Normally when people think about Warhammer Fantasy, they're usually of the opinion that it's much darker and grimmer than real life. I'm going to talk about a case when that isn't actually the case.
My favourite "took history and changed it" thing in Warhammer is Leonardo da Miragliano. He's so obviously da Vinci but by doing the thing where his crazy inventions ACTUALLY WORK. Perfect blend of fantasy fiction and history.
I really love Tilea as a faction. I want to do more videos about it. Leonardo is just pretty crazy considering no one else has managed to get a proper steam tank to work.
Catholic and Bretonnian player here. The religion of Bretonnia is not upsetting to me in the slightest, for it looks very much like if Catholicism actually did worship Our Lady Mary Mother of God as Protestants often wrongly insist we do. Take Catholicism and strip away everything except Marian veneration, and you basically get Bretonnian religion. As an aside I choose to ignore the "canon" lore that says the Lady of the Lake is a Wood Elf as it feels like GW wrote that in a very handwavy and convenient way to help bring about their End Times foolishness. I'd prefer to leave it a mystical mystery. Overall this is a good video and I appreciate that you get the historical facts of St. Joan straight.
That's an interesting perspective. I think that the worship or role of Mary in the Catholic faith is often misunderstood or misrepresented. In some ways, the Church of Sigmar is structurally very similar to the Catholic Church, but in a doctrinal sense, extremely different. Ultimately both religions were heavily influenced by the real world inspirations that went into making them. You can't have medieval knights without some religious influence for example. I think I'm 50/50 on the wood elf thing. On the one hand, it would just be very interesting if Bretonnia itself had some sort of magical protector or magical essence that manifests as the Lady of the Lake. On the other hand, it's very in keeping with the tone of the setting for the Elves to be messing with humans for their own benefit. Finally, Joan of Arc is a historical figure I'm very interested in. As a result, I think it's important to present the most salient details about her rather tragic life.
You're quite right. The Empire for its own part is more of a holistic reinterpretation of medieval European religiosity; Sigmar being rather analogous to both Christ and Thor simultaneously, while the other older gods like Ulric and Taal sort of take on the role of major Catholic saints. But yes, ultimately the ethos of knighthood as we understand it today is fundamentally religious - irreligious knights can be done, but they always come across as somewhat degraded if not even debased in their bearing. To revisit the Wood Elf question, we could theorize that the Lady might have been a minor goddess or extremely powerful mage once. Perhaps she was cynically appointed to lure the Bretonni tribes into becoming a buffer for Athel Loren, but maybe she gradually forgot that purpose as she was moved by the forthright manner of Bretonnian devotion, and soon became a genuine patroness who loves her devotees. That interpretation would still hit the right marks.
