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Bordo, this is the smartest take on AI art I've seen. All the others ramble on too much on the "Luddite", the substitution of artists, capitalism, etc. but never take time to look at its core and/or give a fair comparison about it. Placing three objects of metalworks with different techniques is brilliant, you took a "handcrafted" tip, a "crafted" kinjal made with modern tools and a "produced" bread knife. Sure produced knives are useful in our day-to-day lives and will be useful for many things (like starring in a film), but they have no significance on themselves; they were made for everyone but also for no one in particular. And the big point around AI art is techbros forgetting about the significance craftmanship implies: a bread knife will never be your kinjal. Me, coming from a country that has a culture around knives too, I understand that sentiment and I think it's important taking it across. To not forget that craftmanship is always gonna carry some significance.

Gamardjoba! Thank you for covering the topic.

I see this as an example of the "Tiffany Problem". If you don't know, the name Tiffany comes from the Middle Ages, but the general public sees it as something too modern (like, people might think about Audrey Hepburn, or even just a random Valley Girl), so fantasy/period stories usually avoid it. Firearms are seen as the modern way conflicts and fights are resolved. As such, readers/viewers feel it as off putting if you show them a magical, fantasy land where you can just draw a pistol and shoot. They don't want to see the hero of an epic story with dragons and elves pretty much be just "a tough guy from the suburbs, but in a shiny armor" when he uses his weapon

i think lever guns, single action and percussion revolvers should be normalized in fantasy as well.

Sword fights are more exciting than gunfights. That is the main reason.

watching this while playing a dwarf game, i am in peace

awesome

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I think the video itself is possessed! Spirits of old in a digital world 😂

Fantasy, but also hollywood movies. Generally, firearms only work if used by the bad guys or our trained elite supersoldier protagonist. Everyone else has much better chance of dying to his own gun, than achieving anything.

Oh yes my favorite dwarf has uploaded…today was already a good day and now it’s going to be an amazing one

Bordo, you never fail to find the most interesting topics to discuss, this unknown (to me) world of Georgian folklore is extremely fascinating

The white bull was sacrificed by the druids on certain rituals by the oak tree. Also, the white buffalo is a huge native american symbol. Interesting,.

This is my favorite content. Folklore tying Georgian stories (which I believe are not just stories frankly) to the stories across the world. I would love to see more ancient structures in Georgia. Other than the dragon stones, I wonder if they had stone circles in the Caucasus?

In the UK house spirits are called brownies and are related to leprechauns from my understanding.

3:00 flower of life in that building too.

Goblins are known to be very good at athletic endeavors according to faery sources I've read :D

As someone who makes videos about ancient Japanese folktales and myths, it amazes me how similar folktales are across cultures. The regular people of ancient Japan were also very magical people, and worshipped small household gods and spirits even more commonly than the great, well-known gods like Amaterasu or Susano-o. This is also fascinating because Caucasian culture is so unknown to the wider world. Your work is wonderful, sir.

Always a good day when Bordo uploads

@The Bordo Show... Perhaps you didn't see it so thought I should let you know, there's a few rendering faults with cutting audio after 2:10 [and a bad freeze at 9:50 ] Really enjoying this, a subject very close to my heart, just mentioned that in case you want to reupload another render before it gets too many views.

Love you dwarf man. I hope your country throws off the shackles of tyranny and your history videos go Viral

Depends. It is easier for a normal man to learn fatally effective magic or him just to make a reusable gun?

There probably some sort of political reason as well

I love this! It's fantasy folklore supported by real anthropology and geography. All my favourite world building tools combined

Warhammer Fantasy?

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What is that hat name you are wearing

Would that mail count as a helmet or a coif?

Here is a thing with firearms in fantasy: They're either like real life super early firearms so they're essentially worse than bows or crossbows because of much less precision and a much lower rate of fire, at least when competing with a skilled archer. In that case using them doesn't make that much sense, except maybe on low skilled lowly foot soldiers. Or they are later firearms which means they'll destroy anything, basically make any other type of ranged combat unfeasiable and also degrade melee to only being used after firing your gun(s). That takes away from the stuff many people enjoy about fantasy.

Warhammer Fantasy😊

"God made some men great and other men small, but Samuel Colt made them all equal."

