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History Lessons with no books
Dec. 4th, 2006 11:06 pmSee, I would be writing more of 524. However, I'm scared to suddenly dump them on mainland Eurasia. Have the Germanic tribes begun their migrations yet? Is the Western Roman Empire still firm, is it fallng, or has it fallen? Has Christianity risen or is it still rising? Where are the Visigoths? And why is there no information on what China is doing during this century?
Bloody Dark Ages. -_-;;
The thing is: I don't know how much time I need. 524 AD is my end-date, but how long can the journey be? Decades, surely, but how many? Guan must be the hourglass, I suppose; he and Dashi are the mortals. So... 50 years? That'll keep me in the Early Middle Ages, so I'll only have one time-frame to look up (even if it's one time frame over a triple-continent with three or four warring Empires and a great deal of moving around...).
IIRC, the Shaolin Temple was built (for the first time XD) in the 49?s. I'm putting that somewhere in the middle of the journey, I think - and if I stick it later rather than earlier in the decade then the Wandering has a fair bit of time. And if I have the gang be in Europe or Russia then, then that's even better.
On the other hand, I probably want to keep them away from Constantinopolis - too much Theology. On the other hand, they're not going to intentionally stray too far from the biggest Empire/Orient trade routes in the er, Empire. Um.
*dies from brain overload*
Encylopediae are fun, but I should probably retreat from the masses of Europe stuff and stick mostly to China. That is the 'geographical centre' of this fic, thanks to Dashi. Even though there is nothing (in English and online, at least) that has any information apart from geneologies of Royals-or-equivilant. *goes off to research the time of Emperor Xiaowen, has no luck* But the beauty of my main cast all being immigrants is that, well, they aren't going to live like anyone that history talks about. They're poor and have to learn the languages. So I have a lot of slack here. XD
... Y'know, even if people did care about Historical Accuracy in fanfiction.
... I've probably procrastinated enough for one night.
Bloody Dark Ages. -_-;;
The thing is: I don't know how much time I need. 524 AD is my end-date, but how long can the journey be? Decades, surely, but how many? Guan must be the hourglass, I suppose; he and Dashi are the mortals. So... 50 years? That'll keep me in the Early Middle Ages, so I'll only have one time-frame to look up (even if it's one time frame over a triple-continent with three or four warring Empires and a great deal of moving around...).
IIRC, the Shaolin Temple was built (for the first time XD) in the 49?s. I'm putting that somewhere in the middle of the journey, I think - and if I stick it later rather than earlier in the decade then the Wandering has a fair bit of time. And if I have the gang be in Europe or Russia then, then that's even better.
On the other hand, I probably want to keep them away from Constantinopolis - too much Theology. On the other hand, they're not going to intentionally stray too far from the biggest Empire/Orient trade routes in the er, Empire. Um.
*dies from brain overload*
Encylopediae are fun, but I should probably retreat from the masses of Europe stuff and stick mostly to China. That is the 'geographical centre' of this fic, thanks to Dashi. Even though there is nothing (in English and online, at least) that has any information apart from geneologies of Royals-or-equivilant. *goes off to research the time of Emperor Xiaowen, has no luck* But the beauty of my main cast all being immigrants is that, well, they aren't going to live like anyone that history talks about. They're poor and have to learn the languages. So I have a lot of slack here. XD
... Y'know, even if people did care about Historical Accuracy in fanfiction.
... I've probably procrastinated enough for one night.
