I’m writing an Assassin’s Creed fanfiction set in Italy in the early 1500s, and I’ve got a bit of a poisoning problem. There is a section of the story in which an assassin attacks his target with the poison blade, so aconite is injected into the victim. The problem I have is that seconds after he’s successfully injected his target, he realises he’s ( Read more... )

I have a character, I'll call her Elena for now, who I need to develop an acute mental break after witnessing one of her good friends being abducted for the slave trade and nearly being taken herself. The story roughly takes place in 16th century Poland and she's about 18 years old ( Read more... )

The story I'm working on is pretty much Sengoku era Japan in everything BUT name. Things I want to ask ( Read more... )

Setting: A prosperous household in England, early 1500s, spring. A character is sitting up late; another character notices he seems cold and offers him a hot drink of . . . what? It has to be something fast to prepare, that would already be sitting around the kitchen. Cider? Sack? Did anyone ever drink hot ale ( Read more... )

Terms searched for: various combinations of; poisonous plants, animal poison, Japan, organ failure, infection like symptoms, blood poisoning. Working my way through the '~medicine: poisoning' tag.
Setting: Warring States period (Sengoku) Japan. Our world.

I need a character to murder a healthy female in her mid-teens and to get away with it.
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I am writing a M/M historical romance set in 16th century Essex, UK. I want to know what terms of affection/endearment they would most likely use to each other ( Read more... )

Yep, me again with more questions for my Assassin's Creed fic (same one featured in the previous question I asked). I started working on it again which means more research ( Read more... )

I need to know how a nun would be addressed in Spanish. The time is the late 1500s/early 1600s. I've googled 'spanish nun' and got freila, and checked Google Translate, and while sister = hermosa, it doesn't tell me if that refers to a member of a religious order.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well this officially marks the 3rd time I've tired to post something here. I always seem to do something wrong :| Anyways, even though this doesn't really come up largely in my Assassin's Creed fic its still there and I'd like to make sure it's historically correct as possible.  The history dork in me is compelled to find out ( Read more... )