Medieval fantasy

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Medieval fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that encompasses medieval era high fantasy and sometimes simply represents fictitious versions of historic events. This subgenre is common among role-playing games, text-based roleplaying, and high-fantasy literature.

Medieval Fantasy are non existing myths that believed to have happened during the medieval era, and contain topics such as Magic (fantasy), Black Magic, Shapeshifters and also creatures such as unicorns, orcs, goblins, etc.

[edit] Commonly recurring Features

  • Elves
  • Dwarves
  • Orcs
  • Wizards
  • Magic

All these feature in the widely popular Medieval Fantasy Novel, "Lord of the Rings" by Tolkien.