When Ridley Scott was filming, “Kingdom of Heaven,” he said something about historical accuracy that I enjoyed. (Paraphrasing here) Scott wasn’t trying to replicate historical accuracy, but the tapestries and illustrated manuscripts of the crusades in the following centuries. So his film was ahistorically colorful, textured, and epic.
Interesting but I do wonder though, does Runequest/Glorantha have their own equivalent of the medieval age? Maybe in the West where Seshnela, Fronela and Ralios are located but they do seem to be a different take on medieval fantasy. Something like classic sword and sorcery as written by Leiber, Moorcock, Smith, Moore, Wagner, Saunders, Asprin, and Delany meets Neo-Platonic Gnosticism, Hinduism (especially the four varnas), Zoroastrianism, and Kabbalism, complete with the zzaburs being a rough equivalent of the brahmins (not too literally though) and the Invisible God being something like Brahman? Then again, Jeff Richard said somewhere that the Malkioni are emphatically not truly medieval, more like Moorcockian or Vancean sword and sorcery, like the human equivalent of the Vadhagh or Eldren, with the Brithini best exemplifying them. I'd say Corum would make for a good example of a Hrestoli!
Dark Ages feels appropriate for the Mediterranean and Europe. . . Rome was sacked, man. The Iberian peninsula went Visigoth then Umayyad. . . Vikings running amok. Idk. Seems like a very dark time.
He's talking about the historiographical flaw in the usage of the term 'dark ages' because it is used in that context to suggest that no progress across Europe was make at all in terms of thought, religion, culture, and technology. That's not the case at all.
@@ClockworkOuroborous Never really put much thought into the color of clothing. Figured dyed stuff woukd be more expensive, and natural stuff would be less so. . .
I understand what the presenter is saying. The Umayyad period was a golden age of thought and progress. It may not have been majority Christian, but it was not at all dark or stagnant. Eastern Europe was also very active and vibrant.
I had an old edition of Pendragon that I never got to play but never got tired of reading. I'm really looking forward to this new edition...
Best rpg ever. Really worth playing.
I’m interested in this new edition…last one I bought was 1st edition!
When Ridley Scott was filming, “Kingdom of Heaven,” he said something about historical accuracy that I enjoyed. (Paraphrasing here) Scott wasn’t trying to replicate historical accuracy, but the tapestries and illustrated manuscripts of the crusades in the following centuries. So his film was ahistorically colorful, textured, and epic.
Interesting but I do wonder though, does Runequest/Glorantha have their own equivalent of the medieval age? Maybe in the West where Seshnela, Fronela and Ralios are located but they do seem to be a different take on medieval fantasy. Something like classic sword and sorcery as written by Leiber, Moorcock, Smith, Moore, Wagner, Saunders, Asprin, and Delany meets Neo-Platonic Gnosticism, Hinduism (especially the four varnas), Zoroastrianism, and Kabbalism, complete with the zzaburs being a rough equivalent of the brahmins (not too literally though) and the Invisible God being something like Brahman? Then again, Jeff Richard said somewhere that the Malkioni are emphatically not truly medieval, more like Moorcockian or Vancean sword and sorcery, like the human equivalent of the Vadhagh or Eldren, with the Brithini best exemplifying them. I'd say Corum would make for a good example of a Hrestoli!
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Dark Ages feels appropriate for the Mediterranean and Europe. . . Rome was sacked, man. The Iberian peninsula went Visigoth then Umayyad. . . Vikings running amok. Idk. Seems like a very dark time.
He's talking about the historiographical flaw in the usage of the term 'dark ages' because it is used in that context to suggest that no progress across Europe was make at all in terms of thought, religion, culture, and technology. That's not the case at all.
And that everyone wore gray and black. People like cloths with colors.
@@Daihmon823 Idk about all that, I just thinks it works in general, given what was going on at the time.
@@ClockworkOuroborous Never really put much thought into the color of clothing. Figured dyed stuff woukd be more expensive, and natural stuff would be less so. . .
I understand what the presenter is saying. The Umayyad period was a golden age of thought and progress. It may not have been majority Christian, but it was not at all dark or stagnant. Eastern Europe was also very active and vibrant.
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