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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 484137" data-attributes="member: 3477">Looking at the original post, I think it's a double misconception behind this thesis.1) Fantasy worlds are not medieval. They don't even look very similar to medieval standards. Nearly all standard institutions that belong to a typical medieval city are missing from all fantasy cities that I know. Most fantasy cities have a modern layout as far as society, institutions and industries are concerned. I don't think there is anything wrong with it though, as a high magic fantasy world cannot resemble a truly medieval world.2) The examples given above, like the swedish customs from 1800, are modern. In medieval times the role of the woman in society was much better. One example: here in Berlin the divorce laws were pretty liberal until about 1400. If the man dared to beat his wife, she could go to court and get a divorce. She was allowed to take everything with her that she had brought into the marriage, and this was usually most of the stuff the family owned. Then again, the people of this city had never been very religeous. They had been suffering from a bann of 50 years by the pope as they had killed a priest whom they didn't like; things happen <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.Even the inquisition had its worst days after the end of the middle ages, if you neglect what had happened to the Katharers (sp?). The typical witch hunt for instance is a typical modern age phenomenon, reaching it's top level after the year 1600. During the middle ages burning of witches was a very rare event.Anyway, you are right that medieval times had different moral standards compared to today. But many of the standards that you mentioned are founded on religion. As the typical fantasy campaign follows a different religion, moral standards should be significantly different to medieval ones.</blockquote>

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