Hello there.
I'm a big bearded Mountain man who loves history, mythology and fantasy.
I love crafting armor, painting and many other art forms which I use to create content.
my goal is to tell interesting stories and educate about the wonderful world we live in and great stories we can imagine.
I'm also trying to focus on the parts of history and mythology popular media ignores, especially my part of the world, the Caucasus and its surrounding areas.
Don't take anything I say too seriously or as gospel. I'm still learning myself.
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I think the video itself is possessed! Spirits of old in a digital world 😂
Fantasy, but also hollywood movies. Generally, firearms only work if used by the bad guys or our trained elite supersoldier protagonist. Everyone else has much better chance of dying to his own gun, than achieving anything.
Oh yes my favorite dwarf has uploaded…today was already a good day and now it’s going to be an amazing one
Bordo, you never fail to find the most interesting topics to discuss, this unknown (to me) world of Georgian folklore is extremely fascinating
The white bull was sacrificed by the druids on certain rituals by the oak tree. Also, the white buffalo is a huge native american symbol. Interesting,.
This is my favorite content. Folklore tying Georgian stories (which I believe are not just stories frankly) to the stories across the world. I would love to see more ancient structures in Georgia. Other than the dragon stones, I wonder if they had stone circles in the Caucasus?
In the UK house spirits are called brownies and are related to leprechauns from my understanding.
3:00 flower of life in that building too.
Goblins are known to be very good at athletic endeavors according to faery sources I've read :D
As someone who makes videos about ancient Japanese folktales and myths, it amazes me how similar folktales are across cultures. The regular people of ancient Japan were also very magical people, and worshipped small household gods and spirits even more commonly than the great, well-known gods like Amaterasu or Susano-o. This is also fascinating because Caucasian culture is so unknown to the wider world. Your work is wonderful, sir.
Always a good day when Bordo uploads
@The Bordo Show... Perhaps you didn't see it so thought I should let you know, there's a few rendering faults with cutting audio after 2:10 [and a bad freeze at 9:50 ] Really enjoying this, a subject very close to my heart, just mentioned that in case you want to reupload another render before it gets too many views.
Love you dwarf man. I hope your country throws off the shackles of tyranny and your history videos go Viral
thank you, so it shall be!
Depends. It is easier for a normal man to learn fatally effective magic or him just to make a reusable gun?
There probably some sort of political reason as well
I love this! It's fantasy folklore supported by real anthropology and geography. All my favourite world building tools combined
Warhammer Fantasy?
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What is that hat name you are wearing
Scythian red cap
Would that mail count as a helmet or a coif?
Plated coif, but coifs are technically helmets
Here is a thing with firearms in fantasy: They're either like real life super early firearms so they're essentially worse than bows or crossbows because of much less precision and a much lower rate of fire, at least when competing with a skilled archer. In that case using them doesn't make that much sense, except maybe on low skilled lowly foot soldiers. Or they are later firearms which means they'll destroy anything, basically make any other type of ranged combat unfeasiable and also degrade melee to only being used after firing your gun(s). That takes away from the stuff many people enjoy about fantasy.
Warhammer Fantasy😊
"God made some men great and other men small, but Samuel Colt made them all equal."
Problem with the crossbow. Small mass made range very short in comparison to the bow and no, you could not pierce plate armor with them. Tod's Workshop tried and it never pierced plate. Chainmail and gambison, yes, but not the solid plate. It can leave dents but bows left far bigger dents.
Warhammer fantasy has tons of guns. Shit they even have a helicopter of sorts
To point out a couple mistakes: Bows still packed a bigger punch. While having more joules crossbows deliver much less energy on target because of how ineffective their energy transfer to a projectile is. Also a crossbow bolt weighs less than a longbow arrow which reduces range. The advantage the crossbow has is that it requires a couple of weeks of training while the bow requires a lifetime, maybe even generations. Guns did replace crossbows because they are cheaper and easier both to manufacture and maintain, their armor piercing capabilities were even worse for a time. Armor got thicker and still was able to counter all the ranged weapons of the time, and eventually was phased out for mobility and range on foot in Napoleon times. Great video by the way, I like the atmosphere a lot and your voice is very soothing.
