"If you build walls under the castle to keep out the mines, and walls above the castle to keep out the giants and flying creatures, then you might have a safe castle. Except for Magic. And running out of food."
"They're out of arrows men, they're out of boiling oil. They've used the molten lead, and the baked sand and the furniture. They've nothing left to defend themselves with! So, up, my lads, and today Faenasti will be ours!"
— Count Rudolf von Alptraum at the siege of Faenasti in the Border Princes during the War of the Barrel 2319-20. The Count was killed when the defenders of Faenasti levered part of the wall onto his head. Warhammer
"The Witcher takes place in the same time-locked period of medieval England that all fantasy seems to take place in as inevitably as the fucking tides..."
— Yahtzee, The Escapist Magazine
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"Generically medieval", by which we mean our peerage is French, our castles are German, our weapons are Italian, and everybody speaks English.
you can have religion in one of 2 flavors: "woo hoo aesthetic garnish" and "Sinister State Control in Bad Allegory for Problems in Modern Christianity"
Also, the latter is aesthetically French Catholic, theologically German Protestant, and has the institutional structure of the Church of Scientology.
not to mention that this land is simultaneously inhabited by thinly modified northern vikings (Nordic pre-medieval/9th century), travelling mongols (European medieval/13th century) and a wealthy italian merchant family with a house full of oil paintings (Southern European renaissance/15th century). the dance of the day is waltz (refined German 18th century country dance).
you can have religion in one of 2 flavors: "woo hoo aesthetic garnish" and "Sinister State Control in Bad Allegory for Problems in Modern Christianity"
Also, the latter is aesthetically French Catholic, theologically German Protestant, and has the institutional structure of the Church of Scientology.
not to mention that this land is simultaneously inhabited by thinly modified northern vikings (Nordic pre-medieval/9th century), travelling mongols (European medieval/13th century) and a wealthy italian merchant family with a house full of oil paintings (Southern European renaissance/15th century). the dance of the day is waltz (refined German 18th century country dance).
