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<blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 3556839" data-attributes="member: 7240">Here's the thing: D&amp;D is part of a long literary tradition dating back to the Middle Ages. Arthurian romances and epics from whence the fantasy literary genre ultimately sprang was never about telling historical stories. It was about re-imagining past events, personages and stories in the terms of the present day and its own eccentric conceptions about what aspects of human society and nature were eternal and which ones were ephemeral. So, starting in the 12th century, the 6th century Breton warrior chieftan was invested with a hodgepodge of things from disparate cultures and historical eras. Medieval fantasy, from its very inception in the Middle Ages, was a literary genre powered by anachronism.The fact that the anachronistic knights, saracens, Roman consuls and Joseph of Arimathea of the original genre have been replaced by other anachronisms that speak more to our present-day society's misperceptions of the past doesn't especially bother me.While I would agree that mixing East Asian elements in creates some new genre challenges with which I have difficulty, I wouldn't go so far as to back Emirkol's original claim.EDIT: And SHARK, if you're going to steal verbatim from my CircvsMaximvs post, don't change the numbering system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fusangite, post: 3556839, member: 7240"] Here's the thing: D&D is part of a long literary tradition dating back to the Middle Ages. Arthurian romances and epics from whence the fantasy literary genre ultimately sprang was never about telling historical stories. It was about re-imagining past events, personages and stories in the terms of the present day and its own eccentric conceptions about what aspects of human society and nature were eternal and which ones were ephemeral. So, starting in the 12th century, the 6th century Breton warrior chieftan was invested with a hodgepodge of things from disparate cultures and historical eras. Medieval fantasy, from its very inception in the Middle Ages, was a literary genre powered by anachronism. The fact that the anachronistic knights, saracens, Roman consuls and Joseph of Arimathea of the original genre have been replaced by other anachronisms that speak more to our present-day society's misperceptions of the past doesn't especially bother me. While I would agree that mixing East Asian elements in creates some new genre challenges with which I have difficulty, I wouldn't go so far as to back Emirkol's original claim. EDIT: And SHARK, if you're going to steal verbatim from my CircvsMaximvs post, don't change the numbering system. [/QUOTE]

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