True, but...
There was an early Different Worlds article that once posited that children's books are ideal for gamers as a model over more heavyweight historical books because They are long on colour and focus on day-to-day life, fighting and legends and shorter on complexity, dates, and long lists of names.
So I link to it because it has exactly the kind of blended and anachronistic approach that can be useful for gamers.
While we might want to be inspired by history, I'm not sure that most gamers want to be drowned in it. Some will, but they will bring that knowledge with them to the table. Others want colour, and Orlanthi can as easily take colour from the kind of notions of the 'barbarian' in this kind of work as we can draw on influences as diverse as Persia and Rome for the Lunar Empire.
As always YMMV and YGWV.
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