No, Game of Thrones didn’t take place in Medieval times lmao. Dragons and wizards didn’t exist in ye olde England.
It would be funny if people did this with more recent time periods and fiction. Like people genuinely thinking that victorian times had giant steampunk spider robots.
I will say it is a little concerning how often I hear people say shit unchallenged like “It takes place in the old days” about something that is a fantasy world that never actually existed. Makes me worried people can’t tell fantasy from reality.
Edit: This petty rant is because I was talking about GoT with a friend and told them that the constant sexual assault put me off watching it and they were like “Yeah, but that’s what it was like back then.”
My pet peevee with fantasy is that it seems to be built on the European medieval world. I’d love to see something taking place in an Indian or Islamic or Aztec or whatever setting.
You might dig The Lions of Al-Rassan. Set in a fictionalized Andalusia during an Islamic ascendency
Amazing book. If wistful bittersweet was condensed into ink on pages it would be this.
I’ve never seen someone do the reconquista from a tragic point of view before.
You could try Mo Dao Zu Shi for a Chinese flavored feudal fantasy settings. It’s good and also pretty gay.
Can only recommend guy gavriel Kay so much but under heaven is pseudo warring states, sailing to sarantium is eastern Roman empire (yes Europe but eastern! and cool).