imagine if hollywood produced an experimental film without any story or twist, just two hours of super-realistic walk through a medieval town, interacting with ordinary folks, discussing the life, having pints and laughs, observing genuine reactions and waving goodbye at the end
I really look forward to you sharing your bibliographies with us now. It's been great watching this community grow. Road to 300k has begun. Let that sink in!
Chris Bryer, what language barrier? Why would it be any different to today? If you're talking about medieval Europe you had the lingua franca which was Latin, the equivalent of English today at least or the people that mattered. If you were an ordinary person living at the edge of your country you most likely were bi lingual to some extent the same as people in Europe are today. The middle ages were only 500 years ago, mankind hasn't evolved to any real extent in that time, we're exactly the same as they were then.
+Hazzmati Probably because the North East portions of England in the earlier portion of the Medieval period were under Danish control so there was more recent Germanic influences on the language of that region at the time.
purpleanex latin was not the lingua franca at all lingua FRANCA was french or say frankish and it was used mainly by nobility the average peasant didnt knew either latin or frankish, with english you could only travel back to victorian themes where people may still understand what you're saying before that communication would be incredibly hard
mortimer is a brilliant historian ,deals with the little things that are normally forgotten or not known just so many little facts make a story spring to life
I once read in a book that there are small people living in hills with round doors. They have pretty big and hairy feet, could you make a video about that?
Not in the Netherlands, Belgium and parts of Germany m8,... in those times even if your city looked, acted and was build as a city, fortified and even had a Lord residing, it wasn't a city. (although, it might have looked the part) The right to be considered a city you needed to get the "Stadsrechten" (city rights, aka the right to be considered a city) because it came with privileges and power attached. You can see a "Waag" or "Waagtoren" (imposing opulently decorated expensive stone buildin) in every Dutch, Belgian and German city, that was only placed there after a city has been bestowed with the "Stadsrechten", now it can levy it's own tax, to some degree it's own law's and have an standing army, it could also get more surrounding land to again levy tax mostly in the form of crops, livestock, weed and barly, stone, horses, other natural resources like metal, etc and man for work or war. And you were now in the position to build a Cathedral instead of a large Church or Church, and get a Cardinals instead of a Bishop if you had the money and influence of course, but usually they did one's they got to that stage. But it greatly increased the power, wealth and influence of your fortified "town/city" especially the right to have a standing army and levy tax and the power of the local Lord. So, it was clearly different in Britain, France and Italy, I've learned something new today, thanks, thumb's up on the video 👍.
As I understand it, in Britain at the time, to be classified as a city did not take armorers, but the community had to have both a Market (preferably open more than once a week), AND a Cathedral. It didn't even have to have any defensive wall, though most (if not all) did, as did any number of smaller towns.
Where I live was made a town in 1579 when Elizabeth I decreed that we could hold a market every Thursday in the town centre, which is still happening to this day
I very much enjoy when you take us back in time. My friend and I still talk about the time you took us to a Domus way back when. Thank you and keep it up!
Ayo Tron, I just wanna say man, it seems like you and Matt Easton are really starting to focus more on historical sociology and I absolutely love this stuff. Thanks so much Swordmaster, you guys inspire so much of what I want to be as a fiction novel writer someday
Avanzare con andamento impettito. I loved your Italian comments. I love how Italian explanations make things sound more full of life. They add a note of pepper to the narration.
One of the first things we would notice if we time-travel to the middle ages, besides the hideous stentch, is the lack of electricity humming. Something we are so acostumed with that our brains just cancel it out. And it would probably be the first thing a person from the middle ages would notice if he travelled to our time.
I really found that interresting, I believe there are still many missconceptions about that age, I learnd a lot of new stuff by that video too. I love that in my area in Austria, markets undergo a revival. I didn't knew about clothing back then, very interresting.
@@gandankthegreen9369 In a video about time traveling into the past, you found a set of comments that fit a meme 2 years into the future. I'm genuinely impressed.
This new series is great! Keep it up! And thanks for sharing your bibliographies with us. Very interesting to learn about your sources. I'm actually considering to give Dr. Mortimer a read now!
