shrug i wanna hear about the worst medieval warfare stuff youve read in fantasy novels
For the first half of the Kin trailer I thought it was the new Predator and I was getting kind of hype tbh
Itâs actually a stealth Laserblast remake I think
if you also want to hear the best medieval warfare stuff, Mary Gentle literally got a Masters degree in War Studies while doing research for her novel âAsh: A Secret Historyâ and its all very very realistic. Itâs Berserk levels of grimdark, tho so I find it hard to recommend to most audiences.
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tell me more
this may come as a surprise but I donât actually spend my free time finding and privately cataloguing everything that can irritate me in detail
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I read a KJ Parker book once. They obviously did A Lot of Research but then felt a need to somehow inflect what they detailed with some sort of fantasy element unique to the setting? So they had a dude constructing steel swords in a European Pattern Welded way, but instead of forge welding the pieces together into a homogenousish piece they basically laid everything together then filled the gaps in with some kind of special silver solder.
The details of the when and how of heat treatment were a little slippery, I think. This was a major point of the story and wound up driving me a bit nuts trying to parse and make it make actual sense.
I tried to read that book and it was way too dark for me in like, the first chapter. Just couldnât do it.
so yeah
yeah, its a very well written book but you will know if you can stomach it within⌠2 paragraphs of the prologue.
You literally do
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well not all of it
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Are we talking about detailed sexual assault? Thatâs around my limit of unpleasant, but I am otherwise interested.
yes, its unpleasant stuff, hence why I canât really recommend it even though I think the book is good.
Iâll probably read it anyways because I am a sucker
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oh no
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