[quote=@shylarah]
[@TemplarKnight07] Have to say, I'm loving the attention to detail and time period.  As a point of interest, the Black Death generally referred is usually the pandemic in the mid 1300s.  Your character would have been born around 1550, give or take, and while there were still outbreaks, none was quite so bad as the 1346-1353 (roughly) one.  It could be anywhere from a couple years to a couple decades between outbreaks, and there are a couple that fit the time frame you're looking at, one in the mid-60s, one late 80s, and one near the turn of the century.  However since many people or their parents had already survived one or more outbreaks, the death toll was far less -- one or two in ten died, on average, instead of only two or three out of every ten surviving.  The thought of the end of days was long past -- in fact, this was considered a golden age by many among the wealthier members of the population.  Peasants had it (comparatively) better as well.  Plague had come and gone multiple times, and was merely a fact of life, along with many other types of illness.  It's pretty unlikely that decimated villages were so common.  It's not necessary to change anything -- it's a pretty minor detail, and likely won't come up.  With the details of his past life forgotten, Dagon only needs a reason that he wanted to forget, and you have that done solidly.  But since you clearly put in time researching, I kinda wanna discuss it.  Granted, it's been a while and I had to look some stuff up.  I just  *flailing* someone who wanted that sort of historical accuracy!  *tackle*
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Lol, I appreciate it. I actually spent quite a bit of time in a class researching The Black Death (my university actually was the one to be able to obtain and trace its entire genetic history and identify its origins), among a bunch of other plagues and their relation to people. I do know that I'm fudging the times a bit in terms of authenticity, though northern Europe did lag behind the rest of Europe a bit in terms of how they were hit by the plague, and therefore I'm translating that a bit into its effects, and the fact that it was still incredibly random in how it effected places even on a local scale. I'm arguably already doing so with the Knight-Errant idea to begin with (though I haven't actually done much research on the subject, I know they were far more common in the high middle ages than the Renaissance). Plus, even between bouts of increasingly less severe plague, this was still a time period of near the end of a major European war (not that it has too many effects on Dagon's story), Robber Barons were infamous, and its a little bit after Robin Hood became famous as a folk legend as a good bandit among the mess of bad bandits preying on people.

I also could technically bump roughly 50 years to Dagon's birth date and still put his age at around the time when Arys became Winter Queen, ultimately resolving this issue while not having to change too much, and also having a reasonable explanation of why the Winter Queen herself would be looking for a Knight.

Mostly I needed more believable reasons for why Dagon's human life was shit and why he'd want to forget and be a natural candidate to appeal to Winter over the other Courts. The fact that plague and banditry were still the major issues in England in roughly this time period were the first things that popped into my head.