Re: Gloranthan/Genertelan Dress

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From: ian_hammond_cooper <ian_hammond_cooper_at_EYKwYY_u-ku6W1cImWiAHSBRNbmORGSR-BM3niLjbyl_JrR3Zmg_F1J5r>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:47:29 -0000

> Er, some maybe, but not all. Kind of hard to find an appropriate Bronze Age model for the west, for example.<

I don't have anything to do with Moon Designs efforts with the West, however, I'm less sure on this idea as time goes by. For an example of what can be done simply, look to what R Scott Bakker tried in his Prince of Nothing series mixing the history of the First Crusade with Hellenistic Greece (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Nothing).

Montheism, wizards and knights may be things we associate with medieval Europe, but the caste systems is not. I don't think that the West has to look like C15 Europe. I appreciate that much has used that analogue in the past for familiarity, but I think it has the danger of overwhelming what is not like that.