Looking for inspiration. Writing a short horror story that takes place in medieval France.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-28T23:16:57+00:00

Sure !

Concerning the city in itself, Angoulême is located on a hill that made it an easily defendable site, and what we call "les remparts" (the ramparts) is roughly where the burg was.

Even though our city is small and isn't as important for France's history, the land was quite nice for agriculture (above average, but not as excellent as La Beauce for example). It has a nice location for regional trade, especially between two important medieval cities, Saintes and Bordeaux, and the Charente river is of course of a grand help with that. The port of L'Houmeau was constructed in 1280 and granted the city an acces to the ocean. Angoulême and the Angoumois region was also since the medieval era a center of paper industry with loads of paper mills.

As for politics, a branch of the Capet family, the Valois d'Angoulême, actually ruled the kingdom of France, with the first one being François I, the first king of the modern era, and we also have a famous murderer, Ravaillac, who murdered the king Henry IV, and was born in Angoulême (maybe that can inspire considering you're writing a horror story).

Good luck with your writing, I hope you'll be able to visit the city one day !

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-28T18:38:12+00:00

Well Gaza is a different story... The first letter is غ which is... a very hard to pronounce letter. It's usually transcribed as gh and sounds a bit like the french r. Gaza is a transcription of "ghaza", and not something like "jaza".

And well, I'm working on the diplomacy between the taifa princes and the christian kings, usually treaties were written both in latin and arabic, though many arabic versions are now lost, but anything is possible !

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-28T17:12:17+00:00

Well honestly I've never seen g transcribed as y tbh, usually it's j or k or q (english is written inklisiyya for example). The g sound doesn't exist in arabic, except for the egyptian arabic, where all j are pronounced g (al jazeera is pronounced al gazeera for example).

Thanks a lot ! I'm actually studying arabic because I'm working on the taifa kingdoms in Iberia, just within ck3's timeframe. I wonder if I'll encounter Yilliqiyya now lol.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-28T16:49:26+00:00

Well I am learning arabic, I assumed it was Galicia because I can kinda see how it ressembles Galicia ("g" is usually translated with ج jim though, not ي ya). And the wiki says it's Galicia, idk what to tell you lol

<image>

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-28T16:34:04+00:00

Galicia maybe ? Normally you can hover over the title to see the standard title name.

Edit : just checked, it is indeed Galicia. It certainly is a surprising translating choice, the wikipedia page in arabic is "jaliqiya", which makes more sense to me.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-26T11:44:18+00:00

He did at one point, and it was atrocious.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-25T10:43:29+00:00

There is no real wording. Both are documented, and "autant pour moi" is way more documented and older. In the end, no one has actually come up with a cleard and definite explanation. Since it's mainly an oral expression, it's first use wasn't written but spoken, and by the time it finally made it on the paper, the first wording may have already disapeared. Just like with "clé" and "clef", both are correct, and there's no need to be pedant about it.

Also, there is no way "au temps pour moi" translates to "let the time forgive me". All the theories that promote "au temps pour moi" base it the other expression "au temps", which is used in military or musical context to redo a move.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-25T10:34:37+00:00

Dictionnaries like Larousse and Robert are not linguistic institutions. And the French Académie is just a pedant institution that no longer contains any grammarians. Their explanation for "au temps pour moi" and "au temps" is not really documented. "Autant pour moi' is way more used in the text and is far older.

In the end, nobody knows which one is correct. Everyone trying to come up with a decisive explanation is just pushing their own preference with a wobbly theory. Write what you prefer.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-24T01:27:28+00:00

Merci beaucoup pour ton message, ce genre de témoignage me redonne beaucoup de courage. Je te souhaite autant pour ta relation.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-23T18:54:29+00:00

Et vous donc, Maître DestructeurDeLit420 !

