The Broken Sword
Jun. 22nd, 2021 12:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I drew this ATC last week but somehow forgot to upload it here. This is a very German dragon: guarding a hoard of gold, eating the (anti-)heroes who are after that treasure, and everything. :)
ellerI drew this ATC last week but somehow forgot to upload it here. This is a very German dragon: guarding a hoard of gold, eating the (anti-)heroes who are after that treasure, and everything. :)
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Date: 2021-06-22 10:26 am (UTC)Actually, Nibelungenlied art is fairly unproblematic in the political sense. In your research, you'll just find a lot of 19th century fanart bordering on kinky porn - but you'll hardly be shocked. (A certain bondage scene is the clearly most popular fanart motif.) Just don't do that research when other people are around. ;)
Seriously, research should be easy - you don't need to worry about historical accuracy, because, hey, Unknown Author already didn't. (They set the story "in the past", but their characters are wearing "modern" - that is, modern at the time the thing was written - clothes, etc., basically, anything medieval-ish goes.) Unknown Author already seemed to be aware the genre is Fantasy. I mean, there are some landmines if you artificially insert runic or "Germanic" symbolism, but as long as you just stick to the text you're fairly safe.