Looking for Gorean-style Residences

I'm looking for examples of estate-type Gorean residences and wonder if anybody has seen anything interesting. I'm not wanting a castle, more 17th Century ducal villa in the European countryside kind of thing. Land size is quarter sim, pine forest, Gorean roundship docked in a small harbor.

Here's the best I could do for a sense of the style that most appeals to me (its an outbuilding of a hotel in Sintra, Portugal; I stayed there last year... wonderful place):

http://tmcomponents.travelmarket.com/modules/TM_Imagebank2/upload/131/QuintaDaCapela.jpg

Any references to builders of same appreciated, too.

Cheers -

Scott

Hello Scott,

I'm a beginning builder...I built my own house plus am working on a few edifices.

I don't know if you've found someone to do this but I haven't found anything that looks like this in my own wanderings.

I'd be willing to make the attempt...I am pretty sure I know where to get the textures to do it and textures, I have found, are one of the most important components of building.

I would not charge you anything for the building, since I'm new at this...only ask for your help with texture costs. You'd be more than free to take a look at the house I built.

Also, this would require a great deal of landscaping. I can take you to the places to buy the stuff needed but you'd need to buy it at your own cost.

I have scripts for doors and teleports already which I would use in your building.

If this sounds at all intriguing to you, please im me in world or email me at [email]delilah.sl@gmail.com[/email]

hehehe

I find it funny that a 17th century villa -

Through the magic of Second Life has become a "Gorean-style" residence.

The clothing as well is 18 and 19th century European (except for slaves) ;



When the stories had a setting based on the Greco/Roman/Antiquity Era.


Just an observation

Try going to either SL Exchange or SL Boutique and doing a search on Gorean or Medieveal in the residential buildings sections...

It always makes me chuckle when insults are thrown at a realisticly dressed warrior in a Greco helmet and a tunic rather than the standard Xena-esque swashbuckler clothes.

To the original poster I would suggest wandering around a Gorean city or two and examining buildings you like the look of. Look up the creators profile and see if they have a store or drop them an IM.

Another thing, the cities were supposed to be dominated by Cylinders, round stone towers with flat roofs.

Yet you almost never see those anywhere. And certainly no one lives in them.

When in the books in large cities like Ar, all the upper class lived in them.

Especially odd since the vast majority of Free people in SL Gor are Upper Class.

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I wonder if its a style thing.

The fact that so few SL Goreans have read the Gor novels.

The fact that so few people read Actual History.

Or the whole Everquest deal.


Or some combination lol.

I've read them but since a) the books are not at all congruent from one book to the next except in a few specifics and b) several different customs and areas were described including those that sounded Viking or Gypsy, I tend to think pretty much anything goes and can be applied to a Gor sort of area. Anyway, when one is building on one's own land, one can do as one pleases so long as one is not violating the covenant.

One of these days I'm gonna have to go find some used copies of these dang books just to find out what "real" Gor is. I'm not an SL Gorean, but I see so many versions of them running around in SL that I am super curious.

At any rate, it'd probably made better bedtime reading that "International Mining" magazine.

Go take a look around samarkand... there are some nice buildings there that you might like.

-d

@Delilah: Thanks for the offer but I have basic-to-intermediate building skills, as well as more dollars than sense. Terraforming and landscaping I enjoy, it's just the house I'm being lazy about.

@Collette: I suppose I shouldn't have said "Gorean" given my style preference, but I am guilt free, given the range of settings I've seen on SL Gor. Anyhow, I haven't run across too many sticklers. (Recently a Chief Scribe of a city that shall remain nameless helpfully directed me to "the books of John Norton."

@Isablan: Thanks, I will.

@Resolver: I don't laugh at them, but when I see them I can't help but think of Kirk Douglas in Spartacus. And I *have* been wandering. Plenty. I love Ginger Valentine's builds (Red Rock, Essex and the long-gone Tandreds Landing), and Cardonicus is cool (is that JD Rambler? I love his Gorean Roundboat).

Hmmm, it just now occurs to me that I should be looking outside of Gor for the style of residence I want. *Sighs.* It's so hard sometimes being a dumb warrior.

While Collette made an excellent point (the cities of Ar and Ko-Ro Ba were cylinder based as were many in the central section of gor), you also make good point that different parts of Gor were similar to cultures on earth.

Tovaldsland (sp?) up to the north was based more on viking lore and the housing was more wooden log/thatch and mud style, where as the nomadic herds to the far south were styled off of American indian with their mobile housing. And in the desert regions, I was reminded of more a Middle Eastern feel with stone houses.

btw, I would love to see a Gorean based sim with building similar to Ar and Ko-Ro-Ba

John Norton lol

yeah I wasnt remarking to your wanting a 17th century villa as much as the whole concept that 17th century villa fits right into the SL Gor atmosphere- Which it would.

That doesnt change the fact that there is no 17th Century European Buildings or clothing described in the books, that I am aware of, Which is why I made the comment.

Gor isnt a Renn Faire, but .. in SL .. lol

The Panther Girls arent Xena / amazon / lesbians either , but .. in SL .. lol.

And the Warriors arent Anime style , but .. in SL .. lol

Just think its funny is all how much popular culture and perceptions color the visual intreptation more than the narratives do.

Which book was the Renaissance Western European one?

i am the only person to have never heard of gor prior to seeing it in sl.

I had also never heard of Gor previously. Then heard people talking about it and sat there with a blank expression . .. Gor? Gore? Something to do with slasher movies? An environmental group following the teachings of Al Gore? I know slightly more now.

I wonder what Al Gore thinks of Gor?

I don't know but Tipper probably finds it Broadly Offensive

tipper gore omg. havent thought about her in ages.

Do you remember the PMRC?

hehe

would Gor count as one of the Most objectionable things in Second Life?

Damn you all, I just ordered the first book from Amazon. Just... can't... take it anymore.

Neither has Al probably.

What is the first Gor book? Is it "Tarnsman of Gor"? "Outlaw of Gor"? "Priest-Kings of Gor"? The first two have a 1967 date, and the third has a 1968 date. I assume the first one is Tarnsman or Outlaw. Professor (of Philosophy) John Lange, Ph.D.

Gor is what you get when you mix BDSM with D&D, and sprinkle large amounts of "no sense of humor at all" on the top.

You can check out Wikipedia for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor

I know BDSM, and I know what D&D stands for, but I have never had anything to do with D&D and do not know anything about it.

It's in wikipedia; the first three are, in order, Tarnsman, Outlaw, Priest-Kings. I had to look it up. Yeah and John Norman is a pen name apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Norman

I've read reviews of his later stuff, and from what I've seen, he gets pretty long-winded about sociology, psychology, etc. I'll wait and see. If I could slog through "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand (5 stars from me, btw) I guess I can handle this guy. Hopefully.