Speaker 2
that's, that's, that's really an interesting thing to, to hear that. So, uh, do in, in games, did you ever sort of interact with the other empires? Oh, yeah. Have campaigns where there was a war between two empires or? Oh, yeah. Things like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1
There's, uh, one of the major aspects of Professor Barker's campaign from the very beginning was the conflict between Soliano and Jan Kaur. And, um, it's funny, um, that Soliani tend to think of the Jan Kauriani as having a rather somewhat harsh language. It's all short words and very, um, sort of consonant driven. Um, and they end up, the, the, the Jan Kauriani are, you know, think of the, think of Soliani as being an, an, an overly elaborate language. Uh, you know, and, and then, you know, other, other comparisons. Uh, the Mooka of Jan Kauriani tend to think that the Soliani aren't, you know, of course they, they, the, the, the Soliani are noble, but they don't really have it exactly the way it should be because of course the Mooka of Jan Kauriani think that their way of looking at the world and speaking is correct. The languages are somewhat similar to one another and use a similar script system, but they, the societies are different. And so on. I mean, each, each one of the, the five empires has both its idealized depiction of itself and a somewhat stereotypical view of the other
Speaker 1
And you would expect as you would expect. And, you know, and that shows up in, in language and interaction. Um, there's actually a rather interesting article which I will see if I can make available of Professor Barker wrote this from the perspective of a Mugha La Vianni scholar writing about how the Jan Kauriani approach theology.
Speaker 1
And it's, it, it is one side comment after another of this Mugha La Vianni scholar saying, well, the Jan Kauriani call this God by this name, but we know that that's wrong and that the real name for that God is this instead, you know, and the Jan Kauriani think this, but that's wrong. And we know better and as we do here in Mugha La Vianni, you know, and the, and those defeat Soleilani do it this other way, but they're wrong too, you know, so, uh, it's, it's, it's a very, it's, it's one of the few places where I think Professor Barker indulged that sense of kind of cultural subjectivity that, that he suggests at different points of the language, but you know, doesn't come across quite as, you know, readily unless you actually had the interaction. Right.