Recent content by thallantyr

On the contrary, I think the Wall absolutely makes sense in a polytheistic religious setting, where gods compete for worshippers. For starters, it incentivises mortals to pick a god, so it benefits deities of every alignment. Even with the good gods, worship is a matter of a mutually beneficial...

That's not actually what I said, nor would I ever argue that. I said that sexuality is a social and cultural construct, by which I mean that we create categories such as hetero- and homosexual and then try to fit people into each neat box, and that therefore this doesn't work for cultures...

I'm afraid that just isn't the case, as ancient Greece and Rome clearly show; sexuality is not purely defined by biology, it is a social and cultural construct. Their religions made no moral judgements about same-sex relations, and indeed their gods took both male and female lovers (the...

I apologise if this post comes off as lecturing, gender and sexuality are my main focus as a historian so I would just like to correct some misunderstandings in the thread regarding their place in history. The idea that including LGBT characters in a medieval fantasy setting would be...