Just a tiny nitpick - at 5:35 that's actually the Virgin enthroned, holding the little Christ on her lap(out of frame, but check out the stained glass windows of Chartres cathedral). She does look pretty gender ambiguous here, but one indicator is the veil on her head, which you wouldn't really see in iconography of kings, as well as a nimbus(which a king would only have if he was dead & made into a saint). Otherwise, really enjoyed the video and can't wait for the renaissance stuff, as well as more of this :D
I gotta say the storytelling in this is breathtaking. I feel like I'm there. And I'm by no way into knights or swords or fantasy lore but this is genuinely cool. Good stuff m8!
Please please do Signor DaVinci !!! I have the hardest time imagining places from so long ago exactly like you said I envision them dusty, dirty, and dull because that’s the way they look now. I am completely aware of my biased but have never really been able to see through it. So this series will be perfect for folks like me that lack of ability to see things with just,”my minds eye”.
I was saying what you were going to say before you said it and it was no surprise that you too have read Ian Mortimer's book, it's where almost all my knowledge of daily life in the middle ages is from.
Great series man! :) I love these vids :) Just another idea for a video topic: in which ways can historical reenactment actually be useful in real life? I've been pondering that question for a while, but aside from gaining potential tactical insights and some capabilities to defend yourself in times of need, I couldn't really think of anything. (this is not meant as a critique though, because I truly love reenactment... I just want to know whether it has any practical uses)
Hello Metatron! Thank you for the video. I may think that the citizens of a town live mostly from craftsmanship, while villagers live mostly from agriculture. A city is a big town. Surely to exchange (or sell) their goods, the craftsmen must have a marketplace.
Hey Metatron! Was just wondering if you could clarify how the majority of solidiers were recruited in the Middle Ages? For instance, if they made a certain amount of money, then it allowed them to buy military gear and so they were recruited. This defeats the feudalism model because in theory, many people could own a horse and buy armor, but that doesn’t necessarily make them a night. So I’m asking you to contest the feudalism model of anything aha. Anyways keep up the great content!!
Common foot soldiers, city guards, the medieval version of the red shirt? Same way as our soldiers are recruited today, they volunteered. Most always peasants and second, third, or fourth+ sons since they wouldn't inherit anything including the right to farm the land they grew up on. They need to eat and have a roof over their head when it rains so joining the guard or army is as good a choice as any all things considering. For many it is the best choice. If there was a war peasants would be conscripted, and would be equipped with weapons picked up off the battlefield from the previous battles that were too poor of condition for the guard or army but not so bad that they should be recycled. When those ran out.. they are farmers so they should own a pitchfork or something. It's not theory that anyone could buy a horse, armor, and weapons for much of Europe during the medieval time period, it is true. The problem is purchasing these items on the salary that anyone but nobles have. As for a war horse, that's like asking a full on middle class person today to buy a Lamborghini, Ferrari, and a Rolls Royce. Many a gambeson was all of the peasants shirts along with other cloth sewn together because they were conscripted. many a conscripts weapon was picked up off the ground after a previous battle, maybe even one the grandfather fought in. If they joined the guard or army they would be trained and equipped with the basic gear and could save up for more protection, many a bowman had plate greaves and arms with gauntlets that they saved up for. As for a full harness, it would cost as much as they make in their entire lifetime, not saved but made. No such thing as a credit card back then and you couldn't get a bank loan so it was cash up front. They could technically buy a complete harness because there's no law saying they cant, but since they would never have the money they wont ever buy it.
Normally cities and towns had to offer certain contigents of soldiers in case of war to their lord/king/emperor. In Germany the guilds were the ones responsible one when it came to arming their members. A part of the feudal duties also was to bring men to war. Normally this was at least partly reached down the line. If somebody needed more men than he or his vasall could gather he would have hired mercenaries for the time of the war. There was at least some division between heavily armed and armored mercenaries and militia and knights on the battlefield, otherwise Emperor Maximilian "The last knight" couldn't have combined them to a single force at the end of the 15th century.
