Description: Ethshar stories don't have elves or unicorns or vampires in them, but they do have wizards and demons and dragons. Ethshar is not a generic medieval setting, but it does have castles and walled cities--the original social model, before it took on a life of its own, was the Roman Empire of perhaps the late second century A.D. This sometimes seems very modern to a present-day reader, with its market economy and pragmatic religious attitudes, but the model was originally loosely based on ancient Rome, when it was past its expansionist period but had not yet adopted Christianity.