>>6144151>fantasy is anachronisticWell it has been widely discussed, but Dungeons and Dragons is basically cowboys, the Weltanschauung of the typical dnd adventure is completely ahistorical it is closer to some Clint Eastwood frontier town lawgiver manifest destiny vision with just mere adornments of medievalism compared to history. An example I can give (don't judge me lol) I am so ashamed, recently I watched the ULTRA CRINGE cringe film, Mythica: Stormbound, (do not watch this) I have no idea what this film series is about lol i just watched this random film as a divertissement after too many period dramas and historical novels
>>6131996>>6135427 Matt Mercer lol is randomly in this cringe Mythica film but I thought I would brace myself and watch it because it is literally a dnd adventure in cinematic form, the main girl in it is sort of attractive anywa lo and behold the archetypes are "bounty hunter" , "border marshal" etc and they are even wearing what resembles some leathery medieval cowboy attire as well
In terms of dungeoneering, the real world historical counterpart that most closely resembles these endeavours would be Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon excavating the tomb of Tutankhamun Nov 1922, it is no coincidence that Lovecraft and Cthulhu etc (1926? I believe) all published around this era, as the discovery of these ancient mythological worlds combined with the exhibition of their tangible museum relics sarcophagus etc inspired the fictional iconography of dungeon delving, mummies necromancy undead etc and ancient eldritch realms beyond the imagination of the emerging mass entertainment western audience. Maybe you could go back a bit further and argue for Napoleon getting the Rosetta stone or shooting a cannon at the Egyptian pyramids or something, just like how Ridley Scott depicted it with absolute completely unerring historical attentiveness and exactitude
For another more modern example of a dungeon delve, I present STALKER it is Ukraine lol Pripyat Chernobyl it is an EXACT PARALLEL of dungeons and dragons even OD&D hardcore osr gaming, it is filled with traps ("anomalies") treasures and relics ("artifacts") and supernatural entities and monstrosities ("mutants") navigated and fought by fearless dungeoneers (STALKERs) etc. I guess the original dungeon delve, the original katabatic journey would be Orpheus and Eurydice, but the necessary ordeal and denouement of that particular tale is lost upon the modern audience lol as evident by whenever I commence ranting about tragedy
>>6141315and the moral purpose hehe (imagine the Orpheus dnd adventure which ends: your character became gay but it is not Dragon Age Veilguard you are decapitated your head is thrown into a river after you are cannibalised by maenad women, Your Quest And Adventure Ends Here)
