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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 8277848" data-attributes="member: 22260">Spent a long time doing versions of this, as a D&D setting (which has its own issues)[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.terra-viejo.net[/URL]Some of the main problems are noted above. When is the mythic era for a region? How do you handle real-world history? Specifically how do you handle Christianity?Then there are secondary issues, depending on what you are doing with it, like where do you put the orcs?In actual myth and legend, famous figures are often brought together, anachronistically. The Robin Hood ballads came at least a century after Richard the Lion Hearted, but in the most famous version of the story, they are contemporaneous. The Arthur and Roland legends were updated at various points, and the roots of much fantasy come from Christian monks turning ancient pagan tales into more current legends.The setting is embracing this idea, but of course you can do it in each territory. Marauding vikings and Asgardians, Arthur and Robin Hood, Leonardo in a pagan Florence...but you have to make a fair number of judgement calls. Arthur did fight the "Dictator of Rome" in France/Gaul. But should that be Julius Caesar?</blockquote>