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aldersprigI found this thing: http://kittyspace.org/leviathan0.html and I'm gonna play with it because I'm finding it instructional!
The technology in Reiassan is at roughly height-of-the-Roman-empire.
They have steel; primary weapons is a sword similar to a gladius.
Points of interest: saddles have stirrups, and are between a western saddle and an English - wider, heavier than an English but without the large pommel horn.
Items of tech needed in various scenes:
Tents (mostly ridge-style)
Saddles
Chains! Chains, shackles, but an older style and a newer style.
Clothing (narrow loom), button-making (carving knives), metal casting
Bridges and barges, Erie-style goat-pulled and... hrrm. Not sure how else they get back UP the rivers. Bridge-building technology was a priority.
Mountain pass carving: how do they do that?
Building construction - so stonecutting, since they have very little wood in the mid-north.
They heat by mostly coal, bog peat and red sira; they use scrub wood and the wind-blasted bushes as fuel as well, since they're not very good for lumber. They have mastered a well-drafting chimney; many houses and public spaces use a hypocaust-style heating system.
The technology in Reiassan is at roughly height-of-the-Roman-empire.
They have steel; primary weapons is a sword similar to a gladius.
Points of interest: saddles have stirrups, and are between a western saddle and an English - wider, heavier than an English but without the large pommel horn.
Items of tech needed in various scenes:
Tents (mostly ridge-style)
Saddles
Chains! Chains, shackles, but an older style and a newer style.
Clothing (narrow loom), button-making (carving knives), metal casting
Bridges and barges, Erie-style goat-pulled and... hrrm. Not sure how else they get back UP the rivers. Bridge-building technology was a priority.
Mountain pass carving: how do they do that?
Building construction - so stonecutting, since they have very little wood in the mid-north.
They heat by mostly coal, bog peat and red sira; they use scrub wood and the wind-blasted bushes as fuel as well, since they're not very good for lumber. They have mastered a well-drafting chimney; many houses and public spaces use a hypocaust-style heating system.
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Date: 2015-10-30 05:12 pm (UTC)What they didn't have was forks. :D
I'm curious: Is mountain pass carving something that is usually done? I was under the impression a pass was generally a natural formation, but I haven't done research into the matter.
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Date: 2015-10-30 05:16 pm (UTC)Concrete is useful! And they have so many mountains, they might very well have volcanic ash. And plenty of blood.
Forks are a matter of great argument in the SCA!!
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Date: 2015-10-30 11:56 pm (UTC)-cap
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Date: 2015-10-31 08:00 am (UTC)This may be relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_and_feather
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Date: 2015-11-02 12:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-11-01 01:40 am (UTC)Having learned about the difference between English and western saddles, I was briefly somewhat confused by this—
«heavier than an English but without the large pommel horn»—
till I mentally appended "of the western saddle".
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Date: 2015-11-02 12:11 pm (UTC)I've noticed sometimes my turn of phrase, especially when writing stuff primarily for my own use, can throw people.
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Date: 2015-11-02 02:42 pm (UTC)And I should pay more attention to whether something that I snag on is really going to bother anyone enough to be worth mentioning.