How to create awesome fantasy lore from real world history!

Learn how to turn real history into epic storylines for your fantasy world! Drawing inspiration from works like The Dandelion Dynasty and The Powder Mage Trilogy, you'll discover tips and tricks for creating engaging and believable stories that will rival even Game of Thrones, which let's be honest, is the masterclass in using history for fantasy! Don't miss out on this valuable writing advice!

Chapters
0:00 History for Fantasy
1:41 Understanding Historical Forces
7:12 Integrate Tactics and Technology
11:21 Factions and Conflict
15:57 Events and Characters
20:14 Your World from History
22:08 Integrating Fantasy

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[JustInTimeWorldbuilding]

What is the best adaption of historical events or characters to a fantasy story in your opinion?

[nater]

Aztec descendant here: “Teh No CheTet Lahn” is how you would pronounce the Aztec city state that dominated central Mexico

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[Dumpspace]

I decided that war was more of a restrained sporting event. Escalate too much and someone might forget why one doesn't get mages involved.

[mercycunningham]

What I found is that if you're stuck find a historian who specializes in the topic and ask. I've never found one who isn't happy to discuss their favorite subject in length.

[nagillim]

For my world i only have a rough timeline of events for the past 1500-2000 years. That 500 year discrepancy happens because no one is entirely sure how long the dark age of my main continent lasted.

A great Roman-era empire was brought down by vampirism and undeath and chaos reigned as the fall out of that played out across the whole region.

The first real records after this began about 1250 years ago when a new church began to organise, by which time no one knew quite how long the dark age had lasted.

Prior to 2000 years ago i only have a rough outline of events going back into prehistory, but it's mostly lore and legend from the perspective of humans, and most of what i've written there isn't even known to mortals.

[jasonridge]

Discovered a gem, thank you great video

[ingridr]

OMG your lessons are so precious! Thank you, master Marie!

[morthim]

"they say that like it is an easy thing"
it doesn't matter if it is easy if it is uninteresting, and redundant.
the difficulty an author has in creating a work is like the difficulty any craftsman has in their craft. it is irrellevant to the consumer. it coudl take you a long time and lots of effort to do something, but if you are selling a commodity, my price offered will reflect that.

[xXx_Regulus_xXx]

the story of the first 3 Halo games and some of Bungie's older games draw inspiration from the Song of Roland, and I think that's a strength

[ronecotex]

Have you ever looked at the history of free banking in the United States