Morbid Souls

Whites as moccasin indians is not a bad subgenre

A knight is worth like a thousand, if not tens of thousand common (militia) soldiers. The Normans conquered all of Sicily with just a few dozen knights, later a few hundred. NOTHING can beat a Knight's charge. They had a more thorough and complete training than Olympian athletes, who specialize in a single discipline. They stay in rural fortifications OUTSIDE the cities. They hunt all day or fight in minor disputes, basically private wars, if they are not called to fight in an actual war. They are descended from Pagan Germanic warriors and always retained a foreign morality and attitude compared to the Christian Latin people they conquered. The Furor Teutonicus burns inside them. Medieval Europe was the perfect fusion of what made Europe great. Germanic warriors finally having the resources to make their fighting style into the unbeatable combination it always had the potential to be.

by Nikolai Kalmakov

Dragon detail from the Neues Rathaus in Munich.

Nestor Redondo

Red Sonja by Jim Silke

Etched German hunting saber (1560s–1570s)

“When their enemies fall they cut off their heads and fasten them about the necks of their horses; and turning over to their attendants the arms of their opponents, all covered with blood, they carry them off as booty, singing a paean over them and striking up a song of victory, and these first-fruits of battle they fasten by nails upon their houses, just as men do, in certain kinds of hunting, with the heads of wild beasts they have mastered.” — Diodorus Siculus, Library of History (on the Celts)