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  1. #1
    Alexander Kristiansen
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    A silly question

    In a lot of the old norse/icelandic sagas there are described vikings with
    black hair. It was actually quite common that the villain in the sagas had
    black hair, while the hero had blond.

    I have heard from german and english friends of mine that have visited
    Norway, that they are surprised by the number of blond people here, but
    that doesn't mean that we don't have any people with black hair and brown
    hair is quite common. Red isn't all that common, but remember that blond
    and red can be very similar.

    In adition the lapps that live in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland often
    have black hair.

    Personally I would have allowed black hair on a character, but only as an
    exception. You kinda lose the feel of Rjurik if every character in a party
    is running around with black hair.

    Smaug
    A person with blond hair.
    e-mail: alex.kristiansen@oslo.online.no
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  2. #2
    DURKS95@aol.co
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    A silly question

    About this whole black hair thing. If you read the Rjurik book carefully it
    says most people with bloack hair have the Berserker Doom (can't specific
    recall the name, I don't think that's it) or vice versa.

    So there you go, black haired vos straight out of the book.

    Derek

  3. #3
    Trizt
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    A silly question

    Alexander Kristiansen wrote:

    > In adition the lapps that live in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland often
    > have black hair.

    Oh, really? most Sami I know has either blond or brown hair.

    //Trizt

  4. #4
    Jim Cooper
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    A silly question

    Alexander Kristiansen wrote:
    > Personally I would have allowed black hair on a character, but only as an exception. You kinda lose the feel of Rjurik if every character in a party is running around with black hair.<

    Oh, I did - this PC rolled bloodmark for an ability, and we were
    thinking together what a good distinctive one would be - he came up with
    black hair with a silver streak running through his hair. The brake I
    had is that he wanted a Beowulf character, and I had never pictured
    Beowulf other than the stereo-typical blond Viking ...

    But, then after I posted the question to this list, I went through some
    of my Norse mythology and found an interesting reference (Lapps, like
    you said; not to mention a french dude in the chronicles who goes by the
    name of "Dayraven" - who would have black if any norse dude did! Funny,
    he was the villian compared to the hero Beowulf, so maybe only evil
    alignment Rjurik should have black hair! Yea, thats it!)

    :D

    I must go speak to my PC - although somehow I don't think I will
    have a very hard time convincing him ...

    Cheers,
    Darren (who is plagued with a bunch of psychotic PCs ...)

  5. #5
    Pieter A de Jong
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    A silly question

    Jim Cooper wrote:
    >
    > Alexander Kristiansen wrote:
    > > Personally I would have allowed black hair on a character, but only as an exception. You kinda lose the feel of Rjurik if every character in a party is running around with black hair.<
    >
    > Oh, I did - this PC rolled bloodmark for an ability, and we were
    > thinking together what a good distinctive one would be - he came up with
    > black hair with a silver streak running through his hair. The brake I
    > had is that he wanted a Beowulf character, and I had never pictured
    > Beowulf other than the stereo-typical blond Viking ...
    >
    > But, then after I posted the question to this list, I went through some
    > of my Norse mythology and found an interesting reference (Lapps, like
    > you said; not to mention a french dude in the chronicles who goes by the
    > name of "Dayraven" - who would have black if any norse dude did! Funny,
    > he was the villian compared to the hero Beowulf, so maybe only evil
    > alignment Rjurik should have black hair! Yea, thats it!)
    >
    > :D
    >
    > I must go speak to my PC - although somehow I don't think I will
    > have a very hard time convincing him ...
    >
    Darren, I don't think that's a good idea. If your psychotic PC's are
    like my psychotic PC's, they'll just start killing everyone they meet
    who has black hair.
    - --

    Pieter A de Jong
    Graduate Mechanical Engineering Student
    University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

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