Big fan of your videos, one small feedback: the greenscreen is sometimes not working properly. I think it might boost your channel a bit if that could be improved.
vs vs, metatron decided to make this video in English, no one else, it's not anyone else's problem why he got something wrong. These commenters are just trying to help.
I think mount and blade has a good representation. The cities and villages aren't the main focus and you can't see much, but it gives a fairly decent (albeit shallow) representation.
Metatron, could you do an episode on the landscape surrounding Medival villages, towns, and cities? I noticed you mentioned "The abundance of nature" but I'm not so sure that would be true when I think about it. Wouldn't people want to make use of all the land around them for farming? They wouldn't have had automobiles so I imagine people wouldn't pass up the opportunity to take advantage of nearby resources and avoid traveling. Of course, I don't know for sure- so maybe the Metatron can answer! (I imagine you flying in with a cape at this point)
Sealed ground wasn't a thing outside of the big cities. All woods, fields, dirt roads and buildings. The fields where a lot smaller and pesticides weren't a thing jet. There where plenty of forests around the cites. But at least the outer part where used lots. After all in that time you needed the wood for heating. And feed the pigs on acorns.
4:00, Hey! Toussaint!... and... 4:48, hey fcking Novigrad. And convenience towns, very interesting. I will definitely try to use some of this on my next D&D campaign.
Okay, but what's the song at 1:25? Never mind, it's: _Dragon Nest - Calderock Village Theme_ Or, to be extra specific: _Erutan - Song of the Goddess: The Eternal Path_
I would like to say that whilst Dark Souls is quite dark overall, it does have it's bright spots(literally and metaphorically)which creates a beautiful contrast which is what makes the games atmosphere so great(especially in the first one).
I don't think you need another samurai harness, what you need is a European harness. If I went back into the late 14th century I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in a city just because of the smell of raw sewage, The storm drains are also the sewers serving the upper class and upper middle class while the working class had a bucket to be emptied outside the home. Storm drains are open to the city so rain water can get into them, but also as a sewer the smell comes out of those openings. The stench would be especially bad in a walled city surrounded by a moat, that would be where the sewers would drain into so the slightest wind would carry it over the city regardless of direction. This smell also wouldn't be the same as you get entering a porta potty on a hot summer day at a festival or when camping, there's chemicals in those that reduce the smell and break down the poop and paper, it would be far far worse.
I would put the point a the ability to feed itself. A village has is positive, a town balanced, a city needs to import food, as the surroundings are not enough to feed the populace .
Thanks you so much for the trip Raff! Still waiting for your Norman Sicily video - no no I'm not obsessed with cultural and religion "melting pots" PS: nice Legend of Grimrock screen if I'm not not wrong , to say 1% chance cause I suck ^^
Must be a king."
"Why?"
"He hasn't got shit all over him."
Ondřej Dujka You sir, are a man of culture!
"Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!"
"Bloody peasant!"
"We are now no more the knights who say NI, we are now the knights who say "eggy-eggy-eggy-péthàng-ruperrouger" "
(Ni!)
(Shh!)
imagine if hollywood produced an experimental film without any story or twist, just two hours of super-realistic walk through a medieval town, interacting with ordinary folks, discussing the life, having pints and laughs, observing genuine reactions and waving goodbye at the end
So nice that you did continue the 'time travel' series. I really look forward to so much more of it.
That's a great book. He also wrote The Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England - also excellent. Plus others.
This time travelling theme in your videos is the best!
as long as he remembers to travel through time and space otherwise the time traveler will end up in outer space
Well...It's possible to "timetravel" if there is a lot of mass and gravitation(And velocity)...But not back.
Gilberto Víquez It is amazing!
do you at least know the name of the song??? if you do please tell me
I'm so glad I found your videos. I'm such a history lover, I could watch these all day!
I really look forward to you sharing your bibliographies with us now. It's been great watching this community grow.
Road to 300k has begun. Let that sink in!
Bluescreen abilities upgraded, nice Meta
Oh yeah
Bello che hai messo la traduzione in italiano delle parole difficoli. Grazie
Clothes with colorful buildings and castles were painted with glorious bright colors. The sun came out just like now!
If you want to go with the time traveling theme, why not talk about language barriers one may face going to different times.
