Anachronisms are not a recent invention, the picture above this blog is an example of a medieval one and comes from an illustration of the Alexander Romance. It is supposed to depict Alexander the Great and his army meeting a group of Amazons. However, Alexander’s...
In today’s post we only see two new location I wish to discuss, though one comes in two parts. As in the previous parts, I want to look at both how these designs make sense in a historical sense as well as a story telling...
We are now past the halfway point of the Wheel of Time season 1 and we’ve seen a few new places in episodes 4 and 5 that I want to take a closer look at. So today we’ll see what the landscape of the Wheel...
So the first three episodes of the new Wheel of Time series has dropped and I have been very impressed. As some of you may know, I’ve long been a fan of the Wheel of Time books and seeing them on the screen was a...
Given the current emergency, I considered writing on past diseases that made a great impact upon a society. I may still do that, but the growing reports of people buying up a single, most essential item has led me to write this post. Toilet paper,...
It’s early summer, but this high up it was still bitterly cold even though the sun hung high in the cloudless sky. What little snow had survived up until now crunched underneath the traveler’s bearskin soles. At least his feet stayed warm. His hand hurt,...
Today’s post is inspired by two news stories I’ve come across these last few days. One was a podcaster called Andrew Klavan claiming that women would always lose a swordfight against a man, if that man knew what he was doing. The other, a Kansas...