ABOUT THIS VIDEO

Stop inventing your politics and start discovering them through the lens of medieval logistics. In this deep dive into worldbuilding, we move past the aesthetics of banners and bloodlines to look at the cold, hard math that built the feudal system: The Supply Chain.

Feudalism is just logistics wearing a crown.

Most worldbuilders place castles based on "vibes," but historical power was a solution to the Oxen Paradox. If an ox eats 10% of its cargo every fifty miles, your kingdom isn't defined by the King’s will—it’s defined by how far a sack of grain can travel before it’s worthless.

In this video, you will learn how to:

Read your terrain: Identify the four critical nodes—Chokepoints, Junctions, Surplus Zones, and Landlocked Specialists—that dictate where every barony must exist.

Utilize the Three-Day Rule: Understand the physics of the "Caloric Battery" and why river access provides a 4,000% energy subsidy to power.

Create Structural Conflict: Learn why Upstream "Source Lords" are naturally rebellious while Downstream "Gatekeeper Lords" are desperate diplomats.

Whether you are writing a low-fantasy epic or designing a complex TTRPG setting, this framework will help you move away from "costume humans" and toward a world that feels inevitable because it is rooted in causality.

Give your lords a job description, or delete them.

I love this sort of thing. Geography is destiny.