In both Reaper Man (Dick Simnel’s presumable ancestor with the Combination Harvester) and Raising Steam, the character is Yorkshire Turned Up to Eleven
Aye, gradely!
As an aside, I've never been to Yorkshire (being from the antipodes, travelling to the UK takes the best part of two days), but I can guess what "gradely" means.
The Welsh accent (and bardic/Druidic culture) is only really shown in one book (Soul Music), although I think some of the dwarfs come from that area.
I think Rhys Rhysson, the High King of the Dwarfs, comes from a mine in Llamedos. IIRC, in TFE, Cheery tells Vimes why that's causing friction among the dwarfs.
Quirm is the very-cultural-especially-French place that exports cuisine (like cookery especially with avec) and all the artistic and scientific inventions in the person of Leonardo (cough) Leonard.
Definitely -- though I'm not sure what the
maquis (i.e. the bare scrubland, where goblins live and which brigands
infest) has to do with France. Perhaps it has something to do with Burgundy? *shrug* For a long time during and after the Hundred Years War, Burgundy was more or less a no-go area because of the traditional enmity between the House of Valois and the Duchy of Burgundy.
There’s an Italy, Brindisi, (for operatic purposes) only shown in one book, Masquerade (although some of it sounds Spanish)
Tiny nitpick: it's
"Maskerade".
Spot on for Italy, though I'm not sure why it sounds Spanish? Can you elaborate, please?
Klatch in Jingo and Soul Music is fantasy Arabia, complete with sand and deserts and camels, D’regs as Tuaregs, and complicated guest rights that might not last for long.
Nope! Just Tree Dace.
Since we're talking geography:
- Ephebe is obviously ancient Greece - and as a minor linguistic bonus, the word
ephebe in Greek means a lad who's grown to manhood
- The Tezumen are obviously Aztecs, though there's definite Incan influences too
- The Counterweight Continent is a strange mix of China and Japan, but it works
- Fourecks is (obviously) the Antipodes!
But definitely Taken Up to Eleven. IRL, not everything here tries to kill you. =P
- Uberwald is Transylvania, natch (with more than a touch of medieval Russia to boot)
- Moldavia/Borogravia etc. are obviously the Balkan states
- Genua sounds like a mix between N'awrlins and (under Lilith de Tempscire) Disneyland
- Djelibeybe is ... oh,
come on ...
- I'm not sure if Omnia is supposed to have any RL-equivalent (other than theocracies, of course)
I'm sure I've missed a few, but I'm sure everyone can fill in the rest