Chris Bryer, what language barrier? Why would it be any different to today? If you're talking about medieval Europe you had the lingua franca which was Latin, the equivalent of English today at least or the people that mattered. If you were an ordinary person living at the edge of your country you most likely were bi lingual to some extent the same as people in Europe are today. The middle ages were only 500 years ago, mankind hasn't evolved to any real extent in that time, we're exactly the same as they were then.
Dialects were a lot more varied back then. For example, in the London area eggs were called egges, whereas in the North they were called eyren.
BlackStar2161 wow as a dutch northern english sounds suspiciously similae
+Hazzmati Probably because the North East portions of England in the earlier portion of the Medieval period were under Danish control so there was more recent Germanic influences on the language of that region at the time.
purpleanex latin was not the lingua franca at all lingua FRANCA was french or say frankish and it was used mainly by nobility the average peasant didnt knew either latin or frankish, with english you could only travel back to victorian themes where people may still understand what you're saying before that communication would be incredibly hard
mortimer is a brilliant historian ,deals with the little things that are normally forgotten or not known just so many little facts make a story spring to life
I once read in a book that there are small people living in hills with round doors. They have pretty big and hairy feet, could you make a video about that?
GermanCurl, no need, they already have, it's called teletubbies ruclips.net/video/Xy-yIsQgJEA/видео.html
No, they got visited by an old man with a hat called Gandalf. And one of them really likes rings...
Lollll
Exactly! :O
Not in the Netherlands, Belgium and parts of Germany m8,... in those times even if your city looked, acted and was build as a city, fortified and even had a Lord residing, it wasn't a city. (although, it might have looked the part)
The right to be considered a city you needed to get the "Stadsrechten" (city rights, aka the right to be considered a city) because it came with privileges and power attached.
You can see a "Waag" or "Waagtoren" (imposing opulently decorated expensive stone buildin) in every Dutch, Belgian and German city, that was only placed there after a city has been bestowed with the "Stadsrechten", now it can levy it's own tax, to some degree it's own law's and have an standing army, it could also get more surrounding land to again levy tax mostly in the form of crops, livestock, weed and barly, stone, horses, other natural resources like metal, etc and man for work or war.
And you were now in the position to build a Cathedral instead of a large Church or Church, and get a Cardinals instead of a Bishop if you had the money and influence of course, but usually they did one's they got to that stage.
But it greatly increased the power, wealth and influence of your fortified "town/city" especially the right to have a standing army and levy tax and the power of the local Lord.
So, it was clearly different in Britain, France and Italy, I've learned something new today, thanks, thumb's up on the video 👍.
What was needed to get those rights?
Electric999999 usually a written royal permit affixed with the royal seal.
Electric999999 In these territories of the Netherlands and Belgium ⬅(in that time) it was the House of Oranje-Nassau that could give that right.
As I understand it, in Britain at the time, to be classified as a city did not take armorers, but the community had to have both a Market (preferably open more than once a week), AND a Cathedral. It didn't even have to have any defensive wall, though most (if not all) did, as did any number of smaller towns.
ThatDutchguy Emm, they didn't rule in the middle ages...
Where I live was made a town in 1579 when Elizabeth I decreed that we could hold a market every Thursday in the town centre, which is still happening to this day
I very much enjoy when you take us back in time. My friend and I still talk about the time you took us to a Domus way back when. Thank you and keep it up!
I like how he calls the viewers "noble ones" heh. Awesome channel, man so much depth.
I also recommend Ken Follets books about medieval England:
Pillars of the Earth,
World without End
And there is a new one happening in the Renaissance
Ayo Tron, I just wanna say man, it seems like you and Matt Easton are really starting to focus more on historical sociology and I absolutely love this stuff. Thanks so much Swordmaster, you guys inspire so much of what I want to be as a fiction novel writer someday
Just like in Oblivion, there's Skingrad, Chorol and Anvil, but then you have Bravil...
@666LaVey666 The most beautiful city in Cyrodill? I don't know. But the ugliest is Bravil.
Avanzare con andamento impettito. I loved your Italian comments. I love how Italian explanations make things sound more full of life. They add a note of pepper to the narration.
