>realistic historical setting
>traveling between neighboring towns takes 3 to 12 months
>peasants are actually all bastard rape children of the lolcal ruler
>99% child mortality
>women who survive childbirth get burned at the stake for being witches
>peasants diet is 250kcal a week and made entirely of moldy mud stew
>different households speak different mutually unintelligible languages
>floating wood and swimming hadn’t been invented yet and any body of water deeper than a few centimeters isn’t crossable
>main currency is dysentery, bubonic plague and lynching niggers
>social relations are build around filth, rape and shit
>23 hours backbreaking slavework in the fields 366 days a year (367 days during leap years)
>main holidays are the weekly 30 years war and daily famines