So to me it is very plausibel, that "europeans" where aware of different coloured people. I think kevin costner´s "prince of thieves" first brought this idea into modern popculture with having morgan freeman as his muslim companion. So i´d conclude, that contact to "exotic" representatives was highly restricted to the ruleing body and to a lesser degree to dedicated traders.Īnd let´s not forget that muslims were into slave trade for another 500 years from this point in time. 200 years earlier, the emporer of the holy roman empire was well known to have close contacts to the oriental world. There were some black, christian kingdoms which are likely to have had diplomatic relations with east rome. in spain the reqonqista ended arround that time, so it was a melting pot, as was konstantinopel. what is that anyways?īy the time of the games´s setting, you have remnants of the mongols sitting at the black sea. There is a whole community dedicated to this I have been thinking alot about the depiction of jews nevertheless, starting from the first time i read "ivanhoe" by sir walter scott.īut i never thought of them as PoC in a young age(thx to liz taylor).
I must admit that i have been unaware of the issue about PoC depiction in medeival based fiction. idris elba as heimdall in the thor movies for example.
Race in fiction has been subject of many recent contorversies in recent years. I have not researched this so far, but it appears vavra is an extreme liberalist who supports alt-right theories and supports breitbart.įurthermore vavra made insensitive posts about why there are no PoC in the game and why you can´t play as a woman.Īs far as i have researched, this sparked the controversy. this was futher fueled by the fact, that said lead designer, daniel vavra, supported something called "gamergate". This irked many observers as an odd statement. on a gamescon presentation, he wore a t-shirt shirt of scandinavian black metal band burzum. Obviously, the games lead designer is a shady figure. The game follows the adventures of a low born male who operates within a gaming world of 16 square kilometeres. It is placed in the year 1400, aka the high medievial times, before the renaissance kicked in and brought major changes to societies. To everyone not well versed in middle eastern european history and geography, it is a location triangled between bohemia (think prague, heard of that city? warhorse entertainment kickstarted a sandbox openworld medieval setting game located in a remote region of bohemia.
The thread title is taken from plinkett´s star wars review.īut let´s sum this up. I stumbled upon this game cause i like robin hood since i was a child and played games like defender of the crown on c64.
Oh my, what interesting times we are living in.
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