Medieval Civilians by doug

[Pynedor]

There's something rather sadistic about a clicky grabbing a cow by the horn and holding a sword in the other hand. 

Honestly, I thought he had severed the cow's head and was holding it by the horn when I first saw the picture. Then I looked closer...

[Lindama]

What great customs. I like the herbalist the best.

[basilsdad]

They are all very well done, Doug.  My favorite is the blacksmith's apprentice. 
Joe

[Justindo]

Nice looking customs, Doug.   I like the knife better than the sabre for the herbalist.

[doug]

  Thanks for feedback, everyone.

I really like them (though I THINK the hand saw of the carpenter might be too modern)

I don't the history of saws that well.   Does Playmobil make a more appropriate design?  The only thing I can think of is the 2-person saw, and Lisa would kill me if I stole it from her farm. 

 A few more commoners:


I once read that some poor souls in medieval times had to climb down into the latrines and empty them...
This guy doesn't seem pleased with the duty.




This barely-a-custom just fills the need for someone to guide cattle or sheep inside the town walls.

Finally, this guy

will probably be a shoemaker or a cobbler, if I can ...

(wait for it....)

cobble together some tools for him.
 IMO he doesn't look noble, but also doesn't look like he's a hard laborer, so I think a job of shoemaker would fill a medieval niche and suit him.

[doug]

There's something rather sadistic about a clicky grabbing a cow by the horn and holding a sword in the other hand. 

Yeah Rhalius, that steer is not long for this world.   

 I once had the "pleasure" of seeing an open-air meat market in downtown Cancun.  The smell actually kept me from seeing it too closely... (92*F + raw meat, YUM!)
It left an impression, and made me realize how pampered modern western civilization is, in that regard.

When I started building a medieval population, I thought about what  real castle denizens needed to in their marketplace, and figured that they would have bought meat in much the same way as I had seen in Cancun.  (Maybe that is incorrect?)

The butcher holding the horn was my Playmo-friendly way of suggesting that idea, without being graphic or gory.  My 3-year-old niece can think the nice man is taking the cow for a walk.   The rest of us can know that Playmo-beef must come from a Playmo-steer.   

doug

[Rhalius]

Things used to be a lot rougher yes, trash was often thrown in the streets.

Nice new clickies by the way, you truly seem to have a clicky for each medieval duty, no matter how crap (literaly!) that duty seems to be.