Setting: A version of Medieval Europe with fantasy elements; the great hall of a castle under attack ( Read more... )

Hello everyone,

I'm not so much looking for answers to a question here as advice and suggestions (hope that's ok).

My situation is this :

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Is your main character a peasant farmer? Or maybe you just want to have some farming activity going on in the background? Make sure the correct activity is happening at the correct time of year with this ( Read more... )

Hi there. I just recently started writing a series of books and I've run into some questions that I can't seem to answer, even with Google's help ( Read more... )

http://www.catherinehanley.co.uk/historical-background/time-in-the-thirteenth-century

Medieval people didn't have minutes and seconds, yo!

Setting: Wallachia, 1290Googled terms: Radu Negru/Negru Vodă + legend + mythology + history of Wallachia + Romanian mythology + Romanian legends etc. in various permutations and in three different languages, none of which is Romanian ( Read more... )

Setting: fantasy world in a land loosely based on the Joseon period of Korea ( Read more... )

A vaguely European, vaguely 14th-15th-century AU setting

Two questions:

1.       How did rural craftsmen such as millers, village blacksmiths, potters etc. take on apprentices in the late Middle Ages? An apprenticeship was a major legal commitment on both sides, I can’t see late-medieval people being satisfied just with a verbal agreement. (And even ( Read more... )

Say you're stuck out in the snow in very cold conditions (20-30*s F). You're wearing chain mail, some sort of breastplate, a tabard, a thin cloak, gloves, what looks like boxers and an undershirt, and not a whole lot else. (This is fanfic, for a very non-historically accurate fandom, so I don't have much control over the character's outfit.) You're ( Read more... )

Part of the plot in my story revolves around the fact that my characters really need to travel to a specific place - but they live in a very snowy, northern climate, and when the story opens winter is already closing in. To make matters worse, there's a mountain range between them and their intended destination, which they can theoretically travel ( Read more... )