I have stumbled upon these comments at an EuroGamer article about KC:D.
Sean M. says:
7 months ago
@R. Very much agree. It is incredibly hard to write dialogue for period characters in terms of language (e.g., the Medieval series simply did modern English) or real opinions (how many public opinion surveys have you seen for the 15th century?). I was put off by the anti-Catholicism and I am not Catholic (sure there were debates but the aristocracy stuck together despite questions of confession, so maybe religion was not much of an identity marker for the period?), then there were the modern British accents, but we will see how it ends.
I hope for the best. They have put a lot of time and money into the project. But my cynicism is on high. It is a very hard task that DV set for the team.
@I. Deliverance. There are Catholic and anti-Catholic characters (not the one you play). Some of the dialogues were heavily biased. Not sure where they went with that later.
@H. Buy a history book. It was before Hus was burned at the stake. It might have some Hussite moments in its later spinoffs, but for the moment it is right about 1400 (say 1390-1410).[1]
In any case, a local lord telling a priest off over dinner [as seen in the first live-streamed video] is less than likely. It reeks of anti-Jesuit feeling of the 19th century and the [Czech] National Revival.
@H. The original premise was it started in 1390 and ran about 1390-1397. DV has been writing about his ideas of how it formed for several years. I actually translated some of the early dialogues and we disagreed on some of these precise topics. He also felt my translations of his dialogues were too modern, but nobody speaks Middle English anymore and the characters have Modern British accents, which for me is a bigger problem for his authenticity as there are actors out there who do Shakespearian accents and can be understood by the modern audience.
There are also some issues with the translations of some of the names and their pronunciations. There will be a lot of bugs to work out from what I have seen. It looks great, but the details are hard to get right.
As for me being a ****, I am a medieval historian who translates Bohemian history into English for a living. I do not need to be kind to people who try to tell me my business (you jumped in feet first to tell me about Bohemian history, I simply put you back in your place). Even in the Hussite wars, Moravian Hussites fought for the king against their co-religionists. It is a misreading of history to see everyone split over questions of confession. Feudal relationships were often more important as they had economic import, so people of various confessions signed letters to the pope etc. for their landlord (even this was changing at the time of the story as the Franconian system was spreading into Bohemia).
As for nation, the word gens in Latin meant “tribe”, while nation was a Christianized tribe and at the time of the game in the Middle Ages it was used for wide swaths of people – the German nation at the Sorbonne for instance which included Bohemia. In George of Podebrady’s time, the nations were German, Italian, French and possibly “Hispanica” when he tried to form a coalition against the Turks.
So, you are projecting your modern views into the past.
My unkind reaction was to you trying to school me. Offence was taken and so returned. In future, I suggest checking that you know what you are talking about before jumping in and telling other people what is right or wrong. The team at Deliverance spent weeks doing research, met with scholars in the field and then spent months trying to make it as close to reality as they could. I respect them for that. I disagree with some pieces of it, but they did their homework. You did not.