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Supernatural Historical Wars.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: g33k on July 04, 2020, 06:37:52 PM ---I'm pretty sure Jim Butcher's "Merlin" & "Arthur" will be based more on faerie-tale & myth, with additional Dresdenverse spin, and less on current best historical understanding...
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Be sure that Geoffrey of Monmouth is not our current best historical understanding ;D
Con:
I wonder if Geoffrey of Monmouth was Venatori, it certainly sounds like their MO. Spread the good stories around for supernatural protection, slowly destroy the bad ones.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Arjan on July 02, 2020, 12:29:21 PM ---The British held out until after 1136:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwGxkj79Xkw
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--- Quote ---Anglo-Saxon England was early medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Anglo-Saxon_England.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on June 30, 2020, 08:42:29 PM ---The original Merlin established the English monarchy. That probably involved mortal wars, but King Arthur is ahistorical.
Vlad Dracula was involved in several armed conflicts. He lost a few. That implies, but doesn't necessitate, supernatural forces on the opposing side.
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Arthur is ahistorical in real life, sure. In universe? That remains to be seen.
We also don't really know at what point during his recorded historical lifetime Vlad turned himself into the first Blampire in-universe. The obvious candidate would be at the time of his recorded death (for one, he was a political prisoner for a while until getting free and reestablishing his rule late in life, and it would be bloody hard to keep a blampire locked in a tower ... also it would have been hard to rule a nation for that last year or two if all the courtiers noticed him actively rotting and only coming out at night). Upshot is it's hard to say much with confidence about supernatural dimensions to his wars with the Ottoman empire.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on July 05, 2020, 10:54:21 PM ---Arthur is ahistorical in real life, sure. In universe? That remains to be seen.
We also don't really know at what point during his recorded historical lifetime Vlad turned himself into the first Blampire in-universe.
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The thread is about historical wars. That's why I mentioned that Arthur is ahistorical. Vlad, the son of "the Creature," was likely always tied into the supernatural.
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