>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