Incredibly interesting. Thanks.
I read that book a couple of years ago. Excellent read. He has also written one on the Tudor period.
Great content. Well done. I absolutely love this period and region in history, especially medieval Italy.
I love this style. The whole time traveller stuff, really lets you picture everything, let's you imagine being there.
I once started writing a medieval novel and used the time traveler's guide as a reference. One of my favorite books. I also recommend it.
what a fantastic video!! well done mate!
One of the first things we would notice if we time-travel to the middle ages, besides the hideous stentch, is the lack of electricity humming. Something we are so acostumed with that our brains just cancel it out. And it would probably be the first thing a person from the middle ages would notice if he travelled to our time.
I'm having a D&D flashback... :>o
I really found that interresting, I believe there are still many missconceptions about that age, I learnd a lot of new stuff by that video too. I love that in my area in Austria, markets undergo a revival. I didn't knew about clothing back then, very interresting.
I think you polls lacked an option to "keep everything as it is" or "no favourite"
Im quite happy with the mix :P
WakarimasenKa I think the poll affects the percentage of the each video type.
Another delightful production!
Absolutely loving these videos man! Love that this is a series too : )
Sadly the description doesn't have a link to the book like you said.
Now it does!
Wooh! Thanks ^-^
To put it into perspective the Domesday book lists more than 13,000 Settlements in England and it wasn't a complete survey either.
Wait, so a town wasn't always defined by its church-to-bar ratio?!
It never has been moron.
... you seriously didn't realize that was a joke? Have I finally found someone more autistic than I am?
Just found a meme from two years ago. “Wait, so a town wasn’t always defined by its church-to-bar ratio?!”
“It never has been”
@@gandankthegreen9369 In a video about time traveling into the past, you found a set of comments that fit a meme 2 years into the future. I'm genuinely impressed.
Brentticorn it wouldn’t have been possible without your first comment! I dare say this is reddit worthy!
I love the music.
These videos are absolutely brilliant and compelling. I’m a happy subscriber!
This new series is great! Keep it up!
And thanks for sharing your bibliographies with us. Very interesting to learn about your sources. I'm actually considering to give Dr. Mortimer a read now!
love this series
splendid video...love it
Raffaelo, please do more of these time-travelling videos, I enjoy them a lot.
Just a tiny nitpick - at 5:35 that's actually the Virgin enthroned, holding the little Christ on her lap(out of frame, but check out the stained glass windows of Chartres cathedral). She does look pretty gender ambiguous here, but one indicator is the veil on her head, which you wouldn't really see in iconography of kings, as well as a nimbus(which a king would only have if he was dead & made into a saint). Otherwise, really enjoyed the video and can't wait for the renaissance stuff, as well as more of this :D
I gotta say the storytelling in this is breathtaking. I feel like I'm there. And I'm by no way into knights or swords or fantasy lore but this is genuinely cool.
Good stuff m8!
These are the videos I subbed to Met! Great work.
I also would like to meet Machiavelli.
I like the way you are telling this like a game masterf rom a pen&paper RPG! I know it's 6years old, but I still like it! Bravo!🙂
watching you from Brazil !
Please please do Signor DaVinci !!! I have the hardest time imagining places from so long ago exactly like you said I envision them dusty, dirty, and dull because that’s the way they look now. I am completely aware of my biased but have never really been able to see through it. So this series will be perfect for folks like me that lack of ability to see things with just,”my minds eye”.
great songs
Great video as always :)
I absolutely love your content metatron! keep up the good work.
10:53 "presents this book to me" by holding it outisde of the camera shot. Well played sir, well played.
It would be most interesting to see a video about the travel, time, dangers and distance in medieval times.
You used Erutan's music! Nice to hear it again :) also very interesting video, we want more!
Noble and Interesting Video, Metatron! I'm Sharing on My Drakon Order!
I think that Ralph should make some videos about medieval Ireland, Scotland, and/or Wales.
I was saying what you were going to say before you said it and it was no surprise that you too have read Ian Mortimer's book, it's where almost all my knowledge of daily life in the middle ages is from.
