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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostknight" data-source="post: 1827055" data-attributes="member: 15338">Nah- I even got involved in a testament game here for a while. Depends on your penchant for historical accuracy.  The Eastern Church tolerant of Judaism?  Pogroms started in Poland and Russia!  As  said- its your game so the level of historical accuracy is your call- after all this IS MYTHIC Europe!Yeah, but here we are talking about the Jew doing the forbidden action, a different thing altogether.  Yep, he isn't going to be sentenced to death by the community (there not being a Sanhedrin, but at the very least he would be excommunicated!)   BUT once again this is MYTHIC Europe, nobody says the rules are the same as in reality (actually, the more the rules are varied, the less chance of anything too objectionable, after all, it doesn't resembel reality <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As I said, I have no problem with it, but from the sounds of what Someone was after, it is based purely on the worst of Jewish stereotypes (greedy moneylender), but none of the actuality of the histoical reality of Jews in the period.  The point of my post was to try and inject some life into the concept- Jews at the time were heavily persecuted, expelled form their homes at a whim (generally when th elocal lord owed too much to the moneylender, and then used his power to disposses the jews and cancel his debts!), and far from glamorous.  If one looks at pictures from the period, the conical hats of Jews are prominent, appearing in public without it was tantamount to challenging the Church!</blockquote>

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