And those limits on the speed of military communication and movement is also why those "marcher lords" were given their border realms, leave to raise larger personal forces, and some autonomy.
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2016-05-10, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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Re: How to make your world feel less... crowded
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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