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Ken Hood to 2nd book wrote: REALITY CHECK
My geography is more or less accurate. Social customs are very similar, although the absence of monotheistic religions makes some differences inevitable—Medieval Europe without Christianity is a contradiction in terms.
A divergent cast of characters takes over the historical stage after 1241. One of the great turning points in European history occurred in December of that year, when Ogedai Khan, son and successor of Genghis Khan, drank himself to death in far-off Mongolia. The unbeatable Mongol army, which had already conquered Russia, Poland, and Hungary and was poised to advance westward, turned back and never returned. (Russia remained under Mongol suzerainty for more than two centuries.)
Alumbradismo was a transcendental heresy associated with the Franciscans and first detected by the Inquisition in 1519. It sought total submission to God through meditation and claimed healing powers for some of its practitioners.
I have not overstated the cruelty of the Spanish Inquisition.


—K.H.

Wild Bill wrote:No. It is absolutely different.
Its a kind of alternative history. Scotland, sassenachs and demons.

Kazuya Mishima wrote:Sounds similar to David Gemmell's style (who I like).