How would you feel about a medieval fantasy setting where paper

>>54058793

Soooo like reality? What kind of back assward asspie gets their nozzle zozzled over actual historical accuracy?

All that would imply is that banks are much more prevalent than your average medieval setting.

>>54058793
Didn't some places in East Asia have bank notes as early as the eleventh century?

Also, that largely would have to mean two things.

One, the banks are strong. Two, they have printing presses. Take both of these things into account because they're both important.

>>54058924
You don't need a printing press for bank notes to be a thing, only if you want to have a full blown paper currency

>>54058924
China already had paper money by the 9th century iirc, also there were 'promissary notes' in use across Europe at the time of the Crusades, one of the reasons the Knights Templar got so rich was that they acted as banks. Nobles could travel anywhere the Templars operated with only a promissary note secure in the knowledge that they only had to go to the nearest Templar outpost to redeem that note for coinage.

>>54058793
That was a thing historically.

I want more fantasy settings with banking knighthoods.

>>54058793
Whoever prints it would have great power over the other countries that use it due to them being able change the value of it.

>>54059419
What if the crown *is* the bank and if you want to trade internationally you have to use goods?

>>54059419
Paper currency only has value because people trust it in the first place. If it was overtly being manipulated to a strong enough degree people would either stop taking it or make their own currency