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| Dec 30, 2018 at 10:43 | comment | added | Tanzanite Dragoness | A possible cipher option might be a vigenere (misspelled threat horrendously) or a hybrid involving it. I have my own cipher that probably exists under another name and has for centuries where you have a key passage and you chipper your message by your key like a ceaser cipher, looping your key when it runs out. It is fairly easy to do by hand, and incredibly difficult to crack without the key. | |
| Dec 18, 2015 at 22:58 | comment | added | Gary Walker | I don't know that borderline pedophilia really is applicable charge for 13th Poland (very young girls married (or became mistresses) older men for power and money back then. But the series has its problems. As an engineer, fond of engineering stories, I enjoyed the earlier books in spite of their problems, but the later books were just awful. I forget where I abandoned the series. Just checked Amazon, the first books in the series are all 4-5 stars, the later ones around 3. 3 stars on Amazon is generally a pretty bad book. | |
| Dec 18, 2015 at 21:38 | history | bounty ended | Ben | ||
| Dec 15, 2015 at 23:22 | comment | added | Wingman4l7 | If you can get over the sexism, racism, blatant Mary Sue (author insertion), borderline pedophilia, and generally mediocre writing, the Conrad Stargard series is indeed a great example of progressing through a tech tree in a medieval age -- sourcing local minerals, building a refinery, metallurgy, carpentry, chemistry... | |
| Dec 12, 2015 at 1:15 | vote | accept | Ben | ||
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| Dec 9, 2015 at 17:42 | comment | added | Ben | I guess the short term time frame is an attempt to avoid being pinned down by a single king. The time traveler could attempt to cultivate fame as a miracle worker who heals leprosy among the common folk, with the risk of drawing the attention of the Catholic church (for good or ill). | |
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| Dec 9, 2015 at 17:31 | comment | added | Ben | It's true, the time traveler could not simply walk into the court of a king. Think of the services as an attempt to curry favor within the court... not merely with the person of the king himself. The king's steward might be impressed by agricultural and bookkeeping technology, his field marshal by detailed topological maps, and his castellan by improved fortification designs. Any of these men could give the time traveler influence within the court (or perceive him as a threat to their position). | |
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| Dec 9, 2015 at 17:18 | comment | added | Ben | Distilled spirits is a good idea that I was already considering. In the vein of alcohol and medical drugs... the time traveler may have prepared for his trip and brought back tobacco and hemp seeds. Becoming the royal drug dealer might put the time traveler in the position of a Rasputin-like adviser/mystic. | |
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| Dec 9, 2015 at 2:24 | comment | added | Ben | Interesting thoughts about medicine, especially the idea of concealing real medical treatment with the medical concepts of the day. I haven't read the book you mentioned, but the process of becoming accepted by nobility and royalty is exactly the problem I'm trying to come up with a variety of ways to solve. | |
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| Dec 9, 2015 at 2:05 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | +1, good points all around,... even those which contradict my assertions. | |
| Dec 9, 2015 at 1:10 | history | answered | Gary Walker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |