Pathfinder Region Deepdive: Galt

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@RiddledinRizz 3 ай бұрын

You’re the GOAT when it comes to lore!

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@jasonmcintosh3661 3 ай бұрын

Have a player in my group that runs a bard from Galt in the kingmaker campaign. He's forever holding political rallies for various potential leaders who seem to be able to help promote stability and are willing to listen to the common folk. Can't wait to show him this video. Thanks.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Awesome! Glad to have a timely vid!

@jasonmcintosh3661 2 ай бұрын

@@TheMythkeeper Update: my player has been incorporating more of the Galtan background info from your video. He mentions specific people, places, and events in his speeches now. We're having a blast. Thank you.

@TheMythkeeper 2 ай бұрын

@@jasonmcintosh3661 Yes! Thanks so much for sharing! This is exactly why I make these videos!

@johndoe4373 2 ай бұрын

I will never stop watching your series, the best coverage of my favorite game setting!

@TheMythkeeper 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Really appreciate this!

@phil_______ 3 ай бұрын

Yes! Galt was one of the two I've been looking forward to the most; the other being Rahadoum. Love these deep dives

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

These ones without a master source book are the hardest, but in some ways also the most rewarding.

@thierrybarroca7364 3 ай бұрын

MK keeping on delivering awesome lore videos, thanks as usual !

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Haha! Thanks sir!

@TheCyndigirl47 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I've been looking for info on Galt and had no luck. 🎉

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

I'm glad I could be of service!

@meraduddcethin2812 3 ай бұрын

Yet another amazing and entertaining deep dive. Your content just keeps getting better and better. I think the only ones left at this point are Isger and Rahadoum. I look forward to more great content. Thank you!

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Yeah we're getting to the last few stragglers now!

@almitrahopkins1873 3 ай бұрын

@@TheMythkeeper I was looking to find a video on Isger the other day. I was rather shocked not to find one.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

@@almitrahopkins1873 Isger will be my first region deep dive of the new year based on current schedule. (Slightly earlier for club members.)

@devonstidham9234 3 ай бұрын

Haven't watched yet. But currently running a game in galt. Had some information but had to make up some baddies for my party. This will be extremely helpful! Thank you!!!!

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it! Hope this helps you build out some cool encounters!

@obamabiden 3 ай бұрын

there's a sliding scale of "how well did your revolution go?" on golarion, it goes from Andoran to Galt

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Hehe! Yeah this is exactly right.

@RyanVonAegir 3 ай бұрын

Galt is so funny to me because you look at it and think "Okay it's based on revolutionary France". Then you start looking further and it gets weirder and weirder, to the point that it has some of the most interesting ideas for a real world inspired nation. It's funny too how close Galt is to Taldor considering the declining state of the empire. It's like the land itself is "cursed". I'd love to play a character whose from Galt at some point for sure. Thanks for the video as always!

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching and fore the detail comment!

@Discolittle 2 ай бұрын

With the recent war of immortals lore. Galt troubles are certainly not ending anytime soon in the future

@TheMythkeeper 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is true

@DatTransChick 3 ай бұрын

I hope things will begin looking up for Galt, but considering the lore just dropped about the Godsrain awakening the final blades, probably not going to be calming down any time soon.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, that bit of lore narrowly made it out of this video. Godsrain lore will start to appear in my 2025 lore videos though!

@madelaineengel2844 2 ай бұрын

The first Pathfinder adventure that I played was set in Galt. And I always liked it as a setting for other adventures. I started an adventure ther and this will be really helpfull for that. Thank you🙏

@TheMythkeeper 2 ай бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

@ClarionMumbler 3 ай бұрын

thanks again! always an enjoyable listen

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

My pleasure as always!

@bryanstephens4800 3 ай бұрын

What is most chilling to me is that you didn't have to have any dark Is cults in the real world in France

@Terraoblivion 3 ай бұрын

In fairness, the French Revolution lasted ten years, not fifty, and the part with the constant executions and factions toppling each other people think of, The First Republic, only lasted three. It probably does take a cult stirring the pot to keep it going for five decades like this rather than some form of stable'ish government happening or full disintegration into local warlordism.

@Gwydii Ай бұрын

That's if you don't count the free masons as a cult

@davdav1370 2 ай бұрын

thank you MythKeeper for another great episode about Pathfinder Lore :)

@TheMythkeeper 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting!

@JamesAdams-nd1td 3 ай бұрын

Viva La Revolution! I wonder what the Galtean equivalent of Bastille Day is. Oh, hey, Kyuss! I’m surprised the Gardeners’ habit of funding revolutions never came back to bite them in the butt; revolutions have a habit of going out of control. And then the Golarion equivalent of Napoleon comes in . . . I like that the Garderners are decimated but not gone. They can make a good, long running villain.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

A bit like the Technic League, some elements are still around to cause problems for people in the future!

@minhducnguyen9276 Ай бұрын

@@TheMythkeeper Very similar indeed. The founder of the Technic League had good intentions until she was assassinated and replaced by someone with darker ulterior motives.

@PatrickSquire-e4i 3 ай бұрын

This video has me contemplating a campaign centered on Azurestone. thanks.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Do it!

@PatrickSquire-e4i 3 ай бұрын

@@TheMythkeeperWhat map did you use for the city of Azurestone.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

@@PatrickSquire-e4i Honestly not sure its provenance now, might have been from someone's homebrew I found online. Uploaded it here again to share with you. If anyone knows its origins though please let me know - imgur.com/a/2d67h6T

@NVMemes4Liberty 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!

@adrikstepanov5307 3 ай бұрын

The revolutionary France, now with BATMAN! I mean, Red RavenMan

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Haha! Yeah, exactly

@adrikstepanov5307 3 ай бұрын

@@TheMythkeeper Does the campaign have stats for Red Raven so party could fight him?

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

@@adrikstepanov5307 Yes, it totally does. Its pretty out of date though so I'd probably not use those stats if you were using that character today.

@adrikstepanov5307 2 ай бұрын

@@TheMythkeeper That's unfortunate. The Pathfinder's Batman would be a cool fight if it was considerably challenging

@xSarrow 3 ай бұрын

Love the fact that Azurestone has very, VERY finnish names for their characters.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Honestly, that was such an early AP, I'm not sure the 'schtick' of Galt had actually been figured out yet. That said, there are plenty of examples of random names all over Golarion!

@RisingStarPF2E 3 ай бұрын

I had to figure all of the details in this video out myself and it was a terrible process of going through all of the different adventures, society bounties and the mini adventures to get any basic idea of what Galt is about. It's very scattered and the pf2e adventure Night of The Gray Death doesn't do much to anything to tell you about Galt itself outside the stuff your doing in Litran. It's sort of like golarions cursed dump, the place all scum and villains and criminals use surrounding it (River Kingdoms). The most unstable place socially and politically that the only reason it still exists is outside influence, and the many people outside the country pulling the strings. So unstable, it can barely function, so unstable, it's comical full-fantasy almost because without fantasy it could never exist for the last 50 years. And that's why its a fantastic Cthulu-esque themed place, nobody wants to actually be in Galt who are from outside Galt without a real good reason, or being conditioned to it. Friends cant be friends. It's 1984 the movie. Everybody is masked. Everybody is wary. Outsiders are not to be tolerated and downers/naysayers are to be decapitated. Report your relatives. Report to who? Whoever is winning the bloody revolution at the time. Imagine raising children here; imagine the economy, imagine it. Galt is a crappier place with more morally detestable things happening in it than just about any of the planes on a psychological level by the non-divine. It's why paizo hasn't made a real adventure about it. Because its very small in theme scope and is not afraid to tell you: I am messed up and this is how it is. It is NOT the place for heroes to become heroes, its the place that heroes are easily viewed as villains. It's a place where no matter the size of victory, you cannot overcome the chaos. Then its followed by a engineered fake 'calm' period just to raise up another revolution. That's very hard to make something that wouldn't offend people based on the very heavy topics it represents. It's a place more barbaric than the Bandit Lands. I think this is a big reason the products don't actually really depict what Galt is and theres been no deep lore book and its all incredibly vague in comparison to other countries. Its a much more complex set of emotions, themes and topics. But its not a varied amount of them either which I can see poses a writing problem for any potential AP writer. Cheliax has clear moral pointings, Fiends to blame, people to point fingers at as all nations do. But what of Galt? Galt is nothing but everybodies fingers pointing in every direction. Held together by players who aren't to be found in the place that they puppeteer. It is the country of psychological and social horror. Where many things of power play, but everybody. Everybody is to blame The worms simply follow in the process of Atrophy after the thought-destruction is over, and it's been over in Galt for over 30 years. And that above description is a MUCH more condensed way of looking at Galt than all the history; because most people in Galt don't have half an idea of the history of their own country truly or have incredibly warped views of it. There are very few impartial historians. Because they're killed or worse before they ever reach adulthood. There are no Mythkeepers in Galt. Not anymore. And 'perspectives' are a thought crime, and Galt loves a execution, and anybody could be next... The entire place is a place of cults. Delusion. Social destruction.

