Robertson Fantasy Works

So I'm a bit behind here, but I wanted to give my thoughts on Netflix's "The Witcher". I've played a few of the games, and am about half way through the first book. But I want to judge the show as a stand alone thing. I want to come at it as someone who doesn't know much about the world and as someone who loves studying medieval history. I'm going to watch the whole series through and then go back episode by episode and discuss my thoughts. So far I am really enjoying the show. I'm hooked and will get back to ya'll with some reviews and my thoughts on the episodes. Cheers, Enkelli

So, my last post was about how I "faked" world building in  Blood Shadow: A Vera Shadow Mystery . I plan for this to be me documenting how I build this low fantasy world and where my influences are coming from. Let's get stuck in! Alright, so I want this setting to have the feel of Dark Ages Europe (approximately 5th–10th century). This is coming from my love of the sagas (e.g. Beowulf), Norse mythology, and shows like "Vikings" and "The Last Kingdom". Because of this, I've decided to base the main area on Anglo-Saxon Britain, with Pictish/Gaelic/Welsh styled peoples to the north and west, and then having a Scandinavian analogue culture to the northeast. But because I want the main story to take place in the Anglo-Saxon region I'm going to start with that. When I world build the most important thing for me is to get the names/naming traditions right. I could just use random name generators but for this I really want to give the names more m...