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Samovar posted:I agree re. Sebhat. it's a little stretch to place an ethiopian orthodox monk in an alpine benedictine abbey. but it's not entirely implausible and honestly it feels like a bit of a rebuttal to the controversy about the game kingdom come which had a little controversy about how it simply "wasn't historic" to have melanistic people or people of african heritage kicking around europe in this time period. people got all over the mediterranean world of course and it benefits the game and its depiction of the time period a bunch by having a character like sebhat in the story. it's like hey, organized christianity existed in africa for a long time and african people weren't entirely rare in medieval/early modern europe!
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Samovar posted:It isn't mentioned in the text of the game, but it's little wonder that the village gets flooded when it rains heavily - the aqueducts that would have diverted excess rainfall are destroyed, after all. the aqueducts are not for stormwater drainage, but for bringing large volumes of fresh water to population centers throughout history, most cities didn't deal much with drainage, and rural areas rarely did. the level of infrastructure necessary is difficult to organize and maintain beyond a basic reinforced ditch - much easier to simply avoid settling in floodplains and boggy ground if possible, letting water flow naturally downhill into wetlands and rivers. of course it wasn't always possible to avoid living on wet ground, and so even in cities up until fairly recently social distance was more important than spatial distance, meaning that wealthier and more privileged people would live relatively near to poorer or discriminated people, but on higher ground, for both better air and cooling as well as to not have to deal with stormwater runoff draining into your garden consider also that before automobiles, there were a lot more animals around and so on, and sewers were rare compared to simple cesspits and pooping in holes in the ground... that water which flowed downhill was often rich and interesting, laden with content since the romans were organized enough to built giant water pipes all over the landscape, they sometimes paired this with built sewers and drainage as well. rome was notable for having ancient sewers, and parts of the ancient sewer works are still in use! the former main outfall is called the cloaca maxima
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Lokapala posted:I wonder how much an assumption of food scarcity is correct for this area and this time period. food scarcity is more of an acute thing, famine due to war or climate or severe economic fuckups or something. most of the time though if everything was working as it should, people were well fed enough also something to keep in mind is that gift giving used to be a huge part of local communities. one of the easiest ways to express this is sharing meals. i've shared meals with you, so someday if i'm having trouble you'll share meals with me. or, we share meals with each other to deepen our trust in each other, which either of us can leverage in times of emergency. think of it like building real improvements on your farm, or real coins in your money sack, but instead its building real social credit among the most important people in your life, your neighbors. this is also why people would host feasts, community dinners, bbqs, etc. of course people aren't exactly thinking about it in this way, folks are just being friendly and hospitable. one of the big strengths of human beings as animals is that we are wildly cooperative for complex creatures, like ants but we can build nukes. we have all kinds of behaviors around how to get along with other humans who we barely know or trust. there's a reason feeding and housing strangers is often held up as a virtue in many cultures across the world. but if you're cooking food and you aren't facing starvation then you probably have enough to share to feed randos, and in exchange you get some entertaining social contact as well as converting that food into basically community goodwill Breadmaster posted:I now want to find a spreadsheet of Saints' relics, and see how many of them have multiple arms and legs. higher tier saints roll more times on the loot drop table
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