Wood watchtowers seem like they would be useful & could be built, but wood buildings famously don’t leave evidence for the archaeologista. I don’t know if there were wooden castles yet. Nope, no stories of life written in vernacular English yet. At least, not as we would recognize them. Round Tables, questing Knights, castles, etc would not exist yet in 710. If there was a historical King Arthur, he might have lived in the 500’s, but all the stories we’ve read date from 900 or later. Some stories are explicitly post-Norman Conquest, and IMO Friars, Sheriff of Nottingham as written, and “the king’s forest” don’t really exist yet. And most of the friars & monastic orders you might know of haven’t been founded yet. Raiding Europe, looting gold from monasteries, Led Zeppelin, longboats and horned helmets? The first Viking raids are 80 years in the future. The Reconquista doesn’t start for a few more years. The Bayeaux Tapestry as a resource for what wars were like is even further in the future. Charlemagne’s grandfather, Charles Martel, is alive but has not become king yet. Charlemagne is arguably the earliest you could see “knights” as a real thing. Cathedral schools, which are somewhat the ancestor of universitie, don’t exist. Charlemagne, Roland, proper handwriting, and the Holy Roman Empire.Here is a brief list of ideas & info sources that won’t be in this book, because they haven’t happened yet. Anything you know from other fantasy or pseudo-historic RPG settings is probably wrong here. This game is not Renaissance, not High Middle Ages, not Feudalism, etc. This view is basically disproven nowadays, but the time period of this game is what those folks were talking about. From Monty Python, I think the king is the person least covered in dung. There is a term “The Dung Ages” that represents Victorian era & some chunk of 20th century views of the Middle Ages. Some big pointers from yours truly before starting the book. I’m me, the book is “Wolves of God” by Kevin Crawford AKA Sine Nomine publishing, and this is an OSR game covering early Middle Ages England. I want to try out this whole writing thing, and this is an interesting book.
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