Tag: worldbuilding

We’re onto our fourth essay about battles, and I’m only just now turning to what most people probably think of first when they hear the

Sieges are terrible, not just for the defenders, but often for the attackers as well. The longer they go on, the worse they get.

From a modern, civilian perspective, sieges may seem kind of stupid. Why park an army outside a fortified castle or city for weeks, months, even

Just as there are different kinds of army, there are also different kinds of battle that army could be fighting — in part because there

So far we’ve been talking largely about slavery in its strictest sense, i.e. legal frameworks that allow for people to be held as property. But

If you manage to get out of slavery — through escape or through emancipation; through the legislative or revolutionary end of the institution itself —

To get out of slavery, it is generally safer — but not necessarily easier — to do so by legal means.

A few months ago, we looked at the institution of slavery. Now it’s time to talk about how it ends.

Proponents of the “magic in fiction has to be systematized” school of thought often defend their stance by arguing that without rules to circumscribe its

Calendars were one of the first topics discussed in this Patreon — but at the time, we only addressed the question of how the year