#like two hours of additional research on army structures and polytheism relative to the author of canon
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god protect and deliver me from the self-inflicted desire to do enough historical research to confidently make expansions and alterations to this medieval fantasy nonsense setting
#youd think that the fact that the setting already makes no sense would make me feel freer to operate from my position of having done#like two hours of additional research on army structures and polytheism relative to the author of canon#but. i have so many friends who are or have been historians [of the ancient world]#what if they don't like me anymore because i said some stupid shit about polytheist propitiation practices#id understand. but my god the humiliation#box opener#i need to have this fic written in FIVE DAYS i don't have TIME to figure out which historical retinue or personal army structure is the#closest equivalent to this goofy historically impossible organization the protagonist is in#im just going to have to do what i usually do. find a single topic to skim six project gutenberg books about#and make the whole fic about that instead of having 'plot' or 'themes'#silk weaving industry drama here we come.#[< joke. this setting could plausibly have silk weaving guilds but the prompt doesnt really let me work it in.]
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