It was my impression that Iscalio was an Italy-analogue, given its peninsular location and the fact it doesn't have a proper king, rather a tyrant who holds his nation together with force and personality, a fantastic scenario for the early unification of what our history tells us of squabbling Italian nation-states.
Almekia struck me as a watered-down Germania, given its central location and wide swathes of territory, but aside from that I can't spot many germane(hue hue) traits and nothing definite.
I thought of Padstow as Franco-esque because of its position as a client kingdom of Almekia, though now that you mention it Leonia is alot more french, aside from its pacifistic tendencies.
As you can see I've chosen to compare Forsena to mainland europe rather than Britain(because only an Englishman would refer to the whole island as "England",) with the map being set on an island to be more tidy. I suppose it could work both ways, but as you said before that makes it hard to place Iscalio. Roman remnants, maybe?
This is all speculative, but I like to try to pick out the various flavors of medieval in any medieval fantasy. And since forsena.org is dust, I have nowhere else to really put this conversation...
Almekia struck me as a watered-down Germania, given its central location and wide swathes of territory, but aside from that I can't spot many germane(hue hue) traits and nothing definite.
I thought of Padstow as Franco-esque because of its position as a client kingdom of Almekia, though now that you mention it Leonia is alot more french, aside from its pacifistic tendencies.
As you can see I've chosen to compare Forsena to mainland europe rather than Britain(because only an Englishman would refer to the whole island as "England",) with the map being set on an island to be more tidy. I suppose it could work both ways, but as you said before that makes it hard to place Iscalio. Roman remnants, maybe?
This is all speculative, but I like to try to pick out the various flavors of medieval in any medieval fantasy. And since forsena.org is dust, I have nowhere else to really put this conversation...