Quote Originally Posted by Gandwarf View Post
Yeah. That's why I love writing fantasy. You can romanticize some of the bad stuff.

For me the scariest parts about medieval times are the lack of hygiene and medicine. Then there's the issue of being born a serf, having to work really hard to survive and then being sent by your lord to be slaughtered on some battlefield.
Normally serfs were not sent to battle during the Middle Ages. That was the job of the Knights. Though Barbaric, Feudalism was very strict about who did what when