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Originally Posted by Huscurian
Fantastical France is set in fantasy 1500s France, where France is in the early throes of the Middle Ages, where wars might occur between France and England. Even a Germanic Crusade is possible, cutting right into France should religion get the better of them by going berserk with fervor. France has other assorted creatures.
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I'm used to the Middle Ages starting in the 500s, and the High Middle Ages not long after 1000. When I see "1500s" I think Renaissance; it's after the fall of Constantinople, the Reconquista, and the discovery of America.
I think it might have been around then that Baldassare Castiglione wrote his Book of the Courtier, with its long passage about how the Italians love art and music and cuisine, but the uncivilized French care for nothing but hunting and war.
That said, I might look at the rediscovery of relics of pagan Rome as sources of no longer understood magical powers. A lost shrine to Mithras or Isis could have very interesting effects.
Bill Stoddard