Authentic medieval Czech books writings and chronicles

Hello I was just reading post about authentic Bohemian landscape and forum response was so great, scientific and precise, that I had to reply with sentence, that this game will probably not be just a game, but its gonna be simulation of time travel to medieval Bohemia. There will be exact trees, animals and clothes like in those ages. You can stop solving quests for a while and take educational trip through Czech middle ages.

I talked to my friend and she said something that might be just a great idea.

What if you could read in a game, and find copies of authentic books that was found by archeologist or historians and belong to this time period! Scanned Copies from museums or archives, implemented to the game.

Just an add on to the game. If you have time, or you are interested in it, you can just sit and read real history stuff. Lot of poeple could be maybe bored by too much letters :slight_smile: and I am including myself, but it would not be mandatory to read it, and the feeling would be just epic.

I know books were rare in those times, and i dont mean this feature should be somehow important to the game or story. Just another step somwhere else in game developing, that will make KCD even more unique.

PS: Im not sure if there are some copyright problems or something.

I had never thought about that, but I think that is a fantastic idea. I’m not 100% sure! but I don’t think there are any copyright issues with books of that age.

I think it’s heading that way. I can’t find the picture right now, but as somebody noticed before during the Kickstarter drive, one of the screenshots (context Alchemy) shows a page out of the Voynich manuscript. Check it out on wikipedia - it’s fascinating stuff! linky here

found it - it’s in the official Kickstarter video at 3:53

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Yeah the Voynich manuscript is really fascinating. I think a better link is this one, because it has pictures of nearly all pages. And up to this day nobody knows, what’s written in this book. Only the symbols and paintings of plants could be guessed, but even that is tricky as some plants don’t look familiar at all.

OK and were you able to actually read any of it? :smiley:

Reading is no problem. Understanding is probably the most difficult part. :wink:

I would mention a manuscriptorium web, where you can find tons of historical documents. Also topic I started some time ago: Historical sources where I put the Bible of Wenzel IV (the king from the game).

That would be amazing, the only problem i could see is language. They would have to translate the books into English and other languages where this game will be sold. That is the only problem I could see. Wonderful idea though, I would love to read/see those books.