Heroic Dreams - All Things Medieval

This is an article I have just completed. It gives an overview of how to put medieval weapons in your writing.

If you write fantasy or are thinking about writing fantasy you probably are going to have medieval weapons in your created world. Today’s reader of fantasy is very savvy when it comes to weapons and armor and you want your writing to be accurate and to make sense when it comes to weapons. They are often a big part of the story. In this article I explain some important things about medieval weapons, how to get them right, and I look at some of the more popular types of weapons.

This article is quite large so I am not going to put the whole thing on this blog. An overview of some of the topics I cover are:

• how to get the weapon to sync flawlessly with the technology of the world you are building,
• how medieval weapons are subject to an arms race and the advances of technology
• A philosophy of using weapons and why you should avoid having uber weapons (every uber weapon should at least come at some cost to the user
• A Brief overview of how medieval weapons developed in our world because of advances in metal working skills and the availability of ores
• A list of some of the more common medieval weapons like the flail, mace, sword, polearms etc.

You can read the full article on my medieval website here