Tournaments & Rebellion in Historical Fiction
Gone Medieval
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The Dark Side of Simon DeMond
I think to start with it's a civil war. Civil wars always provide a tremendously powerful sort of motivating factor for all the kind of stories of adventure and that kind of thing. You've got a conflict which splits society down the middle. There isn't an obvious kind of us on them, perhaps. And particularly in this period of the Barons War we see as you look through the historical sources there were people who were conflicted about which side they were going to fight on.
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