Gorean Cheat Sheet

What to expect

We have never ran a Gorean community on Conan Exiles, and while we have experience in other Gorean communities such as IMVU, AOL, IRC and Second Life, there is no way we can predict what unique flavor will develop here. I can at best offer some reasonable guesses.

Strict Recreation

This type of clan will be most interested in recreating the Gorean Experience and will likely choose to ignore as much of the continental differences that comes with playing on Conan Exiles. This type of clan is likely to refer to a particular drink as paga or refer to various people on the map by their Gorean names such as calling all Aesir, Vanir and Nordheimers as Torvaldslanders.

Adapted By the Book

This type of clan will seek to provide as close to a by the book setting as possible but will adapt to the environment of the game. This may include adopting the words for plants, animals, food and so on. It may further include changes to castes or roles to accommodate the variation in the setting.

Conan+Goreans

This type of clan is most likely to try and keep the Gorean Ideals but completely integrate the fiction of the continent into their role-play, dropping most if not all Gorean words or even adopting the religions in Conan.

Not Really Gor

We also have to expect that we will get players who are drawn to the server because there are people actively role-playing. These people may end up playing something that is based entirely on Conan and doesn't resemble Gor at all. (We may or may not disallow these groups.)

Where to find more information

Read the Books

You will hear this over and over and over so you might as well get us to it. Go read the books.

Gorean Cave

The Gorean Cave is generally considered a safe website for Gorean knowledge because it offers book quotes with out interpretation Gorean Cave

What you need to know first

• Hello and Hi are not used. Tal is appropriate for all characters. Greetings is also acceptable, and in Torvaldsland you will see people say Ho!, usually accompanied by the raising of a hand. Hail is also used in Torvaldsland.

Counter Earth

Gor is a planet that circles the sun in our solar system directly opposite to Earth. Gor has a different gravity, three moons, and plants and animals unfound on Earth. It is not a clone of Earth.

Gorean Animals

On the server the plants and animals we experience are similar to Earth animals and it is acceptable to call them by their in game name in role-play. But understand as characters who were born on Gor the names would be unfamiliar to us. SO, even if you don't know the names of the Gorean animals you can refer to the wild life with a certain hesitancy. Such as "Is that a .. go-at?" *frowns learning the new word*.

However, you may hear other's refer to plants/animals by their Gorean name. Just go ahead and look it up on google. For those of you who like to be prepared you are most likely to hear the following terms; verr (sheep/goat), bosk (Cow/Bison), fevret (weasel/ferret), sa-tarna (grain like wheat), sul (potato), Kur or Kurii (sentient alien that looks sorta like a werewolf), tarsk (boar), tarn (giant ridable hawk), tabuk (antelope with a single horn), larl (giant cat), kaiila (weird carnivorous horse thing).

• https://www.angelfire.com/ky3/bakah/animalsplants.html

Overall Behavior

While some of the more barbaric cultures in Gor are rough spoken, in general a certain level of archaic speech and formality works best for those who are new to Gor; this includes men, woman and slaves.

eight_pointed_black_star: Slaves should call all men either master or Jarl in Torvaldsland.

eight_pointed_black_star: Free women commonly use lady for other free women and sir for free men.

eight_pointed_black_star: Free men do not have a regular honorific for other men unless that man is of rank, but may call free women lady or woman, and slaves are typically called beast or girl.

Some exceptions

• The leader of a Torvaldsland village or clan is called Jarl or even my Jarl by everyone.
• The war leader of a southern city is the Ubar. (We may have clans that do not have an Ubar, but I doubt it at the moment. Will update if necessary.)

Caste

The bulk of Gorean society is divided by caste with the highest of castes being the initiates (priests), warriors, physicians, scribes, builders. Everyone else is low caste and comprises dozens of different professional and craftsman castes. https://www.angelfire.com/ky3/bakah/castes.html

Non Caste

The "barbarian" people of Gor which include Torvaldsland typically do not have castes. Instead, they are grouped into free men, free women, slaves and sometimes a priest class (Rune Priest in Torvaldsland).

Note

"Barbarian people" is not a gorean term its just one used to describe the people of Gor who are less structured then central Gor. Do not confuse it the word barbarian which is used in the books to refer to someone from earth.