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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythago" data-source="post: 1670568" data-attributes="member: 3019">Voodoo is a syncretic religion; it's a melding of traditional West African religions and Catholicism. The peasants of Europe may have feared fairy-hills and worshipped old gods dressed as saints, but they thought of themselves as Christian, not pagan, by the Middle Ages. (There were exceptions during transitional periods--there is supposedly a Viking myth in which a drunken Thor challenged Jesus to a wrestling match.) The 'witches,' primarily but not always women, burned for witchcraft believed themselves to have been led astray by Satan, not the Triune Goddess. There's a reason it's called the Spanish Inquisition in most texts; there were large and small Inquistions, by both Catholic and Protestant bodies, depending on the country and principality.   Sure you can. If you can come up with a plausible reason elves rub shoulders with humans, you can come up with a plausible reason for female knights. Yes, there will be differences, but what you're essentially saying is Vague Pseudo-Europe can absorb orcs (with or without pies), wish spells, polytheism, and so on--whereby we get FR and Eberron and the like--but eliminate historical sexism and you have to throw everything out and start over? Honestly, I am not seeing why 'magic is real' is so much more of a change from the modern day than 'girls get to be paladins'.</blockquote>