I find it helpful to take an eclectic handful of IRL cultures and pick and choose from them selectively. After scoping out the Igasho NPCs and decided that they were burly, friendly giants, for example, you could mix and match from a dozen cultures and religions whose customs struck you as similar, adding a distinct Lusternian flavor to everything. Sweden, Germany, Cossacks anyone?
An important thing to remember I think is that portrayal > originality, so long as you never carbon copy something or restrict yourself only to the model you based things off of (or break a copyright), and branch out from it once you have a good concept of what you want to be.
On a side note, I recall Lolli Pringle mentioning them in his memoirs as a rarely seen, solitary race that seldom left their mountain villages. Those were the old days though.
An important thing to remember I think is that portrayal > originality, so long as you never carbon copy something or restrict yourself only to the model you based things off of (or break a copyright), and branch out from it once you have a good concept of what you want to be.
On a side note, I recall Lolli Pringle mentioning them in his memoirs as a rarely seen, solitary race that seldom left their mountain villages. Those were the old days though.
