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General Discussion / Culture Name Origins?

« on: June 23, 2017, 09:18:34 AM »

Hey Sami,

I probably have like 300 hours or so on Kaumolainen and Owl-Tribe characters, and Im starting to wonder where you got the names for the tribes. Like, is Driik an actual tribe that was in South-Western Finland or does it mean something in Finnish? I'd be thrilled if I found out.

Thanks so much for all the hard work you and Erkka have put in, and thank you even more for being so active on the forums/discussions. 

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General Discussion / Type of breed the dogs in URW are?

« on: June 13, 2017, 02:28:40 AM »

It sounds like a silly question, but I need to know so I can be closer to my furry companion Aleksi.

After watching Aleksi the big dog be a living-dumpster for me to throw out my stale food, tear the jugular out of a Njerpez, chase countless Elk and Reindeer into exhaustion, and save my life on numerous occasions, I kinda wanna know what type of dog the dogs in URW are. Are they a specific breed you devs had in mind like a Finnish Spitz or Lapphund, or was some generic dog design made for them?

At first I thought that most dogs looked the same back in the day, but researchers have found that Finnish Spitz's have been in Finland for some 9,000 years; pretty remarkable. The dogs also look like Finnish Spitz's too, so thats why I assume thats their breed.