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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7973163" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't even know where to start with this. Good grief. Cormyr is certainly not "Medieval France" in any way. You can make a strong case for "generic medieval chivalric fantasy Western Europe", but that's about it.The Moonshae Isles are pretty much "Celtopia", and not based on the British Isles as much as vague 1980s notions of "Celtic Identity", but there's a lot of other random nonsense going on as well (including pirates and vikings).Amn's basic concept definitely owes a bit to late 1400s Spain but it's all over the place, it's not sure whether it's Moorish or Christian-style Spain, for example, with nods to both but leaning distinctly Moorish in aesthetic and so on, there's no sign of an inquisition-equivalent that I'm aware of, and the political structure, names, and general way it operates have very little in common any real-world place.I could go on. You keep saying "fantasy version" and that's just totally misleading. "Loosely inspired by some limited aspects of" is not a "fantasy version. The Empire in Warhammer Fantasy is an actual "fantasy version" of The Holy Roman Empire (equally Tilea = Italy, Bretonnia = Arthurian France and so on). These are like they stole a few cultural elements and then filled in the rest with crazy Forgotten Realms stuff. They're not "Fantasy versions" in any meaningful sense.</blockquote>