Yes, but travel is much more reasonable now than it was 1000 years ago, as is the typical setting for most fantasy worlds. Most medieval people never left their village (which is why the plague would miss entire villages at a time). To leave your village usually meant one of two things: death by starvation, or one would never find their way back. Either way, they ceased their citizenship in that village. Thus, very few ever lived more than even ten miles from where they were born. The main exception to this is the Crusaders, and travelling merchants, the latter of which there were very few until the 14th Century.
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Re: The Gneech's rules as applied to real life...
Date: 2002-03-01 08:10 pm (UTC)Yes, but travel is much more reasonable now than it was 1000 years ago, as is the typical setting for most fantasy worlds. Most medieval people never left their village (which is why the plague would miss entire villages at a time). To leave your village usually meant one of two things: death by starvation, or one would never find their way back. Either way, they ceased their citizenship in that village. Thus, very few ever lived more than even ten miles from where they were born. The main exception to this is the Crusaders, and travelling merchants, the latter of which there were very few until the 14th Century.