Great video man, love your videos :)
Your production quality has really gone up. Props. Great video.
Could you do a video on ‘What if Guns Hadn’t Been Invented’ and go over what armor and weapons would be like in modern day?
Talon Stephensen still the same, full plate armor its already the peak
great video love the time travel theme :)
Good video keep it up man
Book review!!! Yay!
YOU ARE THE FUCKING MAN!!! Thanks for your work! I always learn something new.
I absolutely love listening to this you're an excellent person Metatron
The Dragonest OST makes it even cooler
I'm a moonlord u.u great game
This is amazing!
This is like a RPG. Awesome.
What have you done? , I got impressed with this kind of format!
Keep it up, Your immersion is awesome!
Beautiful vid
I've been reading Ian Mortimer's book myself, and can thoroughly recommended it
you're so cool dude i love this!
Great series man! :) I love these vids :) Just another idea for a video topic: in which ways can historical reenactment actually be useful in real life? I've been pondering that question for a while, but aside from gaining potential tactical insights and some capabilities to defend yourself in times of need, I couldn't really think of anything. (this is not meant as a critique though, because I truly love reenactment... I just want to know whether it has any practical uses)
Hello Metatron! Thank you for the video. I may think that the citizens of a town live mostly from craftsmanship, while villagers live mostly from agriculture. A city is a big town. Surely to exchange (or sell) their goods, the craftsmen must have a marketplace.
The song at the begining!☆♡♡☆
Perfect timing cause I'm doing a a village/town stage for my game thanks a lot MT
Hey Metatron! Was just wondering if you could clarify how the majority of solidiers were recruited in the Middle Ages? For instance, if they made a certain amount of money, then it allowed them to buy military gear and so they were recruited. This defeats the feudalism model because in theory, many people could own a horse and buy armor, but that doesn’t necessarily make them a night. So I’m asking you to contest the feudalism model of anything aha. Anyways keep up the great content!!
Common foot soldiers, city guards, the medieval version of the red shirt? Same way as our soldiers are recruited today, they volunteered. Most always peasants and second, third, or fourth+ sons since they wouldn't inherit anything including the right to farm the land they grew up on. They need to eat and have a roof over their head when it rains so joining the guard or army is as good a choice as any all things considering. For many it is the best choice. If there was a war peasants would be conscripted, and would be equipped with weapons picked up off the battlefield from the previous battles that were too poor of condition for the guard or army but not so bad that they should be recycled. When those ran out.. they are farmers so they should own a pitchfork or something.
It's not theory that anyone could buy a horse, armor, and weapons for much of Europe during the medieval time period, it is true. The problem is purchasing these items on the salary that anyone but nobles have. As for a war horse, that's like asking a full on middle class person today to buy a Lamborghini, Ferrari, and a Rolls Royce. Many a gambeson was all of the peasants shirts along with other cloth sewn together because they were conscripted. many a conscripts weapon was picked up off the ground after a previous battle, maybe even one the grandfather fought in. If they joined the guard or army they would be trained and equipped with the basic gear and could save up for more protection, many a bowman had plate greaves and arms with gauntlets that they saved up for.
As for a full harness, it would cost as much as they make in their entire lifetime, not saved but made. No such thing as a credit card back then and you couldn't get a bank loan so it was cash up front. They could technically buy a complete harness because there's no law saying they cant, but since they would never have the money they wont ever buy it.
Normally cities and towns had to offer certain contigents of soldiers in case of war to their lord/king/emperor. In Germany the guilds were the ones responsible one when it came to arming their members. A part of the feudal duties also was to bring men to war. Normally this was at least partly reached down the line. If somebody needed more men than he or his vasall could gather he would have hired mercenaries for the time of the war.
There was at least some division between heavily armed and armored mercenaries and militia and knights on the battlefield, otherwise Emperor Maximilian "The last knight" couldn't have combined them to a single force at the end of the 15th century.
great video
i like the Dragon Nest background music.
Big fan of your videos, one small feedback: the greenscreen is sometimes not working properly. I think it might boost your channel a bit if that could be improved.
