Hi! I'm Ryan Hetchler, better known as Ralchire. I'm very much a medieval enthusiast (so that covers the history, weapons, warfare, life, and culture of Europe from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, but also covers the vaguely medieval fantasy genre), but I also enjoy video and tabletop games. I am also a medieval reenactor, crafter, and historical fencer, and I fence with all kinds of weapons from longsword to dagger to pollaxe in full plate armor.
So far I'm not on a consistent upload schedule, but I try to upload whenever I have one ready. Once I am able to devote more time to this, of course, I will in turn start to put more and more videos out regularly. Of course, if you have a suggestion I am very interested to hear it! Thanks for checking out my channel, and I hope you like what you see enough to stick around for more!
Is there a possibility, of a shield in a shield, like If I have a Fess shield, Red and white, and then tree with a yellow leaves and white bark, and on that tree there is another smaller shield with a Quarterly chevrons...with another object inside, like a sword...is that possible from a heraldic point of view?
I wanna see the fucking massive ones they used in the 30 years war, the ones that are like 6 feet tall and you need a little fork to prop it up on and actually aim the thing lmao
I have a theory that before there was an atlatl, sling, trebuchet, bow, etc. ancient hunters cast stones with something that doesn't exist in archaeology because examples decayed over time. I am confident and have many recorded examples of hunter gatherers using plain rocks as weapons. Even in the 1800s there are countless examples. I think they are ignored by archeologists. I suspect they used an antler or branch to cast stones. But I cannot come up with a viable design. I think that slings and traction trebuchets evolved from something that is lost to history. I understand that releasing is best at a 45 degree angle and think that perhaps the release could be by twisting the mechanism. There is room for your brain in this pursuit.
Great video. I've been researching these and have only came across two companies that manufacture anything to do with these. If you don't mind me asking, where was the metal barrel made from the peoce you were holding in this video? What type of metal is that, and what's the length, width, and caliber? I'd be very gracious for any import of info you have or could get. Thank you.
Upgrde from hand cart to horse cart you are missing few steps there are also mules and oxen very popular in medieval times for carts, goats and sheeps had been used to pull small carts too. for heavy loads bulls!
"Per bend sinister Azure and Sable, an argent rampant Pegasus" breaks the rule of tincture. Is it however a valid shield ? I want to design heraldry for my painted army of Parravon in the Warhammer Old World setting, but stay close to actual heraldry rules (even if I guess in that fantasy setting, some artistic freedom can be found).
A very helpful set of videos! You seem to have covered more details more completely than any other videos I've yet seen! In realizing my "family arms" or "family crest" would likely be off limits (as I'm at least a 4th gen. American) or not even real, I believe I shall just use what you've taught me to design my own arms and crest! XD
This is great! I’m doing some digging to find which heraldic imagery is in my family (I found out I have some barons in the family line so I assume they would have had one) but if I can’t find it, I’m going to make my own 😂 I think it would be cool!
Nice experiment, but I think you made the counterweight too light. As far as I understand the old drawings, the person hanging on the longer arm provided balance. So without the human hanging on the longer arm, the counterweight definitely pulled down. Pulling the ropes was like an "addition" to the weight of this counterweight. Of course, there may have been different versions of this design throughout history, but try using a heavier counterweight and "hanging" one man on a longer arm. ;)
Very cool project. Surprisingly, you don't see many traction trebuchets (or mangonels) demonstrated even though they were around for hundreds of years before the counterweight version.
The monotonous sound of your voice, especially combined with the fast blurting of the words you are saying, makes me literally want to vomit. It´s extremely physically uncomfortable for me to listen to somebody who speaks so damn fast and BLURTS. Brrrr. What you are saying is otherwise super interesting, BUT SPEAK SLOWLY!!! It´s blurbsjamjww blurpxmjkdkid blurtixxdkd, that´s how it sounds. Sorry. It totally undermines the message you want to convey.
Great video very informative. You got a few strange people commenting. I was not insulted seeing you make your own heraldry. You just did it for fun and to show what commonly went into making one. Would be nice if people stopped trying to ruin anything that is positive and informative. You handled it all with class and maturity.
Processing of salt of St. Peter on a large scale in Europe can be traced to the 14th Century Liber Ignium (which also shows up in the famous 3227a fightbook)
Howdy good info brother though about us Americans us true Americans consider anything weaponized as arms there's no distinction in the constitution to anything arms as arms in whatever form it takes now days a phone and a laptop as as much as an arm as an ak47 technically speaking
There are paintings from the 13th century of both men and women wearing different styles of straw hats, some even shaped like the bike locket/ Robin Hood hat. There were thousands of different types of straw hats, worn by both men and women of every social class. I have a sneaking suspicion that humans have been sporting the wide brimmed hat since ‘pre civilization’. Having grown up in Texas, I wore many a straw hat in my lifetime. Most people in the world would call them cowboy hats nowadays, but we’ve always said “straw hat”. I was lead to believe that Stetson created the cowboy hat, but I saw some paintings from the 18th century, of big flat brimmed hats folded similarly to a cowboy hat. So I assumed that to be the origin. I recently came across a painting of a man in a straw hat with the brim up, just like a cowboy hat, that was from the early 14th century. A full 400 years earlier than I originally believed. That’s something that I find extremely interesting, this and other similarities I find between the cultures of the people of medieval Britain and the Southern American culture. We take pride in many things we retain from our heritage of the British isles, and often times, you’ll see us shocked when we learn that many of those things seemingly left with our ancestors, and have all but died out in modern British culture. Although, if you look closely, there’s still shared cultural expression.
