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History is fascinating when you learn something you've not heard before just when you thought you got it all figured out. But mythology is far more fascinating than history.

For several reasons, history is dry, clinical, far too precise evidence-wise, and it's often not without bias. You've all known the story from the conquerors. It's the story from the conquered that's more interesting. In other words, truth is relative in regards to one's, namely the historian's, interpretation of the facts.

Legends, folklore, and mythology don't bother themselves with facts and figures too much. All it comes down to is a good story. And yes, there's often nuggets of truth found in the stories, if you know where to look.

World building is all well and good when drawing up a whole new mythology but let's not get bogged down on the story that's striving to get told. A reader like myself doesn't want to see useless details cluttered up between book covers.

Just my two idjits.