>>6167385>>6167605>>6168159Well when you are describing or establishing the mise-en-scene you can manipulate this and give hints with the precise words and the specific landmarks (salient scene-setting features)
I mentioned in the last qtg how I found that "landmark / hidden / secret" framework categorisation from the OSR blogs to be very helpful (where "hidden" things are not secret, they just require a cost or time / effort choice tradeoff to uncover), it is all about what setting information you volunteer
So if you say "he draws his SWORD" it could be anything any genre any setting in its nonspecificity but if you say "he draws his PARAMERION" lol then immediately you realise it is some historical Byzantium setting etc.
So you want to choose specific and particular hyponyms to define / constrict "the look, the era" of the setting as opposed to generic category hypernyms
But sometimes the same word invokes different associations if you say "dragon" I warrant anons will probably conjure a wide array of divergent mental images of dragons etc. But if you said "wyrm" instead of dragon, that would invoke for me a more precise historical looking medieval serpent than say the fantasy dnd thing or a chinese water rain dragon or a mesoamerican Quetzalcoatl thing etc
It is why I was confused by the anons use of the word "Regalia" here
>>6167385 a regalia is not a thing lol it is like a logo, emblem or insignia that you depict on another thing itself like a banner a pennant an escutcheon or ornament etc. and to me in my mind, I automatically associate it with the phrase "regimental regalia" which would invoke 18th-19th century accoutrements or even Napoleonic type firing line bayonet / musket infantry setting, I don't think the anon intended to use that imagery lol. Maybe you were thinking of the sword from that Demons Souls game Northern Regalia
https://demonssouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Northern+Regaliabut in my view this is not a great contextual translation or evocation of that word lol, I would have used the word insignia, emblem is ok but a bit modern sounding, I think the actual medieval heraldry term if you were to venture into Edmund Spenser Faerie Queene territory lol would have been "device" but that would probably confuse readers hehe
