I think when doing historical/medieval fantasy, people often bring in those modern assumptions that pre-modern medicine and understanding, disability would have been insurmountable, but that's just historical untrue.

Absolutely. The book Ancient Inventions really blew my mind on this count.

IT IS HAWT OKAY. Always needs more acafic. I should totally take advantage of the fact that I have two characters actually doing that kind of research.

Reylan's academic papers, with him as an unreliable narrator of his own brutality, would be terrifically chilling.