   Aster Corbett
2007-04-25 . chapter 1This is a great piece of writing, and I really enjoyed it. I always linked Bakura to that saying...
The only thing I can nit-pick on (just because I'm terrible that way) is the historical accuracy of life in Kul Elna... and all of them aren't even real violations and can be called legal for circumstance.
1)Soup? I don't know if the Egyptians had soup or not. They might have. You may want to look into it. I know they had no forks, and I dunno about spoons. But they may have just lifted the bowl and drank. I'll research later.
2) Meat was not eaten as often as you may think. Only the wealthy could afford to eat it regularly, as in steaks and the like. But because Kul Elna is a thieving village, it's feasible that they may have had a surplus of animals: stolen from wealthier men. So then, yes, meat would have been feasible. Salted meat even moreso because that suggests that they had stolen it a period of time ago and then saved it for later in the year. So it's cool.
3) There was no coinage in Egypt. All things were managed through barter. Example, a worker's wages may have been paid in beer, cucumbers or garlic for example. But there is another way around this: once again due to the thieving nature of the village. Once gold was pilfered from tombs, they may have melted it down into pieces for easier bartering. You can't exactly go to market and barter something obviously from a tomb for ten chickens.
Wonderful job, though. My kudos to you! |
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