In my setting (loosely based on late iron age to early medieval Denmark) I've gone for treating magic users as pre industrial rural communities might treat a local "clever" man or woman. Kind of like informal village shamans with no formal organisation and them just training whatever local kid...
Hej og tak :) Jeg skriver også udelukkende engelsk. Primært fordi markedet for genrefiktion for voksne i Danmark er noget nær mikroskopisk småt haha.
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Middle-Earth. It just feels so lived in and fleshed out and with such a rich sense of history. I don't think there's ever been written anything quite like it. Not anything I've read anyway.
I guess the best way to get a good guesstimate would be to look at the number and type of participants in battles from the period and cross reference with population numbers in the areas they were from and if you can find out, how much of the land in those areas was used for farming.
I'm a 33 year old aspiring fantasy writer from Denmark. Until now I have exclusively dabbled in writing short form horror, but at the end of October I had a fantasy eureka moment, and for the last 2 months I have been hard at work on what will hopefully be my first novel. So far it's been very...