Comments by "George Albany" (@Spartan322) on "Modern History TV"
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"and shows a lot of people traveled even back then."
"Well researched or not, it is not a foundation upon which to build a conclusion."
You seem to be taking the wrong assumption about the phrasing of the statement, nothing about the context nor phrasing says that its a historical vision, its questionable to assume that perspective. Its not unreasonable to say "and shows" in phrasing because its using historical context to describe to the best of our knowledge what historically would be the case.
"Note that this video’s narrator says 95% did not travel. If true, the most did not travel."
But almost every character the player will tend to interact with in KC:D is not a farmer, or wasn't originally a farmer, and those who lived inside castle walls (that being a large majority of the NPCs) would almost certainly not have been a farmer. For that context it makes sense that most if not all (if not most of) your NPC interactions would be with former travelers and sojourners. Perhaps we can question the regard for ignoring the most common demographic of the time period but keep in mind that a farmer would have very little for a former blacksmith's kid turned soldier, there isn't much justification from almost any perspective for the player to interact with farmers so as a result most player interactions will tend to under-emphasize them. This is a case where the interactive medium puts you in the biased perspective of a member of the narrative instead of giving you an overarching accurate portrayal of the reality of the time in its entirety.
As an aside even just 5% of 100,000 is still 5000, the more people that live in a period, the easier it is for any individual traveler to come across a traveler because by ratio they will stay the same and thus become more common alongside other demographics.
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