I love how people are starting to question why fantasy settings can't seem to technologically advance. The Gunpowder Fantasy genre will have its time soon.
absolute gem of a find of a channel. can´t wait for more and more videos aproaching caucasian myths!
It is the argument that outer tech is largely based on inner tech. And if one subscribes or looks at the larger ~24-25,000 year Yuga cycle we fell into a slower vibrating/denser material realm right around the time of the dark ages (Kali Yuga) and while some think we are still there others believe we began to climb out around the 1800s which is when a lot of mystical ideas began to become more mainstream again. Love your videos brother.
Gunmetal gods.
19:28 LOL დევი პეტრე მშვენიერიძე!
Your voice sounds like maple syrup tastes
Firearms do exist in fantasy. They're just called Westerns for some reason. And fights with fire arms just devolve into hiding behind solid objects (and laughably sometimes objects that are NOT so solid and would not be bulletproof) while taking turns shooting out from behind it. It's not as thrilling or engaging or cool as two dudes sword fighting.
Westerns are westerns, not fantasy. You can mix genres but westerns are set in America and fantasy worlds are usually based on old world, especially Europe that had knights with guns. Gunfights can be cool, especially early hand cannons.
Great content brother. As a Georgian who was raised in California from an early age I have been trying to connect and understand the interrelation of myths from the Caucasus and the wider world. Also more recently I’ve been connecting to my theories that not all these stories are simply stories and that there are grains of truth (some of which reside beyond this dimension). Thank you for your great content.
you know you can heat it up and quench it later
Don't have the tools just yet.
Not watched all the way through, so sorry if he says this, but surely firearms would develop as a counter to mages?
Yes, that's what the video is about
not Matchlock but Miquelet
In 1983 I had the chance to attend EastCon in Glassboro, NJ. While there, I ran the RPGA tournament and had the chance to talk with Gary Gygax himself and asked him about guns in D&D. His comment (at the time, it may have changed in later years) was that he wasn't against them but his vision of the setting was that with the reality of magic, things that we relied on technology to do do was handled by magic and guns just were never developed because (to the majority) there wasn't a perceived need or use. Now personally, I've never had an issue with them, but I have been in games where it quickly changes the feel from a "classic fantasy" to "cowboys and orcs" where everyone had a gun and it made foreign images of the US gun culture look like kindergarten. In the end, the players and DM/GM need to agree to certain baselines. Perhaps the the thing that makes guns work is something unique to certain individuals, like the ability to use magic. I dunno. Like I said, I see both sides and have played in both good and bad games with and without guns over the past 45 years.
Wonderful Video, Good job and God bless you!
Warhammer would like to have a talk
On the theme of the question "what fantasy hates firearms", I wonder if this is a hang-up over how fantasy was historically marketed to children. Specifically, I wonder if parents are OK with their children seeing violence, as long as that violence is something that is difficult to emulate. Hence, parents do not want their children seeing characters using guns (a modern, purchasable weapon that is easy to use) but are more OK with said characters using swords and bows (obscure, ancient weapons that take years of training to use effectively).
Hi a more veteran DM here. Its because most people have a very VERY mythological view of guns. And the people who want guns in fantasy do not was period accurate guns that have Jamms. Misfires, are extremely slow to reload, and indeed are ineffective against heavily armored opponents even at point blank. No they want guns that would be leagues ahead of anything else in the era and they want everything else to stay right where it is. According to these people guns should instantly kill everything from bandits, to knights, to goddamn dragons. This causes alot of people to associate firearms with a very anti fantasy notion. Because most often the people pushing them expressly use them to try and destroy any notions of fantasy.
True answer: The Elder Scrolls games.
Leather armour is my favorite becuase I can make it myself and it can go well over a gambeson. Also, iron or steel is expensive and better to have leather then nothing.
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Cuz they're too OP
Oh that is gorgeous
A big problem with it is that people automatically get into the mindset of mass production when in actuality it would take years for multiple craftsmen to make even a decent amount of them without factory production and time needed to work on other projects.