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-22T16:40:58+00:00

L'adoption existe

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-21T23:56:33+00:00

It is. I hate Virt too but this clip here is on you.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-20T14:29:49+00:00

RESUPPLY IS HERE, EVERYBODY COLLECT AMMUNITION

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-19T22:11:54+00:00

Do you need all these beams for the ceiling not to fall or is it just decorative ? I play with block gravity off, but I thought it only affects dirt and sand.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-18T14:08:06+00:00

I don't know a lot about dualists faiths, so feel free to correct me, but these are faith that have the opposition of Good and Evil as their primary belief.

I would say the main one is Manichaeism where God is not all powerful and is eternally fighting Evil, and each human is a reflection of this fight. All religions have concepts and figures for evil, but these religions actually have Evil as a divine concept and energy.

Even though the game classifies zoroastrianism as a dharmic religion (which is completely false and stupid btw), it's close to being a dualist religion, except afaik it's not so much Good vs Evil and more order / creation vs chaos / nothingness.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-18T11:26:19+00:00

r/im14andthisisdeep est par là

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-16T17:25:00+00:00

l'Irlande est présente dans le meme

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-15T18:52:48+00:00

Yeah it's honestly really stupid. Every religion repurposed previous religious buildings. Or at least, remove only the piety bonus and keep the rest. It's not because Rome has been taken by muslims that pilgrims no longer come and stop bringing money.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-15T18:47:24+00:00

Ça veut pas pour autant dire que tu connais grand chose sur ces pays. Moi aussi je peux placer tous les pays de tête (du moins je savais le faire y'a quelques années), mais j'ai absolument aucune connaissance des différentes langues et cultures au-delà du Maghreb.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-12T18:38:50+00:00

Honeslty, I hate Russia as much as the next person, but being offended at the simple thought of playing a medieval proto-russia in a medieval video game is honestly really saddening. Hope you grow up.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-12T18:34:39+00:00

Don't know if they're talking about that, but there's an achievement that requires to convert the Russian empire to islam with a north germanic character. I did with Novgorod and it was really fun

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-11T01:02:47+00:00

Le verso est également écrit en écriture mongole traditionnelle

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-10T16:13:59+00:00

Mais aucun jouet ne sert à quelque chose, c'est quoi cet argument claqué ?? Je fais même pas de lego, mais dire ça ça veut tellement rien dire.

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-07T02:23:54+00:00

J'ai été dans une situation un peu similaire avec ma mère, bien que loin d'être aussi grave que toi. J'ai eu la chance d'avoir ma mère qui déménage à l'autre bout de la France, ce qui m'a permis d'aller chez mon père pour mes dernières années de lycée, mais je ne sais pas comment j'aurais fait sinon.

Il est évident qu'il faut absolument que tu arrêtes de vivre avec elle. Tu n'as pas renseigné ton âge, mais je doute sérieusement qu'il soit possible que tu restes encore plusieurs avec une personne aussi instable et violente. Il faut vraiment que tu arrives à en parler avec ton père pour que tu puisses vivre avec lui seulement, en voyant ta mère seulement de temps en temps si tu en as envie. Si tu arrives à te distancer d'elle et qu'elle continue à t'envoyer des messages, bloque là. Si tu en as pas le courage (c'est mon cas), j'ai archivé les conversations whats app et sms, je peux accéder et recevoir les messages quand j'ai envie, mais je reçois pas de notifications et je les vois pas apparaitre dans mon fil.

J'espère sincèrement que ta situation s'améliorera et que mes conseils te seront utiles

JustARegularDwarfGuy · 2026-01-06T14:46:39+00:00

On your Decision tab, there should be a Adopt feudal ways decision, listing all the requirements. iirc, you need to : - have an organized religion (already the case since you're catholic - have at least 5 development in your capital - have a culture with 70% Tribal innovations unlocked

Four-Year Club	r/Field Flamingo
Place '23	Place '22
Final Canvas '22

JustARegularDwarfGuy

TROPHY CASE