The Shining Wyrm 12.ii

12.ii

Acknowledgents and Research References:

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

This blog was incredibly valuable for giving a deeper insight into fleshing out less well docunted aspects of dieval and classical era life. I knew so of what was already ntioned but honestly there was so much that was expanded on from my own knowledge this story would have been significantly worse without the insights of this blog.

The dieval Farming Year

This is an amazing article on the labors of the year for peasants written by Andrew Staples. As an overview of the labors of the year it is unparalleled even now. Large sections of the interludes were directly based on it.

Behind the Na

This is an incredible resource for nas. Enough said.

Feudal Terminology

I knew a lot of these from other sources but I was using this to help triple check so of my terminology.

List Price of dieval Items & dieval Prices and Wages & Table of dieval English Wages and Prices

It turns out that it is actually really hard to get a solid read on the valuation of currencies in the past. Most of my sources ended up being English due to my linguistic inflexibility and distrust of machine translation for scholarly research but without resources like this I am almost certain the money in Shining Wyrm would have been less rigorously thought out.

Pliny The Elder’s The Natural History

I originally thought I’d just be cribbing so ignorance/flavor in word use from Pliny, but the man was hilariously applicable to Shining Wyrm and I really must recomnd anyone who is doing world building in a vaguely fantasy setting to dig in and take a look at how modern his observations are and how they slide smoothly and with no friction at all into completely insane propositions.

Really it is wild and humbling to read this stuff.

SItric.co.uk

This is one of the most useful sites for writing with any rigor in science fiction or fantasy I have ever found. Seriously, being able to answer how heavy sothing is quickly or finding approximate equivalents of bulk goods in easy tables is invaluable.

Koleda Winter Solstice Festival

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For giving so of the foundational inspiration for the winter solstice celebration traditions of Rochford and making aware that Santa Clause might in fact be a dragon.

Tips on Writing Military Science Fiction

While not holding a foundation in dieval era tactics, doctrine or the rest this is an invaluable site full of very good resources for grappling with the realities of actual war, logistics, tactics and more written by soone who is a passionate nerd about military organization.

It’s what really got out of the mindset of First Person Shooters and the like when considering military matters way back in college.

French Poems and Prayers from Miron-Wilson Funeral Ho

I did in fact use machine translation to convert one of their poems to english and then perford minor edits to fit the context. I am at best an amateur poet and word smith and there are those whose words are far more powerful then mine.

Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light

Stars and fortune damn I love the rhyming spell songs from this show so much and I think more fantasy settings should bring this shit back. I absolutely stole two of them for a section in shining wyrm and just altered the word choice til it fit the situation.

The Hobbit and The Return Of the King Animated Films

So of my ideas of what a dragon should be are still defined by Smaug as depicted in this version of the hobbit. And I just love how goofy the orcs were with their songs in Return of the King.

Elizabeth Bathory & György Thurzó

Seriously, the truth/myth is stranger than my own fiction here and the situation with these two and the situation around them is wilder than I can do justice even in a story that effectively hinges around an alternate history fantasy of their entire deal. I waffled back and forth on how I was gonna handle them both and settled on what you got in the story but there is plenty of room for the facts to go any other way given the ambiguity of the situation.

I aid for upping that ambiguity and playing with and against that legend until the very end for Shining Wyrm but really you could tell a lot of your own stories here and not even stray from the historical record.

Google Maps

This is an amazingly good tool for writers, street view can give you a lot in general but also just the ability to get an idea of how long it takes to walk places for long distances through europe can be a great grounding tool.

Fire Wood Tree Calculator

I actually checked these facts with a few different sites and their own math to get so of my details more grounded on how much burnables certain things take. Foresters take their productivity very seriously friends and they have tons of great tools for it!