant race I am making?
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For reference, the phrase used to refer to people who live in Icewind Dale is, "The People of Icewind Dale" although that obviously includes, Elves & Dwarves etc.
Frostfolk sounds good. I think I might go with that.
However, when I was researching I found that there are Human Barbarian Tribes and they call themselves Reghedmen, that would match what I was looking for. I could go with that name as they do, to, inhabit the Icewind Dale area.
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The context is important. Is it to refer to them politely or with irreverence?
Back when Skyrim was divided in the Elder Scrolls lore, Western Skyrim people called Eastern Skyrim people, "iceheels" as an insult. (There was enmity between them back then. Dunno what iceheel means, but such cultural things don't always make sense to outsiders.)
So, you might want to come up with two nonsensical names that only make sense to the cultures speaking the words, one for affection and one for classism.
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Do you mean specifically the inhabitants of Ten Towns? The "barbarians" of Icewind Dale already have the name of Reghedmen. The more "civilized" peoples settled in the Ten Towns confederacy. The humans in the towns could be a collection of various types of humans. Some may be Reghedmen (or descendants of) who settled down in the Ten Towns. Some may be humans who moved from the south, and their descendants.
Note that the occupants of Ten Towns were not just humans. Halflings and Dwarves also lived there.
If you want to classify ALL of the humans of Icewind Dale under one variant human race, I don't think that is possible. The Reghedmen should be some sort of barbarian human race variant. But, the occupants of Ten Towns could be just standard humans. If you want the Ten Towners (I just accidentally gave them a name) a distinct human variant, I don't believe they have a name created for them yet? Ten Towners? Frost Towners? I wouldn't touch anything with the "dale" title in it since as already explained there are Reghedmen in the Icewind Dale and names such as "Dalelanders", "Dalers", "Dalefolk", etc would make many think of the Dalelands far to the southeast of Icewind Dale.
I've always called the folk that live in the Ten Towns - Ten Towners (and I feel like I got that from one of the old novels?)
As for the Reghedmen - they are usually referred to as the Barbarians, or their different tribal names. Dwarves are referred to by their clan name.
I used to play Neverwinter Online and the Curse of Icewind Dale expansion definitely used the term Ten Towners. That was over 6 years ago, I don't know about any other D&D sources of the term though.
People outside of the Icewind Dale might call them something (Ten Towners seems as good as any... and yes, avoid Dale references at all). The people who actually lived in the Ten Towns would NOT like to be grouped together. They fight amongst each other as much as any other groups of people. There is much competition for little enough natural resources. And from my remembrances they tended to be a competitive group in general towards the other towns. That doesn't mean they wouldn't help someone in a boating accident, but otherwise?
IamSposta got to this thread way before I did with the best response.
But yeah as it's been said, the Ten Towns are more like colonists or self imposed exiles and fugitives from elsewhere. If I remember the lore going back to the Crystal Shard, very few people can say they were even born in Ten Towns and most everyone can say they came from somewhere else (usually along the Sword Coast but elsewhere in the realms too). Reghedmen would be a subrace indigenous to the area, though I'd speculate whatever you come up with will come into conflict with an official subrace when the book comes out. Also I don't know if the Redhedmen really have regular dealings with the Ten Towners outside of occasional hostilities. The Ten Towners get by on fishing, there's a local fish whose skull is an ivory commodity. The Redhedmen have their own world of following deer herd and inter-tribal conflict. Think any frontier setting where the goals not expanding civilization, but living or rather subsisting at the margins of civilization.
I was thinking of making a homebrew variant Human race who are inhabitants of the Icewind Dale area and I can't think of what I should name them. At first, obviously, I thought Icewind Dalians but that doesn't sound very (IMO) nice. Does anybody know what I should name the inhabitants of Icewind Dale or the variant race I am making?
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Frostfolk sounds good. I think I might go with that.
However, when I was researching I found that there are Human Barbarian Tribes and they call themselves Reghedmen, that would match what I was looking for. I could go with that name as they do, to, inhabit the Icewind Dale area.
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Dalers or Dalefolk I would associate more with people from The Dalelands.
As Icewind Dale is within Frozenfar, I'd maybe go more towards "Farfolk" or "Frozenfar Folk".
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The context is important. Is it to refer to them politely or with irreverence?
Back when Skyrim was divided in the Elder Scrolls lore, Western Skyrim people called Eastern Skyrim people, "iceheels" as an insult. (There was enmity between them back then. Dunno what iceheel means, but such cultural things don't always make sense to outsiders.)
So, you might want to come up with two nonsensical names that only make sense to the cultures speaking the words, one for affection and one for classism.
Snowbounders? Frostskulls? Icetips?
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Do you mean specifically the inhabitants of Ten Towns? The "barbarians" of Icewind Dale already have the name of Reghedmen. The more "civilized" peoples settled in the Ten Towns confederacy. The humans in the towns could be a collection of various types of humans. Some may be Reghedmen (or descendants of) who settled down in the Ten Towns. Some may be humans who moved from the south, and their descendants.
Note that the occupants of Ten Towns were not just humans. Halflings and Dwarves also lived there.
If you want to classify ALL of the humans of Icewind Dale under one variant human race, I don't think that is possible. The Reghedmen should be some sort of barbarian human race variant. But, the occupants of Ten Towns could be just standard humans. If you want the Ten Towners (I just accidentally gave them a name) a distinct human variant, I don't believe they have a name created for them yet? Ten Towners? Frost Towners? I wouldn't touch anything with the "dale" title in it since as already explained there are Reghedmen in the Icewind Dale and names such as "Dalelanders", "Dalers", "Dalefolk", etc would make many think of the Dalelands far to the southeast of Icewind Dale.
I've always called the folk that live in the Ten Towns - Ten Towners (and I feel like I got that from one of the old novels?)
As for the Reghedmen - they are usually referred to as the Barbarians, or their different tribal names. Dwarves are referred to by their clan name.
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I used to play Neverwinter Online and the Curse of Icewind Dale expansion definitely used the term Ten Towners. That was over 6 years ago, I don't know about any other D&D sources of the term though.
People outside of the Icewind Dale might call them something (Ten Towners seems as good as any... and yes, avoid Dale references at all). The people who actually lived in the Ten Towns would NOT like to be grouped together. They fight amongst each other as much as any other groups of people. There is much competition for little enough natural resources. And from my remembrances they tended to be a competitive group in general towards the other towns. That doesn't mean they wouldn't help someone in a boating accident, but otherwise?
IamSposta got to this thread way before I did with the best response.
But yeah as it's been said, the Ten Towns are more like colonists or self imposed exiles and fugitives from elsewhere. If I remember the lore going back to the Crystal Shard, very few people can say they were even born in Ten Towns and most everyone can say they came from somewhere else (usually along the Sword Coast but elsewhere in the realms too). Reghedmen would be a subrace indigenous to the area, though I'd speculate whatever you come up with will come into conflict with an official subrace when the book comes out. Also I don't know if the Redhedmen really have regular dealings with the Ten Towners outside of occasional hostilities. The Ten Towners get by on fishing, there's a local fish whose skull is an ivory commodity. The Redhedmen have their own world of following deer herd and inter-tribal conflict. Think any frontier setting where the goals not expanding civilization, but living or rather subsisting at the margins of civilization.
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