Minor point of order...
exasperation = a feeling of irritation
exaggeration = Taking something to a ridiculous extreme.
exacerbation - Making an already shitty problem shittier.
I think what he actually meant was "exacerbate", to make worse.
vs vs, metatron decided to make this video in English, no one else, it's not anyone else's problem why he got something wrong. These commenters are just trying to help.
stupid fanboy
I love a linguistic digression.
I miss when you made videos like this.
Just found your channel. Subbed.
I think mount and blade has a good representation. The cities and villages aren't the main focus and you can't see much, but it gives a fairly decent (albeit shallow) representation.
Whats the name of the female choral song that plays in the beggining of the vid?
Yeah! Tell us, Metty. I listen to that type of music all the time and I thought it sounded great!
Calderock Village theme, Dragon Nest ;)
Senpai noticed the guy I replied to which means he probably briefly noticed me too, AH!
BangGlorious We shall share our glory together mate
Metatron Thanks man
Metatron, could you do an episode on the landscape surrounding Medival villages, towns, and cities? I noticed you mentioned "The abundance of nature" but I'm not so sure that would be true when I think about it. Wouldn't people want to make use of all the land around them for farming? They wouldn't have had automobiles so I imagine people wouldn't pass up the opportunity to take advantage of nearby resources and avoid traveling. Of course, I don't know for sure- so maybe the Metatron can answer! (I imagine you flying in with a cape at this point)
Sealed ground wasn't a thing outside of the big cities. All woods, fields, dirt roads and buildings. The fields where a lot smaller and pesticides weren't a thing jet. There where plenty of forests around the cites. But at least the outer part where used lots. After all in that time you needed the wood for heating. And feed the pigs on acorns.
Dat is een moin dorp! (Sorry for speaking low german, but it's easy to get, it just means "That's a nice/beautiful village" XD)
GermanCurl cool, low german sounds alot like dutch
They both derive from Old Saxon as far as i know, so maybe that's why?
2:06
So the two middle ages settings are Velen and Toussaint?
Toussaint >>> The rest of the game
4:00, Hey! Toussaint!... and... 4:48, hey fcking Novigrad.
And convenience towns, very interesting.
I will definitely try to use some of this on my next D&D campaign.
I like the time travel idea
Okay, but what's the song at 1:25?
Never mind, it's: _Dragon Nest - Calderock Village Theme_
Or, to be extra specific: _Erutan - Song of the Goddess: The Eternal Path_
I like this new series, but could you make a comparative video too?
I'd like to see one about Japanese vs European castle design or polearms.
I would like to say that whilst Dark Souls is quite dark overall, it does have it's bright spots(literally and metaphorically)which creates a beautiful contrast which is what makes the games atmosphere so great(especially in the first one).
Yup! I loved this video. You could also do a Japan towns one too :D I know you will ;) and Ancient Rome :O
so nice!:)
I don't think you need another samurai harness, what you need is a European harness. If I went back into the late 14th century I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in a city just because of the smell of raw sewage, The storm drains are also the sewers serving the upper class and upper middle class while the working class had a bucket to be emptied outside the home. Storm drains are open to the city so rain water can get into them, but also as a sewer the smell comes out of those openings. The stench would be especially bad in a walled city surrounded by a moat, that would be where the sewers would drain into so the slightest wind would carry it over the city regardless of direction. This smell also wouldn't be the same as you get entering a porta potty on a hot summer day at a festival or when camping, there's chemicals in those that reduce the smell and break down the poop and paper, it would be far far worse.
I would put the point a the ability to feed itself. A village has is positive, a town balanced, a city needs to import food, as the surroundings are not enough to feed the populace .
I'm getting Assassin's creed animus vibes, through the portal.
I think I would choose a stone-built manor house in a village, not too far from a market-town, but without a lot of possibly plague-carrying visitors.
Can you make such Time Travel videos about classical Rome? :D
It would be awesome...
Thanks you so much for the trip Raff! Still waiting for your Norman Sicily video - no no I'm not obsessed with cultural and religion "melting pots"
PS: nice Legend of Grimrock screen if I'm not not wrong , to say 1% chance cause I suck ^^