@RisingStarPF2E 3 ай бұрын

Love the video tho, watched it a few times through now. lol' and this is more my personal description of "inner galt" in the big cities. The outter zones of Galt are a little tamer atleast. Although they all deal with the repercussions of being so close to chaos.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

I think you've done a great job of capturing the tone of Galt in your comment here. That's something I sometimes miss in my videos since I take a very detached, academic style. I'm just here reporting the facts, sir! But yes Galt as a country of psychological and social horror is right on the money.

@RisingStarPF2E 3 ай бұрын

@@TheMythkeeper Absolutely. Further evidence of this kind of theme is Galtron in the Kingdoms, people there all are from Galt just about. They are all hell-bent on going back despite being outnumbered, out gunned and are so mentally distraught theyre split into different groups; all doomed to fail if they try to return. These people have for all purposes; escaped it. And the only thing they can think of isn't the entire world of possibilities or beyond; it's to go RIGHT BACK. Its pure delusion. And they say "Spirits of Calistra" and "Revenge" are in all of them or they believe something like this. You can say "Sounds like Razmiran" and it absolutely is. But Razmiran has the living god and isn't really the same kind of demented themes especially when you look at the real-world inspirations. There is no doubt in my mind they won't actually make a Galt AP unless they heavily change it or just as many of the bounties and etc just sort of 'skirt' the themes. Mechanically it also is the place where you might end up doing Influence encounter, Influence encounter, Influence encounter and those are probably more important than combat. Thanks for making your videos. I've learned so much the last year! :D

@robfrank3423 3 ай бұрын

What's that, a revolution?! Dumb it's Tuesday today

@donovan5656 3 ай бұрын

New video 🎉 😮

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Woohoo!

@treycoleman4105 2 ай бұрын

it's really hard to hear but there's a audio feedback loop of everything being said in this episode and it scared me so bad that it woke me up from a dead sleep. you can hear it really well around the 2 hour 25 min mark.

@TheMythkeeper 2 ай бұрын

Doubly creepy considering there is no 2 hour 25 min mark in this video!

@treycoleman4105 2 ай бұрын

@@TheMythkeeper I don't how but the comment was meant for this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3SwgqaEf5Kgmc0

@philippedaigneault366 3 ай бұрын

Interesting timing for this one, yes?

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Is it? Maybe!

@benjaminfeld6388 3 ай бұрын

galt's History kinda reminds me of Revolutionary France. I wonder if that. In history played a part in developing that nation.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

That is definitely a key source of inspiration for Galt

@bazilgrey6732 2 ай бұрын

Please make a lore video on thuvia!

@TheMythkeeper 2 ай бұрын

@@bazilgrey6732 soon enough!

@widecrusher7100 3 ай бұрын

Ahh Galt just when you think you think Gelt has the most dysfunction goverment on Golarian

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Gelt?

@obamabiden 3 ай бұрын

the golden order (no, the other one) has spread to yet another dimension

@zacharyfroeschl2315 2 ай бұрын

Do the Iconic characters, like Ezren, have a backstory, or are there stories written that tell the stories of those characters?

@TheMythkeeper 2 ай бұрын

To a greater or lesser degree all the iconics have had some amount of lore written about them. At some point this is something I plan to tackle in the future. The Red Raven discussion in this video was me kind of dipping my toes into that water. Few of the iconics have been as significant to an individual nation as the Red Raven has in Galt though I think.

@onsholo 16 күн бұрын

Love Galt, most based nation ever.

@TheMythkeeper 16 күн бұрын

Based

@obviousalias132 2 ай бұрын

Who is reJohn Galt?