Problem with the crossbow. Small mass made range very short in comparison to the bow and no, you could not pierce plate armor with them. Tod's Workshop tried and it never pierced plate. Chainmail and gambison, yes, but not the solid plate. It can leave dents but bows left far bigger dents.

Warhammer fantasy has tons of guns. Shit they even have a helicopter of sorts

To point out a couple mistakes: Bows still packed a bigger punch. While having more joules crossbows deliver much less energy on target because of how ineffective their energy transfer to a projectile is. Also a crossbow bolt weighs less than a longbow arrow which reduces range. The advantage the crossbow has is that it requires a couple of weeks of training while the bow requires a lifetime, maybe even generations. Guns did replace crossbows because they are cheaper and easier both to manufacture and maintain, their armor piercing capabilities were even worse for a time. Armor got thicker and still was able to counter all the ranged weapons of the time, and eventually was phased out for mobility and range on foot in Napoleon times. Great video by the way, I like the atmosphere a lot and your voice is very soothing.

I love how people are starting to question why fantasy settings can't seem to technologically advance. The Gunpowder Fantasy genre will have its time soon.

absolute gem of a find of a channel. can´t wait for more and more videos aproaching caucasian myths!

It is the argument that outer tech is largely based on inner tech. And if one subscribes or looks at the larger ~24-25,000 year Yuga cycle we fell into a slower vibrating/denser material realm right around the time of the dark ages (Kali Yuga) and while some think we are still there others believe we began to climb out around the 1800s which is when a lot of mystical ideas began to become more mainstream again. Love your videos brother.

Gunmetal gods.

19:28 LOL დევი პეტრე მშვენიერიძე!

Your voice sounds like maple syrup tastes

Firearms do exist in fantasy. They're just called Westerns for some reason. And fights with fire arms just devolve into hiding behind solid objects (and laughably sometimes objects that are NOT so solid and would not be bulletproof) while taking turns shooting out from behind it. It's not as thrilling or engaging or cool as two dudes sword fighting.

Great content brother. As a Georgian who was raised in California from an early age I have been trying to connect and understand the interrelation of myths from the Caucasus and the wider world. Also more recently I’ve been connecting to my theories that not all these stories are simply stories and that there are grains of truth (some of which reside beyond this dimension). Thank you for your great content.

you know you can heat it up and quench it later

Not watched all the way through, so sorry if he says this, but surely firearms would develop as a counter to mages?

not Matchlock but Miquelet

In 1983 I had the chance to attend EastCon in Glassboro, NJ. While there, I ran the RPGA tournament and had the chance to talk with Gary Gygax himself and asked him about guns in D&D. His comment (at the time, it may have changed in later years) was that he wasn't against them but his vision of the setting was that with the reality of magic, things that we relied on technology to do do was handled by magic and guns just were never developed because (to the majority) there wasn't a perceived need or use. Now personally, I've never had an issue with them, but I have been in games where it quickly changes the feel from a "classic fantasy" to "cowboys and orcs" where everyone had a gun and it made foreign images of the US gun culture look like kindergarten. In the end, the players and DM/GM need to agree to certain baselines. Perhaps the the thing that makes guns work is something unique to certain individuals, like the ability to use magic. I dunno. Like I said, I see both sides and have played in both good and bad games with and without guns over the past 45 years.

Wonderful Video, Good job and God bless you!

Warhammer would like to have a talk

On the theme of the question "what fantasy hates firearms", I wonder if this is a hang-up over how fantasy was historically marketed to children. Specifically, I wonder if parents are OK with their children seeing violence, as long as that violence is something that is difficult to emulate. Hence, parents do not want their children seeing characters using guns (a modern, purchasable weapon that is easy to use) but are more OK with said characters using swords and bows (obscure, ancient weapons that take years of training to use effectively).

Hi a more veteran DM here. Its because most people have a very VERY mythological view of guns. And the people who want guns in fantasy do not was period accurate guns that have Jamms. Misfires, are extremely slow to reload, and indeed are ineffective against heavily armored opponents even at point blank. No they want guns that would be leagues ahead of anything else in the era and they want everything else to stay right where it is. According to these people guns should instantly kill everything from bandits, to knights, to goddamn dragons. This causes alot of people to associate firearms with a very anti fantasy notion. Because most often the people pushing them expressly use them to try and destroy any notions of fantasy.