What is Runescape contents based on?

[Sy_Accursed]

But their references are highly intelligent, I don't know if these were coincidences but they even reference Standard Arabic (the scholar language) and lore with things such as the Mahjarrati. I mean they even got the adjectival form correct! These people do their research.

Not always. Polliveach is a example of that, all of them are called Ali.

 

But that's not due to lack of names it's an in joke.

 

The Ali family are all called Ali, the same way the Petes are.

[HunterDexter]

The content coders base RuneScape content on history, folklore, etc. You can connect just about any of the RuneScape peoples to a race or location in real life history. AKA Fremmeniks = Vikings, Varrock = medieval London, Ardogne = Black Plague, etc.

 

I'm interested how u link Varrock to london?

Geo graphically and stylistically it has nothing tht screams London more so than any other city.

 

Also Ardougne the black plague thing is kinda bs, as irl no city walled half of itself off to try and contain the plague and as u quite quickly learn via quests there aint no plague

 

Read Albert Camus' La Peste, and you'll see it happened quite often. :P

[MerchantInTheDark]

But their references are highly intelligent, I don't know if these were coincidences but they even reference Standard Arabic (the scholar language) and lore with things such as the Mahjarrati. I mean they even got the adjectival form correct! These people do their research.

Not always. Polliveach is a example of that, all of them are called Ali.

 

This could also be a reference to the fact that, in the real-life Middle East (which the area is based after) 75% of the population has the same few first names.

[Unknown_Warrior]

 

Just plain what?

What on earth could the Berlin wall have to do with based on the black plague? The Berlin wall was built to divid Germany into East and West Germany to create two smaller, weaker nation states and thus prevent a repeat of Hitler. No links to the plague what so ever.

 

Wait what?

 

The Berlin wall came to be after Berlin was divided into four parts, later merged to two, after the war in order to bring some order to the then military-stripped, governmentless Germany. One part for the Allied nations (West), one for the Soviets (East), each part would adopt the government type of their new ruler. But, because of the Soviet Union being communistic at the time, there was a lot of civil disgress and panic. It wasn't further helped by the fact that post-war, the relationship between the USA and USSR soured, leading to (to say the very least) a conflict between the two.

Many East-Berliners, fearing the new communistic rule, thus decided to flee to West-Berlin, where they not only got a ticket to the west (West-Berlin was a small, capitalistic island in the communistic block, as Berlin lies in East-Germany) but also quite a sum of money as escapees. East-Berlin, noticing the MASSIVE emigration of its people to the West, decided to build a safeguard to halt that. Initially barbed wire, gradually transforming through fortification to what we now know as the Berlin wall. Anno 1962, nearly 20 years after Hitler's reign.

It had nothing (directly) to do with stopping further Hitlers or chaos - it was a cage.

 

Cold war in a nutshell.

Correcting your correction thAr.

[fakeitormakeit2]

But their references are highly intelligent, I don't know if these were coincidences but they even reference Standard Arabic (the scholar language) and lore with things such as the Mahjarrati. I mean they even got the adjectival form correct! These people do their research.

Not always. Polliveach is a example of that, all of them are called Ali.

 

This could also be a reference to the fact that, in the real-life Middle East (which the area is based after) 75% of the population has the same few first names.

Sadly this is true. Your middle name is always your dad's first name and then your first name is usually like mohammad, ali, bachir, mikhail/michael or george, it has to do with lineage.

[Karvinen]

But their references are highly intelligent, I don't know if these were coincidences but they even reference Standard Arabic (the scholar language) and lore with things such as the Mahjarrati. I mean they even got the adjectival form correct! These people do their research.

If I put "mahjarrati" or "mahjarrat" to Google I only get RuneScape specific results. Is there any confirmation of mahjarrat(i) being an Arabic word?

 

The Mahjarrat storyline is pretty original i think (not sure though).

The Mahjarrat are probably based on Dungeons&Dragons "lich" archetype (usually skeletal looking dark mages who have moved their souls to objects), but this is purely speculation. The lich archetype is based on the Russian myth of Koschei the Deathless (who had his soul in a needle) and other similar myths. Interestingly, it has been speculated that the Koschei of RuneScape Fremennik quests is really Kharshai the Mahjarrat.

 

A quote about the Mahjarrat from the quest Temple of Ikov:

 

Some still have presence in this world in their liche forms

 

Glouphrie the Untrusted is based on Dungeons&Dragons gnome illusionist archetype. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome_%28Dungeons_&_Dragons%29

[fakeitormakeit2]

But their references are highly intelligent, I don't know if these were coincidences but they even reference Standard Arabic (the scholar language) and lore with things such as the Mahjarrati. I mean they even got the adjectival form correct! These people do their research.

If I put "mahjarrati" or "mahjarrat" to Google I only get RuneScape specific results. Is there any confirmation of mahjarrat(i) being an Arabic word?

 

The Mahjarrat storyline is pretty original i think (not sure though).

The Mahjarrat are probably based on Dungeons&Dragons "lich" archetype (usually skeletal looking dark mages who have moved their souls to objects), but this is purely speculation. The lich archetype is based on the Russian myth of Koschei the Deathless (who had his soul in a needle) and other similar myths. Interestingly, it has been speculated that the Koschei of RuneScape Fremennik quests is really Kharshai the Mahjarrat.

 

A quote about the Mahjarrat from the quest Temple of Ikov:

 

Some still have presence in this world in their liche forms

 

Glouphrie the Untrusted is based on Dungeons&Dragons gnome illusionist archetype. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome_%28Dungeons_&_Dragons%29

Yes, mahjarrat (spelt محجرت or mh7jr't) is an arabic word which means someone who is empty in an abandoned sense. I speak Standard Arabic, it is indeed a word. You only get Runescape result because you're searching it in English. Just to prove it I got non-Runescape results when I searched it. If you want to try set your keyboard to arabic and then type L(mim)P(ha)O(gim)V(ra+shaddah)J(ta)

[MerchantInTheDark]

@ fakeitormakeit2, very interesting! Jagex must really know their stuff to get this in-depth with their cultural references.

[Karvinen]

Yes, mahjarrat (spelt محجرت or mh7jr't) is an arabic word which means someone who is empty in an abandoned sense. I speak Standard Arabic, it is indeed a word. You only get Runescape result because you're searching it in English. Just to prove it I got non-Runescape results when I searched it. If you want to try set your keyboard to arabic and then type L(mim)P(ha)O(gim)V(ra+shaddah)J(ta)

 

Do the other Mahjarrat related words mean anything in Arabic?

 

Dessous, Kamil, Fareed, Damis

 

Paddewwa, Senntisten, Kharyrll, Lassar, Dareeyak, Carrallangar, Annakarl, Ghorrock

 

Akthanakos, Azzanadra, Bilrach, Enakhra, Khazard, Hazeel, Jhallan, Kharshai, Lucien, Sliske, Wahisietel, Zemouregal, Palkeera, Mizzarch, Lamistard, Ralvash, Zamorak

 

Veniens! Sallakar! Rinnesset!

 

Sallamakar Ro!