@Sjaddix 3 ай бұрын

Galt is like the most on the nose nation. I rank it right next to Alkenstar and Numeria that don't quite fit. But at least those two have more flavor. Still Galt being such a mess is interesting given Paizo's Politics.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

I have not extensively made use of Galt in my own games, but I will say that after making this video I feel much more encouraged about running some wild Galt goodness.

@elenorefangirl3389 3 ай бұрын

Were the souls trapped in the blades released or still in there? Edit: Oops, I asked my question too soon.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Still trapped! But Geb may know how to release them

@almitrahopkins1873 3 ай бұрын

Is it wood’s edge or wood sedge?

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

All one word - Woodsedge

@almitrahopkins1873 3 ай бұрын

@ Yes, I know the name of the town is one word, but the origin of the name is what I was looking to find. That’s one of the details in word-building that a lot of DM’s miss. Is it named for its location or for the grasses that grew there before it was built? It brings the setting to life if you can answer that question. That’s good world-building.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

@@almitrahopkins1873 That's a great question and the source material doesn't specify, but since its located on the edge of the verduran forest, I'm guessing the former?

@almitrahopkins1873 3 ай бұрын

@ Wood sedge is a grass that grows in forests. It’s heartier than other grasses. Both names actually make sense. Pick one and go with it.

@sirloin869 2 ай бұрын

"Anger over ‘street chaos’ fuels ouster of another blue-city mayor", and this came up: thx utubes...

@joshuachapman247 3 ай бұрын

Sorry did you say revolution?

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Yes its revolution time! 😂

@proffingers 3 ай бұрын

From the bottom of my Marxist heart, thank you.

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

You're very welcome

@aryajunik0875 Ай бұрын

You said that girl Camilia Drannoch was growing up in Kyonin, I though humans/other races that isn't elves aren't allowed in Kyonin?

@TheMythkeeper Ай бұрын

@@aryajunik0875 ambassadors and others with special dispensation are permitted to

@aryajunik0875 Ай бұрын

@@TheMythkeeper ah.. ok, thanks for the lore.

@marcusblackwell2372 3 ай бұрын

Besides Tolkien and Lovecraft, how much would you say TTRPGs like Pathfinder and DnD have been inspired by literature? Not counting mythology, I mean more modern works, like, for instance, Narnia, but not limited to it

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

Its hard to say "not counting Tolkien" in this question. The other example you picked - Narnia - for example is influenced by Tolkien (rather directly Lewis and Tolkien were friends and would read passages of their books to each other while they developed them - Lewis once famously stormed off at one reading saying something along the lines of 'Not another elf!'). Trying to unwind Tolkien from fantasy is... its hard.

@marcusblackwell2372 3 ай бұрын

@TheMythkeeper Fair enough. I was just referring primarily to other Fantasy worlds, and how said worlds and lore pieces influenced them. But I see your point

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

@@marcusblackwell2372 You're right, I kind of side-stepped the question. I should add that there's definitely a lot of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard (sort of "pulp" fantasy) that has influenced D&D and Pathfinder a lot. In some ways, even more so than classic Tolkien fantasy. Pathfinder embraces a lot of different source materials. Brevoy is clearly inspired by Game of Thrones - that's another example.

@marcusblackwell2372 3 ай бұрын

@@TheMythkeeper I didn't think the Martin books would have any impact on Fantasy. I knew the show did, but that's a surprise

@zimmerwald1915 3 ай бұрын

Love it when Paizo's inveterate conservatism shines through. And by "love," I mean "am continually annoyed."

@lucasblaise11 3 ай бұрын

Where was the conservativism??

@tnttiger3079 3 ай бұрын

'Conservative' by depicting a revolution as a good and needed thing, only later bastardised by bad actors?

@zimmerwald1915 3 ай бұрын

@lucasblaise11 Revolutionary politics is the fault of demons, you see.

@namelesssomebody2557 3 ай бұрын

Hmmm...my comment keeps being removed by KZbin algorithm

@TheMythkeeper 3 ай бұрын

That's weird. Maybe there's something in the comment that's triggering it?

@namelesssomebody2557 3 ай бұрын

Let's try this again:- The Social Media Platform now known as X: The Nation But seriously, I really wonder what nascent Fiend will be born from Galt to spite Milani & Talmandor? The Gray Gardeners & Conquerer Worm are merely catalysts.